On the rereading of an old favorite

[matt_dalen]

In my ongoing attempt to prove that I may or may not exist and actually update this thing at least once every millennium, here's another edition of my random thoughts

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[daidoji_gisei]

pure, good, and noble innocents (by definition!) being transformed to evil by no design of their own

So, they were Tainted?

[matt_dalen]

I think the thing that creeped me out as a kid wasn't so much that they were being turned evil - it was the fact that they were doing it to innocents, unborn beings that had no opportunity to take another path. It would have bothered me a lot more, I think, if it had been fully-grown, thinking beings that somehow stumbled into being tainted. (I fully acknowledge that this is an irrational gut revulsion.)

[matt_dalen]

Waitwaitwait... Raistlin had a kid? With an URDA? I was kind of hoping they had left the Urda as just a one-off race for that one book. Because the idea of Raistlin spawning at all is just disturbing.

And that's another thing I find weird about this series - the standards of beauty are entirely humano-centric. Draconians, hobgoblins, and dwarves? All leering at the beautiful human woman (usually Tika.) Don't they have their own standards of beauty? I mean, wouldn't an average draconian look at Tika and think "too mammalian"?

Le sigh.