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It's less about awesomeness, and more about being really invested in them newyorkersedai Send a noteboard - 15/11/2010 11:15:35 PM

So it's hard to really care when all you see are the villains meeting up for tea parties to twirl their mustaches and cackle.

Honestly, though - I would have liked this series to have more scope than it does. Maybe part of the series could have been set in the Age of Legends showing some of the main characters prior incarnations, proceed through other Ages/dimensions before coming to the current incarnation of the Dragon.

If we learn more of Mesaana's machinations and goals, then we're invested in her plans. If we learn more about what Moghedien is actually doing right now, we have her on our minds. And if we learn about the internal thinking of any of them, we have some connection to the characters. But if we get little of those, the characters become sort of "meh" when they pop after barely being mentioned in the prior 3 or so books.

Villains who received this treatment were Belal, Sammael, Fain, Ishy/Moridin, and early Lanfear/Graendal/Moghedien. Again, much of this happened before the holding pattern kicked in.

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Stupid Question Time again: have long-standing absences made some villains feel irrelevant? newyorkersedai - 14/11/2010 04:28:56 PM 872 Views

Re: Stupid Question Time again: have long-standing absences made some villains feel irrelevant? Cal Trask - 14/11/2010 05:42:51 PM 590 Views

I definitely agree about Loial newyorkersedai - 15/11/2010 11:21:35 PM 459 Views

I thought this was going to be all about Demandred, and he gets a sentence. Phaw. *NM* Great Lord of Chaos - 14/11/2010 06:07:36 PM 204 Views

Which is somewhat ironic, given the subject matter. *NM* Cal Trask - 14/11/2010 06:13:39 PM 273 Views

Exactly. *NM* Great Lord of Chaos - 15/11/2010 04:48:24 AM 185 Views

Re: Stupid Question Time again: have long-standing absences made some villains feel irrelevant? benxtaron - 15/11/2010 02:08:53 AM 482 Views

Yes. But I think the villains in general didn't get that many moments of awesomeness. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 15/11/2010 04:20:07 PM 589 Views

It's less about awesomeness, and more about being really invested in them newyorkersedai - 15/11/2010 11:15:35 PM 422 Views

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<quote id="170506">So it's hard to really care when all you see are the villains meeting up for tea parties to twirl their mustaches and cackle.

Honestly, though - I would have liked this series to have more scope than it does. Maybe part of the series could have been set in the Age of Legends showing some of the main characters prior incarnations, proceed through other Ages/dimensions before coming to the current incarnation of the Dragon.</quote>

If we learn more of Mesaana's machinations and goals, then we're invested in her plans.  If we learn more about what Moghedien is actually doing right now, we have her on our minds.  And if we learn about the internal thinking of any of them, we have some connection to the characters.  But if we get little of those, the characters become sort of "meh" when they pop after barely being mentioned in the prior 3 or so books.

Villains who received this treatment were Belal, Sammael, Fain, Ishy/Moridin, and early Lanfear/Graendal/Moghedien.  Again, much of this happened before the holding pattern kicked in.
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