It will be better than CoT, sure, but still not good enough to appease most fans
Zeratul Send a noteboard - 30/11/2010 06:20:38 PM
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.
Sure, it would've been better than CoT, but this is a given, pretty much anything is It still would've been a disappointing and incomplete book since it wouldn't have a single plot arch completed and nothing major would've been resolved. I know I'd have been angry if I had to wait another year and with every plotline ending in a cliffhanger. Maybe even angry enough to give up on the series or at least wait for the paperback.
I'd much rather have a mixed up timeline of the different characters and every volume with its proper resolutions. than a whole book in which nothing major is resolved and everything is left for the next one.
/tGS: These are damned good books.
- 27/11/2010 02:22:05 AM
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meh. ToM sucked for me. after tGS, I had become a bit hopeful, but now I see ...
- 27/11/2010 03:39:49 AM
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Disagree strongly on the time line issue - TOM showed what a mistake splitting by 'clusters' was IMO
- 27/11/2010 07:24:55 AM
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Re: Disagree strongly on the time line issue - TOM showed what a mistake splitting by 'clusters' was
- 27/11/2010 05:59:47 PM
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Splitting it this way was the only realistic choice
- 29/11/2010 01:58:52 PM
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Disagree - plus COT lacked almost anything full stop
- 30/11/2010 12:03:24 AM
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It will be better than CoT, sure, but still not good enough to appease most fans
- 30/11/2010 06:20:38 PM
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BS style
- 27/11/2010 07:25:38 AM
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That's the thing! If it was in its normal, Jordan paced writing, ...
- 27/11/2010 08:52:05 AM
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Re: That's the thing! If it was in its normal, Jordan paced writing, ...
- 27/11/2010 11:57:22 PM
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Sin?! What, Jordan is a god now? Some flawless divine figure of fantasy writing? Puh-leaze!
- 28/11/2010 04:29:54 AM
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And you know how RJ would've outlined the books from where?
- 28/11/2010 05:07:31 AM
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Re: And you know how RJ would've outlined the books from where?
- 29/11/2010 08:16:12 AM
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My only problems are Mats sudden drop in literacy and the timeline. *NM*
- 27/11/2010 11:51:25 AM
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Not so much
- 27/11/2010 09:52:23 PM
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Have some question
- 28/11/2010 05:38:42 AM
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Re: Have some question
- 28/11/2010 05:54:10 PM
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Re: Have some question
- 28/11/2010 06:19:30 PM
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Re: Have some question
- 28/11/2010 06:50:40 PM
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Exactly my feeling on TGS, but I do think ToM inferior to it (though still good).
- 28/11/2010 02:55:53 PM
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Re: Exactly my feeling on TGS, but I do think ToM inferior to it (though still good).
- 28/11/2010 03:04:57 PM
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Right, it's good, but could be better (or it could be better, but is still good).
- 28/11/2010 03:12:15 PM
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Re: Exactly my feeling on TGS, but I do think ToM inferior to it (though still good).
- 29/11/2010 12:55:40 AM
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Radically different perspectives, it seems; I bet you don't even like leggy blondes. 
- 29/11/2010 01:11:16 PM
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- 29/11/2010 01:11:16 PM
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"Reading" TGS &ToM in audio format and just weeks apart made them work better together. *NM*
- 29/11/2010 07:48:51 PM
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I agree. Also, chopping up the timelines was the best decision given the circumstances.
- 01/12/2010 02:02:07 PM
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Re: I agree. Also, chopping up the timelines was the best decision given the circumstances.
- 01/12/2010 02:31:46 PM
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Re: I agree. Also, chopping up the timelines was the best decision given the circumstances.
- 01/12/2010 08:17:57 PM
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