You obviously have a much lower threshold than I do in defining "hard choices". *NM*
Tom Send a noteboard - 15/01/2013 03:47:52 PM
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Somehow, I Actually Hate Faile MORE Now
- 14/01/2013 12:16:05 PM
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Faile made Perrin less interesting
- 14/01/2013 01:15:22 PM
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She paralyzed his character development even when Jordan thought she advanced it.
- 14/01/2013 02:38:29 PM
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I skipped those chapters during my re-read
- 14/01/2013 10:36:11 PM
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I do not blame you, but that practically means skipping TPoD through KoD.
- 15/01/2013 06:16:17 AM
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Re: She paralyzed his character development even when Jordan thought she advanced it.
- 15/01/2013 12:39:23 AM
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You just hit on probably the major structural weakness of the series with respect to characters.
- 15/01/2013 02:54:59 AM
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There were plenty of hard choices, but they might have been handled better.
- 15/01/2013 06:58:30 AM
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Though I too have wished for them to make really hard choices...
- 15/01/2013 09:37:34 AM
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But they DO make hard choices; they just face relatively few hard consequences.
- 15/01/2013 10:08:19 AM
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Rand certainly flirted with the moral Event Horizon a few times, so did some of the others
- 15/01/2013 10:33:23 AM
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Mostly it's because it's clear in RJ's eyes that doing something like the things you suggest is wron
- 15/01/2013 12:41:03 PM
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You obviously have a much lower threshold than I do in defining "hard choices". *NM*
- 15/01/2013 03:47:52 PM
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We are introduced to them as they choose between abandoning home w/ a stranger v. staying to die
- 15/01/2013 04:46:02 PM
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Joel, I just said I disagreed with you. I didn't want to debate this series for the sake of debate. *NM*
- 15/01/2013 05:43:55 PM
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Also, how is choosing not to die a hard choice?
- 15/01/2013 05:46:46 PM
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Because they had only a strange witchs word they would die, and leaving w/ her was perilous, too.
- 15/01/2013 06:17:16 PM
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Jordan said he put some of himself in all the ta'veren, but its clearly strongest with Perrin.
- 15/01/2013 06:27:10 AM
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I'm glad you have seen the Truth.
- 14/01/2013 01:35:36 PM
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It was neck and neck with her and Min for a long while, but Min finally saw past her own nose.
- 14/01/2013 02:09:13 PM
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I just added a sentence at the end to make the series end properly.
- 14/01/2013 10:47:18 PM
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In all fairness Egwene did in fact pay homage to Bela
- 14/01/2013 08:36:40 PM
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I think she fed her an apple once in TV or somewhere, too, but otherwise she ignored her.
- 15/01/2013 06:12:26 AM
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Dramatic much? Bella lived a good life in TV and later in Salidar
- 20/01/2013 12:54:15 AM
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Actually, I never understood why people LOVE that horse so much. She is just a horse! *NM*
- 15/01/2013 07:52:29 AM
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Pony. She is a pony. A loyal, goodnatured, overperforming and underappreciated pony.
- 15/01/2013 08:32:21 AM
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honestly a child and a horse and you think the kid should be butchered?
- 20/01/2013 12:58:32 AM
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honestly a child and a horse and you think the kid should be butchered?
- 20/01/2013 12:58:32 AM
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The whole series is based upon the love of Bela and Narg and her struggle to come to terms with his
- 16/01/2013 04:01:59 AM
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The real problem
- 15/01/2013 11:30:37 AM
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Faile will surely domineer someone into pulling Tams carts for him.
- 15/01/2013 03:04:35 PM
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The women in WoT are monsters
- 15/01/2013 11:59:39 AM
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I do not consider most of the others all that bad, just idiosyncratic.
- 15/01/2013 03:05:51 PM
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I agree completely...
- 15/01/2013 05:19:40 PM
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Not to argue, but I think RJ created a world where women had the power
- 20/01/2013 01:17:11 AM
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Agreed ... Nynaeve and Lan are the closest thing to "Healthy" in the series
- 20/01/2013 01:09:29 AM
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Tell me then...
- 18/01/2013 09:08:08 AM
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That's a fallacious question
- 18/01/2013 03:21:56 PM
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Are you saying...
- 18/01/2013 09:21:34 PM
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That is a pathetic answer.
- 19/01/2013 04:56:13 AM
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You're a pathetic ass
- 19/01/2013 06:48:47 AM
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LOL - that's funny, coming from you, one of the most pathetic fanboys around here. *NM*
- 19/01/2013 02:32:18 PM
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Oh, gosh, this could take a while.
- 18/01/2013 05:58:15 PM
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How exactly was Faile the cause for Hopper's death?
- 19/01/2013 12:31:55 AM
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Because her kidnapping was the reason Perrin led his hodge podge army to rescue her, and got trapped
- 19/01/2013 01:00:26 AM
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Her kidnapping...
- 19/01/2013 01:32:40 AM
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I said outright I do not fault her as a character for that (only Jordan for writing it that way. 
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- 19/01/2013 07:35:57 PM
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- 19/01/2013 07:35:57 PM
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No it wasn't ... The dreamspike plot would have happened even had she not been kidnapped
- 20/01/2013 01:24:25 AM
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Wow...
- 19/01/2013 01:49:56 AM
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