Sweet, very glad you got around to this, Cannoli. I know these are a pain to read, especially ToM, but you're doing a service to the whole world with your suffering.
A split second before someone can, for once, point out the glaring flaw in an agreement into which Egwene is trying to trick someone, the following passage takes place.
Slim Doesine glanced at the women around her. “What motion are we standing for?”
“An important one,” Saerin said.
“Well, I suppose I’ll stand for it, then.”
“As will I, Yukiri said.
I think this right here sums up all of my problems with BSand... yes, the Wheel of Time is a deus ex machina, but the whole point was that things still happened naturally. This quote is the most painfully unnatural thing in the entire series, and that's saying a lot.
I mean, in the first place, why would anyone nominate a Sitter who would agree to something like this? These are supposed to be brilliantly shrewd politicians, and they seem to be 8 year old retarded children.
But then, when that same affliction has similarly lobotomized every other character in these books, I don't know why it really surprises me.
