Fridge Brilliance
- Given the After the End setting, it makes perfect sense for the world to have a more racially diverse population than what would be expected of a small area in a conventional Medieval European Fantasy, as western North America is one of the more racially diverse parts of the world.
- The ritual of the Chosen finding the Ellcrys while blindfolded and bound probably dates back to a time when the Ellcrys really did choose her caretakers and led them to her, as she did with Amberle. It also probably dates back to a time when the Chosen were still made aware that their real job, should it come to that during their year of duty, is not to fight to defend the Ellcrys or to be glorified gardeners, but to go make the pilgrimage to Safehold and come back alive, no matter what it takes. Checking a recruit's ability to run through rough terrain while tied up and blindfolded is actually a pretty sensible test for someone who might very well get captured by the enemy.
- In Season 1, when Pyria finds out that Amberle has run away from the palace she immediately assumes she's pregnant. Cue Season 2, and we find out that Pyria was pregnant when she ran away from the palace.
- In Season 1, Amberle is the first female who has even attempted to become a Chosen. In season 2, at least half of the new Chosen are female—because Amberle proved it was possible.
- The seeming inconsistency in the fact Mareth was born with her magic active but her father Allanon developed his through training is Lampshaded once by the show but never explained. This could be explained by the real-life phenomenon of epigenetics - genes can be switched on in an organism by environmental factors and then their offspring can inherit activated genes.
Fridge Horror
- Bandon is almost made of this trope.
- He can see how those who touch him will die. He would have known that his parents would be killed by demons; he might even have known that he would be totally helpless to stop it.
- His parents kept him chained and muzzled in the barn, presumably because they thought he was dangerous and insane. If he had seen their deaths, and they had taken him seriously, they could have told someone what he had predicted and the entire series might have been headed off.
- The Warlock Lord seems to prefer being dead to being alive, and hints that he was still active before Bandon resurrected him, just not on the same plane, and his resulting attempts to conquer the Four Lands are more of a “why not” or “because I’m here” sort of situation than any true desire for them specifically. Wherever he was while he was dead the first time, killing him a second time probably sent him back to the same place, and having him there is probably worse for the universe at large, if only because that’s where he ‘’wants’’ to be.
Fridge Logic
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