There's not that many tropes in
The Stand and the ones that are there are largely character based. You do realize we all have our own personal tropes right?
I wouldn't call it very clumsy religious stuff. I partially agree with you, I'm not huge on the religious overtones, but overall I think it's handled pretty well.
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Originally Posted by Saya
The first half was fantastic. I'd compare it to Anne Rice's Servant Of The Bones. Wonderful beginning! Okay...we're going to get religious now? Okay, I'll roll with it...wait, seriously? SERIOUSLY? Like, bad things happen to cool characters because they weren't righteous enough or whatever? He takes an Old Testament road with it and thats fine, but there's little moral grey area there, you're either on the good side or the bad side, and the god of the good side is one harsh motherfucker.
I should also note it was only a few months ago I got over halfway through the uncut edition, and its one of his older books so I can't criticize it too much for it, but when you identify a Stephen King trope it fucking irritates me whenever I come across it now. Like the Magical Negro trope. The Stand has quite a few examples of that. So, there's shit like that combined with the very clumsy religious stuff. |