You're confusing the rich mysteriousness of WoT's beginnings for an actual mystery
newyorkersedai Send a noteboard - 13/02/2011 09:53:31 PM
Although I like this idea a lot, as I'll note later.
The start of ythe series was full of grey tones, so that anybody - Perrin, Mat, Lan could all be DF. Thom, as the *complete* outsider in the group (the only guy who's alone), was the most extreme example of this. Even up to TGH, he might've been a crafty agent for evil.
In fact, his attack on the Fade in Whitebridge (and his weird survival of same) was one of the greatest double-bluffs I ever read. He could've been saving the boys from awful death in noble sacrifice; or he could've been play-acting. He comes back, and he helps when the leads are surrounded by DF, but he goes on to murder a king from (rightful) revenge Awesome.
Still, the actions of Thom in every subsequent pretty much pull him out of the Darkside. There's too much that we would have to fold into the plot twist, or ignore, for Thom to still work as a character and be the best deep-cover agent the Shadow has in this Age (because Taim is freakishly obvious).
However, I would totally love it if you were right - I'd think the firs tbig change would be that Thom - not Noal - was the old man with weathered fingers who's watching that place in Ebou Dar. Lovely.
The start of ythe series was full of grey tones, so that anybody - Perrin, Mat, Lan could all be DF. Thom, as the *complete* outsider in the group (the only guy who's alone), was the most extreme example of this. Even up to TGH, he might've been a crafty agent for evil.
In fact, his attack on the Fade in Whitebridge (and his weird survival of same) was one of the greatest double-bluffs I ever read. He could've been saving the boys from awful death in noble sacrifice; or he could've been play-acting. He comes back, and he helps when the leads are surrounded by DF, but he goes on to murder a king from (rightful) revenge Awesome.
Still, the actions of Thom in every subsequent pretty much pull him out of the Darkside. There's too much that we would have to fold into the plot twist, or ignore, for Thom to still work as a character and be the best deep-cover agent the Shadow has in this Age (because Taim is freakishly obvious).
However, I would totally love it if you were right - I'd think the firs tbig change would be that Thom - not Noal - was the old man with weathered fingers who's watching that place in Ebou Dar. Lovely.
Thom Merrilin, Darkfriend?
- 13/02/2011 07:14:54 PM
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You're confusing the rich mysteriousness of WoT's beginnings for an actual mystery
- 13/02/2011 09:53:31 PM
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Re: You're confusing the rich mysteriousness of WoT's beginnings for an actual mystery
- 14/02/2011 12:43:36 AM
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That'd be a pretty big deception...
- 14/02/2011 03:02:27 AM
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Re: That'd be a pretty big deception...
- 14/02/2011 03:15:50 PM
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Galldrian was not a Darkfriend
- 14/02/2011 04:08:17 PM
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not even reading. Should I? *NM*
- 19/02/2011 12:57:31 PM
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Depends. Are you the type who laughs at silliness or the type who bursts blood vessels? *NM*
- 19/02/2011 08:00:37 PM
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Ya know...
- 19/02/2011 09:30:41 PM
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Re: Ya know...
- 22/02/2011 11:58:19 PM
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*NM*