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You don't live in a world where a god would ensure that a trial by combat would go to the righteous, and there's the difference. If you can't find the mindspace
by stan_rogers 6y ago
You don't live in a world where a god would ensure that a trial by combat would go to the righteous, and there's the difference. If you can't find the mindspace, you rather miss everything else.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoAnd how inconsistent God was in the story in helping is what I would consider a plot hole and one of the reasons I found it a poor story. It's called a “deus ex machinā” for a good reason — it makes for rather poor storytelling if some higher power, with all the might to ensure a happy end at any point, only elect to do so at specific points.
- stan_rogers 6y agoAgain, you don't live in that world. The writer and his audience did. If you can't meet it halfway, or at least allow for it, you're going to miss everything... and that's your fault, not the author's. It doesn't matter at all how it reads with a thoroughly modern mind.