It is built around unrealistic circumstances and coincidences. It's the reason anybody actually reads it.
One your examples is a bad one, there's no way Faile's death wouldn't have been hugely significant, unless Perrin died for completely unrelated reasons without learning of it or shortly thereafter.
Gawyn dying to the first Bloodknife, however, would have been suitably gratuitous and narratively pointless to qualify as bad writing. Dying to the second attack, on the other hand, would have been fine.
One your examples is a bad one, there's no way Faile's death wouldn't have been hugely significant, unless Perrin died for completely unrelated reasons without learning of it or shortly thereafter.
Gawyn dying to the first Bloodknife, however, would have been suitably gratuitous and narratively pointless to qualify as bad writing. Dying to the second attack, on the other hand, would have been fine.
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What's the deal with the "extra person" in the artwork for Eye of the World?
03/01/2011 11:14:57 PM
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Re: What's the deal with the "extra person" in the artwork for Eye of the World?
03/01/2011 11:31:42 PM
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Apparently there is an extra person on the front cover and inside cover.
04/01/2011 12:13:10 AM
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What Jordan said on the matter
04/01/2011 12:54:15 AM
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Apparently that's who Brandon Sanderson was talking about. DomA has good points, though.
04/01/2011 04:14:40 AM
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Re: Apparently there is an extra person on the front cover and inside cover.
04/01/2011 02:57:45 AM
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An extra leaving the TR
04/01/2011 12:39:37 AM
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"Only red shirts die" - tell me about it. Wheel of Time is worse than Harry Potter.
04/01/2011 04:13:25 AM
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Maybe I'm a sap, but I prefer "only red shirts die" to George R.R. Martin's "only red shirts live." *NM*
05/01/2011 04:58:31 AM
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I still half expect Egwene to die.
07/01/2011 04:00:06 AM
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This is being judged on an absurd standard.
07/01/2011 07:39:18 AM
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Re: This is being judged on an absurd standard.
08/01/2011 05:38:30 AM
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It's fiction.
08/01/2011 04:55:02 PM
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It's a shame - no real loss considering all of the "red shirts" the series eventually accumulated.
04/01/2011 04:10:00 PM
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