It bothered me when Elfanor kept talking about how he knew he was predestined to be the enemy of Visser Three, from a storytelling standpoint. Come on! It's not like Elfangor and Visser Three wouldn't have hated each other without their ***cosmic destiny decreeing it so****, what with Visser Three taking Alloran as a host and all. It was unnecessary.
I just reread the Ellimist Chronicles recently, and it really started to skeeve me about how many species die in that book. And they're like, not even important, because it's ELLIMIST and CRAYAK and so GRAND and EPIC. This is more a problem with Applegrant, but I felt like they were using multiple genocides as a cheap way to raise the stakes. It just felt really callous to me.
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Date: 2010-10-19 12:46 am (UTC)I just reread the Ellimist Chronicles recently, and it really started to skeeve me about how many species die in that book. And they're like, not even important, because it's ELLIMIST and CRAYAK and so GRAND and EPIC. This is more a problem with Applegrant, but I felt like they were using multiple genocides as a cheap way to raise the stakes. It just felt really callous to me.