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theoppositeofprofound · 8 months ago

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You’ve got to read through to Nona, Nona is where the love starts to congeal into its final form (because the POV character is just a young woman who loves everyone so much and also the titanic soul of a dead [SPOILERS] shoved into an anemic nineteen year old.)

This. This feels like a central theme of TLT that goes underrated (and one of the reasons that Alecto probably isn’t going to be about defeating God). You cannot prioritize both revenge and healing. When it comes time to choose you need to pick anabolism. You have to choose to live.

John wasn’t a Bad Guy all along, he was a furious, brilliant man who saw a horrible injustice wrought and did his best to stop it. Under other circumstances, he’s the kind of guy who’d work himself to the bone to cure cancer or stop global warming. Unfortunately he also had a vengeful streak a mile wide and when it came down to it he quite literally chose Eat the Rich over Save the Poor. His villainous meltdown happened ten thousand years ago and now he’s just having a sad little self destructive spiral, slowly collapsing like an old star. He’s the villain but not the main obstacle.

The main obstacle is that the Earth is trapped in a fully articulated body, the solar system is undead, the path to the afterlife is clogged. It’s an environmentalist plot, the solution is going to be fixing the environment! Prioritizing that, instead of punishing the pathetic whinging instigator of the apocalypse is, I suspect, going to be one of the main goals and conflicts of AtN. Because as easy as it is to punch God, that’ll only solve one of your problems (the problem is that God is not currently being punched).

#Nona’s where you get the connections to the modern world too #the environmentalist elements really come to the fore as does this aching humanism #it’s a series that’s a commentary on modern politics but you don’t realize that until halfway through which is insanely bold #Nona is also where the Christian allegory starts to kick into higher gear in my opinion #before that it’s more ‘hey through some lens you can view this as a baptism scene!’#‘lol! Jesus-coded main character as with 70% of sci-fi’#in nona a guy named Paul turns to the camera and says (paraphrased) I think love is not only patient and kind but it will defeat death’#and yet it still manages to not be hamfisted? impressively?#it’s not CS Lewis doing revelations with a lion #the sheer density of the themes and the bizarreness kind of elevates it #there’s so much going on that you have to dig for the obvious #the locked tomb

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