This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Immolo: The story about Sazed is possibly Writer on Board* and fully Anvilicious*
G Dwarf: Perhaps. I must confess that I agreed with him up until he decided that the happiness of faith was sufficient to believe. But ignoring personal views, I didn't find it incredibly Anvilicious. He was grappling with real issues that people grapple with all the time and, while his sudden epiphany of an answer stretches things a bit, it's not impossible at all.
Jerrik: It probably depends on what you think he was trying to say. Back in book one a bunch of rebels decided to depend on faith rather than common sense, and it got them killed. The thing with Sazed seems to be saying that believing in a religion can have value, even if it doesn't seem that way at first. I don't think it really counts as Writer on Board or Anvilicious.
Mr Wednesday: I was fully expecting to be annoyed by Sazed's story and to find it Anvilicious, but in the end I don't think it was. It did feel like a Writer on Board thing, but to me any story portraying blind faith as a good thing in any way is Writer on Board horseshit so by normal standards it's probably perfectly reasonable. I say leave it, it's pretty well done and not full out Anvilicious.
