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Re: Sorry. But that is simply an escape clause for Sanderson to change whatever rules he wants... muppet Send a noteboard - 31/01/2013 02:11:26 PM
God knows RJ never used any escape clauses.

What every fantasy reader has to accept is that their favorite series, however long, detailed, and well regarded, is not a historical record or a technical manual. It is a fantasy story. There will be inconsistencies. RJ wasn't 100% consistent. He allowed himself loopholes. His notes could have dictated precisely what Brandon did with the Last Battle. We don't know. We likely WON'T know.

The choice we have as readers is to accept the new canon and work it into the story, as it IS official canon, or we can get upset and worked up about it and treat the "pure" RJ-only volumes as some sort of Bible and angrily proselytize about it. I just don't see the utility in the latter. Brandon picked up a MAJOR corpus of work, unfinished, with notes of who knows what complexity or completeness, without RJ to interpret them, or to say of one page of notes or antoher "Oh yeah, I was banging something out there but it was a dead-end, you can toss that." Given the task, he did a great job.

We can sit around moaning that RJ had the audacity to die before finishing so that we could all sit around griping about HIS ending instead, or we can enjoy the series at face value as a fantasy tale and get over it.
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The One Power: Sanderson's serious lack of understanding of the concept... Shannow - 31/01/2013 08:57:24 AM 1593 Views
Dont get me started Itachi - 31/01/2013 11:46:41 AM 978 Views
Re: The One Power: Sanderson's serious lack of understanding of the concept... muppet - 31/01/2013 01:28:07 PM 927 Views
That is utterly incorrect. Rand's case is an evolutionary next step which doesn't apply in general.. Shannow - 31/01/2013 01:42:09 PM 855 Views
Sorry, but it's not utterly incorrect. You can no more disprove it than I can prove it muppet - 31/01/2013 01:49:11 PM 904 Views
Channelers physically burn out when they exceed their limits. That's the proof. Shannow - 31/01/2013 01:52:50 PM 682 Views
Re: Channelers physically burn out when they exceed their limits. That's the proof. muppet - 31/01/2013 01:58:17 PM 778 Views
Sorry. But that is simply an escape clause for Sanderson to change whatever rules he wants... Shannow - 31/01/2013 01:59:29 PM 786 Views
Re: Sorry. But that is simply an escape clause for Sanderson to change whatever rules he wants... muppet - 31/01/2013 02:11:26 PM 794 Views
No, he did a crap job Shannow - 31/01/2013 02:19:18 PM 705 Views
Re: No, he did a crap job muppet - 31/01/2013 02:20:33 PM 635 Views
Your level of satisfaction will inversely correlate to your depth of understanding of the nuances... Shannow - 31/01/2013 02:24:09 PM 658 Views
LMAO muppet - 31/01/2013 02:46:11 PM 720 Views
As to that... Shannow - 31/01/2013 02:55:14 PM 739 Views
Primilary because I don't necessarily see it as an inconsistency in the way that you do muppet - 31/01/2013 02:58:45 PM 822 Views
Also the number of times Forsaken level channelers flung protagonists around with "Air weaves"... Shannow - 31/01/2013 02:18:05 PM 836 Views
Sure, but muppet - 31/01/2013 02:19:46 PM 760 Views
Oh don't get me started on "Air weaves"...(1,2,3, and "start" ) Dunstan - 01/02/2013 12:02:48 AM 908 Views
I'm not so sure.. fionwe1987 - 01/02/2013 12:30:57 AM 879 Views
Re: The One Power: Sanderson's serious lack of understanding of the concept... RugbyPlayingAshaman - 05/02/2013 02:54:58 PM 789 Views
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