Yeah, it's complete bullshit. Bornheld even points out to her that her abandonment of him was why he turned "evil" or whatever but does THAT get any sympathy from her selfish arse? Of course not. No parent in this thing ever accepts that their bad parenting or even outright abuse could have caused their kid to behave badly.
SCSF: ...He was a year old when she left. He would not even be able to remember that. Sure, I could see it if being exposed to Searlas made him "evil", however silly that may be, but this is just nonsense.
And of course, they would rather blame the child in question than take responsibility.
Family in general is really poorly portrayed in this trilogy, and especially parenthood.
Indeed... Come to think of it, parenthood is mostly in this series. I cannot exactly think of parents being around in later books, except for the SunSoars, which is clearly a horrible mess. For the rest, the parents are already dead if the children are older (with the exception of Druse from Threshold). If the children are young, we generally only see them when they are quite young (Ysgrave from Threshold), or they might as well be adults (Leagh's Child and StarDancer from The Infinity Gate).
In which case it should have been made clear that he's suffering from an infection or severe blood loss or something like that.
I would think he suffers from blood loss given the cut he got on his throat, but that has apparently disappeared in a plot hole, so I do not know either.
Ah yes, the "criminal Dukes of Ichtar" who were just so Evil because one of them had a lake drained. The horror.
It was quite evil of that duke, since draining that lake would have meant killing all the life in it (not to mention the negative impact on its enviroment), it trapped Zeherah in the Ichtar ring and it means that Sigholt loses its natural moat, which makes it less effective. Still, as cartoonishly evil as he may have been (because apparently spiting the magical bridge was preferable to making a new one), his descendants are not responsible for it and are not evil for it.
I could fault them for not unplugging the spring, but by the present time, it has been two thousand years, and few would know that it has once been a lake. I do like the idea of Borneheld having the Lake of Life filled and then having a moat dug around Sigholt, by the way.
aka the perfect idealised race with all their incestuous free love bullshit, who are therefore more deserving of attention. Because Douglass cannot keep her disgusting fetishes to herself.
I also cannot help but wonder if the Icarii being white plays a role...
Because asexuals don't exist. As usual. We're all just in denial or haven't met the right person yet or something.
Or, to be a tad more precise, there are no people for who sex is not their deepest dream or desire. Yes, that is complete and utter nonsense.
Like a lot of bad fantasy authors, Paolini included, Douglass just does not believe in the idea of redemption. Ironic given that this thing is called the Wayfarer Redemption, because nobody gets redeemed. They just fucking die! Because that's just easier to write and fits in with this lame black and white view of the world the author seems to have, which is incredibly childish, not to mention massively unhelpful. Just look at what the "us vs them, who are not deserving to be called human" mentality has done so many times in the real world. Or don't, because you will become very depressed.
(Calling this "The Wayfarer Redemption", like I believe is the title in America, is a really bad fit. The second trilogy is called that, and the titles reflect it ("Sinner", "Pilgrim", "Crusader") because it is about Drago's "redemption". You cannot just apply that to this book, publishers!)
Yes, that is really the way it feels. Whoever is "good" stays that, and whoever is "bad" stays that way, too. And you say, it is very unhelpful and... not how anything works.
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Yeah, it's complete bullshit. Bornheld even points out to her that her abandonment of him was why he turned "evil" or whatever but does THAT get any sympathy from her selfish arse? Of course not. No parent in this thing ever accepts that their bad parenting or even outright abuse could have caused their kid to behave badly.
SCSF: ...He was a year old when she left. He would not even be able to remember that. Sure, I could see it if being exposed to Searlas made him "evil", however silly that may be, but this is just nonsense.
And of course, they would rather blame the child in question than take responsibility.
Family in general is really poorly portrayed in this trilogy, and especially parenthood.
Indeed... Come to think of it, parenthood is mostly in this series. I cannot exactly think of parents being around in later books, except for the SunSoars, which is clearly a horrible mess. For the rest, the parents are already dead if the children are older (with the exception of Druse from Threshold). If the children are young, we generally only see them when they are quite young (Ysgrave from Threshold), or they might as well be adults (Leagh's Child and StarDancer from The Infinity Gate).
In which case it should have been made clear that he's suffering from an infection or severe blood loss or something like that.
I would think he suffers from blood loss given the cut he got on his throat, but that has apparently disappeared in a plot hole, so I do not know either.
Ah yes, the "criminal Dukes of Ichtar" who were just so Evil because one of them had a lake drained. The horror.
It was quite evil of that duke, since draining that lake would have meant killing all the life in it (not to mention the negative impact on its enviroment), it trapped Zeherah in the Ichtar ring and it means that Sigholt loses its natural moat, which makes it less effective. Still, as cartoonishly evil as he may have been (because apparently spiting the magical bridge was preferable to making a new one), his descendants are not responsible for it and are not evil for it.
I could fault them for not unplugging the spring, but by the present time, it has been two thousand years, and few would know that it has once been a lake. I do like the idea of Borneheld having the Lake of Life filled and then having a moat dug around Sigholt, by the way.
aka the perfect idealised race with all their incestuous free love bullshit, who are therefore more deserving of attention. Because Douglass cannot keep her disgusting fetishes to herself.
I also cannot help but wonder if the Icarii being white plays a role...
Because asexuals don't exist. As usual. We're all just in denial or haven't met the right person yet or something.
Or, to be a tad more precise, there are no people for who sex is not their deepest dream or desire. Yes, that is complete and utter nonsense.
Like a lot of bad fantasy authors, Paolini included, Douglass just does not believe in the idea of redemption. Ironic given that this thing is called the Wayfarer Redemption, because nobody gets redeemed. They just fucking die! Because that's just easier to write and fits in with this lame black and white view of the world the author seems to have, which is incredibly childish, not to mention massively unhelpful. Just look at what the "us vs them, who are not deserving to be called human" mentality has done so many times in the real world. Or don't, because you will become very depressed.
(Calling this "The Wayfarer Redemption", like I believe is the title in America, is a really bad fit. The second trilogy is called that, and the titles reflect it ("Sinner", "Pilgrim", "Crusader") because it is about Drago's "redemption". You cannot just apply that to this book, publishers!)
Yes, that is really the way it feels. Whoever is "good" stays that, and whoever is "bad" stays that way, too. And you say, it is very unhelpful and... not how anything works.