It just goes to show the tone BS continuously set with Mat
A Deathwatch Guard Send a noteboard - 25/03/2013 12:18:15 AM
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Evidently BS felt the best way to capture Mat's humor was for him to be a gag comic or something. That first scene featuring BS's Mat was jarring, as RJ would never have Mat be so put out because nobody appreciated the aliases he came up with. That was very, very lame. Jarringly so.
Evidently BS felt the best way to capture Mat's humor was for him to be a gag comic or something. That first scene featuring BS's Mat was jarring, as RJ would never have Mat be so put out because nobody appreciated the aliases he came up with. That was very, very lame. Jarringly so.
He was to be either a comic character, or a rogue type one, always sauntering, gambling, drinking, etc. And Mat certainly always had all those traits in him, it's just that when RJ wrote him, they were not the entire extent of his personality and character.
Oh, and that reminds me of one other instance! A big one too. Mat riding out during one of the White Tower group's battles to lead an assault himself. The real Mat hated fighting and had to be dragged into it. He wouldn't lead an assault by himself on a mere lark--not to mention that even aside from his personality, he always said that a general's place was in the back, observing rather than participating.
His ability to write RJ's characters "correctly".....
- 23/03/2013 03:10:46 AM
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I'm not the most attentive or critical of readers...
- 23/03/2013 04:50:53 AM
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Re: I'm not the most attentive or critical of readers...
- 23/03/2013 05:10:41 AM
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*NM*
Mat IS a D&D character who broke through the 4th wall and kept hearing his player roll dice. *NM*
- 24/03/2013 07:09:22 AM
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Can you mention some specific examples of problems with Mat?
- 23/03/2013 04:56:36 PM
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Some of it was before AMOL
- 23/03/2013 11:33:22 PM
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Don't forget him making up aliases
- 24/03/2013 01:31:05 AM
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It just goes to show the tone BS continuously set with Mat
- 25/03/2013 12:18:15 AM
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Not perfect, but I did expect them to be good. And they weren't good. They were very bad. Awful. *NM*
- 23/03/2013 08:30:23 PM
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Please give a few examples..... *NM*
- 24/03/2013 04:09:28 PM
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- 25/03/2013 07:23:01 PM
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- 25/03/2013 07:45:26 PM
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Thanks for the well done and detailed reply.....but I must admit.....
- 26/03/2013 02:53:02 AM
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I still say Harriet and Co. erred in getting a fantasy novelist
- 23/03/2013 09:35:01 PM
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Maybe, but if thay had we'd still be waiting for ToM... *NM*
- 25/03/2013 12:02:39 PM
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Or would not have needed a ToM. Maybe a pro could have follow RJs plan & kept it to one book. *NM*
- 26/03/2013 11:56:03 PM
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Re: Or would not have needed a ToM. Maybe a pro could have follow RJs plan & kept it to one book.
- 29/04/2013 08:16:49 PM
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