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I was reading This Day all Gods Die by Stephen Donaldson last night and a somewhat disappointing thought occurred to me.  The Gap series has been great.  I’ve really enjoyed it and it has kept me on the edge of me seat through at least the last four books.  The first one pretty much told us how it would end in the first chapter, but the rest have just gone from one major crisis to the next.  I’ll let you read the book yourself if you want details, but the main thing is that all of humanity is at risk.  Of course, the main characters have been at risk for quite sometime.

What disappointed me, is that even though I don’t yet know how the conflict will be resolved, I know it will be resolved.  I expect that mankind will be saved and the “good guys” will win the day.  They may not all survive, but in one way or another they will win.  Similarly, in the previous books, I knew that the current conflict would be resolved.  And since I also knew there were more books in the serious, I knew they would end up in trouble again.  They had to; otherwise, what would the rest of the books be about?

I suppose what’s disappointing, is that even though this series has continued to surprise me, even shock me at times, and though I don’t know exactly how everything will end up, who will survive, etc.,  I’m reading the book expecting the day to be saved, and just waiting to see how.  I don’t get to enjoy the shock and surprise that the good guys won because I already expect it.  I’ve come to expect it from books, movies, and TV shows.  I think more often, the good guys should lose.  Humanity should be lost.  Insurmountable odds should remain insurmountable.  Every now and then, I’d like to read or watch a story where the hero can’t do the impossible.  Actually, more often that that.  The hero should lose more often than he wins.  I want to see a hero driven to the brink of failure and then actually fail.  Not because I’m a pessimist.  Not even because I’m a realist.  But if I actually thought there was a good chance the hero would fail, I could enjoy the suspense more.  I would enjoy actually not knowing.  Yes, I know, there are a few stories like this, but not many.  When they come I am pleasantly surprised.  But I want to be surprised when the hero wins.  I want to be shocked when he/she/they are driven to the brink of failure and somehow come back.  But as it stands, I expect it.  And where’s the fun in that?

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