With the Deck So Heavily Stacked in the DO's Favor, the Rest Just Makes Things Competitive.
The Name With No Man Send a noteboard - 02/12/2009 12:24:18 AM
That's best case scenario. Seemingly all the DO has to do is get free and the only force in the universe that can match him is the Creator himself. No force can surpass him, but Rand, or what's left of him, barely able to channel and nearly as useless with a sword as he was in TEotW, bleeding to death, will try. He has to, because even though the DO need only get free to unleash absolute destruction on all creation, LTT himself confirms what Harid Fel says: The Seals must be broken before they can be replaced. So Rand must face and defeat him, despite no idea how and no logical expectation of one. Assuming SuperFade doesn't shield what channeling he can still manage, rip his skin off and flay the quivering corpse with it.
Randland is still Manichean, too. It's been well established the Creator doesn't have to win, Ishy even claims that in Ages past the Shadow has "won" victories of a sort. Short of unmaking the world itself, the Trolloc Wars were the closest thing to victory possible: They destroyed civilization. Even the Strike on Shayol Ghul was only a marginal victory for the Light, because it caused the Breaking which nearly did unmake the world. If anything the best argument for a Light victory in this context is that they're due. It's still not a given. As I referenced below, just because we all expected Romeo and Juliet (or Hero and Leander) to run off and live happily ever after doesn't mean they actually did. In a series whose author loves to take centuries old archetypes and invert them, wouldn't a Shadow victory be the ultimate shocker?
Randland is still Manichean, too. It's been well established the Creator doesn't have to win, Ishy even claims that in Ages past the Shadow has "won" victories of a sort. Short of unmaking the world itself, the Trolloc Wars were the closest thing to victory possible: They destroyed civilization. Even the Strike on Shayol Ghul was only a marginal victory for the Light, because it caused the Breaking which nearly did unmake the world. If anything the best argument for a Light victory in this context is that they're due. It's still not a given. As I referenced below, just because we all expected Romeo and Juliet (or Hero and Leander) to run off and live happily ever after doesn't mean they actually did. In a series whose author loves to take centuries old archetypes and invert them, wouldn't a Shadow victory be the ultimate shocker?
Shadow win?
- 01/12/2009 04:20:36 PM
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The Shadow kind of has a big trump card
- 01/12/2009 04:30:38 PM
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If the Dark One wins, and destroys the Pattern, becomes the Creator and the Creator becomes the DO
- 01/12/2009 06:36:47 PM
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I used to hope for that, but the DO quotes and his choice of followers make it hard to like him. *NM*
- 01/12/2009 07:21:01 PM
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Fact is, people don't enjoy reading about doom and gloom.
- 01/12/2009 04:33:35 PM
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Yes they do. They're called the Malazaniacs ... They love emo to the max ...
- 02/12/2009 06:57:42 AM
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The DO is the real threat
- 01/12/2009 04:46:32 PM
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This is why fanfiction of soap operas and comics can be more entertaining than the real thing.
- 01/12/2009 06:09:17 PM
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Only if the DO isn't quite what we think he/it is.
- 01/12/2009 07:19:44 PM
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No, there is no sense that the Shadow can or will win.
- 01/12/2009 09:23:47 PM
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And RPA Reiterates Part of My Response.
- 02/12/2009 12:10:40 AM
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Beowulf did end badly, though
- 02/12/2009 05:40:52 AM
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With the Deck So Heavily Stacked in the DO's Favor, the Rest Just Makes Things Competitive.
- 02/12/2009 12:24:18 AM
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I always had the sense that the DO's minions are really just meant to be distractions
- 02/12/2009 06:30:27 AM
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