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.
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.
Combat in the World of the Wheel
- 03/06/2011 04:34:02 AM
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Well, Healing screws things up a bit. But Rand at the end of tGH comes to mind
- 03/06/2011 05:20:57 AM
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You mean tGH *NM*
- 03/06/2011 11:13:04 AM
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Of course I did! And that's what I typed
- 05/06/2011 09:12:45 AM
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I find all of the non-channeling related combat implausible and over-dramatic
- 03/06/2011 03:51:35 PM
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Gotta diagree
- 03/06/2011 06:22:52 PM
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The aftermath - but I don't think he really showed the chaos on a battlefield that well
- 03/06/2011 07:19:20 PM
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That doesn't make them unrealistic...
- 03/06/2011 08:30:05 PM
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I think it does make them unrealistic. Stylistic choices determine how these scenes are conveyed.
- 03/06/2011 09:24:21 PM
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Ummm...
- 03/06/2011 09:55:46 PM
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WoT combat scenes are highly overrated. The non-OP fight scenes aresn't even scenes at all
- 11/06/2011 12:59:50 AM
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