Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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FEED spoiler party!

Okay, folks, I've been asked for it, and here it is: the spoiler party for Feed. Anything goes in the comments on this post only. If you haven't read the book, I ask that you not click. If you have, feel free to jump in, ask questions, discuss, or just yell at me. I'm cool either way.

Game on!
Tags: feed, mira grant, zombies
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beccastareyes

May 11 2010, 18:37:07 UTC 7 years ago

One thing I've been wondering about -- why the Ryman ranch? Easly made sense -- either to kill Tate's major primary opponent or to discredit him as being 'soft on defense'. Trying to kill the journalists also, so that no one found out about Buffy, since she was obviously getting cold feet. (And because the others were poking around where they shouldn't, instead of being nice lapdogs for the campaign.)

But at the ranch, it was right before the RNC. It could get Ryman to bow out, but wasn't going to affect delegate votes, unlike if it had happened a week or two before. I'd bet all the pollsters would at least have an inkling which way things would fall, even if politics was more of a surprise in the post-Rising world. Furthermore, Tate mentioned he was in favor of loosening Mason's Law, so having a high profile animal conversion case would hurt this item of his agenda.

dormouse_in_tea

May 12 2010, 07:48:03 UTC 7 years ago

I honestly think more about the reasoning for this will come out in the next two books. We know, now, that there's a conspiracy after all. (yay! conspiracies are awesome!) Also that it involves the government.

The way the army was right there to try to surpress what happened at the ranch. . . I think in this case, this was less about Tate and his agenda, and more about the larger agenda of the Illuminati!

My tentative thought is that the powers that be were pretty sure that Ryman would so not be interested in playing ball with him. Take out the ranch, (ideally) take out all three daughters, and you might manage to break Ryman, and have him drop out. Or it could break his wife, and he might drop out for her sake, or you could look forward to possible domestic scandal closer to the polls. Biggest thing, though...if you can surpress the whole 'act of terrorism' angle, then you have a large, publicity getting tragedy...that makes it look like Emily Ryman is criminally stupid for having the ranch at all, and Peter Ryman probably is too, for allowing/supporting it.