* mat's "battle uniform" was quite possibly the stupidest thing sanderson has ever done with mat's character. here is the seanchan army with their intimidating armor and disciplined ranks, grim determination on each and every face, and then their leaders are wearing 1920's style wool coats and bustling around like they're going to break out into a chorus of "boola boola" at any moment. i half expected them to name him ka'ahuna which would of course mean "the great one" in the old tongue. and then he and furyk karede would organize a panty raid on the sorority of the white tower
maybe if RJ introduced the stupid uniform himself we could all wonder at RJ's sanity. for BS to introduce this absurdity at the end seems more like he's still trying to write mat as a buffoon/clown even though aMoL was probably the closest BS has come to mat's actual character. i think it was also supposed to be yet another trope of cultural differences, but we've spent at least 6 books on how intimidating and disciplined the seanchan are. the big poofy coat with plush robe over it is hardly the kind of thing one would expect of a force which dresses for intimidation.
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just finished aMoL yesterday, now i can finally let myself read the last two months of posts here!
- 18/02/2013 04:37:41 PM
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just realized i left one last point out -- probably my most fervent wish to see included in aMoL....
- 19/02/2013 06:36:06 PM
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tGS was not in RJ's plans. He was going to write one book after KoD. B-Sand broke it into 3
- 20/02/2013 01:59:07 AM
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KoD should still have not been published 
- 20/02/2013 03:41:18 PM
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- 20/02/2013 03:41:18 PM
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