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Pony. She is a pony. A loyal, goodnatured, overperforming and underappreciated pony. Joel Send a noteboard - 15/01/2013 08:32:21 AM
All she does from the first pages of the series to the last is calmly, sturdily and sweetly bear the burdens and save the lives of people who invariably belittle her until she wildly exceeds their expectations (in Siuans case, even then.) Yet even exceeding the speeds of Olvers beloved champion race horse is not enough to prevent her being chopped up by Trollocs just to make the readers feel bad. Pity it could not have been Olver, defiantly telling us how brave and fearsome he is as he sneaks away crying (while I can appreciate the plight of a child in that situation, I would be a lot more sympathetic were he not constantly telling us what a resolute warrior he is in between his racist commentary and plots against Aiel.)
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Somehow, I Actually Hate Faile MORE Now Joel - 14/01/2013 12:16:05 PM 3060 Views
Faile made Perrin less interesting Isaac - 14/01/2013 01:15:22 PM 1077 Views
She paralyzed his character development even when Jordan thought she advanced it. Joel - 14/01/2013 02:38:29 PM 1182 Views
I skipped those chapters during my re-read The Doctor - 14/01/2013 10:36:11 PM 1309 Views
I do not blame you, but that practically means skipping TPoD through KoD. Joel - 15/01/2013 06:16:17 AM 1004 Views
Re: She paralyzed his character development even when Jordan thought she advanced it. Zalvera - 15/01/2013 12:39:23 AM 1034 Views
You just hit on probably the major structural weakness of the series with respect to characters. Tom - 15/01/2013 02:54:59 AM 1039 Views
I think this is why I still enjoy Rand as a character so much IndigoAjahV2 - 15/01/2013 03:37:52 AM 974 Views
There were plenty of hard choices, but they might have been handled better. Joel - 15/01/2013 06:58:30 AM 1132 Views
Though I too have wished for them to make really hard choices... Cannoli - 15/01/2013 09:37:34 AM 1082 Views
But they DO make hard choices; they just face relatively few hard consequences. Joel - 15/01/2013 10:08:19 AM 935 Views
Rand certainly flirted with the moral Event Horizon a few times, so did some of the others Isaac - 15/01/2013 10:33:23 AM 1124 Views
Mostly it's because it's clear in RJ's eyes that doing something like the things you suggest is wron IndigoAjahV2 - 15/01/2013 12:41:03 PM 1018 Views
You obviously have a much lower threshold than I do in defining "hard choices". *NM* Tom - 15/01/2013 03:47:52 PM 526 Views
We are introduced to them as they choose between abandoning home w/ a stranger v. staying to die Joel - 15/01/2013 04:46:02 PM 966 Views
Joel, I just said I disagreed with you. I didn't want to debate this series for the sake of debate. *NM* Tom - 15/01/2013 05:43:55 PM 499 Views
Also, how is choosing not to die a hard choice? Tom - 15/01/2013 05:46:46 PM 869 Views
Because they had only a strange witchs word they would die, and leaving w/ her was perilous, too. Joel - 15/01/2013 06:17:16 PM 875 Views
And a trolloc attack Tom - 16/01/2013 02:28:00 PM 879 Views
True, but there was considerable debate about who brought whom. Joel - 16/01/2013 04:41:35 PM 997 Views
Jordan said he put some of himself in all the ta'veren, but its clearly strongest with Perrin. Joel - 15/01/2013 06:27:10 AM 1012 Views
I'm glad you have seen the Truth. Tom - 14/01/2013 01:35:36 PM 1001 Views
It was neck and neck with her and Min for a long while, but Min finally saw past her own nose. Joel - 14/01/2013 02:09:13 PM 976 Views
I just added a sentence at the end to make the series end properly. Tom - 14/01/2013 10:47:18 PM 1069 Views
Works for me. Joel - 15/01/2013 06:13:16 AM 2008 Views
In all fairness Egwene did in fact pay homage to Bela darius_sedai - 14/01/2013 08:36:40 PM 941 Views
Bela has been there for Egwene all the time. fionwe1987 - 14/01/2013 10:16:22 PM 1157 Views
Egwene and Bela Aes_Gesserit - 15/01/2013 08:13:17 AM 913 Views
I thought Noal was riding Bela... *NM* Tom - 14/01/2013 10:47:56 PM 483 Views
I did, too, at first, but "horse"=/="pony." Joel - 15/01/2013 06:08:03 AM 891 Views
I think she fed her an apple once in TV or somewhere, too, but otherwise she ignored her. Joel - 15/01/2013 06:12:26 AM 1074 Views
Dramatic much? Bella lived a good life in TV and later in Salidar darius_sedai - 20/01/2013 12:54:15 AM 7756 Views
Actually, I never understood why people LOVE that horse so much. She is just a horse! *NM* aragornital - 15/01/2013 07:52:29 AM 547 Views
Pony. She is a pony. A loyal, goodnatured, overperforming and underappreciated pony. Joel - 15/01/2013 08:32:21 AM 1022 Views
honestly a child and a horse and you think the kid should be butchered? darius_sedai - 20/01/2013 12:58:32 AM 1019 Views
The whole series is based upon the love of Bela and Narg and her struggle to come to terms with his MightyYT - 16/01/2013 04:01:59 AM 810 Views
The real problem echooff - 15/01/2013 11:30:37 AM 949 Views
Faile will surely domineer someone into pulling Tams carts for him. Joel - 15/01/2013 03:04:35 PM 919 Views
The women in WoT are monsters Sidious - 15/01/2013 11:59:39 AM 1422 Views
I do not consider most of the others all that bad, just idiosyncratic. Joel - 15/01/2013 03:05:51 PM 1201 Views
Oh...I think we know :-) *NM* echooff - 16/01/2013 04:31:18 PM 577 Views
I try to give them, or rather her, the benefit of a doubt. Joel - 16/01/2013 04:48:22 PM 867 Views
Re: Tuon Zalvera - 15/01/2013 03:33:34 PM 1137 Views
I had not noticed that before, but you are right. Joel - 15/01/2013 07:45:53 PM 908 Views
I agree completely... lilltempest - 15/01/2013 05:19:40 PM 1166 Views
Not to argue, but I think RJ created a world where women had the power darius_sedai - 20/01/2013 01:17:11 AM 1022 Views
Agreed ... Nynaeve and Lan are the closest thing to "Healthy" in the series darius_sedai - 20/01/2013 01:09:29 AM 857 Views
Tell me then... Nargs - 18/01/2013 09:08:08 AM 925 Views
That's a fallacious question Tom - 18/01/2013 03:21:56 PM 1007 Views
Are you saying... Nargs - 18/01/2013 09:21:34 PM 929 Views
That is a pathetic answer. Tom - 19/01/2013 04:56:13 AM 873 Views
You're a pathetic ass Nargs - 19/01/2013 06:48:47 AM 908 Views
LOL - that's funny, coming from you, one of the most pathetic fanboys around here. *NM* Tom - 19/01/2013 02:32:18 PM 453 Views
Sad for you. *NM* Nargs - 19/01/2013 09:24:59 PM 477 Views
Oh, gosh, this could take a while. Joel - 18/01/2013 05:58:15 PM 962 Views
How exactly was Faile the cause for Hopper's death? Zeratul - 19/01/2013 12:31:55 AM 878 Views
Because her kidnapping was the reason Perrin led his hodge podge army to rescue her, and got trapped Joel - 19/01/2013 01:00:26 AM 798 Views
Her kidnapping... Nargs - 19/01/2013 01:32:40 AM 818 Views
I said outright I do not fault her as a character for that (only Jordan for writing it that way. ) Joel - 19/01/2013 07:35:57 PM 884 Views
No it wasn't ... The dreamspike plot would have happened even had she not been kidnapped darius_sedai - 20/01/2013 01:24:25 AM 839 Views
Exactly Zeratul - 20/01/2013 06:59:33 PM 1119 Views
Wow... Nargs - 19/01/2013 01:49:56 AM 949 Views
Culture is sometimes a reason, but never an excuse. Joel - 19/01/2013 08:04:52 PM 935 Views
Just off color Nargs - 19/01/2013 10:03:58 PM 1039 Views
? Joel - 19/01/2013 10:44:28 PM 921 Views
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