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after some sleep, you know? i want a do-over. i want a do-over right now. i've never really had that feeling of 'uuugh that final episode should never have existed' outside of the Harry Potter epilogue, but it's getting pretty close with Total Eclipse.
the whole reason i liked Weather Warden was because it had spunk! engaging characters and humor and super powers and creative situations and trashy action. uh, where did that go? it honestly felt like i was reading one of Stephen King's books, where everyone runs around terrified, crazy religious people tear each other apart in the streets, mothers die protecting their defenseless babies, millions of people go up in flames, half-scorpion, half-human monsters try to EAT YOUR FUCKING FACE ...
oh wait. it's not just like. that was exactly what i was reading for 80% of the book. X[ suddenly we're doing trashy horror now? and it was. horror, the dismaying and disturbing kind. which is fine, if i was reading a, y'know, BOOK FROM THE HORROR GENRE. i don't think it's fair that in the last book of a series, Caine decides to pull the zombie apocalypse card and have the characters long-time readers like me have followed from the beginning acting like crazy, miserable bitches the entire damn time. except the one who eventually dies--he's heroic before the authorial hammer takes him out.
uh, where's my wrap-up? seriously. i don't feel any more entertained having slept on it. i wasn't kidding about finding the book extremely depressing, since not only were people in crisis mode and acting insane and getting in with the mob mentality, but Mother Earth was a fucking creepy piece of work, so there's really winning. oh yeah, and the only one to die horribly aside from the antagonist was my favorite character. but that's also fine. i can deal with my favs getting killed off, even if it makes me :[ on principle. but in this case, said character was arguably the biggest indicator of development and had the most future potential. getting ganked out of nowhere might be a way of pointing out the randomness of death...?
if so, whatever, okay--oh my god existential depression. did i mention the spunk? i liked the spunk. and the fun. before they got eaten by scorpion/human hybrids. :| the epilogue is like the only sliver of hope after a long march of death and carnage, and by that time, yeah. no.
"What I Learned From Reading TE" by shira
humans are destructive and fragile and scary if you give them something pointy and will orphan children during the end times. Earth is destructive and scary and will burn you alive and crush you and suffocate you and squish animals together so that they can rip your limbs off. otherwise, unrequited love is painful, deserving people die too soon, different species will never understand each other, and there is only a bastion of solace after a decade.
oh yeah, and Joanne and David like to have sex.
THE END
... and this, this is apparently the end of AN EQUAL PARTS FUNNY AND LIGHT-HEARTED series, the final shout-out to WW fans everywhere. ummm.
i feel dark and emo inside. D:
the whole reason i liked Weather Warden was because it had spunk! engaging characters and humor and super powers and creative situations and trashy action. uh, where did that go? it honestly felt like i was reading one of Stephen King's books, where everyone runs around terrified, crazy religious people tear each other apart in the streets, mothers die protecting their defenseless babies, millions of people go up in flames, half-scorpion, half-human monsters try to EAT YOUR FUCKING FACE ...
oh wait. it's not just like. that was exactly what i was reading for 80% of the book. X[ suddenly we're doing trashy horror now? and it was. horror, the dismaying and disturbing kind. which is fine, if i was reading a, y'know, BOOK FROM THE HORROR GENRE. i don't think it's fair that in the last book of a series, Caine decides to pull the zombie apocalypse card and have the characters long-time readers like me have followed from the beginning acting like crazy, miserable bitches the entire damn time. except the one who eventually dies--he's heroic before the authorial hammer takes him out.
uh, where's my wrap-up? seriously. i don't feel any more entertained having slept on it. i wasn't kidding about finding the book extremely depressing, since not only were people in crisis mode and acting insane and getting in with the mob mentality, but Mother Earth was a fucking creepy piece of work, so there's really winning. oh yeah, and the only one to die horribly aside from the antagonist was my favorite character. but that's also fine. i can deal with my favs getting killed off, even if it makes me :[ on principle. but in this case, said character was arguably the biggest indicator of development and had the most future potential. getting ganked out of nowhere might be a way of pointing out the randomness of death...?
if so, whatever, okay--oh my god existential depression. did i mention the spunk? i liked the spunk. and the fun. before they got eaten by scorpion/human hybrids. :| the epilogue is like the only sliver of hope after a long march of death and carnage, and by that time, yeah. no.
"What I Learned From Reading TE" by shira
humans are destructive and fragile and scary if you give them something pointy and will orphan children during the end times. Earth is destructive and scary and will burn you alive and crush you and suffocate you and squish animals together so that they can rip your limbs off. otherwise, unrequited love is painful, deserving people die too soon, different species will never understand each other, and there is only a bastion of solace after a decade.
oh yeah, and Joanne and David like to have sex.
THE END
... and this, this is apparently the end of AN EQUAL PARTS FUNNY AND LIGHT-HEARTED series, the final shout-out to WW fans everywhere. ummm.
i feel dark and emo inside. D: