Sanderson's Dialogue Sucks Trolloc balls .

I understand why TV shows have characters call each other "bro" or "sis" or "son" or "cousin" in the pilot episode. The need to establish the relationship between two characters is necessary, and for some reason, everyone is terrified of doing it any other way than a natural conversation, that sounds UNnatural with people using terms no one uses in conversation anymore. However, when two characters who were best friends in the first book of a series are talking in the fourteenth book, there is no need to use verbal cues to establish that they are friends to the casual reader who flips open the book in a store.

Sometimes when I re-read a book, I try to imagine having stopped reading the series at some arbitrary earlier part, and then try to imagine what reading, say, tPoD is like when you stopped at tDR and have no awareness of tSR through aCoS. Now I'm trying to imagine the reader who read aMoL ch 1 and was inspired to pick up EotW and his impressions thereof.