The army doesn't even become seriously important until the fourth and last book. It can be summed up thusly:
Crescendo: Nora worries that Patch is cheating on her. Also, someone's trying to kill her and there might have been shady business behind her father's death. Also, her dad might possibly be alive. (Did you forget that last part? Yeah, THAT one is underplayed!)
Silence: Nora can't remember the plots of the first two books for contrived reasons and focuses almost entirely on (A) hating her mom's new boyfriend because Reasons and (B) slavering over the mysterious teenage stranger who keeps stalking her who totally isn't Patch, yo.
Finale: Nora spends most of it whining about how she's forced to lead the Nephilim and how it's stupid to get their hopes up, because they have no chance at all of overthrowing the fallen angels. Also, she and Patch can't openly date and there's something about being in trouble with the archangels (who are the most incompetent people ever, I swear.)
So yeah. In the grand scheme of things, this is an even worse version of what Meyer did with Eclipse. Eclipse at least ignored a one-shot event. This is ignoring a massive uprising that is implied to have been CENTURIES in the making. I know mileage massively varies on the Susan/Caspian subplot in the Prince Caspian movie, but this is like if the entire film were about Susan and Caspian making eyes at each other and only being vaguely aware that a war was brewing, and then Susan getting pissy that she was expected to help out because of COURSE the Narnians can't win, so why bother?
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Date: 2014-02-26 10:22 pm (UTC)Crescendo: Nora worries that Patch is cheating on her. Also, someone's trying to kill her and there might have been shady business behind her father's death. Also, her dad might possibly be alive. (Did you forget that last part? Yeah, THAT one is underplayed!)
Silence: Nora can't remember the plots of the first two books for contrived reasons and focuses almost entirely on (A) hating her mom's new boyfriend because Reasons and (B) slavering over the mysterious teenage stranger who keeps stalking her who totally isn't Patch, yo.
Finale: Nora spends most of it whining about how she's forced to lead the Nephilim and how it's stupid to get their hopes up, because they have no chance at all of overthrowing the fallen angels. Also, she and Patch can't openly date and there's something about being in trouble with the archangels (who are the most incompetent people ever, I swear.)
So yeah. In the grand scheme of things, this is an even worse version of what Meyer did with Eclipse. Eclipse at least ignored a one-shot event. This is ignoring a massive uprising that is implied to have been CENTURIES in the making. I know mileage massively varies on the Susan/Caspian subplot in the Prince Caspian movie, but this is like if the entire film were about Susan and Caspian making eyes at each other and only being vaguely aware that a war was brewing, and then Susan getting pissy that she was expected to help out because of COURSE the Narnians can't win, so why bother?