The Mists of Avalon/YMMV

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  • Anvilicious: Christianity is bad (at the very least, the priests are bad), and Goddess-centric nature worship is good.
    • Absolutely. The viewpoint is of someone determined to hate everything Christian simply because it is. Those HORRIBLE bells! Those AWFUL hymns! (Making me want to shout "Marion, haven't you HEARD chant done right!") And how DARE they use wine instead of water in their rituals? I myself heard her boast that she had "shown up that so-called Saint Patrick". Uh, I don't think so, because you made it up, and the real one wasn't alive at the same time as the real Arthur (if there was one) to begin with.
  • Squick: In the book, while Morgaine is preparing to greet the Horned King, she Sees that the little girl who scattered blood on the fields is being raped by a sinewy old hunter. And Morgaine is apparently cool with this? Oh, and about a page later she realizes she's had sex with her own brother.
    • All the babbling about how gorgeous and desirable Morgaine is when she and Viviane are, according the text, the size of an eight-year-old is a painful reminder that the author was a pedophile.
  • Villain Protagonist: Viviane. Her plots and machinations move the story, but they're all horrible. She deliberately arranges for Morgaine and Arthur to unknowingly have non-consensual incestuous sex in the Great Marriage, she poisons her terminally best friend Priscilla while telling the dying and delirious woman that she was being given a powerful sleeping potion and painkiller (which Priscilla may not have understood as a metaphor), and she plots with Kevin-the-Merlin to put spells on Gwen to ensure that the High Queen will never carry a child to term. She also admits in the text that the goddess for whom she claims to be an avatar does not exist (meaning that the Avalon cult has effectively been worshipping her for decades).
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