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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 1665 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 1054 Views
You mean tGH *NM* - 03/06/2011 11:13:04 AM 549 Views
Of course I did! And that's what I typed - 05/06/2011 09:12:45 AM 841 Views
You mean "typed" *NM* - 11/06/2011 08:55:34 PM 399 Views
Clever girl... *NM* - 12/06/2011 01:56:37 AM 344 Views
Gawyn in the tower comes to mind. - 03/06/2011 01:12:55 PM 852 Views
I find all of the non-channeling related combat implausible and over-dramatic - 03/06/2011 03:51:35 PM 1169 Views
Gotta diagree - 03/06/2011 06:22:52 PM 902 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 813 Views
That doesn't make them unrealistic... - 03/06/2011 08:30:05 PM 802 Views
I think it does make them unrealistic. Stylistic choices determine how these scenes are conveyed. - 03/06/2011 09:24:21 PM 1014 Views
Ummm... - 03/06/2011 09:55:46 PM 851 Views
Come to think of it... - 04/06/2011 05:16:55 AM 1023 Views
I think... - 04/06/2011 06:31:17 AM 785 Views
Re: Come to think of it... - 06/06/2011 02:34:42 PM 739 Views
Hmmm... - 06/06/2011 06:43:23 AM 838 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 798 Views
agreed - 11/06/2011 10:47:17 AM 770 Views
Re: agreed - 12/06/2011 10:48:49 AM 776 Views
But they sure are fun to puzzle over . . . - 21/06/2011 03:08:08 AM 776 Views
Also, what's with the Military Costuming? - 12/06/2011 10:53:24 AM 756 Views

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