My #1 Worry About Insurgent

[scribblemyname]

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What is my number one worry about Insurgent? Roth will break the world beyond repair.

I love angst. I hate tragedy. With a few minor exceptions, apparently. Like “To Go Not to Lethe,” a now lost-to-us tale by mesoc that always made me cry ’cause it couldn’t be fixed. I like worlds that can be awful, terrible, horrible, but with an ability left to the characters to transcend somehow.

I want Tris to make it. And I’m just not entirely sure she will without too much damage. She’s tough enough to have a chance.

Barely.

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Comments

[pygmymuse.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting til other people read it.

I am all for broken characters and impossible situations, but only if there is some way to find a way above it. The thing about broken characters that I like the most is how they find their way past the damage. I don't necessarily need the world fixed completely if I can believe the characters will survive it somehow.

[scribblemyname]

Yes, that. I'm just worried that we might not be left that when everything falls down.

[lithiumlaughter.livejournal.com]

My thoughts here run along slightly different lines, I think. Not sure.

I don't think anyone, or even the world, is going to escape the trilogy unscathed and I'm not foreseeing a happy ending. I don't think, given the state of things, it would be possible. I wouldn't say that tragedy and the chance to transcend are mutually exclusive; things need to break before they can be rebuilt, and rubble is a messy, awful thing. We might be left in the rubble by the end, and it will be painful as hell, but I don't think Roth is going to give us an apocalypse (as it were, anyhow). If anything, I see an ambiguous ending that doesn't preclude some major loss.

[/pretension]

My personal worry for 'Insurgent'?

A love triangle.

I'm all for complicating the relationship between Tris and Four (or do we call them Beatrice and Tobias now?), and I think Roth is planning that based on the live action trailer for 'Insurgent'. I just don't want to see a completely cliche love triangle worked in, because
it's what you see absolutely everywhere. Love triangles in YA lit have become boring. Trite, even. There's cries in what little fandom I've found (some comments and things I've stumbled across on tumblr) for Roth to throw Uriah into the mix for a love triangle, or hook Tris up with Uriah point blank. I'm not a fan of either idea.

[scribblemyname]

Oy, no! I really hope no love triangle. Lord, preserve us. :directs cries heavenward:

And I didn't mean it wouldn't get broken. I love angst. I'm just hoping it doesn't hit "beyond repair" because it's possible. All too possible.