I disagree. - Edit 1
Before modification by RugbyPlayingAshaman at 30/10/2009 11:18:08 PM
In every story, an author decides things are going to happen. The events may SEEM realistic, or natural, but in the end it's all because the author said "this is going to happen."
Good authors are the ones who mask this, and make everything seem to flow naturally.
Now, RJ does that. Things do flow naturally, usually. But sometimes, almost as if to lampshade the phenomenon, ta'veren-ness happens obviously.
Good authors are the ones who mask this, and make everything seem to flow naturally.
Now, RJ does that. Things do flow naturally, usually. But sometimes, almost as if to lampshade the phenomenon, ta'veren-ness happens obviously.
There are stories where, for example, the ideal situation never comes about even though all readers wish they were to happen, because they don't make sense. Thus, there is no destiny or fate, but physical, emotional and intellectual distances which have force and power.
I don't believe in destiny, though I do believe in luck and happenstance, but the idea of t'a'veren souls and the Pattern is the worst combination of both added to fate making a rather unwieldy whole.
IE: "Why do I love Rand? Because I was meant to love him. Why must I share him with three other women? Well, Min's visions said I would share him with three other women."
That being said, I just saw an advertisement for "The Gathering Storm" on the SyFy channel (I liked Sci Fi Channel better as a logo, but whatever).