We have got all the most recent news on the Allegiant movie — including previews, posters, and conjecture on changes from the novel. Keeping her aims in your mind, I still believe this end neglected in it’s execution. With her death, a great deal of this termination was tied up like the injury and demise of Uriah. It was a lot like Divergent where there is a great deal of decent writing although not much plot movement. And yet, even with the predictability as well as the repetition and the deus ex machina minutes, this storyline was a confused mess and most of it was to where we went, completely unnecessary. It was clearly one of the few interesting things regarding the novel, though I thought the love triangle” was unnecessary and slowed the storyline down. He spends all of Allegiant and we never really see him built back up. For a last publication so manufactured most of it is spent on (poorly done) exposition to explain it all away, Tris and Caleb to me felt like the sole thing real about any of it, the one character development achievement in a sea of plot development failure. This information dump is compounded by several things: 1) Everything we thought we understood about the outside is a lie and a number of things we thought we knew about individuals on the inside is a lie, too; 2) Tris knows nothing about the outside so things that people understand about as readers keep being off-handedly described to her and also not explained to her; 3) a lot of what Tris needs to figure out is science and history, and there’s not the sufficient foundation needed to help with suspension of disbelief. In Allegiant, we have to overthrow the tyranny of Jeanine Mathews 2.0/3.0. It is exactly the same battle. I mean seriously the 2nd part isn’t even out yet and individuals rated a book that is likely not even written yet! The thoughtless manner her passing revealed and is composed makes the ending seem like it was only written simply for a cheap shock value.
It was so paint by numbers and repetitive that it became foreseeable, in part because Tris is definitely appropriate and in part because there’s no time for nuance thanks to all of the arbitrary tips being thrown about and all the random things that keep occurring. Now, I am not saying to get a fictional novel everything must make perfect sense, but in this event, it’s not so much that the factions make no sense (even after all of the mumbo jumbo experimental garbage Roth’s concocted to force some logic onto the system – drivel I saw coming ever since Insurgent’s out of nowhere finishing) as much as the factions are so obviously composed the way they are to reinforce Roth’s message of how stereotyping is terrible that they make no sense outside of that circumstance. Four finds out that he is not really divergent (um, ok?), and then he totally breaks down and immediately loses all the growth he’d accomplished in the first two novels and does something stupid. The next installment of the smash Divergent series franchise, ALLEGIANT takes Tris Shailene Woodley and Four Theo James into a world that is new, far more dangerous than before. We’re all here weeping (read: sobbing our eye sockets dry) because of that end. Just like the characters in the book, the grief wipes away any deep philosophical mulling I might have about what occurred in the storyline. Instead of attempting to resolve the old struggle between the factions along with the factionless, the novel tries to take on a whole new struggle between the damaged and the pure, leaving little to no room for character growth that is appropriate and making the storyline unnecessarily convoluted. Mainly, the inorganic way the events are shown beat the effect this ending was attempting to reach.
We tend not to accept selfishness, stupidity, pride, as section of us. We desire to remove it. We vilify it. And when confronted with all the opportunity to be rid of it, we’d likely take it. Death and Uriah ‘s harm felt the same as a plot point for Four that was finally totally glossed over. Fundamentally, the damaged are more unlikely to survive, while the divergent are more likely too. Suddenly, tensions are growing between the factionless and the Allegiant (the group who desires to reestablish the faction system) and Evelyn decides she’s going to utilize the Erudite death serum to wipe out her adversaries. Admittedly, I’ve always been a skeptic of Veronica Roth’s novels – Divergent was nonsense dressed up as a dystopian, Insurgent pretty much failed at everything except stacking on the bullshit – but, as I called in my Insurgent review, there was simply something about Roth’s end game that had me interesting. She showed her change into the bravery that she initially desired to have way back in Divergent. Constantly I kept forgetting I was reading a novel that’s a continuance of the Divergent trilogy. The novel gets a little preachy right before this part where the characters start talking about how the memories of erasing someone is fundamentally evil-unless you have good motives, naturally.
The close for Tris was, I think, the best section of the book (and interestingly enough, not because it was finally over and done with). Now I’m supposing this was seen as foolish, because Allegiant takes this society and makes it an experiment. That’s just what she, as a selflessly dangerous man, would do. But considering that there was a totally good person involved in this end that needed to be redeemed (cough Caleb cough) who didn’t offer to sacrifice himself to save his sister, I am challenging the true purpose for why this finish was picked. The Divergent Series: Allegiant is set for release on March 10th in the united kingdom and March 18th in the States, with a cast which includes Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Octavia Spencer, Naomi Watts, Jeff Daniels, Ray Stevenson, Zoe Kravitz, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q, Keiynan Lonsdale, Jonny Weston, Mekhi Phifer, Daniel Dae Kim, Nadia Hilker and Bill Skarsgard. Part of me understands the point is that Four is not perfect; he’s four anxieties, but those four anxieties are so much bigger and more terrifying than most people’s ten or twenty (or my thousand). Two wrongs would not be made by the American Authorities in Allegiant in hopes of obtaining a right. He began to become Cassandra Clare prose basically and that’s not what I wanted in Allegiant. I actually don’t understand how Roth thought this was a successful method of stopping the show that defined her. EDIT (7/11/13): The ending is far from being the worst thing concerning this book, but I did read the author’s website post. Fundamentally, I just liked two things – Tris and Caleb’s relationship, as well as the ballsy ending (for like five seconds).
Hereis the matter, Divergent as a string is made around one very easy, quite obvious proposition: we should all be treated as people rather than stereotyped into some faction, Dauntless or Erudite or Candor (except Roth’s doing the stereotyping anyhow, like what is up with just the Erudite wearing glasses?). Cue the forced mental and sensational finish where readers drown in a pool of the feels as we are forced to read the tragic reaction of Four to her departure. I had a couple problems with it (mostly that it spelled out a bit too much for the reader, lacked finesse with the management of Motifs, and was occasionally pretty predictable) but the character development was breathless, the plot was heart-pounding and since it’s a young adult novel, I believe Veronica Roth did a pretty darn decent job:)Most readers are going to love it. Admittedly, I Have ever been a skeptic of Veronica Roth’s novels – Divergent was nonsense dressed up as a dystopian, Insurgent except stacking on the bullshit pretty much failed at everything – but, as I predicted within my Insurgent revi Clearly, I simply don’t get it. I don’t have any issue with happy endings, endings that are bittersweet, sad endings, or even unresolved endings SO LONG AS THE ENDING MAKES SENSE WITH ALL THE BODY OF THE WORK. Allegiant was certainly the ultimate publication of a hype-copter of a chain that left millions of subscribers invested. Now lem me explain: if this convoluted plot actually made sense and did not leave me needing to go back to the equally dumb but at least fascinating notion of the factions, then I would not be as frustrated as I ‘m. Not nearly. When people asked me what my favorite novel was I ‘d proudly say Divergent and I’m uncertain what to answer anymore.
