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A pattern in last 4 books
jonas:
--- Quote from: Rasins on October 31, 2017, 06:06:32 PM ---While Deirdre did allow herself to be sacrificed, it wasn't really all that brave a thing.
Remember she was also attempting to avoid her fate in the hands of TWG by fleeing to another pantheon's afterlife. Further she KNEW there was an afterlife. Granted she didn't think it thought. Hades will give her her just rewards, but it's no lake of fire.
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That's just how Harry interpreted it... I think 'the enemy' refers to Nemesis in this case... and is what they are trying to save the world from.
Ananda:
--- Quote from: Rasins on October 31, 2017, 06:06:32 PM ---While Deirdre did allow herself to be sacrificed, it wasn't really all that brave a thing.
Remember she was also attempting to avoid her fate in the hands of TWG by fleeing to another pantheon's afterlife. Further she KNEW there was an afterlife. Granted she didn't think it thought. Hades will give her her just rewards, but it's no lake of fire.
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That's not why she sacrificed herself. Her father just reminded her that she'd be safe from the adversary there as a silver lining (and the enemy or whatever was not defined). She gave her life to save the universe even knowing there is some sort of afterlife in that universe. I think she's the best character in the book. I'd actually read one of the short stories if it was about her and gave her perspective.
She was born into the life of Nic et al. She was just as much a victim as any other. Did she ever have a chance to be something else? I think not. Yet, even growing up as she did, she still chose to be the one who does the right thing as she saw it to save everything and everyone. Things aren't black and white.
wardenferry419:
What would be the appropriate Hades-related torment for someone who spent a lifetime slicing people up?
Mira:
I don't think we can judge Harry or any parent saying that he or she would be willing to let the world burn to save his or her child. That isn't selfish, it is called being a parent... It was said at the height of frustration and emotion, only in Harry's case he possibly had the power to do it... The important thing is, he didn't do it and he found another way to save his child.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on October 30, 2017, 08:57:59 AM ---The ideal of a functional society should be "Don't f#(k with me, I won't F#(k with you and we"ll get stuff done." Pretty simple to understand; but, for some reason, difficult in the application.
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Impossible in a world with limitted resources. People have to work with each other and compete with each other at the same time.
--- Quote ---Deirdre was a grown woman and she made her choice; but, I hate Nico for giving his child that choice to begin with.
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There is the free will argument again but how much of that is real if you are brainwashed from the beginning? How young was Deirdre when she got that coin?
No reason to let her run loose, she was a danger to society and there was not much to do about that. You have to be a knight of the cross to even try.
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