It was extremely irritating... - Edit 1
Before modification by Shannow at 31/01/2013 02:34:56 PM
I thought it was interesting seeing potential interactions between male and female channelers in the next Age.
I liked that they were both kind of light-hearted. I liked that there was some budding romance that found a middle ground between "sheltered sheep-herder" and "Maiden of the Spear"
I also liked all the Gateway stuff with Androl. I'm actually a bit curious about that- Androl feels very much like a Brandon Sanderson character. He has a focused ability, and he does as much as he can with it. Honestly, if you put Androl in the Mistborn universe, he would fit right in.
(Although it was a BIT of a copout to say "Oh, I guess part of my Talent is that I can totally ignore the rules about 'knowing' a place"... and was there any justification as to how he happened to know where the lava in Dragonmount was?)
Anyway. I found their plotline a nice change of pace.
I liked that they were both kind of light-hearted. I liked that there was some budding romance that found a middle ground between "sheltered sheep-herder" and "Maiden of the Spear"
I also liked all the Gateway stuff with Androl. I'm actually a bit curious about that- Androl feels very much like a Brandon Sanderson character. He has a focused ability, and he does as much as he can with it. Honestly, if you put Androl in the Mistborn universe, he would fit right in.
(Although it was a BIT of a copout to say "Oh, I guess part of my Talent is that I can totally ignore the rules about 'knowing' a place"... and was there any justification as to how he happened to know where the lava in Dragonmount was?)
Anyway. I found their plotline a nice change of pace.
It felt like bad fan fiction. All the most extreme ideas on the use of gateways we've proposed here on the forum for years - well, Brandon went and used them.
So no one in the Age of Legends ever thought of spinning a horizontal gateway, or using a gateway to shield them from balefire?
Androl seemed to have massive plot armor, way beyond his importance as a character. By the time we reached the halfway mark it became clear that any scene he was involved in would somehow turn out badly for the Shadow.
Not a positive addition at all, in my view.