Moved from Main - the Dark is rising series and movie

[dumbledore11214]

> Alla:
> 
> Magpie, shout out to you especially. Read on and you will 
understand
> why. I mean first and foremost because you like Dark and Rising
> obviously :)
> 
> For example, does anybody who read the series was reminded of
> Dumbledore's treatment of Snape in Merriman treatment of Walker.
> 
> Magpie:
> Actually my answer to this question and the Obliviate question are 
> the same--the Light isn't forgiving at all, but that's the point. 
> They're not human, they're inhuman and they're kind of fanatics 
(and 
> they're called out as such in the book). What's done to the Walker 
is 
> supposed to be inhuman (I think it's more some sort of Law than 
> specifically Merriman).
> 
> In TDiR it's an important part of the story that ultimately Dark 
and 
> Light are almost the same, but at the center of one is a pit of 
> darkness and at the center of the other is a cold, white flame--
> Cooper said she thought it might be in her mind a bit connected to 
> the white explosion of the atom bomb. They don't treat people the 
way 
> people should be treated--even when they want to. They have an 
agenda 
> and even if it's ultimately the right one/a good one, that doesn't 
> mean they're on peoples' side the way we'd think of the term. 
> 
> That's what I loved about it the first time I read it as a kid. 
That 
> whole Walker storyline is totally scary. Although at the same 
time, 
> you know they're only like that when dealing with their own stuff. 
> Most of the time dealing with them as people they're like people. 
I 
> mean, they don't use magic on people regularly. But the people 
they 
> do deal with magically are often wary of that side of them.


Alla:

Oh. Very interesting. Do you think though that this was what Susan 
Cooper intended? Meaning, do you think she intended to portray Dark 
and Light as almost the same? Or just as two forces matched in 
strength?

That's what I am wondering indeed, because you see today I finished 
rereading the Dark is rising ( the second book only I mean) and I 
totally get the impression that what was done to Walker was supposed 
to be looked as deserving somehow. I mean, it is, but you get the 
drift - I find it scary.

Isn't the light struggle portrayed as the just one?

Interesting in the wierd way.

Where do you get that was done to Walker was a law? I mean Merryman 
says we did, I guess, so they probably decided together. I do not 
know.

Somehow last time I read the series ( I read them only twice) couple 
years ago, I was more impressed by Merryman supposedly giving Walker 
a choice to rest or something.

I still adore these books, but my mental picture of them is changing.

We shall see what I think when I finish reread.

Alla