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Re: So what were your bottom five ToM scenes? Onarishma Send a noteboard - 29/11/2010 11:41:48 PM
1. Matts letter.

I find this letter to be less than credible. Matt is not uneducated, nor is he a fool. I find it almost impossible to believ that a character with an inate understanding of tactics and strategy combined with the memories of hundreds of generals, would be so completely ignorant of how to spell, write and most of all the game of houses.


Mat is considered less literate... And in all cases it's important to remember that he's the kind of guy that tries to look dumb occasionally because it shows how much he doesn't care.

2. Elayne interrogating the black ajah.

Aside from the blatant disregard for tower law, how silly I found the whole premis; the appearance of this scene so far after the white tower is cleansed in tGS and also after an Egewne pov that features Elayne in which the tower has already been clensed makes this scene annoying, out of place and dificult to reconcile with the overall story..


After? time for me to read again cause I'm pretty sure Egwene doesn't see Elayne or Nynaeve until after her attempted interogation. Also how was she in violation of Tower law. She didn't cause any pain and her impersonation of a Forsaken was the one way she could get around the apparent oath that the BA takes to not tell others about active Darkfriend plots.

3. Nynaeve healing the madness.

Seems a little to blaisé and off the cuff. Something that had stumped Aes Sedai for thousands of years healed in a moment of inspiration. I might be nit picking here, but when Nynaeve healed stilling it was after months of frustrating research with Logain..



But the whole episode with Logain was due to an increase in her Delving skills. When she broke the threshold with Logain that just left here with further thresholds to break not a return to her original level for each ailment. there's also no telling that it was much of a threshold. It COULD have required the same depth of perception but just a new way of thinking about what she was seeing.

4. Perrins Magic hammer..



It's a Powerwrought weapon. There is no reason to believe there is anything special about it. And even if it is, it's Power wrought. The unclear "burning" could mean it's a ter'angreal or that power wrought weapons behave differently in the hands of their makers.

5. Ituralde.

All of his scenes. I just don't rate him as a character. I just find him a kind of a redundant, second, Bashere. Coupled with his Ateam style "tactics" and the poorly written battle scenes he was really annoying.


to each his own on the liking of a character but... the A-Team was an awesome show.
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So what were your bottom five ToM scenes? - 29/11/2010 10:40:47 AM 2065 Views
I love Ituralde, slightly A-teamish but better more realistic than most of the stuff in there *NM* - 29/11/2010 03:15:03 PM 565 Views
I agree here. - 29/11/2010 04:23:37 PM 1092 Views
and it is still realistic. After all, Luck is part of reality *nod* *NM* - 29/11/2010 05:16:39 PM 454 Views
Agreed - 30/11/2010 12:50:35 AM 1094 Views
Oh, I loved the scene with Perrin's Hammar - 29/11/2010 05:15:48 PM 1369 Views
Mats letter +1. Then the others... - 29/11/2010 06:00:59 PM 1290 Views
Healing the madness makes sense - 30/11/2010 03:51:35 AM 1024 Views
Mat's poor writing skills actually make sense - 29/11/2010 06:57:38 PM 1236 Views
I always imagined he'd have better spelling skills, though. - 29/11/2010 07:09:20 PM 1021 Views
he does. *NM* - 29/11/2010 09:25:19 PM 476 Views
this is wrong (from canon) - 29/11/2010 09:24:35 PM 1179 Views
bunch of geeks take this too serious :p - 30/11/2010 12:07:38 AM 981 Views
Given how poorly edited both books have been so far - 30/11/2010 01:13:58 AM 1090 Views
Yes - 30/11/2010 02:02:28 AM 1131 Views
Re: this is wrong (from canon) - 30/11/2010 04:18:14 PM 1115 Views
nah - 30/11/2010 04:28:53 PM 1109 Views
I liked it - 30/11/2010 12:55:41 AM 913 Views
Re: Mat's poor writing skills actually make sense - 30/11/2010 11:11:50 AM 903 Views
That is what made me think Mat wrote the letter that way on purpose. - 30/11/2010 01:57:26 PM 1116 Views
Re: So what were your bottom five ToM scenes? - 29/11/2010 11:41:48 PM 1088 Views
Re: So what were your bottom five ToM scenes? ...Just one... - 30/11/2010 12:36:05 AM 970 Views
Re: So what were your bottom five ToM scenes? - 30/11/2010 02:03:09 AM 1155 Views
Re: Ituralde - 30/11/2010 03:57:55 AM 1094 Views
Re: So what were your bottom five ToM scenes? - 30/11/2010 02:12:11 AM 1149 Views
Worst part of reading the book was logging on here afterwards. - 30/11/2010 03:44:50 AM 1181 Views
ta'veren is old tongue for "main character" you know.... - 30/11/2010 04:32:29 AM 1292 Views
plainly you are a Blasphemer and Great Traitor. - 30/11/2010 11:51:07 AM 1003 Views
"We're done, al'Thor. From now on, I care nothing for you." - 30/11/2010 04:44:16 AM 1052 Views
I became stupider having read that monologue. *NM* - 02/12/2010 05:17:31 AM 608 Views
Re: So what were your bottom five ToM scenes? - 30/11/2010 02:09:32 PM 960 Views
Re: So what were your bottom five ToM scenes? - 01/12/2010 02:31:32 PM 971 Views
Re: So what were your bottom five ToM scenes? - 02/12/2010 08:17:40 AM 945 Views
My argument is probably not valid, but I'll give it anyway - 02/12/2010 05:13:58 PM 948 Views

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