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Aug. 10th, 2016 08:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI've been trying to get closer to caught up on Doctor Who before Boston ComicCon even though I failed to snag tickets to the Companions celebrity panel. Watched The Girl Who Died and The Woman Who Lived last night.
I swear, regardless of the quality of his work or of his tendency to beat the same handful of tropes into the ground or the way everyone in the world except the crazypants badguys are expert snarkers, I will always, always love David Eddings for the fact that HIS immortals like being immortal. "Oh, boo hoo hoo! I have to live hundreds or thousands of years and do everything I ever wanted and pursue fields of study that didn't exist when I was a child! I have to endure the same losses as everyone else, just over and over, which is totally not at all compensated for by the fact that I can love more often than anyone else and experience life and grieving and resumption of joy in different ways each time! How I envy you pathetic sad little mayflies who only make it to forty and then croak, because you actually appreciate what little time you have! Immortality is bad! Don't try to make your lives any longer because it's unnatural and awful and tragic to outlive your naturally allotted span! You should totally die quickly, it's the most awesome thing ever!"
.... certain tropes in science fiction and fantasy aggravate me more than others and "Die young, you'll like it" is one of the big ones.
I swear, regardless of the quality of his work or of his tendency to beat the same handful of tropes into the ground or the way everyone in the world except the crazypants badguys are expert snarkers, I will always, always love David Eddings for the fact that HIS immortals like being immortal. "Oh, boo hoo hoo! I have to live hundreds or thousands of years and do everything I ever wanted and pursue fields of study that didn't exist when I was a child! I have to endure the same losses as everyone else, just over and over, which is totally not at all compensated for by the fact that I can love more often than anyone else and experience life and grieving and resumption of joy in different ways each time! How I envy you pathetic sad little mayflies who only make it to forty and then croak, because you actually appreciate what little time you have! Immortality is bad! Don't try to make your lives any longer because it's unnatural and awful and tragic to outlive your naturally allotted span! You should totally die quickly, it's the most awesome thing ever!"
.... certain tropes in science fiction and fantasy aggravate me more than others and "Die young, you'll like it" is one of the big ones.
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