Turns out Patterson's idiocy isn't limited to one series. I'm sporking his Witch & Wizard, too. For some reason the name didn't click for me when I was in the bookstore and thinking 'hey, that's a cool premise.' *sigh*
Referring to Angel as "it" doesn't bother me because that's a good way to distance yourself from your subject. Boats and guns are given pronouns because soldiers and sailors put their lives on them. If the scientists are planning on vivisecting Angel or something else nasty, dehumanizing her with a nonhuman pronoun would take their minds from what they are doing.
So that doesn't bother me. Unless the scientists were trying to make the Flock like them, in which case they're incompetent.
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So that doesn't bother me. Unless the scientists were trying to make the Flock like them, in which case they're incompetent.
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Poor Kippur. *offers cookies*
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