[ SECRET POST #3715 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3715 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[ketita]

Ha. I think the same things upon occasion.

Though I'm mostly kind of surprised to see Ice Station on the list! I remember reading it years ago, and it was stupid but entertaining. Idk, maybe today it would piss me off more, but I've read other things on the list here, and I remember liking that one more than the others.

[feotakahari]

I've commented on this before, but Matthew Reilly does this weird thing where his villains and only his villains are stereotypes. If a hero and a villain come from the same country, the hero will be a complex and interesting character and the villain will be a stereotype. He'll stereotype people of any national origin, from America to Japan to Saudi Arabia, so I don't think he's racist. He just seems to think that's how you write villains.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, I'm so glad someone else noticed this! I have a long and annoying commute for which books like these are perfect, and he writes the thinnest, least-characterised, stereotypical villains I have ever seen, and that includes comic book villains from the 60s. And you're right, he does exactly the same with every single villain, no matter where they're from or who they are. It's like he has a standard "Villain" and just grafts a few characteristics on to make them marginally different from the last book.

[feotakahari]

I do think they're different from each other to some extent. For instance, his sadistic Saudi Arabian torturer has a different personality and motivations than his honor-obsessed Japanese villain, and they're both different from his might-makes-right American villain. It's just, well . . . reread the last sentence. Every villain's the most negative stereotype of what their country is like, without much depth beyond that.