Meh. I think I'm officially Popularity Contested out between watching people try to rationalize their emotional response to politicians, philosophies, football players and even fictionalcharacters for far too long. People like whom they like because they like them; they're may be, or have been, a logical beginning to it, but an emotional response is just that. I long defended Egwene, as recently as the last book, but have to come to feel (particularly after she tried to take Rand to school on the Seals) she's got at least as many blindspots as others and more than many. Others see it differently, and Jordan seems to be among them despite having written those blindspots clearly, but the argument has become wearisome.