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No, Probably and Yes Cannoli Send a noteboard - 04/02/2015 11:29:58 AM

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Quick question.

So, I just finished my reread of the series, oh, 3 weeks ago, and finished New Spring last night.

In New Spring, I really enjoy how the relationship between Moi and Suian is fleshed out, as we don't really see it in the series. But, I was struck with a realization at the end of New Spring, since I'd just read aMoL...

Did Siuan and Moiraine ever get the chance to speak again before the Last Battle? They were both at Merrilor, but I certainly don't remember them meeting, nor any reference to them meeting.

I don't think so, but I reread those last three books as little as possible. I am really not looking forward to parsing Ewgene's Evil out of them. What's going to make it worse, is that being so much less familiar with those books, it's more difficult to jump right to the relevant passages...so I'm going to have to read them more than I am reading the older books right now. Trapped either way.
It seemed very sad to me, since, in New Spring, they'd been discussing about marriage to young princes yada yada.

I just thought it would have been both amusing and poignant for them to meet, one last time, Siuan having thought Moiraine dead, and Moiraine going to outlive Siuan, and see each other's husbands, and laugh at each other.

Did BSand just forget about this?

I would bet yes, because that seems like exactly the kind of scene that tickled his fancy to have the characters discuss in excessively explicit terms, to make sure the readers did not miss a single nuance or irony of the expectations versus the outcomes.
EDIT: Off topic, but does anyone else hate Dragonmount? I went there earlier to look for something about this, and came away with no answers, a lessened opinion of the human race, and a serious need to punch something.

I have never really been able to get in a discussion there, because when I tried to register in the waning days of wotmania, the hoops they made you jump through made me give up. I also could never get the hang of navigating the place. Everything I've heard about it since, whether Jason's vapid reviews of the Sanderson books, to stories of reasonably civil wotmaniacs & RAFOnaughts getting banned for their enthusiasm or contrary opinions, suggests I am not missing much.

Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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