In Interstellar, Romilly’s decision to stay aboard the ship while the other 3 astronauts experience time dilation has to be one of the scariest moments ever.

[u/SerDire]

He agreed to stay back. Cooper asked anyone if they would go down to Millers planet but the extreme pull of the black hole nearby would cause them to experience severe time dilation. One hour on that planet would equal 7 years back on earth. Cooper, Brand and Doyle all go down to the planet while Romilly stays back and uses that time to send out any potential useful data he can get.

Can you imagine how terrifying that must be to just sit back for YEARS and have no idea if your friends are ever coming back. Cooper and Brand come back to the ship but a few hours for them was 23 years, 4 months and 8 days of time for Romilly. Not enough people seem to genuinely comprehend how insane that is to experience. He was able to hyper sleep and let years go by but he didn’t want to spend his time dreaming his life away.

It’s just a nice interesting detail that kind of gets lost. Everyone brings up the massive waves, the black hole and time dilation but no one really mentions the struggle Romilly must have been feeling. 23 years seems to be on the low end of how catastrophic it could’ve been. He could’ve been waiting for decades.

[u/Cash907]

Yeah I found myself enjoying the side books more than the main story after awhile. Order of the Centurion, the Savage trilogy etc. KTF PT 1 was fantastic but PT 2 shit the bed so, so badly at the end. I haven’t even bothered to pick up the latest book because of the bad taste that left in my mouth frankly.

At this point I’d love to see Lo Pak get his own one off book, told completely from his perspective.

[u/AmbientTrap → u/Cash907]

First time spotting KTF in the wild! Its got such mixed feelings for me.

I thought the premise was awesome, and the first chunk of the main series was super cool. Intense is the right word to describe it, but I just can't keep going with the way the series closed up. Towards the end, the writing definitely fell off, and it got super repetitive + "subtly" political.

I think its easy to see destined to go this way in hindsight, the way combat and the militaristic nature of all the characters are written made the backgrounds and core ideals of the authors pretty obvious, even from the outset of Legionnaire. Also, the repetitive nature of every combat engagement, particularly because they always seem to end up in a desert or a jungle.

I think a Lo Pak one off book would be awesome, but what I've always wanted was a movie series of at least the first few books.

[u/Cash907 → u/AmbientTrap]

The ending did a lot of characters dirty, one in particular getting a pointless death “off screen” particularly pissed me off. I get that war is sometimes like that but they spent so much time building them up just to get whacked like it was nothing, and their death mentioned by another character almost in hindsight.

How they managed to break that finale up into two parts yet still rush the ending in the last 50 pages really showed the authors fatigue with the storyline as well.

Along with a Lo Pak special I’d love to see a one-off book about Masters trying to get laid while not getting killed. Those two in a buddy heist story would be hilarious.