She was so sure she knew what both Rand and Elaida's embassy were doing that it took Sulin to figure out he'd been kidnapped, and thus days of torture before he was free. I really can't fault her on the DB, but I can see why Rand does. It's the same old thing: The price of insisting you're perfect is finding out you aren't, and when you're very very good it only makes your rare failures that much more unexpectedly epic.
Well since Caddy didn't show up in the story until well after Rand's kidnapping this is quite a neat trick. Caddy had 0 input on this one. And actually it was Berelain that first made the realization, tho Sulin quickly confirmed it.
Also Caddy's tactics worked quite well up to tGS. Note that it was Rand that asked her to become his advisor, not the other way around. Also up to tGS (when BWS significantly changed her) the conditions she had listed at the beginning...and Rand agreed to...she followed. It has only been in this last volume where she has changed and Rand has become massively suspicious of her (tho to be truthful he had become massively suspicious of everyone)
NaCl(you certainly can't blame it all on Caddy...especially the kidnapping)H2O
Long time since I read LoC, sorry. But Caddy misses what Mo finally learned, that, as she put it, you control saidar by surrendering to it. It's a wonder Caddy can channel enough to light a match, but anyway... Even after Mo's epiphany she learns more about her relationship with Rand and that enables her to be mentor, then partner and finally loyalist. Only one of those is possible for Caddy, and she ruins that with abusive condescension. She fails miserably as Mo's replacement because she's too proud to learn the lesson, and she undoes a lot of Mo's work as a result. I except Moiraine to be livid as only a Cairhienin pushed beyond their breaking point can be.
Cadsuane's Comeuppance
- 23/11/2009 08:40:08 PM
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I hope he sticks to how RJ wanted it to play out.
- 23/11/2009 09:16:25 PM
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He has said he wouldn't change the way RJ wanted it. The spanking scene was an example. *NM*
- 23/11/2009 09:22:40 PM
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I don't think he meant literally "like" that scene. Cadsuane's not going to get switched/spanked/etc
- 23/11/2009 09:23:37 PM
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That's what I've always expected.
- 27/11/2009 12:33:16 PM
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Re: That's what I've always expected.
- 27/11/2009 01:43:59 PM
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My Mistake Then.
- 27/11/2009 02:47:23 PM
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