Talk:Wade West/@comment-26469415-20160202045243/@comment-75.5.65.216-20170104074134

You don't get it. Wade is important because you have to ship him with Jack!

...I'm just kidding, he gets way too much attention for such a minor death in the book, and really wasn't even around long enough to make an impression, much less an impact. (although I was serious about shipping Jack and Wade. They'd be cute together, Jack says he loves Wade about three times in Ampiere alone, and almost every line Wade says either makes him seem gay for Jack or makes him relate to a gay stereotype in general. It works, I love it, and it is really the only reason besides Ostin I even bother reading such mediocre-to-poor books).

My main issue was timing. Now, if Wade got a chance to play some huge or cool role in the climax and THEN died, it would have help us feel for his death more, and it would make the mourning not feel as forced (because other than being shipping fodder, Jack's mourning beyond the first two scenes of it is stupid filler). Also, having the story basically halt for five chapters and then feel like it's not moving on until the climax put a damper and made the whole book feel like a dragged out, cut apart half of another book. While I came to love Wade through shipping him (and projecting a character onto him), his death in the books sucked really hard from a quality standpoint, and wasn't even as big a deal as they made the whole thing.