Brandon hates Cadsuane. He would not have said "despite its content" in that case! If it's a scene with her, it's more likely a development that doesn't please him.
Apparently he has partially changed his mind. Now he considers her to be like a crazy relative or something.
"I had a strange moment trying to answer, as my feelings on Cadsuane are ... complicaded. Many know she annoyed me when I was just a reader. Now I'm rather fond of her. Like I'm fond of a crazy relative. On further speculation, my instinct is that was how RJ felt too."
Jeez he can't seem to make up his mind. He had said something like that long ago, and then when we brought that up in debates people got him to say essentially he hated her and she'd pay back painfully for what she did if it was up to him (thankfully, the fate of characters isn't up to him! But his lack of neutrality about a character was still irrating, I preferred RJ's systematic "I like them all" on such questions) - which made us who claimed Brandon had once said he rather liked her look like fools, and now it's back to "I'm rather fond of her". So we have to assume he was playing to an audience of Cadsuane haters and more than half joking when he said he hated her and he would like her to have a painful death.
Poor Brandon, his feelings seem complicated indeed!
tGS: Chapter 81 comment from BS (*spoilers*?)
27/07/2010 03:57:34 AM
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Yeah, I saw that.
27/07/2010 04:03:34 AM
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Well I don't think it was too big of a scene or RJ would have written it I think.
27/07/2010 04:11:01 AM
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Re: Well I don't think it was too big of a scene or RJ would have written it I think.
27/07/2010 05:17:22 AM
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Re: Well I don't think it was too big of a scene or RJ would have written it I think.
27/07/2010 09:18:54 AM
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Yeah, BS said on Twitter...
27/07/2010 09:47:41 AM
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Again!
27/07/2010 11:41:33 PM
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You say that as if RJ was able to write all the scenes he wanted to before he died.
31/07/2010 02:08:51 AM
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Re: Yeah, I saw that.
27/07/2010 05:28:53 AM
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... and 94 chapters
27/07/2010 04:04:51 AM
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Ouch....
27/07/2010 05:48:13 AM
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BS twittered then, though...
27/07/2010 08:15:06 AM
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Don't you mean aMoL: Ch 81?
27/07/2010 08:38:30 PM
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The next book, Towers of Midnight, is meant. *NM*
27/07/2010 10:24:43 PM
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Hmm, Lan's death?
27/07/2010 08:09:25 AM
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sure, why not. my only problem is...
27/07/2010 08:58:06 AM
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I was thinking Cadsuane *NM*
27/07/2010 10:46:26 AM
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Also possible, of course
27/07/2010 10:58:34 AM
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I don't consider it foreshadowing
27/07/2010 11:15:37 AM
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Hmm, I doubt it...
27/07/2010 11:25:57 AM
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Re: Hmm, I doubt it...
28/07/2010 12:47:33 AM
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rand's fake death. from a POV that thinks he died for real
*NM*
27/07/2010 07:07:00 PM
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My bets are on Rand's actual death
30/07/2010 07:40:06 AM
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I can resist the urge. It's basically just a survey after all.
*NM*
30/07/2010 07:46:52 AM
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Lan's death and Nynaeve's reaction would fit "heart-wrenching", Cadsuane's not so much for most *NM*
29/07/2010 03:50:34 PM
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