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Apr. 26th, 2013 07:32 pmI just realized, while reading the latest Left Behind (usually) Friday from Slacktivist, that it's entirely possible that Jerry Jenkins accidentally wrote a brilliant story.* All you've got to do is assume that back in Book 1 Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia** completely destroyed the free will and rational minds of our POV characters, Splint Chesthair and Slate Fistcrunch Buck Williams and Rayford Steele.
Once you come to that conclusion, all their self-congratulation for thinking of themselves as enemies of the Antichrist while they take jobs with him and constantly do his bidding makes chilling sense. They THINK they are in control, and they THINK that all their completely insane decisions to aid and abet him are their OWN ideas furthering their agendas of opposition, when in fact he's the one pulling the strings. What you're reading is their warped, self-delusional spin on how they remain good guys while totally in the thrall of the bad guy. And it also explains Nicolae's apparent laxity when it comes to tyrannically ruling the world--he's actually just infiltrated folks' minds on a far subtler level than we expected. Crafty bastard.
Hey, it adds an element of drama to an unbelievably daft (but educational!) series. I can dream.
Incidentally, I found out they're doing a reboot of the Left Behind movies, and Ashley Tisdale, voice of Candace in Phineas and Ferb, is playing Chloe Steele. I would have no idea how to feel about that, but it doesn't matter because Nicholas Cage is playingSlab Bulkhead Rayford Steele, and so I am too busy laughing uproariously at the awful appropriateness of this addition to his already bonkers career. You go, crazy Cage man!
*The one he wrote on purpose is completely terrible, however; make no mistake.
**Yes, really.
Once you come to that conclusion, all their self-congratulation for thinking of themselves as enemies of the Antichrist while they take jobs with him and constantly do his bidding makes chilling sense. They THINK they are in control, and they THINK that all their completely insane decisions to aid and abet him are their OWN ideas furthering their agendas of opposition, when in fact he's the one pulling the strings. What you're reading is their warped, self-delusional spin on how they remain good guys while totally in the thrall of the bad guy. And it also explains Nicolae's apparent laxity when it comes to tyrannically ruling the world--he's actually just infiltrated folks' minds on a far subtler level than we expected. Crafty bastard.
Hey, it adds an element of drama to an unbelievably daft (but educational!) series. I can dream.
Incidentally, I found out they're doing a reboot of the Left Behind movies, and Ashley Tisdale, voice of Candace in Phineas and Ferb, is playing Chloe Steele. I would have no idea how to feel about that, but it doesn't matter because Nicholas Cage is playing
*The one he wrote on purpose is completely terrible, however; make no mistake.
**Yes, really.
