zachariah wrote:Gee. Wow. I wonder if we will ever find out what the TAR was and why it invaded Jet. Unless Tina explains to them after they wake I guess we won't. Just love it when it's all action and no explanation. Does that make this an anticlimax?
That's life for you...a lot of stuff going on that sometimes you don't get the chance to fully grasp or understand...though you may be lucky enough to witness the consequences and start piecing things together that way. Goodness knows that my life feels ridiculously anticlimactic and confusing often enough to drive me mad.
Yes...I know that this is a story, and therefore it should have some explanations provided to the readers...but I kind of like that Paul doesn't just shove everything down our throats right when it's most convenient for us (or when we think we want or need it). He saves the explanations for a time that is most appropriate (and realistic) for the story and his characters, which (IMO) makes for a more intriguing tale.
Bathorys Daughter wrote:It would seem like the demons would not have to go through any sort of rehabilitation as to how to be proper demons. After all, the time they have been assigned to Jet so far is less than a second compared to their overall time in existence as demons. It doesn't even make sense that they would feel disoriented at present. They should just feel normal. I find it hard to accept they would be so drastically changed by a few years being under Tar's thumb compared to their billions of years of life thus far.
I don't think that's really true at all. I mean, if you think about it in parts and pieces, and then put them together, the demons' behavior makes sense. First of all, while the demons inhabiting Jet's C-space may be billions of years old (or whatever), they may not have all worked together as a unit during that time. Several of them could have been assigned to various other individuals without any meet-ups before their time with Jet, so while they may be "good" at being demons due to having so much prior experience, they may not be good at working together...especially since their roles and functions as a covey were usurped by the Tar. Secondly, I don't think it matters how old or experienced a being is when it's been recently victimized. Every victim has to go through a recovery process that involves re-learning how to function with and around others no matter how much prior knowledge they have of that behavior. Add to that the fact that demons probably are not accustomed to being victimized by anything other than sphinxes (and that seems to have involved more death/destruction as opposed to rape which would have lingering emotional ramifications), and you'd be dealing with a lot of potential issues (i.e. self-doubt, confusion, hopelessness) that, though similar to what humans experience, are more complex since the beings in question seemed unaware that such things could happen to them before their time with Jet. When you take into account potential
lack of experience working as a cohesive covey,
and the fact that so many of them were raped into submission and now have to cope with the ramifications...well it makes perfect sense to me that there would be some kind of "rehabilitation" period."
And what Catawampus said.