potsherds Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 Did anyone else just vomit a little in the back of their throats? Oh my gods, yes. :sick: How effing stupid, and yet another recycled plot point stolen from Rand. Douche. So, Betty is into pigs and horses. Neat. But of course she knows that chickens are evil. I really hope this is the end of his writing. Gods, how lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosicus Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 The final chapter is a "David Eddings meets Disney" kind of affair. It's a huge wedding, everybody is talking about what a perfect world they live in, blah blah blah. The wedding is between Cara and Benjamin, everybody cries, and so on. We learn one interesting thing: Rachel had been born with royal blood that carried the ability to draw spells in the sacred caves. She was, technically, the queen of Tamarang. Someday, she was going to make a grand queen and draw wonderful things. Didn't see that coming. It takes a special kind of writer to spring that kind of twist on ya. Very special. Also, Adie married that guy Friedrich who we've hardly heard anything about, but of course she's super happy. Dick brought the Temple of the Winds back from the underworld so he and Zedd can play with all the cool stuff inside. Blah blah. At the very end, Dick faces the crowd of thousands, after the vows and such, gives a short but lame speech and ends with: "There will be no more devotions. None of you have to kneel before me or anyone else. "Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it." That's it. It's all over. For now. I am going to get a beer and then open the floor to any questions. Though one thing you may have noticed, since the boxes of Orden will kill anybody who tries to use them for evil, Darken Rahl never had a chance. Had Dick just stayed the fuck home in Wizard's First Rule, none of the shit that followed would have been necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzanth Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 That's it. It's all over. Hip Hip Hurray! Good job Mad Moose! You are a King among Lemmings :bow: So wtf happened to Shota and that whole "Klan and Dicks kid will be even more evil then they are" gig? ETA: Any hints on whats gonna happen next? Will dastardly commie chickens take over Jensson's farm starting a new series with Betty as the noble hero? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potsherds Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 I'm just really happy it's 'over'. Of course, we all know it isn't. But the illusion is comforting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosicus Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 So wtf happened to Shota and that whole "Klan and Dicks kid will be even more evil then they are" gig? ETA: Any hints on whats gonna happen next? Will dastardly commie chickens take over Jensson's farm starting a new series with Betty as the noble hero? Shota is in Dick's world, but that's about all we know. Nothing more is said about Dick and Klan's potential offspring, no hints are given as to how there will be anything more to write about for these people (well, maybe one, I'll have to take another look at it. Some prophecy that Nathan mentions). And nothing is ever said about Jebra since the beginning of the book. She ran away and dissappeared. I assume that the torment of giving a thirty page description of life with the Order as written by Tairy was enough to make her hang herself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agulla Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 Ah, the dream of creating a perfect world, a world without the "bad people", a world for the chosen ones. You start separating the "good" and the "bad" in two different worlds, so the "good" will not be soiled by the presence of the "bad", and end up closing your message board to all but to a few chosen ones. And this is just a quite harmless scenario, it could be worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shryke Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 "Art reveals the artist's inner self. Art reveals a man's ideals, what he values." So ..... what's this say about our good friend the Yeard again? Slaughtering peace protesters and maiming little girls = ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nymeria87 Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 Oh. my. fucking. God.... I just read those five pages in one go and am feeling more than slightly sick now, because this book is so greasy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosicus Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 So ..... what's this say about our good friend the Yeard again? Slaughtering peace protesters and maiming little girls = ? So.....are you calling the Yeard an artist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potsherds Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 So.....are you calling the Yeard an artist? Well, he obviously thinks he is one. Doesn't really put him in a nice light though, considering how much rape, torture, murder and maiming go on in his books, on both sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Though one thing you may have noticed, since the boxes of Orden will kill anybody who tries to use them for evil, Darken Rahl never had a chance. Had Dick just stayed the fuck home in Wizard's First Rule, none of the shit that followed would have been necessary. Wow. Terry Goodkind 'gets' irony? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosicus Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Wow. Terry Goodkind 'gets' irony? Well, there's no actual indication that he, or any of his characters, realize this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzanth Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Wow. Terry Goodkind 'gets' irony? I don't think it was meant to be ironic. That daddy Rahl couldn't have ever won in the first place is supposed to show that all the baddies were doomed from the start... Richards way was always the only way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 ...and we also get Betty the Goat, well aware that chickens are "beneath her". Surely, surely that was a special easter egg for us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budgie Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Is it finally over? No more Dick Rahl? No more Klan almost getting raped? I guess that may be wishful thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecchi-Oni Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Just wait until Dick and Klan have a baby which is not a baby but a wizard/confessor with a full grown yeard and goat hooves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balefont Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 So where was I? Oh yeah, Dick is going to the underworld so he summons Denna to go with him. That's right, her spirit. As he goes in with Denna, that monster that's been following him shows up and chases him into the underworld. Big trouble for Dick. < snip> I'm going to get roasted alive for asking this but: I thought Denna, in a previous book, helped Dick out with something but in doing so sacrificed her spirit/shade to the lowest level of... what was that place called?... underworld? veil? I misremember. Ergo, this sacrifice cause a bannishment which supposedly puts her shade as far from the Creator's light as dead-humanly possible. So if my memory of eons ago is correct, how the fuck can Denna still be able to help Dick??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosicus Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Other way around Balefont. While she was in the possession of the Keeper of the Underworld she helped Dick by taking some mark that the spirit of Darken Rahl had put on him. Thus she was banished from the Keeper, I think, and ended up being with the good spirits. It makes no sense, cuz one would think that the Keeper would prefer to kick her ass for the rest of eternity, but whaddayagonnado? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balefont Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 I commend you, Moose Man. You got guts, kid. Now I think we should all put together a "best of Tairy's writing/quotes". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray the Enforcer Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 ALL HAIL THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF BETTY!!! (oops, I think my thing rose up. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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