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Ummm... fionwe1987 Send a noteboard - 03/06/2011 09:55:46 PM
I still think there's a difference though. When its only the details that are missing, the reader is free to fill them in. It is only when the book explicitly says that the battles were all noble and beautiful, with statements making it clear there isn't much gore involved, that things become stupid.


This was one of those parts where Aes Sedai not dressed for such a melee were depicted as rushing into the midst of it without tripping or their skirts becoming burdened with the blood, which goes to show an example of how one aspect of a scene can be done right while another aspect is handled in a lazy fashion.

Why would they trip? They were walking, and the reason they could do so is that by channeling, they more or less create a bubble around them where the only deaths are by burning, not from open wounds. Their dresses would certainly be a problem if they were engaging in physical combat, or even if they were directly engaging their enemies. But they were not.
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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 1055 Views
You mean tGH *NM* - 03/06/2011 11:13:04 AM 550 Views
Of course I did! And that's what I typed - 05/06/2011 09:12:45 AM 842 Views
You mean "typed" *NM* - 11/06/2011 08:55:34 PM 400 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 853 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 903 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 814 Views
That doesn't make them unrealistic... - 03/06/2011 08:30:05 PM 803 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 852 Views
Come to think of it... - 04/06/2011 05:16:55 AM 1024 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 740 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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