I'm watching Tolarian Community College's Professor's scathing review of the novel right now, and good Lord - the Chandra/Nissa thing seems excruciatingly painful to read through just based on the snippets he presents.

I don't follow the story overmuch outside of what's written on the cards or in an occasional short story published on the site. You just never know what's going to happen when there's no clear competent creative mind in charge of the entire thing - you'll get some well-written stuff, and then something just slips through.

I guess Wizards just trusted that a guy like Greg Weisman - creator of Gargoyles, writer of many successful other works - wouldn't screw up so completely when given the task of ending a same-sex relationship between two women.