Review of The Ultimate Poe by CommanderBayban
29 April 2024
The premise was interesting, but this was way too long for my liking and nothing really stood out. Every scene blended with the previous one, despite each main arc following a different Poe story. If each arc had a distinct shift in atmosphere and tone, there wouldn’t have been a need for the narrator to literally spell out the title of each new Poe story as they switched into new worlds. It seemed a bit amateurish in that regard.
I don’t know why this wasn't written as a Peri story as Poe was from Baltimore. Would that be too on the nose? Probably. But what’s wrong with that? I think if Peri was involved, it would've sustained my interest a bit more, because Mel and Six seemed to be going through the motions together.
I'm not sure why, in a set that was meant to celebrate S22, there was so much Mel in the first place.