I still don't understand how idiotic Semirhage could be to think that this plan could actually work. I mean besides several Forsaken already being killed by the Lightside, Rand & Co. just managed to give almost all Forsaken a sound defeat at the Cleansing (and two of their strongest, Rand & Nynaeve, didn't even participate in the battle). It's clear that Rand has super strong *angreal, he has female & male channelers to make circles and military elite troops. Nevertheless Semirhage apparently thinks that she can take Rand and his group by just bringing 6 common sul'dam & damane, who aren't even prepared to fight the Dragon Reborn. It seems that Semirhage somehow wanted to collar the whole group via a'dam. However, the a'dam are in some box in a house nearby, not even at hand. Then after she is discovered, Semirhage has no troops to support her in an emergency case, like Rand has of course. Instead of fleeing, she just throws a puny fireball at Rand and lets herself be captured. Moron..
I still think that Plan B was to let herself be captured. That could just be me wanting to give Semirhage the benefit of the doubt though. If her character turns out to be that silly, I'm not happy. She was so awesomely creepy as a name in the shadows.
Capture makes sense though, given that her first act was to scare the wits out of Rand and co. with the madness talk. And that she has some degree of confidence that they won't kill her straight off and that she may be able to sow fear and then escape.
Are women really bad generals?
01/10/2009 07:05:03 PM
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No.
01/10/2009 07:41:35 PM
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Or RJ just loves stacking ridiculously unfavourable odds against the male Forsaken generals...
01/10/2009 08:40:47 PM
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Lol... too true
01/10/2009 09:32:29 PM
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And you guys whine about the lameness of RJ's villains?
01/10/2009 09:41:54 PM
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I still haven't seen proof of Demandred or Ishamael's "brilliance".
01/10/2009 09:56:41 PM
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but you are difficult to please
02/10/2009 05:10:13 AM
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But they are lame... they've done minimal damage to the Light
02/10/2009 05:06:05 AM
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You can't have it both ways....
02/10/2009 06:47:21 AM
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Why not?
02/10/2009 08:45:35 AM
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Yeah
01/10/2009 09:57:01 PM
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Re: Yeah
01/10/2009 10:40:28 PM
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I thought the same in the past...
02/10/2009 07:01:18 AM
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Gah! Hate!
02/10/2009 04:11:49 PM
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Ah, come on...
02/10/2009 04:41:37 PM
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No no, I was just being pouty that I haven't read the new stuff yet.
02/10/2009 05:01:15 PM
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Re: Or RJ just loves stacking ridiculously unfavourable odds against the male Forsaken generals...
01/10/2009 09:51:30 PM
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Good points! Also, these "generals" haven't actually fielded any troops
01/10/2009 11:23:40 PM
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But as individuals they are meant to be deadly too
02/10/2009 05:09:21 AM
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Well, yeah. They're knowledgable and deadly in person. Generalship doesn't come into it.
04/10/2009 12:09:50 AM
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nope
01/10/2009 08:06:57 PM
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Tylee Kirgan, Birgitte, and one other, Egeanin
01/10/2009 09:47:00 PM
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Birgitte's not a soldier though.
01/10/2009 10:10:50 PM
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She says she's not, but so does Mat.
01/10/2009 10:34:04 PM
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Mat's not a soldier, either - he's a general
01/10/2009 10:51:29 PM
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Birgitte is too cautious to be better than an adequate tactician.
02/10/2009 04:22:45 AM
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My opinion
02/10/2009 01:30:12 AM
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That's a poor excuse
02/10/2009 11:59:42 AM
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I disagree
02/10/2009 04:26:28 PM
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Re: I disagree
02/10/2009 08:31:29 PM
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Oh, puh-lease.
02/10/2009 09:09:30 PM
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Re: Oh, puh-lease.
03/10/2009 04:52:37 PM
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Re: Oh, puh-lease.
05/10/2009 05:08:27 PM
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I always know I've out-argued an idiot when they fall back on the tired old "RJ wanted it that way"
06/10/2009 04:42:11 AM
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And I can tell you're through when you've gotten to three+ insults per paragraph.
06/10/2009 05:46:24 PM
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Monday morning quarterbacking at its worst
04/10/2009 07:28:36 AM
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Men and football.
05/10/2009 04:49:35 PM
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She didn't kill anyone! Why SHOULD she feel guilty? She gave necessary orders.
06/10/2009 03:33:15 AM
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