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fandomsecrets2015-06-27 03:49 pm
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[ SECRET POST #3097 ]
⌈ Secret Post #3097 ⌋
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Farseers - Fitz and the Fool
It's interesting on a reread. I skipped the ships books this time, and I've never read the Rain Wilds books (started, but got bored). Some stuff annoys me less now about the ending, but some still really bothers me.
*Fitz getting stuck in that pillar at the end was a copout any way you look at it. It was either because had Fitz and the Fool met again breaking them up wouldn't have been realistic, or just because Hobb hates to let Fitz be actually happy and had to fuck him over one last time.
*I think the whole dragon things is interesting, because I wonder if it's truly the best for humanity. I wonder if having Elderlings and their fancy magic once more, as well as dragons, wouldn't actually set back the development of technology, which is iffy already. They spend so much time trying to reclaim lost knowledge, and not enough looking forward. I'm not sure if having massive predators and a small community of people able to provide ridiculously expensive fancy magics is actually good for humanity, in the long run. I don't know if this is addressed, though.
...anyway, happy to talk about the books until now, but no spoilers for the first Fitz and the Fool book yet plz!
Re: Farseers - Fitz and the Fool
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(Anonymous) 2015-06-29 02:14 am (UTC)(link)The dragons as massive predators thing is addressed in the first book of the new series if I recall correctly, although thus far there hasn't been a resolution to the issue.
Also, I agree that Fitz getting stuck in the pillar was a total copout. As you said, what other way could the author separate him and the Fool realistically? It would have taken another couple of hundred pages at least to make that happen believably.
Re: Farseers - Fitz and the Fool
I am now about halfway through the new book, and wow is this not the direction I had initially expected it to go. Though I did see some of those twists coming.
In a way, and I mean this in the fondest way possible because I do love the series - maybe it's that Robin Hobb as an author is less good than the story she wanted to tell. I feel like with Fitz and the Fool she found this magic combo that works, but none of her other books did it for me. And sometimes the plot has to be contrived a little to make what she wants happen (which always disappoints me, when you feel the author's hand pushing).
I mean SPOILERS FOR ASSASSIN'S FOOL
Given what Fitz went through with the Fool, I don't know how he didn't think of Whites WAY earlier on. I mean pale wispy people who don't show up to his Wit? HMMMMM. And when Bee was born, especially with the dreams, how did he not think of the Fool for a moment at least, or say "hmm well it's probz not that b/c I can sense her" or something? It's really weird shortsightedness.