One of Jordan's HUGE problems is that he wanted to create a consistent world, he took pride in this. Yet he did not have the skill set to actually make this possible. So he gets points for trying, but he actually loses far more points for failing than what he gets for trying compared to a person who was just trying to create a good story and not worry about the ins and outs of the magic system, metaphysics, etc.
"Well, that's the news from Lake Wobegon Randland, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."
Wow... I never really realized how bloody MASSIVE the Traveling retcon was.
- 31/05/2017 06:59:07 AM
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Can you explain the retcon to those of us a few years out from the latest reread? 
*NM*
- 31/05/2017 09:27:58 AM
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*NM*
- 31/05/2017 09:27:58 AM
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Basically in the first 3 books Traveling worked completely differently then it did from the 4th on.
- 31/05/2017 04:31:59 PM
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Maybe in RJ's head, but he didn't put enough on the page to prove it.
- 01/06/2017 02:49:24 PM
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Marvel's Nightcrawler's teleportation vs Blink's gateways
- 31/05/2017 07:04:50 PM
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The problem with that, is... Rand does it. Quite a bit actually.
- 31/05/2017 07:16:53 PM
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I really do not care but arguing for mere humor / logic sake
- 31/05/2017 08:26:10 PM
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... No, really. The difference between channeling the OP and TP is way too big to miss while in POV.
- 31/05/2017 08:39:13 PM
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But we never see a PoV character teleport from "on place" to another using Traveling
- 01/06/2017 02:38:54 PM
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Rand does it at the end of both EotW and TDR. *NM*
- 01/06/2017 06:28:58 PM
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LTT's presence in Rand's mind makes Rand a shit standard here.
- 01/06/2017 07:52:54 PM
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"Knowledge and skill" don't really matter here. Neither help him do what can't be done at all *NM*
- 01/06/2017 07:56:19 PM
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By "here" you must mean the space between your ears.
- 01/06/2017 08:03:42 PM
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No, I mean I am talking in an OOU POV, while you are being overly defensive from an IU POV.
- 01/06/2017 08:34:29 PM
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Whatever
- 01/06/2017 04:12:42 PM
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No, he didn't. It just says "He Traveled." There is no description of the mechanism.
- 01/06/2017 02:37:55 PM
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Meh. Anybody who played D&D way back then recognized Jordan employing the spells...
- 31/05/2017 10:22:54 PM
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And anyone faster then a bullet MUST be ripping off Superman? Kinda irrelevant to the point anyway.
- 01/06/2017 06:42:04 AM
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I'm not taking a dig at Jordan for lifting from a game he played.
- 01/06/2017 08:13:31 AM
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"It tellsh me that you should try READING books, inshstead of listening to them"
- 01/06/2017 02:36:16 PM
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What are you talking about? No one knew anything about Travelling in the first books.
- 07/06/2017 10:01:17 PM
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