>>7279222Thank you for taking the time to outline your issues. I disagree, though.
You don't say why you think that his attempt to develop it into a story with normal human people is "a failure," and personally, I don't think it is. I think that that's what the trilogy as a whole is really about--those people and their failures, rather than Area X.
If Annihilation was about the unknown from without, Authority was about the unknown from within, and Acceptance is simply about... well, accepting it. It's most obvious in Control's arc.
And, also most obvious in Control's arc, what I think is the overarching theme of the trilogy: how we move past our failures and sorrows. Basically everyone in the books is a complete fuckup trying to do their best with a world they can't understand. The closest point of reference I can think of, weirdly, is True Detective Season 2 (which, though I am a big fan of it, I can see why other people dislike--much as with this book).
As for attempting an explanation--I agree, actually. Vandermeer was trying to say, I think, that we will never understand the world, so we might as well accept it. So why provide half-assed explanations, then?
I can understand the whole "Saul finds the light" thing working primarily as a plot device, but I still dunno what the fuck was up with the "HOLY SHIT AREA X IS IN SPACE" thing.
Sorry, this is disjointed as fuck, but I hope you get my point.
