Ass Ass Creed… (no spoilers)… Pulling a Dumbledore.
So I was playing Assassins creed brotherhood, and when I finished it and the credits rolled I just couldn’t shake a slight feeling of confuzzlement, and shock. Now I won’t go into detail because I don’t want to spoil anything, but let’s just say… I had to blink seven times before I could begin to puzzle out what had happened. Now I have some theories and I hope Ubisoft will stick to their story and won’t pull a Dumbledore.
Let me explain… once upon a time there was a book series called Harry Potter… and all was well. Off course Rowlings series became a phenomenon and as with all hypes these days the internet
was soon buzzing with all things Potter. When you read Potter somewhere along the line one of the most important characters dies. However everything up till then seems to indicate Dumbledore will be pulling a Gandalf*, meaning he will return in the hour of need. The Phoenix theme most of all, Dumbledores’ familiar. However Rowling had an obsessive internet following who soon came up with more or less the same storyline. It is my idea that Rowling did exactly the opposite of what her fans where saying just to seem original. Quite a challenge because although a fun read, little in the Potter universe is original neither person nor plot device.So now I am hoping Ubisoft will stick to their original storyline and
*Pulling a Gandalf: Letting one of the main characters, often the protagonists mentor die, only to have him resurrect or not be dead at all somewhere during the climax of the story.
Don't forget that Rowling never played with life and death, as in resurrection or coming back from the dead.
ReplyDeleteShe had an amazing tact on handling it, and we could see that in the way she threaded Potter's parent's appearances in the book, as shadows of Voldy's last curse and not as ghosts. Same with Peeves and other Hogwarts ghosts. They are imprints of a person's self left on earth and not the person per-se. The only time she brushes the real subject was with that "portal" when his godfather died. And it goes completely unexplained.
Therefore, IMHO, Dumbledore's death was going to be final no matter how the fans twisted it. He was a mentor in a fantasy story, there ain't anything more obvious than that.
When you view the books so many things seem to indicate a ressurection... I have no doubt that Dumbledore's return was the original plan.
ReplyDeleteNow I'm curious... where?
ReplyDeleteI am 100% sure it was supposed to be a Gandalf action. Come on, why in the Heck would she choose a phoenix as THE symbol for dumbledore. He even 'dissapears' one time through the phoenix, by buring up. Its pretty obvious.
ReplyDeleteAnf the fact that she changed it, makes the whole theme stupid, and ridiculous. And it annoys the crap out of me.
The whole series is just one big copycat of other stores, myths and legends. Not that im complaining, but she hasn't written anything original.