The Blood Stain thing bothered me too. I'm pretty sure bloodstain is supposed to be just one word. She also could have just written "blood" and that would have been fine.
This brings me to something that's been bothering me for awhile now, but I couldn't really quite put my finger on why. The "prophecy" that she seems particularly proud of, "when the two silver birds attack the twin brothers." It's mentioned time and time again and also I believe it was retconned in later, meaning she had a lot of time to come up with it. It's mentioned often and given a lot of prominence in her movie and book blurbs.
Anyway, it really doesn't make much sense. I don't really know what goes into writing a good prophecy but this isn't it. First of all, silver birds, ok, fantasy people wouldn't know what planes are I guess. Sure. OK. Twin brothers though? Fantasy people don't have towers? To us living in the real world, the "prophecy" is about as subtle as someone screaming "9/11!!!!!" but if you did live in Maradonia or whatever and heard that you'd end up with the mental image of two guys frantically swatting at shiny birds trying to peck them to death.
Yes I know I'm probably over-thinking it and she's a bad writer etc. but it's been bugging me for awhile.
This brings me to something that's been bothering me for awhile now, but I couldn't really quite put my finger on why. The "prophecy" that she seems particularly proud of, "when the two silver birds attack the twin brothers." It's mentioned time and time again and also I believe it was retconned in later, meaning she had a lot of time to come up with it. It's mentioned often and given a lot of prominence in her movie and book blurbs.
Anyway, it really doesn't make much sense. I don't really know what goes into writing a good prophecy but this isn't it. First of all, silver birds, ok, fantasy people wouldn't know what planes are I guess. Sure. OK. Twin brothers though? Fantasy people don't have towers? To us living in the real world, the "prophecy" is about as subtle as someone screaming "9/11!!!!!" but if you did live in Maradonia or whatever and heard that you'd end up with the mental image of two guys frantically swatting at shiny birds trying to peck them to death.
Yes I know I'm probably over-thinking it and she's a bad writer etc. but it's been bugging me for awhile.