The 'See you later, Alligator' and 'After a while, Crocodile' hits really hard.
The Scholar's Tale: "The River Lethe's Taste is Bitter" in Hyperion was obviously one of the best that ever was. It introduces the witty exchange between Sol and his daughter. One says 'See you later, Alligator' and the other replies 'After a while, Crocodile' . This became one of the most tragic exchange in the whole series and everytime, it just felt sadder and sadder. However, the last time it was used was in the final book 'The Rise of Endimyon'. That last reference to these words really has a different feel of its own.
The Rise of Endymion is often considered the least of the 4 books but still that book did deliver a lot in the form of nostalgia and paid a few of the best homages to the charectors of the previous books, while giving it a bittersweet but satisfactory conclusion to the whole arc. Of all those moments, my personal favourite is the conversation between Endymion and Rachel Weintraub.
The 'See you later, Alligator' from Endymion and 'After a while, Crocodile' from Rachel hits really really hard. That one exchange of words just made it all so wholesome. It really shows how much everything and everyone has changed but yet they are all still somehow those same people, we had started our journey with in the first book, Hyperion. It took me so deep in nostalgia to Sol's story from the first Hyperion book. Somehow all the pain and suffering of Sol's story came crashing down in just one single moment. Really that was one the best homages I have ever read or seen in my life.
What do you all think?