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Disagree - plus COT lacked almost anything full stop ajfurst Send a noteboard - 30/11/2010 12:03:24 AM

Although it would have risked TGS being accused of being another 'build up' book, even more after TOM splitting the books chronologically so TGS finished with Rand killing Semirhage and shown as Dark Rand, Egwene imprisoned after attending Elaida, Avi's vision shown, Perrin agreeing to a trial (and unable to Travel) and Mat having to wait in Caemlyn and ending on the Gholam having killed someone in his tent would have made much more sense IMO.

Then TGS would've been bashed by most readers, and rightly so, because it would've been all setup and no plot resolutions at all, and a lot of people would've given up on the series.

Sanderson and Team Jordan made the right choice, they couldn't afford that risk given the scepticism after the change of author and given how much nearly everyone hated CoT for lacking plot resolutions.

COT was basically 'WOW big channeling going on, view point 7 on it, followed by view point 8', with some 'Woah is me, Faile was captured before and I still haven't gotten her by the end' with the only bits of action Ituralde's in the prologue and Egwene's capture in the Epilogue.

TGS split as I suggest would still have had:

Rand's descent and the death of Semirhage
Egwene winning over the Aes Sedai until Elaida has her imprisoned (cliffhanger 1)
Mat fighting in hinderstap then the Gholam at the end (cliffhanger 2)
Perrin fighting Slayer, then finding himself trapped by the Dreamspike having to either fight the Whitecloaks or win his trial (cliffhanger 3)
Aviendha's visions

Plus you still had Tylee and Ituralde's battles in TGS would still be there. Nothing like COT. And with 3 cliffhangers at the end I'd be more inclined to think fans would be even more highly anticipating TOM to see what happened.
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Disagree - plus COT lacked almost anything full stop - 30/11/2010 12:03:24 AM 887 Views
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