No, I think your opinions are irrational because you have demonstrated your rabidity and quite frankly, stupidity, way too often. We've had some version of this discussion off and on for about a decade, now.

And got so rabidly self-righteous you neglected to see who you were saying what to...

That is Sidious's problem. Take it up with him.

This is the kind of crap that turns people off Canoli. She linked with 12 other Novices. She had many more with her. That should have made you question your assumtion, but you didn't, of course. And here's a direct quote, which of course you ignored since it didn't fit your narrative:

She taught them to link. And she taught them enough to not just hold against the Seanchan in the stairwells but actually push them back.

A large majority of these women were new, but that is beside the point. Even if they were completely without agency, it is even more remarkable to have them move from terrified and clueless to an organized force that pushed the Seanchan back.

Yet, she couldn't direct every single move they made. And she didn't.

They do no such things with a Sitter. Even in the toxic environment of inter-Ajah bickering in the Tower, no normal sister shows disrespect to a Sitter. Their base instinct is to obey a Sitter, due to the indoctrination you rant about so often.

And more, Egwene didn't just lead Novices. She led 40 sisters as well, including the head of the Green Ajah, none of whom were inclined to believe she had any right to tell them what to do. Sure, some of them were likely thankful she saved their ass, but not all, including Adelorna herself. And Egwene did not have legitimate authority, in their eyes.

Don't create straw men, Cannoli. It exposes your desperation. I never claimed all Saerin did is hold her title. She clearly used it well. But it did help her, including directly letting her overrule Katerine when she came up with the stupid idea of trying to "eliminate each of them".

But Saerin did not do better than Egwene. By Saerin's own assessment, what they needed was to make things go bad for the Seanchan so they would end their raid:

Well, Egwene's group held their ground and then some (primarily because they started off in groups, and also because they had angreal). That made the Seanchan raid focus on their level, and as Egwene's group continue to push them back, the cost became high enough that they disengaged.

Again with the straw men? Titles don't undermine your accomplishments. But they do make it easier to lead those who acknowledge the title. Egwene did not have that, and yet did more. This doesn't make what Saerin did bad or unworthy. It just doesn't make it better than what Egwene did, including in her own assessment, which comes after she sees actual numbers which show her that what she achieved was a lot less than what Egwene did.

Nope. She attacked to'raken that were escaping, which forced others to focus on her. She cleared away invaders who were nowhere close to her initial position, and that made those within the Tower focus on her level. She did NOT just sit around in the Novice quarters and wait for Seanchan to attack her position.

Being petty and contemptible does not make them any less dangerous in a physical fight. And those very traits mean they DO want to access sa'angreal desperately (as we see from Mesaana's conversation in LoC). How blinkered is your view that you think Egwene should have given them free access to insanely dangerous weapons?

And how did it cripple the Tower? Angreal were already kept locked away unless you had permission to use them. Come the Last Battle, that is exactly what happened.

She did not lock them up. She had them protected till they were needed, rather than let them be scattered around on the floor where anyone could take them. When it did come to go to war, they were in the hands of the Aes Sedai, to attack Shadowspawn by day and Heal the injured by night.

What? By that frankly MORONIC logic, nukes just alter the effectiveness of grenade launchers!

With a powerful sa'angreal like Vora's wand and Traveling, the kind of damage a Forsaken could do is absolutely equivalent to a nuke in the WoT world.

I don't, but extrapolating based on past intelligence of characters is fair game. If you think Egwene would hide away sa'angreal without any way to access them in an emergency, that's not something I'll bother convincing you to change your mind on.

Egwene had them hidden and warded, not some old Aes Sedai with more belief in custom than sense.

A rather sensible plan, no? For both the Forsaken and Seanchan, this is the most effective strategy. Forsaken because that lets your overwhelm even their vastly greater skill. Seanchan because they can't not shield women, and are easy pickings for the circles.

She is ALREADY doing something unprecedented by hiding them.

She has never put in plans to access something from a hidden room that was not hidden before? Well DUH!

Overreacting, you say. Not underreacting, or completely dismissing threats, correct? Then by your own assessment of her past, she would have plans in place for another Seanchan raid. Especially since she knows they have Traveling.

Who are these helpless sul'dam she murdered? The women who were holding leashes on Adelorna and some other damane? Those were combatants.

Why the fuck not?

What speech? The only person she talks to in that stage is Egeanin. And nothing there is about her. Its about the Seals.

No, she does not. She has no past history of killing herself to appear heroic. She doesn't even have a past history of taking risks to appear heroic.

Imaginary Rand from the crap stewing inside Cannoli's skull doesn't count.

No. YOU are insane and irrational. You are not everyone who dislikes Egwene.

About the only time I've used the "behind the scenes" argument is with the hiding of the sa'angreal, both because we're dealing with a new author, and because stupidity of that colossal scale has never been something we've seen from her.

I read your previous statement as referring to this, and since I never mentioned any such thing, I asked.

Maybe next time, you'll pay attention who the hell you're responding to...