God knows RJ never used any escape clauses.
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.
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.
And I go for the former option. Which is griping about how crap a job he did.
The One Power: Sanderson's serious lack of understanding of the concept...
- 31/01/2013 08:57:24 AM
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- 31/01/2013 01:28:07 PM
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That is utterly incorrect. Rand's case is an evolutionary next step which doesn't apply in general..
- 31/01/2013 01:42:09 PM
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Sorry, but it's not utterly incorrect. You can no more disprove it than I can prove it
- 31/01/2013 01:49:11 PM
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Channelers physically burn out when they exceed their limits. That's the proof.
- 31/01/2013 01:52:50 PM
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- 31/01/2013 01:58:17 PM
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Sorry. But that is simply an escape clause for Sanderson to change whatever rules he wants...
- 31/01/2013 01:59:29 PM
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- 31/01/2013 02:11:26 PM
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No, he did a crap job
- 31/01/2013 02:19:18 PM
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- 31/01/2013 02:20:33 PM
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Your level of satisfaction will inversely correlate to your depth of understanding of the nuances...
- 31/01/2013 02:24:09 PM
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LMAO
- 31/01/2013 02:46:11 PM
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As to that...
- 31/01/2013 02:55:14 PM
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Primilary because I don't necessarily see it as an inconsistency in the way that you do
- 31/01/2013 02:58:45 PM
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Also the number of times Forsaken level channelers flung protagonists around with "Air weaves"...
- 31/01/2013 02:18:05 PM
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- 05/02/2013 02:54:58 PM
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