Oh, sh**, Moiraine! I never thought about that! The comments about her in tGS suggest you're right
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 26/09/2010 03:23:56 AM
The other I find worrying is Moiraine. I have a really bad feeling that Brandon will be a lot more sympathetic to that character than Jordan himself was. Jordan to TFOH walked the very fine line between antagonist and protagonist. A lot of his earlier uses of Moiraine, especially her POVs, was very unforgiving yet not judgmental (he used Siuan a bit the same way - giving us enough to understand her thinking and her actions, but never shying from her flaws and negative aspects either). I would really hate (but fear) to see her return as a "bleached" Moiraine, without any of her grating or grey aspects remaining.
Dammit! They're all talking about her like she's the patron saint of Aes Sedai, too! The shallow and cheap parallel that everyone draws between WoT & LotR is Moiraine = Gandalf (personally, given how RJ himself claimed to have departed from the WoT model early, I would have put Thom as the Gandalfian figure myself. It's not perfect, but none of the parallels really hold up long), and now I'm afraid you're going to be literally right about "bleached" Moiraine - she's going to be Moiraine the White. Especially given how Fain's Distinctions PoV could not have been better written to bash readers over the head with the message: "Fain is Gollum!"
Cannoli
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"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
mistakes sanderson makes that bug you
- 23/09/2010 05:38:52 PM
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Bael mentioning the Aiel Waste; characters using words that are too sophisticated or techical
- 23/09/2010 06:11:34 PM
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I completely agree...
- 23/09/2010 08:54:17 PM
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Re: I completely agree...
- 24/09/2010 01:57:38 AM
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Re: I completely agree...
- 24/09/2010 06:39:17 PM
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Oh, sh**, Moiraine! I never thought about that! The comments about her in tGS suggest you're right
- 26/09/2010 03:23:56 AM
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The entire Graendal scene
- 23/09/2010 06:27:03 PM
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I think this is the type of info that RJ never got around to revealing.
- 23/09/2010 08:46:51 PM
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Particularly the way he described sex. It reeked of Mormon discomfort with the topic.
- 24/09/2010 02:04:08 AM
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Reeked? Great word. It seemed quite in line with RJ's own dealings with the topic. *NM*
- 24/09/2010 03:42:28 AM
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RJ had great sexual humor--he even went a little overboard sometimes IMO
- 24/09/2010 11:28:25 PM
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Re: RJ had great sexual humor--he even went a little overboard sometimes IMO
- 25/09/2010 08:56:47 PM
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RJ said breasts all the time, but in a more clinical manner - folding arms under breasts, etc
- 26/09/2010 03:33:09 AM
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Actually, didn't RJ do the Forsaken infodump thing too?
- 24/09/2010 04:09:48 AM
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Re: Actually, didn't RJ do the Forsaken infodump thing too?
- 24/09/2010 05:36:23 PM
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A lot of those are reasons why I always thought she was alive..
- 24/09/2010 06:10:35 PM
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Re: A lot of those are reasons why I always thought she was alive..
- 24/09/2010 07:54:54 PM
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Re: Actually, didn't RJ do the Forsaken infodump thing too?
- 25/09/2010 10:02:02 AM
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Re: Actually, didn't RJ do the Forsaken infodump thing too?
- 25/09/2010 08:48:05 PM
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Not really a mistake, I guess
- 25/09/2010 09:45:54 PM
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Well...
- 26/09/2010 06:30:54 AM
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Thanks. I think I didn't notice it with RJ because
- 26/09/2010 06:35:47 AM
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*NM*