On the old forums I made a post about this, but since they no longer exist, I’ll write something again.
The final chapter of The Soldiers of Halla has been talked about and discussed quite a bit. Some love it. Others hate it. Some understand it fully. Others don’t get it. I’m not going to explain it all here because I’d prefer that readers draw their own conclusions. But I will make a few comments. First off, I don’t consider the ending to be a cliff hanger. Not even close. The story is very clear about what is going to happen next, and that is that Bobby will soon go to Solara and Courtney will not be far behind. To understand how the events described in the last chapter could have happened, you have to look at the end of the second to last chapter. Bobby lamented to Uncle Press that after all they had been through, it seemed unfair that the Travelers were not being allowed to live the normal lives they fought so hard for. All they wanted was a little bit of time to live those lives, which in the general scheme of Halla, wasn’t much . . . and Uncle Press agreed with him. How that was able to happen, and what all the implications are, I’ll leave that up to you to debate and decide.
I’ll say one other thing, and that’s about the guy who delivered Bobby’s journals to him in the hospital. Short of actually writing his name, I pretty much described exactly who it was. From the events that unfolded in the hospital room with Bobby and Courtney kissing and being interrupted, to his physical description, to Bobby recognizing him, to him saying that he had nine other journals to deliver, there is no other possible person that could have been…but Uncle Press.
second traveler says:
I SHALL BECOME LEAD TRAVLER (srry caps)
second traveler says:
cool. i wish my parents would buy the books for me. they stopped buying them at the 6th book and now i have to buy them with my own money, which comes only like 4 times a year, and some has to go into my savings account that my parents made me open, and then once i’m done with all that i discover that the books are $8.99 and i only have $5! it really sucks.
second traveler says:
cool. i wish my parents would buy the books for me. they stopped buying them at the 6th book and now i have to buy them with my own money, which comes only like 4 times a year, and some has to go into my savings account that my parents made me open, and then once i’m done with all that i discover that the books are $8.99 and i only have $5! it really sucks. SUCKS FOR YOU 🙁
second traveler says:
srry that was mean
second traveler says:
RIGHT NOW I SHALL STOP AND btw its not
second traveler says:
8:15
ALMOST SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!! says:
why are you talking about 8:15?
Lead Traveler says:
@second traveler
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dissapointed says:
i really dont like the last about 5 pages of the last book. everything was great. until the last around 5 pages. i dont understand it. did “robert” and courtney all of a sudden turn like 90? i do understand a little better now because of what D. J. Machale has said on the top of the topic board but i still kinda wish that he went to Solora with the rest of the travalers
I SEE THE CHEESE!!!!!!!!! says:
@dissapointed
what dj did on the epilouge was how Bobby’s life would’ve turned out if there was no SD or Travelers.
I SEE THE CHEESE!!!!!!!!! says:
and we don’t know if he went to Solara before having another life.
I SEE THE CHEESE!!!!!!!!! says:
BTW. I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE CHEESE!!!!!!!!!!!
Quig Hunter says:
I SWEAR I WANTED TO HIT MY HEAD AGAINST A WALL WHEN I FINISHED BOOK 10 I cant believe i ended the series… 🙁
Quig Hunter says:
At the beginning of the year I hated reading…. and than i read the first few pages of pendragon….. I was hooked…. I finished the books within like 3 days each because i was so hooked (but it took forever to find them)
second traveler says:
It,s not 8:15
Quig Hunter says:
Does anyone think Pendragon will become a movie…
BECAUSE IF IT DOES 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 =D … i cant even put it into words lol.
dissapointed says:
i really didnt like the ending at all. i dont understand it and as you can see i was dissapointed. i was sitting in my room for about 2 hours waiting to finish it………….and………..and……….5pages left………. 4 pages left……. wait. bobby and courtney are old now?……….. books?……. THE END!?!?!?!?!?….. waste of my time. >:(. every other part was good… until the end
dissapointed says:
WAIT! @ i see the cheese!!!!!!! does that mean the end of the book was only if there werent travelers or saint dane?
spinney says:
I was kinda sad because I wanted Bobby to end up with Loor. I never thought about Courtney+Mark though…
I thought it’d be Courtney+Spader xD I guess I kinda fail.
spinney says:
I was kinda sad because I wanted Bobby to end up with Loor. I never thought about Courtney+Mark though…
I thought it’d be Courtney+Spader xD I guess I kinda fail.
Don’t make Pendragon a movie.
I HATE it when people take a really good book and make it into a movie!
Movies are always so different and stupid!
dissapointed says:
wait did courtney and mark get together? they didnt did they?
second traveler says:
I keep messing up my words:( oh, well
batu warrior says:
i love this series its so good im reading it twice but i hate the ending
ive been following the books since 2005 and the ending just leaves me confused
second traveler says:
Click on my name pls its cool 🙂 ( i’m not spaming or virus giver
First Earth Traveler says:
@ Lead Traveler,
I am pretty sure that Peter Jackson is a movie director, not the Percy Jackson for Rick’s book.
Lead Traveler says:
yes i know that.
I SEE THE CHEESE!!!!!!!!! says:
@dissapointed
no mark and courtney didn’t get together and yes that is what the epilouge is.
I SEE THE CHEESE!!!!!!!!! says:
@second traveler
did. nothin’. if u gave me a virus i will hunt u down and kill u. maybe.
second traveler says:
is’nt there a dead body in the back of your car: SHUUUUT UP
second traveler says:
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
I SEE THE CHEESE!!!!!!!!! says:
wow. second traveler. no dead body. wow. there’s nothing cool if u click on your name.
random person says hello says:
hmmmmm i <3 bobby pendragon hes so cute but his name is so ugly………
JK!!!!!!!! :P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P
random fan says:
I think the ending was absolutely perfect and tied everything together. Personally, this ending gave me closure on all the questions I had about what was gonig to happen, but I do wish that there was something more about the other travelers and maybe more information about Loor and Bobby’s “thing” and why their “thing” didn’t really hold that much importance like how I thought it would have.
random fan says:
O h and to ‘spinney’ I agree about hte Bobby and Loor thing…. but I definently think there needs to be a movie. Ahem. Not all movies based off of books are awful, as long as the author has a hand in the production of the movie they should be great.
traveler's apprentice says:
I understood it fully uncle press let bobby go back to his life on second earth but I guess he didn’t let bobby remember about the travelers and solara… that’s just what I think
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second traveler says:
i think that pendragon: the move should be made by d.j
Shadow Jumper says:
Wow, i havent checked this in along time. You guys have posted 500 replies since I stopped checking this site? Oh, and btw, Morpheus Road, The Light, is really good.
Darkness says:
@Shadow Jumper
good to see you on again. do you have a friend named Markus that goes on here? and is your name Jacob? cause if you and that’s your real name than Markus says you’re a traveler. which i don’t believe.
Riley says:
Thank you for clearing that up, sir. Anyways I was just having nostalgia about the old pendragon forums when I read this. I know some of the users may have been rowdy and mean, but I know several people who came to the fors everyday to express their opininions, talk to their friends, and have fun.
Mr. Machale I was just wondering if we could get a fresh start with a brand new set of forums. We miss the good old times we used to have on there. I not I was going to start a petition and I was thinking if I could get 150 people to sign it that maybe you could make us a new forum, but if not that’s ok. You are still a great writer and I respect the decision you made.
second traveler says:
@ darkness
i read that you were lead traveler are you?
that one face says:
i think the ending of number 10 was nice but it didn’t quite fit to me i mean not like in the story i know it was what would have happened if there was no saint Dane/travelers/solara/every thing else but it just didn’t feel right was that his uncle press that gave him the journals at the end? i mean it just felt odd to leave the story like that.
Calvin says:
@dissapointed you say you didnt like the ending because you think Bobby should have went to Solora with everboudy else. I just read the last pendragon book and after Uncle press gave Bobby his journal he told them he had to go because he had to take 9 more of the journals somewhere else. That tells me that the other travalers didnt go to Solora they went and lived out their lives other wise why did Uncle Press have to take them their journals
I SEE THE CHEESE!!!!!!!!! says:
YES YES YES YES YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! I GOT THE 7&8th ONES TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW I JUST NEED 9&10 THE 3 PREQUELS AND MR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! crap. that’s going to take a while and ive got other books im collecting. crap.
Solara says:
The ending was okay…. It left me with some questions, and the cover of the book said all questions would be answered…. 🙁
I think it should have had more explanation.
i also hope they make a movie of it, and they don’t make it horrible like Twilight. (sorry twilight fans)
Morgan Johnson says:
ok the end is when bobby and courtny r old ppl (no offense to old ppl) and bobby is on his ‘death bed’ and uncle press comes in and gives bobby his journals from when he was a traveler and courtny reads them to him and after she gets done reading them he remembers and dies. how is tht so confusing? it didnt leave me with any questions and really if you didnt like the ending dont say anything because some ppl dont want to hear you be ungrateful that someone came up w the idea. im writing my own books and i know if i had a part some ppl didnt like i wouldnt care. i dont know if DJ is like tht but u know what? he spent his time to make these and finish them when he could have just left them after he got bored. y dont u try writing a book? its not easy and would u like to hear tht some ungrateful person complain because they didnt like one part? GET OVER IT!
I SEE THE CHEESE!!!!!!!!! says:
um.. Morgan Johnson. she didn’t say she didn’t like it. she just said it was ok. meaning she didn’t hate it or not like it.
Gunny says:
I completely agree Morgan Johnson.
Writing a book is very hard.
Infact I liked the end.
Though its sad that Mark died.
They were old though.
And when Saint Dane was fighting Bobby in the Taj Mahal and when he kept going to the dark side of Solara.
Ah.
Good times.
Good times.
Gunny says:
My heart was thumping so much I thought it would burst out!
N. says:
OK, I know I’m at like the end of the next comment page, but I read a comment on the page before me.
@ Lead traveler
I wouldn’t of screamed or fainted in a bush, I would of like stood there big eyed then like punch it in the face or kick in the southern region. After it fell where Ryan fell, then I would scream or faint in a bush. :). I’m kinda a woss once I do something scary. Have you finished Ghost in the Machine yet?
( Why am I talking about this on a Pendragon page!?)