The part I get unstuck is at the whole failure to save him issue. I can understand being surprised by a turn of character in writing as things can go WOO UNEXPECTED AND NAKED! but ye gods...the whole, "I failed! We failed! We could have saved him!" is just...well, I expect it from Will Smith in I Am Legend. I expect it from tough-as-nails investigators that are invested in saving lives and puppies. I don't really expect it from authors.
Phillip had to die. He was the emotional lynch pin in the whole piece. IMO, there was closure when he was finally laid to rest. QED.
And surely today, of all days, really hammers in that this sort of thing happens IRL more than we want. Phillip's death was probably one of the few things that went toward building Anita's world as real and that things don't work out the way you always want.
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AND NAKED!but ye gods...the whole, "I failed! We failed! We could have saved him!" is just...well, I expect it from Will Smith in I Am Legend. I expect it from tough-as-nails investigators that are invested in saving lives and puppies. I don't really expect it from authors.Phillip had to die. He was the emotional lynch pin in the whole piece. IMO, there was closure when he was finally laid to rest. QED.
And surely today, of all days, really hammers in that this sort of thing happens IRL more than we want. Phillip's death was probably one of the few things that went toward building Anita's world as real and that things don't work out the way you always want.