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Combat in the World of the Wheel Theon_Mavidante Send a noteboard - 03/06/2011 04:34:02 AM
Would you classify combat in the Wheel of Time universe as cinematic? Obviously there are some cinematic elements in many of the combat scenes throughout the books, but when I say "cinematic," I mean "flying in the face of realism."

Can anyone recount a scene where a character survived an injury that realistically would have killed him, but didn't? Other than Mat? I can vividly remember a few scenes where Aes Sedai employ lightning and fireballs against shadowspawn, but was there ever a scene where a character was struck by a fireball or a bolt of lightning and not killed outright?

When I stop to look back at the Wheel of Time saga, I remember a great deal of epic fights. Rand and Asmodean, Moghedien and Nynaeve, the Battle of Dumai's Wells, the Battle of Shadar Logoth, and more recent battles between Perrin and Slayer or Mesaana and Egwene. While I certainly remember most of these battles to be a little over the top, none of them struck me as completely implausible.

If you had to rate the level of cinematic reality in the Wheel of Time, where would you gauge it? What were some of your favorite cinematic moments?





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Combat in the World of the Wheel - 03/06/2011 04:34:02 AM 1589 Views
Well, Healing screws things up a bit. But Rand at the end of tGH comes to mind - 03/06/2011 05:20:57 AM 977 Views
You mean tGH *NM* - 03/06/2011 11:13:04 AM 519 Views
Of course I did! And that's what I typed - 05/06/2011 09:12:45 AM 759 Views
You mean "typed" *NM* - 11/06/2011 08:55:34 PM 370 Views
Clever girl... *NM* - 12/06/2011 01:56:37 AM 325 Views
Gawyn in the tower comes to mind. - 03/06/2011 01:12:55 PM 780 Views
I find all of the non-channeling related combat implausible and over-dramatic - 03/06/2011 03:51:35 PM 1090 Views
Gotta diagree - 03/06/2011 06:22:52 PM 833 Views
The aftermath - but I don't think he really showed the chaos on a battlefield that well - 03/06/2011 07:19:20 PM 734 Views
That doesn't make them unrealistic... - 03/06/2011 08:30:05 PM 735 Views
I think it does make them unrealistic. Stylistic choices determine how these scenes are conveyed. - 03/06/2011 09:24:21 PM 937 Views
Ummm... - 03/06/2011 09:55:46 PM 782 Views
Come to think of it... - 04/06/2011 05:16:55 AM 950 Views
I think... - 04/06/2011 06:31:17 AM 718 Views
Re: Come to think of it... - 06/06/2011 02:34:42 PM 663 Views
Hmmm... - 06/06/2011 06:43:23 AM 763 Views
WoT combat scenes are highly overrated. The non-OP fight scenes aresn't even scenes at all - 11/06/2011 12:59:50 AM 731 Views
agreed - 11/06/2011 10:47:17 AM 699 Views
Re: agreed - 12/06/2011 10:48:49 AM 711 Views
But they sure are fun to puzzle over . . . - 21/06/2011 03:08:08 AM 710 Views
Also, what's with the Military Costuming? - 12/06/2011 10:53:24 AM 689 Views

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