Apparently Eleazar was dumb as a brick, since he seemed to be completely oblivious to Aro's whole "kill people to get powerful vampires" thing. Now if Meyer was really good, she could have done something sinister, like making it that Eleazar was secretly being brainwashed and him falling in love broke that and made him wake up and think "WTF am I doing here?" That could also explain why Aro would let him leave - he'd be afraid that Eleazar would figure out about the brainwashing and the Volturi would lose their "good" reputation. But we don't really get any of that.
I don't think Meyer knew how to make Aro. In her backstory for Marcus, Aro, and Didyme, she said that a key part of his personality was that he was willing to destroy things he loved to get more power. But we never really see that though, especially towards the end of this book when he apparently has a LOT of powerful vampires he wants and is itching for a fight. I feel like Meyer tried to make herself an ersatz Dumbledore but got a stupid rip-off one instead, sort of like in "Titanic: The Animated Musical".
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Date: 2010-03-21 10:33 pm (UTC)I don't think Meyer knew how to make Aro. In her backstory for Marcus, Aro, and Didyme, she said that a key part of his personality was that he was willing to destroy things he loved to get more power. But we never really see that though, especially towards the end of this book when he apparently has a LOT of powerful vampires he wants and is itching for a fight. I feel like Meyer tried to make herself an ersatz Dumbledore but got a stupid rip-off one instead, sort of like in "Titanic: The Animated Musical".