Imagine you're Morgase an hour after fleeing Caemlyn. Where do you go? What do you do? Was Morgase's plan to go beg for help in a country where she cannot legally enter truly the best plan? (In hindsight the answer seems to be a resounding no. Despite her getting everything she could've hoped for in the end, of course)
Should Morgase, ashamed of her royal screw up with Gaebril, just have given up? Obviously a monkey would be a better ruler, she totally just rolled on her back when the gigolo came to town. After all, she had no idea Gaebril was using Compulsion. The tedious plot could have ended with her retiring, for example. She could have gone into hiding on some remote farm belonging to one of those minor Houses who love Trakand. That could have been the end of it. Galad and Morgase meeting was no way worth the dullness of all those chapters set in Amador.
So, what would you have done in Morgase's place?
Should Morgase, ashamed of her royal screw up with Gaebril, just have given up? Obviously a monkey would be a better ruler, she totally just rolled on her back when the gigolo came to town. After all, she had no idea Gaebril was using Compulsion. The tedious plot could have ended with her retiring, for example. She could have gone into hiding on some remote farm belonging to one of those minor Houses who love Trakand. That could have been the end of it. Galad and Morgase meeting was no way worth the dullness of all those chapters set in Amador.
So, what would you have done in Morgase's place?
What do you think Morgase should have done?
- 16/05/2011 08:42:20 PM
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Much as she did, really.
- 16/05/2011 10:34:11 PM
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Agreed. Elayne's most unfortunate trait in ToM is excessive & impolitic loyalty
- 17/05/2011 02:39:32 AM
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To be fair, I don't think Elaynes playing "Who's the daddy?" for political reasons.
- 19/05/2011 08:32:03 AM
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Re: To be fair, I don't think Elaynes playing "Who's the daddy?" for political reasons.
- 24/05/2011 02:50:30 PM
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Honestly, Galad joining the Whitecloaks was indictment enough for me.
- 27/05/2011 11:15:54 AM
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The Children have been entirely seen through the perspectives of their enemies - hardly a fair shot
- 02/06/2011 11:48:53 PM
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Because the world conveniently divides into "the Children" and "their enemies", by mutual agreement.
- 03/06/2011 01:44:09 AM
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Re: What do you think Morgase should have done?
- 18/05/2011 12:32:30 PM
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Well, Amador wouldn't have been my first choice.
- 19/05/2011 08:52:46 AM
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Re: Well, Amador wouldn't have been my first choice.
- 19/05/2011 12:43:21 PM
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I thought Morgase intended to not involve the Whitecloacks at all when she went to Amadicia
- 19/05/2011 02:08:40 PM
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Re: I thought Morgase intended to not involve the Whitecloacks at all when she went to Amadicia
- 19/05/2011 08:29:55 PM
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In terms of what I would've done, attempting to regain the throne would not have been it.
- 20/05/2011 12:21:05 AM
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