She should have attacked when they first arrived
Nameless Ashaman Send a noteboard - 07/12/2009 09:35:33 PM
If you're going to fault her, then fault her for the lengthy and pointless siege. Fault her for getting stupidly captured. Fault her for any number of other idiotic things she's done and somehow lucked her way out of.
But don't fault her for putting an end to 50 BA. She learned her lesson from Moggy's escape.
Egwene had no idea that the WT AS were going to name her Amyrlin that very day. She thought Elaida was still in charge in the tower. She had no way to know otherwise. If there were some feasible method for spying on internal tower doings, the rebels would have been doing that from day one of the siege.
If she'd waited to collar the known BA in her own camp, it's very likely she would have lost ALL of them, and not just those in the tower.
I'm not arguing that it wouldn't have been better if she'd waited and enacted her plan after the tower was united, but she had to act on the information and situation she was facing AT THE TIME. She did not have access to our omniscient reader's POV, or the advantage of hindsight.
And damn you for making me defend Egwene.
But don't fault her for putting an end to 50 BA. She learned her lesson from Moggy's escape.
Egwene had no idea that the WT AS were going to name her Amyrlin that very day. She thought Elaida was still in charge in the tower. She had no way to know otherwise. If there were some feasible method for spying on internal tower doings, the rebels would have been doing that from day one of the siege.
If she'd waited to collar the known BA in her own camp, it's very likely she would have lost ALL of them, and not just those in the tower.
I'm not arguing that it wouldn't have been better if she'd waited and enacted her plan after the tower was united, but she had to act on the information and situation she was facing AT THE TIME. She did not have access to our omniscient reader's POV, or the advantage of hindsight.
And damn you for making me defend Egwene.
Semirhage and Egwene
04/12/2009 02:31:45 PM
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I agree with all of that.
04/12/2009 02:58:48 PM
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Re: I agree with all of that. *NM*
04/12/2009 03:22:49 PM
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Re: I agree with all of that.
04/12/2009 03:29:46 PM
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The entire cast is full of Perfect Sues and Stuarts (I may have just made latter up)
04/12/2009 03:14:27 PM
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If you plan to write that review before the last two books are out, you better get re-reading now. *NM*
04/12/2009 03:20:31 PM
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about Semirhage
04/12/2009 03:21:32 PM
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but
04/12/2009 03:26:29 PM
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She was never THAT person.
06/12/2009 01:22:39 AM
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Alas, Semirhage was actually an idiot
04/12/2009 05:03:48 PM
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Re: Alas, Semirhage was actually an idiot
04/12/2009 06:42:41 PM
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If one compares the characters...
05/12/2009 11:24:16 AM
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Did I miss Rand's marriage ceremonies? I always thought the three girls only bonded him *NM*
05/12/2009 11:27:36 AM
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Egwene had the best mix of teachers and a desire to learn. Most believable, IMO. *NM*
04/12/2009 10:17:56 PM
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That's really nonsense
05/12/2009 11:13:20 AM
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And yet Egwene is still a fool regarding Gawyn.
04/12/2009 05:44:49 PM
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Egwene has a long way to go ...
05/12/2009 06:16:31 PM
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Hardly a blunder
06/12/2009 01:43:54 AM
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Re: Hardly a blunder? Send Egwene back to Silviana.
07/12/2009 04:03:08 PM
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Or she her rescue forced her hand. She lost her advantage
07/12/2009 04:47:56 PM
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She should have attacked when they first arrived
07/12/2009 09:35:33 PM
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Don't damn me, damn Graendal
09/12/2009 12:51:18 PM
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Yes, the Aes Sedai need to rediscover the meaning of "servants of all" *NM*
06/12/2009 05:03:19 AM
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I'm re-reading the series now for the first time in years. Egwene has always been a weak character.
07/12/2009 01:12:15 AM
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I think you'll find few people who agree with you on both of those counts...
07/12/2009 01:53:58 PM
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Irritating teen spirits ...
07/12/2009 04:32:51 PM
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You must not have been reading the same series I have.
07/12/2009 10:33:23 PM
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