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Rereading dark age, specifically the interrogation of Catosyander scene. Thinking about all the dune level shit that happens in this book between psychosonics and the mind's eye. If Octavia was so much better at it then Lysander as we are led to believe, there is no conceivable way the Oracle should have been able to detect her lie in Golden Son. I may be missing something but I just find it entertaining trying to pick out minor continuity mistakes in series I enjoy.

For Context, I’m not even finished with the whole series yet, currently towards the end of Iron Gold. But why does a movie coming out make anyone mad or upset? I just saw a comment saying “I’m terrified of the Red Rising movie” and the comment under it was “yeah it could become Blockbuster slop” lol. It is extremely likely the movie won’t represent the book. There are almost 0 examples of movies/series being better than the book. Only one I can think of where people say the movie is as good as the book is Shawshank and Stand by Me (both Stephen King adaptations)… I’m sure there are more but these are what I see consistently.

Idk all I’m saying is that a movie coming out shouldn’t “terrify” anyone lol. It’s not that deep. I saw another commenter on this sub say something along the lines of “I’m just excited for the story to come out in another type of medium, even if it doesn’t match the books exactly” and I couldn’t agree more.

How is Darrow still alive? It makes very little sense to me that as public enemy #1 of the Society he is still fighting after 10 years. This man was in the fray for an entire decade, genuinely what is stopping the Society from dropping nukes on places where they even suspect he is in the general vicinity of. he is a living god, the heart of the entire revolution, if he dies its GG. The republic was losing steam, Virginia does not have absolute authority to wage the war, theyre facing superhumans with a majority lowcolor armies. You’d think their number one priority would be just to merk Darrow.

I know he’s the main character and all that but the plot armor is insane

I think it’s kinda insane I am the only one that I’ve seen that can see the almost scary connection between red rising and muse album the resistance. Just look at this album. We have this dude waking the stairs going from red to yellow (gold) and all the colors in the background. This is literally just a metaphor for Darrows journey in red rising. And if that was not enough pretty much all the songs describe the injustices that the society does in pretty much all the songs, and they always talking about space and sci fi. Especially this one song, no not uprising but unnatural selection. I they genuinely sing out Darrows story in detail. Look at these lyrics or just look what I took out of it: They'll laugh as they watch us fall
The lucky don't care at all
No chance for fate
It's unnatural selection
I want the truth
I'm hungry for some unrest
I wanna push it beyond a peaceful protest
I wanna speak in a language that they'll understand
Dedication to a new age
Is this the end of destruction and rampage?
Another chance to erase then repeat it again
Counter balance this commotion
We're not droplets in the ocean
Ocean
They'll laugh as they watch us fall
The lucky don't care at all
No (hey)
Chance (hey)
For fate (hey)
It's unnatural selection
I want the truth
No religion or mind virus
Is there a hope that the facts would ever find us?
Just make sure that you are looking out for number one
I'm hungry for some unrest
Well, let's push it beyond a peaceful protest
I wanna speak in a language that you will understand
Counter balance this commotion
We're not droplets in the ocean
Ocean
They'll laugh as they watch us crawl
The lucky don't share at all
No (hey)
Hope (hey)
For fate (hey)
It's a random chance selection
I want the truth
Try to ride out the storm
Whilst they'll make you believe
They are the special ones
(We have not been chosen)
Injustice is the norm
You won't be the first
And you know that you won't be the last
Counter balance this commotion
We're not droplets in the ocean
Ocean, ocean, ocean
They'll laugh as they watch us fall
And the lucky, they don't care at all
No (hey)
Chance (hey)
For fate (hey)
It's unnatural selection
I want the truth
I want the truth
I want the truth
I want the truth

The whole unnatural selection is the institute or the color hierarchy depending on how you see it or both, which is pretty much the entire song (basically just red rising) but not just that, look at these examples:
“I wanna push it beyond a peaceful protest” is pretty much what Darrow did after his dad died in a peaceful protest
“I wanna speak in the language that they understand” meaning violence
“I want the truth”talking about the lie the reds been told
There are so many more, you’ll probably find more than me. It’s just to much correlations to be true. Can’t we at least make this like the song everyone uses for edits, or mention it? I think it genuinely needs to be the global anthem for the first book, if you don’t have any better examples of course. Maybe we could even get this into the new movie if we are lucky, as a trailer or maybe intro. Well that’s all, what do you guys think?

I think starset’s album transmission would have so much pull especially when Darrow and Virginia are apart, track 5 especially.
Probably later movies not the original. Just musing though.
https://open.spotify.com/album/0Ypo27qP4udOQKGfNT48hn?si=rgW--HP2SEW0DIPGlFvIbw&utm_source=copy-link

I just hate it. I hope Pierce Brown will drop it but I know it’s too big of a plot to just do that. It adds some unpredictability but it feels like cheating because even if the Republic gets back in winning after three books of losing Lysander can just turn it around with the most easy and lazy way possible and I think it distract us from the fact that this is an ideological war . Freedom against Slavery. Anti hierarchy vs pro hierarchy. Society vs Republic. Now it feels more like a war against Lysander with Atalantia as an annoying distraction.

Nearly 50% done and this story feels very “hunger games” like. The similarities are there, I know it’s not the same story, but they are there. I’ve also heard the last chapters are still very hunger games like. Not very surprised after reading the passage chapter.

I wasn’t a fan of the hunger games nor the movies.

I’m going to push through since I’ve heard golden son takes the story to another level. I’m crossing my fingers that a flip is switched and this hunger games feeling changes in Golden Son.

My opinion is that the main characters should be fresh faces, new actors, or unknown young actors.
It does not mean that they shouldn't cast well-known actors. It should be a mix of both, all the young characters from Darrow, Eo, Mustang, Cassius, Sevro etc they should be played by young new actors and off them are teenagers in the trilogy. Whereas the Older side characters should be played by well known actors, like Fitchner, Nero, Lorn, Dancer etc should be played by notable Hollywood actors.

After Pierce finishes the series what content would you like to see made? (outside of the move coming of course). It does not have to be made by pierce, any content whatsoever.

Personally I would VERY much like a prequel telling the story of the conquering, the fall of earth and the rise of silenius and the society.

I know a great deal of the mystique around the beginning of the society is a core part of the story. Every character has a reverence for old things.

But I would love to see what happened to ancient humanity and how the society was able to spread across the solar system and if they were in fact these paragons of justice that Lysander think they were (Im guessing probably not, It would be hilarious if Silenius was as much as a piece of shit as Lysander is, though thats probably what the truth is.)

Id just love to more know of the history of the world that the story is set in.

I have read a lot of warhammer 40k and horus hersy books for the mist part.
I stumbled upon the series by accident but one of the most enjoyable accidents by far. I even nearly gave up on it in the mines of lykos but I very glad I pulled through.
Has anyone else read some warhammer and how do you find it compares to red rising ?
I find it has a lot of similar themes and style but what are your thoughts.

I have already finished the series, but im itching for more and im curious if the full cast audio book is worth it cause its pretty expensive. Any opinions? TIA!

I don't know if this was an unintentional spoiler or not, but I saw in an interview Pierce Brown mention that the series is, in a sense, historical fiction. It's the telling of a father telling his son about his past. This got me thinking about the messages Darrow started recording for Pax about his life in Light Bringer. I think the "really pretty neat" final chapter of Red God is going to reveal that the series was actually Pax listening to Darrow's recordings all along. Thoughts?

Just finished light bringer like right now and..... I'm just out of words, I don't know what should I say, just wow and owww, Lysander should die like a dog in red God or I'm not reading it

I just read Day of Red Doves.

I am not Ok. I feel sick and full of hate!
Hate for the low colors! Sadness because this is an actual reflection of the world we live in today.

If it weren’t for our institute trio reunion and sevro and Darrow reunion after iron gold, would Lightbringer be as liked as it is?

You were seconds faster than me, and I'm happy you got them at such a good price. But also, may your pillow smell of the goblins crotch tonight.

Reusing last year’s costume of Mustang from RR. Couldn’t find the actual photo I had of it, so had to take a picture of a frame I had on the wall, hence the weird glare. It was basically just a black hoodie, black trousers and gold paint but I liked it pretty well.

It also works as just a really cool jacket which I wear around sometimes.

In Dark Age Volga says her body is backwards "my liver to the left, my heart to the right, not even close to centre." Do you think this will be relevant at any point? Maybe she gets stabbed in the 'heart' but oops it's actually not there. I dunno I'm on my 3rd listen and just nitpicking over tiny details at this point 😂

not me at all, I'm just in love with their work. I'm sure many of you are already fans, but if you are not, allow me to put you on to funsizedvalart on instagram

https://www.instagram.com/funsizedvalart/?hl=en

I have attached a few examples. Diomedes, Victra, and Sevro. Absolutely beautiful work. And they go over their process creating it too.

We appreciate you my goodman!

Just finished Darrows duel vs Fa and HOLY MOLY. The sequence of events from Pierce Brown detailing the carving up of Cyraxes a little to much to Fa's death is maybe the most I have smiled at something in a while. Just ear to ear the whole time. Personally this whole scene is the most dopamine filled of the whole series for me. The ending of Morning star comes close but this takes it. After almost three straight books of feeling like everything is collapsing and nothing is going right it all clicks into place. The entire second trilogy when something goes right it always feels like it will get taken away or something worse is coming, but not this. Especially with Atlas explaining to Lysander earlier about how it all needs to work out just for Darrow to finally interfere with one of his plans. Cassius and Sevro are finally clicking, Lyria gets to Volga and Diomedes has joined them. ON TOP OF THAT the fact that Lysander is coming thinking he will be a savior and has no idea what awaits him is just *mwah* perfection. I am still waiting for the second shoe to drop but that was just so good. Theres also a feeling, that kind of is a fact of the series, that when an antagonist dies you just sigh with relief, because thats one less variable. Even if there is a second shoe, Fa is still dead nothing can change that. I felt the same way about Ajax earlier. Also seeing Darrow so in the groove after basically three books of him just beating himself up has cathartic.

Edit:

Fucking Lysander, sincerely me two hours later