User blog comment:Baliss/annoying things about redwall/@comment-1421927-20100531162042

I'm actually fine with the good guys always winning. It sort of follows Lord of the Rings or Narnia in the way that the bad guys always lose and the good guys always win.

And if one were to say that the sort of "Happily Ever After" endings that Redwall usually has (Usually it's somebody dies-bad guys die-Redwall is happy) aren't...what's the word...realistic? Two points:

Talking animals aren't realistic.

If in the real world stuff always ended bad we'd all be depressed emos.

So, I like the good guys winning in the end. And I mean, some of the stuff can be stretched a bit in the ways of probability, because it's a fantasy book. Heck, Martin's sword wouldn't be strong if it fell from a meteorite (Meterorites are made out of iron. You don't make swords out of iron. You make them out of steel.), but it's fine because it's a fantasy book.

Yes, some villain deaths were lame (I thought Vilaya's death was stupid.), but the books overall are good.