| Re: Molly
i agree with that actually. the fool wasn't muchj of a character until the third assassin book, and his love for fitz seemed a bit sudden in reguards to the fact they didn't spend that long together.
but molly, god i hated her. she was so dull. ok she was what fitz wanted, a stable life, kids, security, and she was exactly that, she was the symbol OF that, a woman who just wanted to settle down and squeezed out babies as though it were her career, but as a character she was so dull and uninspired it was hard to care about her or have any hope that fitz would get her. lynn flewelling's bone dolls twin made me actually CARE that the heroine got her man in the end, that he was able to overcome his feelings to have that happeiness, and i think robin should have done a better job with molly. i felt as though robin relied on the, i will say she's a godo character and likeable, and then teh reader will like her, technique, that goodkind did with kahlan/richard/everyone in his books. unfortunatly, it doesn't work like that. just telling us that others like her, won't make ME like her unless there is osmething likeable TO her. i just saw her as a boring kid, then a boring adult. granted, it may have been that all she wanted was a family and kids, and it's hard to make that exciting in a book (not that there's anything wrong with just wanting family and kids, but in a book we get to know people more by their actions than anything else, and if they have none, the way a real person would, it's hard to get any understanding of them)
um rambling on now, but yeah. hated molly (and starling) felt they were forced on us to be likeable and they weren't. and though i think fitz was better off with her than the fool (that would never work) i just wish i could have cared more about her for fitz sake. so that i could feel glad that he was happy, instead of jus tbored. |