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Sure moratcorlm Send a noteboard - 01/12/2010 01:30:03 AM
If you need to suspend logic for a story to make 'sense', it's definitely the author's fault. A story should be coherent and internally consistent, unless the author is deliberately trying to make it otherwise. But I wouldn't call that part of 'suspension of disbelief'; it's on a lower level than belief or disbelief in the particulars.

What I'm saying is, if the author wants to make the True Source and ta'veren and Good Guys Win trufax in his world, who are you and I to argue? So long as he does it in a consistent way, of course. The metaphysics of a world are just as amenable to change as the physics, or the history.
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Easy life of Lightside heroes and pathetic incompetence of the Shadow - so what's new in Wot... - 28/11/2010 03:38:14 PM 2791 Views
Re: Easy life of Lightside heroes and pathetic incompetence of the Shadow - so what's new in Wot... - 28/11/2010 04:05:48 PM 1455 Views
Re: Easy life of Lightside heroes and pathetic incompetence of the Shadow - so what's new in Wot... - 29/11/2010 12:27:27 AM 1367 Views
Re: Easy life of Lightside heroes and pathetic incompetence of the Shadow - so what's new in Wot... - 29/11/2010 12:36:49 AM 1349 Views
Re: Easy life of Lightside heroes and pathetic incompetence of the Shadow - so what's new in Wot... - 29/11/2010 01:59:18 AM 1373 Views
Yes, she still lets herself be ruled by her desire to control everything - 29/11/2010 02:39:34 AM 1334 Views
I vote it has come to pass - 29/11/2010 02:48:26 AM 1198 Views
*facepalm* - good point, not sure how I missed that. *NM* - 29/11/2010 03:12:00 AM 730 Views
Re: I vote it has come to pass - 29/11/2010 09:42:51 AM 1196 Views
Prophecy never said she would be angry at the time, - 29/11/2010 11:36:53 AM 1266 Views
lol true, gg *NM* - 29/11/2010 11:52:54 AM 705 Views
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She doesn't even see that. The arches just show a possibility. - 29/11/2010 07:12:05 PM 1148 Views
Indeed - 28/11/2010 06:16:41 PM 1267 Views
am i the only one who acknowledges that it's a jerk deal for jerks - 28/11/2010 08:00:23 PM 1474 Views
i think most people feel that way - 29/11/2010 09:06:44 AM 1299 Views
I agree with you - 05/12/2010 05:13:38 PM 1093 Views
Re: am i the only one who acknowledges that it's a jerk deal for jerks - 29/11/2010 06:40:18 PM 1234 Views
I'm sure that all the men Ituralde lost would agree with you about it being a breeze -_- - 29/11/2010 12:32:56 AM 1227 Views
Byar was compulsed - 29/11/2010 12:46:01 AM 1549 Views
I agree that he was part of Graendal's plan, but - 29/11/2010 02:16:45 AM 1180 Views
Re: I agree that he was part of Graendal's plan, but - 29/11/2010 09:44:05 AM 1155 Views
Re: Byar was compulsed - 29/11/2010 12:54:38 PM 1492 Views
Re: Byar was compulsed - 29/11/2010 12:59:31 PM 1210 Views
Re: Byar was compulsed - 29/11/2010 01:10:18 PM 1234 Views
He disbelieves in the Heroes - 29/11/2010 03:33:27 PM 1181 Views
I think that's his mind deceiving itself - 29/11/2010 07:19:05 PM 1237 Views
I didn't say he was necessarily Compulsed - 30/11/2010 07:40:51 AM 1144 Views
Do we have his reaction to the Heroes themselves? - 30/11/2010 11:55:42 AM 1263 Views
Re: Do we have his reaction to the Heroes themselves? - 30/11/2010 12:05:44 PM 1123 Views
he makes no mention of the Heroes. - 30/11/2010 10:42:13 PM 1236 Views
They did get another thing right - 29/11/2010 12:40:52 AM 1230 Views
Not Mat's fault, really - Verin didn't rehash her opinion of him. - 29/11/2010 02:18:17 AM 1189 Views
It's the WOT Red Shirt syndrome - 29/11/2010 04:29:12 AM 1318 Views
I don't want everyone to win and end up happily ever after though. - 29/11/2010 04:33:06 AM 1212 Views
The disney ending is not realistic - or at least not as believable - 29/11/2010 04:41:04 AM 1334 Views
You, good sir, are - 30/11/2010 06:53:49 PM 1119 Views
I also think Lan will be saved right before the end. - 29/11/2010 06:50:34 PM 1095 Views
Re: I also think Lan will be saved right before the end. - 30/11/2010 01:47:27 AM 1226 Views
It's a well told story with fun characters overall, but it's definitely not "War & Peace" - 29/11/2010 06:33:12 PM 1323 Views
+1 *NM* - 29/11/2010 07:18:13 PM 659 Views
it is. I love it anyways, though - 29/11/2010 07:23:24 PM 1123 Views
War and Peace was very thematic - 30/11/2010 05:00:30 AM 1556 Views
Doublethink for the win! *NM* - 30/11/2010 07:35:20 AM 688 Views
Re: War and Peace was very thematic - 30/11/2010 09:35:50 AM 1183 Views
I'm not really sure if or why any reader would need to suspend disbelief to enjoy WoT - 30/11/2010 10:31:49 PM 1170 Views
Please tell me what drugs you're on - 01/12/2010 04:04:39 AM 1274 Views
It's called 'reality' - I agree with LadyLorraine & Moratcorlm - 01/12/2010 07:57:35 PM 1188 Views
You are absolutely wrong. - 02/12/2010 04:53:52 AM 1159 Views
You are incorrect - you should read the definition you reference before posting it. - 02/12/2010 04:19:16 PM 1275 Views
No, I read the ENTIRE article, unlike you. You have to scroll down a bit. - 02/12/2010 05:47:13 PM 1079 Views
No, you need to read and comprehend. That was a THEORY. - 02/12/2010 07:11:01 PM 991 Views
It's really very simple. - 04/12/2010 12:31:16 AM 1296 Views
mk, I think I understand more what you meant now after reading this exchange - 05/12/2010 05:42:47 AM 1198 Views
I still don't agree; sorry. I don't think this theory applies to everyone. - 06/12/2010 05:30:41 PM 1292 Views
No, those are disbeliefs that you must suspend. - 01/12/2010 08:18:25 PM 1098 Views
You have to feel the characters are somehow believable to empathize with them. - 02/12/2010 01:05:29 AM 1142 Views
I don't see how WoT's writing (Before, or now) prevents that - 02/12/2010 04:12:54 AM 1005 Views
I'm not arguing that it necessarily does for everyone, just that YOU HAVE TO SUSPEND DISBELIEF - 02/12/2010 04:48:51 AM 1195 Views
That's a load of crap... - 02/12/2010 06:03:13 AM 1333 Views
Sure - 01/12/2010 01:30:03 AM 1122 Views
Black Tower - 30/11/2010 01:50:29 AM 1110 Views
Re: Black Tower - 30/11/2010 01:57:48 AM 1243 Views
I agree with everything. - 30/11/2010 01:37:11 PM 1405 Views
Hopper's death... oh god... - 01/12/2010 01:00:12 AM 1352 Views
while i miss hopper - 02/12/2010 04:19:28 AM 1145 Views
Re: while i miss hopper - 02/12/2010 05:30:52 PM 1247 Views
Hopper wasn't that important, either, though. - 03/12/2010 02:32:10 PM 1054 Views
Re: Hopper wasn't that important, either, though. - 03/12/2010 03:10:54 PM 1098 Views
It would be awesome if it were, though. - 03/12/2010 04:41:42 PM 1227 Views
Re: It would be awesome if it were, though. - 04/12/2010 09:54:09 PM 1203 Views
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