Mar-14-2018, 09:19 AM (UTC)
No need to apologize! 
I think we've all reacted pretty strongly to various things in these books over the years.
When you list his struggles like that, it does seem like he needs saving a lot.
And although the general tone of the books doesn't change that much going forward, Fitz does become better/wiser at some things... The nasty thing about the Skill though is that you can never "master" it because eventually, it will consume you one way or the other (you've seen several examples of this in the first trilogy already). Robin Hobb has actually said several times that the origin of these books was an idea she wrote down on a piece of paper once:"What if magic were addictive? And what if the addiction was destructive or degenerative?"
I think we've all reacted pretty strongly to various things in these books over the years.When you list his struggles like that, it does seem like he needs saving a lot.
And although the general tone of the books doesn't change that much going forward, Fitz does become better/wiser at some things... The nasty thing about the Skill though is that you can never "master" it because eventually, it will consume you one way or the other (you've seen several examples of this in the first trilogy already). Robin Hobb has actually said several times that the origin of these books was an idea she wrote down on a piece of paper once:"What if magic were addictive? And what if the addiction was destructive or degenerative?"
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny
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