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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Irene Steele. '"Can you imagine, Rafe," she exulted. "Jesus coming back to get us before we die?"' She says this knowing that Rayford isn't all that religious a person. It's supposed to show how good a Christian she is, but it just makes her seem like she's trying to show off her faith to feel better than people who don't believe. She seems like the kind of person who says grace in a really loud tone of voice whenever she's at a restaurant just so she can feel superior to the other people there, who either don't say grace at all or do it in a reasonable tone of voice (or even say it silently). When Chloe is planning to go off to college on a scholarship and Irene is adamant that she stay and go to church with her (to the point of threatening to have Ray ''force'' Chloe into the car to go,) this is supposed to be a demonstration of Irene's care for her daughter and Chloe's ungratefulness. It comes across as Irene having no respect for her daughter's intelligence and growing independence.
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** Irene Steele. '"Can you imagine, Rafe," she exulted. "Jesus coming back to get us before we die?"' She says this knowing that Rayford isn't all that religious a person. It's supposed to show how good a Christian she is, but it just makes her seem like she's trying to show off her faith to feel better than people who don't believe. She seems like the kind of person who says grace in a really loud tone of voice whenever she's at a restaurant just so she can feel superior to the other people there, who either don't say grace at all or do it in a reasonable tone of voice (or even say it silently). When Chloe is planning to go off to college on a scholarship and Irene is adamant that she stay and go to church with her (to the point of threatening to have Ray ''force'' Chloe into the car to go,) this is supposed to be a demonstration of Irene's care for her daughter and Chloe's ungratefulness. It comes across as Irene having no respect for her daughter's intelligence and growing independence.
** Rayford seems to consider himself a hero for refusing to ride on a bus from his plane to O'Hare Terminal, even though this requires him to walk around plane wrecks and ignore the dead and wounded inside.
** Buck discovers an International Conspiracy after it murders his close friend, and then runs right to the head of that conspiracy and trades silence for his life. In reality, brave journalists risk their own lives to expose much smaller crimes and conspiracies. Also in reality, the head of such conspiracies don't take kindly to people trying to play them, and would more likely shoot him AND get his silence just so that they don't have to worry about him asking for more. This one is actually somewhat acknowledged in the second book; Carpathia realized that Buck was such a corrupt pushover that all it would take to get the famous journalist working for him directly (and helping legitimize his lies) was to ask nicely.
** Irene Steele. '"Can you imagine, Rafe," she exulted. "Jesus coming back to get us before we die?"' She says this knowing that Rayford isn't all that religious a person. It's supposed to show how good a Christian she is, but it just makes her seem like she's trying to show off her faith to feel better than people who don't believe. She seems like the kind of person who says grace in a really loud tone of voice whenever she's at a restaurant just so she can feel superior to the other people there, who either don't say grace at all or do it in a reasonable tone of voice (or even say it silently). When Chloe is planning to go off to college on a scholarship and Irene is adamant that she stay and go to church with her (to the point of threatening to have Ray ''force'' Chloe into the car to go,) this is supposed to be a demonstration of Irene's care for her daughter and Chloe's ungratefulness. It comes across as Irene having no respect for her daughter's intelligence and growing independence.
** Rayford seems to consider himself a hero for refusing to ride on a bus from his plane to O'Hare Terminal, even though this requires him to walk around plane wrecks and ignore the dead and wounded inside.
** Buck discovers an International Conspiracy after it murders his close friend, and then runs right to the head of that conspiracy and trades silence for his life. In reality, brave journalists risk their own lives to expose much smaller crimes and conspiracies. Also in reality, the head of such conspiracies don't take kindly to people trying to play them, and would more likely shoot him AND get his silence just so that they don't have to worry about him asking for more. This one is actually somewhat acknowledged in the second book; Carpathia realized that Buck was such a corrupt pushover that all it would take to get the famous journalist working for him directly (and helping legitimize his lies) was to ask nicely.
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** Rayford seems to consider himself a hero for refusing to ride on a bus from his plane to O'Hare Terminal, even though this requires him to walk around plane wrecks and ignore the dead and wounded inside.
** Buck discovers an International Conspiracy after it murders his close friend, and then runs right to the head of that conspiracy and trades silence for his life. In reality, brave journalists risk their own lives to expose much smaller crimes and conspiracies. Also in reality, the head of such conspiracies don't take kindly to people trying to play them, and would more likely shoot him AND get his silence just so that they don't have to worry about him asking for more. This one is actually somewhat acknowledged in the second book; Carpathia realized that Buck was such a corrupt pushover that all it would take to get the famous journalist working for him directly (and helping legitimize his lies) was to ask nicely.
** Buck discovers an International Conspiracy after it murders his close friend, and then runs right to the head of that conspiracy and trades silence for his life. In reality, brave journalists risk their own lives to expose much smaller crimes and conspiracies. Also in reality, the head of such conspiracies don't take kindly to people trying to play them, and would more likely shoot him AND get his silence just so that they don't have to worry about him asking for more. This one is actually somewhat acknowledged in the second book; Carpathia realized that Buck was such a corrupt pushover that all it would take to get the famous journalist working for him directly (and helping legitimize his lies) was to ask nicely.
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** Rayford seems The whole concept of the events the books try to consider himself a hero for refusing to ride on a bus from his plane to O'Hare Terminal, even though this requires him to walk portray, as viewed by the authors' branch of Christianity, is built around plane wrecks and ignore the dead and wounded inside.
** Buck discovers an International Conspiracy after it murders his close friend, and then runs right to the head of that conspiracy and trades silence for his life. In reality, brave journalists risk their own lives to expose much smaller crimes and conspiracies. Also in reality, the head of such conspiraciesidea that, essentially, Christians don't take kindly really need to people do anything apart from simply be Christian when Christ returns and brings His judgment. In fact, the idea that mortals could really do anything to aid or forestall an act of God could be considered a bit blasphemous. Buck and Rayford rarely-if-ever trying to play them, stop Carpathia's plans is exactly in line with this ethos; the Second Coming will happen no matter what, and would more likely shoot him AND get his silence they're just along for the ride, so that the most they don't have can do is enjoy their lives and maintain their beliefs. However, to worry about him asking for more. This one is actually somewhat acknowledged in the second book; Carpathia realized that most readers outside this demographic, Buck was such a corrupt pushover that all it would take to get the famous journalist working for him directly (and helping legitimize his lies) was to ask nicely.and Rayford come off as {{Useless Protagonist}}s at best, {{Designated Hero}}es at worst.
** Buck discovers an International Conspiracy after it murders his close friend, and then runs right to the head of that conspiracy and trades silence for his life. In reality, brave journalists risk their own lives to expose much smaller crimes and conspiracies. Also in reality, the head of such conspiracies
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** At one point, they come up with a new cellular network that uses solar energy. It's called "Cell-Sol".
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* Hell, God in general. [[GodIsGood The Big Good of the setting raining righteous fury on the sinful before bringing about a new world?]][[GodIsEvil Or a petty tyrant destroying anyone who questions his reign?.]]]
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* Hell, God in general. [[GodIsGood The Big Good of the setting raining righteous fury on the sinful before bringing about a new world?]][[GodIsEvil Or a petty tyrant destroying anyone who questions his reign?.]]]
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* [[YMMV/LeftBehindRiseOfTheAntichrist Go here]].
* [[YMMV/LeftBehindRiseOfTheAntichrist Go here]].
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** The AntiChrist being the child of two gay men would seem like ''accidental'' UnfortunateImplications, but is actually an [[AvertedTrope aversion]], since those supposedly unintentional UnfortunateImplications were in fact fully intended. However, other things, such as God smiting the unbelievers and torturing them in hell for eternity simply for being ignorant or wanting to support global peace, tends to imply that GodIsEvil, which was [[GodIsGood not the author's intention.]]
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** The AntiChrist being the child of two gay men would seem like ''accidental'' UnfortunateImplications, but is actually an [[AvertedTrope aversion]], since those supposedly unintentional UnfortunateImplications were in fact fully intended. However, other things, something a non-homophobic author is unlikely to write.
** Certain plot elements, such as God smiting the unbelievers and torturing them in hell for eternity simply for being ignorant or wanting to support global peace, tends to imply that GodIsEvil, which was [[GodIsGood not the author's intention.]]
** Certain plot elements, such as God smiting the unbelievers and torturing them in hell for eternity simply for being ignorant or wanting to support global peace, tends to imply that GodIsEvil, which was [[GodIsGood not the author's intention.]]
