It's hard to come up with new things to talk about
Marshall Send a noteboard - 28/06/2012 09:42:45 PM
WoT has been around since 1990, wotmania sometime in the '90s, and RAFO a few years now.
The decrease is partly due to reduced membership after the wotmania->RAFO switch, where we lost quite a few members. News of RJ's death and the RJ->Brandon drastically increased the time gap between KoD and TGS.
On top of that, while Brandon's books progressed the plots quite a bit, they left little to discussion. RJ's books have a LOT of subtext and behind the scenes scheming that we could openly theorize and discuss. Brandon's style of writing is more to the point, and after we go over the major points of the story (i.e. "Rand had an epiphany and his restored faith in mankind was the turning point" ), the subtleties of plot involving the too-young Sitters, the Forsaken, Taim, etc...just aren't really there in the newer stories. There's not as much piecing together the mystery as there is waiting for what's next.
Waiting for what's next doesn't lend itself too well to discussion, and I think this is why the board has suffered. That, and we've had ample time to discuss relevant open mysteries. At this point, people are just...waiting, and occupying themselves otherwise.
The decrease is partly due to reduced membership after the wotmania->RAFO switch, where we lost quite a few members. News of RJ's death and the RJ->Brandon drastically increased the time gap between KoD and TGS.
On top of that, while Brandon's books progressed the plots quite a bit, they left little to discussion. RJ's books have a LOT of subtext and behind the scenes scheming that we could openly theorize and discuss. Brandon's style of writing is more to the point, and after we go over the major points of the story (i.e. "Rand had an epiphany and his restored faith in mankind was the turning point" ), the subtleties of plot involving the too-young Sitters, the Forsaken, Taim, etc...just aren't really there in the newer stories. There's not as much piecing together the mystery as there is waiting for what's next.
Waiting for what's next doesn't lend itself too well to discussion, and I think this is why the board has suffered. That, and we've had ample time to discuss relevant open mysteries. At this point, people are just...waiting, and occupying themselves otherwise.
This message last edited by Marshall on 28/06/2012 at 09:43:59 PM
Not much activity on the WOT board! 
- 28/06/2012 08:00:11 PM
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- 28/06/2012 08:00:11 PM
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It's hard to come up with new things to talk about
- 28/06/2012 09:42:45 PM
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I remember my first trip to WOT. I was so excited to find someone to talk to about WOT 
- 29/06/2012 08:53:58 AM
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- 29/06/2012 08:53:58 AM
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Re: I remember my first trip to WOT. I was so excited to find someone to talk to about WOT
- 29/06/2012 02:02:51 PM
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- 29/06/2012 02:02:51 PM
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I have a friend who was pregnant when she read Eye of the World
- 29/06/2012 02:08:14 PM
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lol crazy she didn't name her daughter from the book did she? *NM*
- 02/07/2012 12:42:20 AM
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she didn't name her daughter from the book did she? *NM*
- 02/07/2012 12:42:20 AM
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Apathetic...
- 29/06/2012 08:50:16 PM
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I will totally read that
- 01/07/2012 03:19:34 PM
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Re: I will totally read that
- 02/07/2012 05:15:45 AM
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Re: Apathetic...
- 02/07/2012 06:19:57 PM
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This board needs to merge with Books already *NM*
- 02/07/2012 05:16:54 PM
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I would no longer frequent this site 
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- 02/07/2012 06:30:28 PM
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*NM*
- 02/07/2012 06:30:28 PM
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Still excited, actually.
- 09/07/2012 09:57:10 PM
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Well, you're not as excited as the Kool-Aid drinkers if you just bought the "latest" book now.
- 10/07/2012 12:49:39 AM
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