I pretty much completely disagree. I thought that Perrin's training scenes were very important. If he had just all the sudden shown up after just one training scene and started fighting Slayer evenly(or almost, at least), made balefire go away, contemptuously disbelieved Egwene's creations, etc...It would have rung false. We needed to See Perrin begin to become the King of the Wolf-Dream.
This si true.
Maybe the issue lies more with BS' writing. RJ really had the fantastic ability to stretch things out. Maybe a little too fantastic
(CoT anyone? 
)As I said, the scenes by themselves were fabulous. In the whole story, they read way too similarly to me.
The Elayne stuff was...well, she is annoying, even if less so, but in order to accomplish what she did, it was pretty much as fast as it was possible to go. I guess RJ might have had her just not claim the Sun Throne, but that would have left just a hanging plot thread.
I think the Trakand line is bad plot pacing across the entire series. We had CoT, and KoD devoted to her, and her story still isn't done?! WTF! To keep it in perspective, she's only a supporting character (and Light alone knows we have enough of those!).
We could have received so much more out of her... where are the cool Ter'angreal? Ugh.
Besides, across all the boards I have been to... Elayne's storyline is unanimously frowned upon.
I didn't have any trouble keeping up with the plot-lines. The only time it mattered, which was basically when two people's timelines were actually going to intersect, there were hints given of where they stood, such as when Perrin witnesses Rand's Dragonmount revelation, etc. Otherwise, the timelines were independent of eachother, so you didn't really need to know exactly how far back Perrin was from Rand in the chapter before at any given time. It just didn't matter.
I still found it very jarring. Sort of like losing focus time and time again.
Pacing was really off. *spoilers*
- 04/11/2010 09:13:15 PM
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- 04/11/2010 09:19:33 PM
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- 05/11/2010 11:59:37 PM
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It didn't need to be so out - a few chapters shifted would have helped a lot
- 04/11/2010 10:39:11 PM
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- 06/11/2010 12:00:59 AM
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Re: It didn't need to be so out - a few chapters shifted would have helped a lot
- 06/11/2010 05:30:58 PM
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