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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Mistborn series (HoA) ending. Major *SPOILER* (duh)
« on: March 25, 2009, 04:39:00 PM »
Hey all. I am new to this forum. I started reading Brandon Sanderson like 2 weeks ago, and finished the Mistborn series as of yesterday night. Now, I consider myself a fan and a bigtime fan to be(Yeah, I think he is THAT good).
Anyway, the ending did seem..peculiar to me. I guessed a lot of stuff throughout the book before they happened but Sazed ending up as a God? Now that IS certainly unexpected. It was a very, very clever thing to do I guess. He had all the knowledge in the world and dismissed them because of his despair in the last book(turning our head in another direction). His lack of faith(again turning our head in another direction). His politeness, life of servitude (I think he would make a god to answer prayers as much as he can, sounds like serving where as Kelsier, Vin and Elend are resting in the afterlife) and him being Eunuch (I'm not a native speaker, and I thought the word was spelled as "Unique", made it brilliant for me) so being a bit less (or more maybe?) man in turn human in that sense.. Yes, it was very, very clever plotting in deed.
Still, I can't say I was completely satisfied though. I am biased, for Sazed was not my favorite character. I LOVED Vin. The urchin, the lady, the mistborn, the knife, the empress, the goddess. I simply loved her. I was hoping that the small writings in the beginning of each section was Vin's, not Sazed's.
That being said, after Kelsier's death, Vin's perspective gave us enough insight and time for his death to sink in. And it DID hurt. But Vin and Elend being the very core of the books, I think the time (the pages rather) was not enough for their deaths to sink in. Too much happened in too little time. One could almost say their deaths were told in a matter of factly tone. In my opinion, that explains why people cried at Kelsier's death, but not for Vin and Elend's. But maybe, that was the intention, we were on "god perspective" so to say, how could one man's death be so important?
I loved the final note of Sazed though.
All in all, I think that was an ending far more interesting then most(maybe all) books I've read.
Anyway, the ending did seem..peculiar to me. I guessed a lot of stuff throughout the book before they happened but Sazed ending up as a God? Now that IS certainly unexpected. It was a very, very clever thing to do I guess. He had all the knowledge in the world and dismissed them because of his despair in the last book(turning our head in another direction). His lack of faith(again turning our head in another direction). His politeness, life of servitude (I think he would make a god to answer prayers as much as he can, sounds like serving where as Kelsier, Vin and Elend are resting in the afterlife) and him being Eunuch (I'm not a native speaker, and I thought the word was spelled as "Unique", made it brilliant for me) so being a bit less (or more maybe?) man in turn human in that sense.. Yes, it was very, very clever plotting in deed.
Still, I can't say I was completely satisfied though. I am biased, for Sazed was not my favorite character. I LOVED Vin. The urchin, the lady, the mistborn, the knife, the empress, the goddess. I simply loved her. I was hoping that the small writings in the beginning of each section was Vin's, not Sazed's.
That being said, after Kelsier's death, Vin's perspective gave us enough insight and time for his death to sink in. And it DID hurt. But Vin and Elend being the very core of the books, I think the time (the pages rather) was not enough for their deaths to sink in. Too much happened in too little time. One could almost say their deaths were told in a matter of factly tone. In my opinion, that explains why people cried at Kelsier's death, but not for Vin and Elend's. But maybe, that was the intention, we were on "god perspective" so to say, how could one man's death be so important?
I loved the final note of Sazed though.
All in all, I think that was an ending far more interesting then most(maybe all) books I've read.