This certainly makes a mockery of a lot that us 20-year long readers of Wot used to hold dear...
Shannow Send a noteboard - 23/04/2012 09:50:51 AM
I just find that the custodians of RJ's legacy don't approach it with the required respect for the detail that he spent so much painstaking effort on.
I share Sidous's unease with the casual disregard he displays to something like channeler strength, the identificaiton of individual angreal etc.
If he isn't even sure which angreal is being used by a central character, then there is no chance that he knows the exact multiplication ability of ANY specific angreal in the books.
RJ was able to say that Elayne's woman wrapped in hair angreal almost doubled her strength, whereas the turtle angreal would allow Aviendha to channel twice as much as Nynaeve, for example.
I quote this example from memory, as I haven't read the books for some time and I may be off with some of the specific angreal strengths.
But the point is, in order to do that, RJ would have known how much stronger Nynaeve is than Aviendha - in absolute terms - and also by how much each angreal multiplied a users strength.
Sanderson doesn't seem to have a clue about either of these issues. Heck, he didn't even seem to be aware that some of the key channelers might still not be at their full potential.
Where RJ would have known how far both Aviendha and Nynaeve were from their respective full potentials at the time when the angreal comparison to Nynaeve's strength was made in Crown of Swords, and factored this into his description of the amount of saidar that Aviendha could draw through the angreal, these subtleties apparently would go totally over Sandersons' head.
Very, very disappointing, is all that I can say.
I share Sidous's unease with the casual disregard he displays to something like channeler strength, the identificaiton of individual angreal etc.
If he isn't even sure which angreal is being used by a central character, then there is no chance that he knows the exact multiplication ability of ANY specific angreal in the books.
RJ was able to say that Elayne's woman wrapped in hair angreal almost doubled her strength, whereas the turtle angreal would allow Aviendha to channel twice as much as Nynaeve, for example.
I quote this example from memory, as I haven't read the books for some time and I may be off with some of the specific angreal strengths.
But the point is, in order to do that, RJ would have known how much stronger Nynaeve is than Aviendha - in absolute terms - and also by how much each angreal multiplied a users strength.
Sanderson doesn't seem to have a clue about either of these issues. Heck, he didn't even seem to be aware that some of the key channelers might still not be at their full potential.
Where RJ would have known how far both Aviendha and Nynaeve were from their respective full potentials at the time when the angreal comparison to Nynaeve's strength was made in Crown of Swords, and factored this into his description of the amount of saidar that Aviendha could draw through the angreal, these subtleties apparently would go totally over Sandersons' head.
Very, very disappointing, is all that I can say.
Very interesting QA with Brandon
- 20/04/2012 11:19:02 PM
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I found it painful to read
- 21/04/2012 09:53:31 AM
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Agreed ... He got some softball questions here and couldn't answer them ... But there is a lot
- 22/04/2012 04:26:27 AM
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Re: Agreed ... He got some softball questions here and couldn't answer them ... But there is a lot
- 22/04/2012 08:06:38 AM
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Re: Agreed ... He got some softball questions here and couldn't answer them ... But there is a lot
- 22/04/2012 02:39:41 PM
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Re: Very interesting QA with Brandon
- 22/04/2012 02:53:38 AM
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This certainly makes a mockery of a lot that us 20-year long readers of Wot used to hold dear...
- 23/04/2012 09:50:51 AM
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- 23/04/2012 02:39:30 PM
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I think you may be giving RJ more credit than his due here
- 24/04/2012 10:35:28 PM
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- 24/04/2012 05:46:03 AM
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- 24/04/2012 08:10:15 AM
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It's got little to do with obsession...
- 25/04/2012 01:20:48 AM
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Re: It's got little to do with obsession...
- 25/04/2012 05:05:40 PM
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Re: It's got little to do with obsession...
- 27/04/2012 12:58:36 AM
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Question about TGS and ToM:
- 27/04/2012 02:20:34 AM
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Very similar to you
- 27/04/2012 09:50:52 PM
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Are there plans for rewrites / reordering of the books?
- 29/04/2012 01:17:48 PM
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of course there's no plan
- 30/04/2012 06:15:49 AM
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Egwene...
- 27/04/2012 05:41:13 AM
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Re: Egwene...
- 27/04/2012 09:30:32 PM
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Re: Egwene...
- 28/04/2012 09:44:43 AM
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I don't find it all that surprising
- 28/04/2012 03:56:41 PM
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Re: I don't find it all that surprising
- 29/04/2012 08:07:55 AM
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Re: I don't find it all that surprising
- 30/04/2012 07:54:14 AM
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I suspect Cadsuane will die before that happens
- 30/04/2012 07:06:04 PM
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Re: I suspect Cadsuane will die before that happens
- 30/04/2012 08:36:44 PM
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Not sure Cadsuane will ever be reigned in by anyone
- 01/05/2012 01:18:44 AM
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Re: Egwene...
- 30/04/2012 07:41:11 AM
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Re: Egwene...
- 01/05/2012 07:10:35 PM
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Re: Egwene...
- 01/05/2012 10:51:09 PM
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Re: This certainly makes a mockery of a lot that us 20-year long readers of Wot used to hold dear...
- 01/05/2012 12:08:33 AM
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Re: This certainly makes a mockery of a lot that us 20-year long readers of Wot used to hold dear...
- 24/04/2012 10:49:54 PM
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For me it's interesting simply because it is not all that well defined
- 24/04/2012 11:16:14 PM
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Elminster vs Karsus, Darth Vader vs Darth Revan, Demandred vs Sammael - who has more midichloriants.
- 25/04/2012 03:13:17 PM
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