To be honest, my belief were already cemented after I had seen it myself, further when salamander pointed it out. The thread critiquing the series itself was the final nail on the head. No idea about him and his experience with literature but what he said echoed most of everyone's opinions. People not complaining as much as he did doesn't mean they were not already thinking it. From year of experience I think you are in a troll mood and are just feeding your hunger for attention. The emoticon usage and it's similarity to how I used emoticons myself makes it all the more obvious the direction you are taking. By the way, what happened to NF? I thought you had crossed over? It seems you do not fit anywhere else. NF may be troll-friendly, but they don't take desultory threads/comments very lightly. They have a tighter policy on troll-based content.