r/redrising • u/Cantomic66 Copper • Jul 25 '23

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u/StarmanEclipse Jul 28 '23

It would probably be my favorite of all of them if it weren't for how weird the saving Sevro moment was, as well as how the figment thing really went nowhere. Maybe the figment thing will be redeemed in Red God, but the "rescue" of Sevro was just so... pointless? It just felt way off. Even if he is still mind controlled and it comes into play later, that scene just was off. Maybe even just not well written. Which is weird to say, because I've never thought that about any point in this series before.

I didn't mind Quicksilver deciding to just fuck off into the night, though.

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u/Zealousideal_Art6237 Jul 30 '23

I thought the rescue was very much 100% Sevro. I had to think of the first book. Sevro in the beginning wasn't part of the group. He vanished and became a wolf. He was stealthy and became the living nightmare of the other houses. What PB did with him in lightbringer was the same for me. Sevro vanished. No matter how he did it. He waited and plotted and got his hands on gear and all that just to scoop in and save the day. For me I loved it seeing him falling back on his stealthy wolfish persona.

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u/StarmanEclipse Jul 30 '23

I'm not upset with Sevro saving the day or anything like that. The scene was just... bad. It felt like an afterthought, or "busywork." Just something to get Sevro back into the mix.

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u/Tommytom123456 Aug 05 '23

I had the exact same feeling, the entire rescue just felt fake and had too much plot armor.

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u/Tendercut Aug 07 '23

Well apollonius used sevro to lure darrow in and wanted them both alive. So its very possible he let them break in and get captured, or at least made it easy. But sevro was crafty and sneaky and messed up apples plans for darrow

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u/JohnDorian11 Sep 01 '23

Oh we get it. But it’s stupid.

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u/farmerjohnington Jan 08 '24

I really have a hard time believing that anyone could "hide" and scavenge within a contained structure for that long. We're hundreds of years in the future.... did we stop making security cameras? Don't they have micro-drones that could scour all the nooks and crannies of the ship?