Review: What a Fun Story!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2013
Like many others, Willie Coyote and Roadrunner were staples of my childhood. There was just something about the elusive chase that Willie could never hope to win that I loved. I haven't decided if it taught me never to give up or if I was just rooting for Roadrunner, but either way I spent many an hour captivated by the images on my TV screen. I loved seeing what shenanigans Willie would come up with and even more so his inevitable downfall.Really, what's not to love about Willie and Roadrunner?I hadn't given much thought to how Willie and Roadrunner came about, so it was great to see someone's on their origins. I thought the explanation was interesting and plausible within the context of the storyline. The guardians were a nice touch, as well, although I would have liked to have seen more explanation as to why the young were sent to the moon - or rather, why the moon was chosen as their destination and not somewhere else on earth. I may have missed the reason, though, and will look for it on a second read-through.The journey storyline with the three main characters was well thought out, and I liked that they discovered what they had set out to find in the end. I could wholly relate to Ella in the sense that she's adventurous, sarcastic, and is the one most likely to push the red button just to see what happens. The interaction between all three (Ella, Mike, and Vaughn) was a lot of fun to read!I loved, loved, loved that a villain who could collectively be fought by the original warring parties was brought into the mix. And that Stephen Thor stayed true to the Willie/Roadrunner storyline in that the villain could never win paralleled nicely. I would have liked to have seen more interaction between Willie and the Villain, but given the confines of a script I can understand why that was as minimal as it was.The storyline, overall, I thought was inventive and Thor did a great job revisiting Willie's antics and Roadrunner's last minute escapes. I could certainly see this as a viable alternative to some of the film remakes we've been subjected to over the past couple of years.