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  • Re: A Memory of Light in review

    From Timothy Bruening@21:1/5 to pbo...@conservation.org on Sat Apr 23 17:50:53 2022
    On Monday, May 27, 2013 at 8:41:55 PM UTC-7, pbo...@conservation.org wrote:
    On Saturday, March 30, 2013 3:45:42 PM UTC-4, TB wrote:
    On Mar 29, 11:24 am, Aaron <ahste...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Red Ajah coming to their fucking senses and doing some good in the world.
    Nice spin on what the Red Ajah do from Pevara - "We train to fight channelers". More use could, and should, have been made of that.

    I expect that they will in the future go after rogue channelers of BOTH genders, such as any surviving Dreadlords.

    Warder bonds being used against forces of the Light, Rand specifically. Another fan idea IIRC.
    In this case it was likely planned from the start, since the whole Alanna bond was almost entirely neglected after it was introduced it was presumably meant as set-up for the endgame.
    One-sided Balefire usage for far too long. No way would the Light have been holding so well under those conditions. He even illustrated that in one scene just before Egwene discovers the counter to balefire.

    I was surprised that Egwene herself didn't get retroactively killed due to Balefire canceling out the protective actions of her troops!

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  • From Timothy Bruening@21:1/5 to pbo...@conservation.org on Sat Apr 23 18:43:35 2022
    On Monday, May 27, 2013 at 8:41:55 PM UTC-7, pbo...@conservation.org wrote:
    On Saturday, March 30, 2013 3:45:42 PM UTC-4, TB wrote:
    On Mar 29, 11:24 am, Aaron <ahste...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Red Ajah coming to their fucking senses and doing some good in the world.
    Nice spin on what the Red Ajah do from Pevara - "We train to fight channelers". More use could, and should, have been made of that.
    Warder bonds being used against forces of the Light, Rand specifically. Another fan idea IIRC.
    In this case it was likely planned from the start, since the whole Alanna bond was almost entirely neglected after it was introduced it was presumably meant as set-up for the endgame.
    One-sided Balefire usage for far too long. No way would the Light have been holding so well under those conditions. He even illustrated that in one scene just before Egwene discovers the counter to balefire.
    That whole section seemed a bit off. "Just a weave" = "a counterweave exists for every weave"? This is out of nowhere - what's the counterweave to a shield? A fireball? A gateway?
    No one can check the generals for compulsion and remove it, regularly? Seems they should have expected that move by the shadow.
    They wouldn't obviously have been expecting it to be laid on them in Tel'aran'rhiod, and they were supposedly guarding the tents.

    How did Graendal Compulse a Warder (Gareth Bryne, Warder to Siuan)?

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  • From Timothy Bruening@21:1/5 to Timothy Bruening on Tue Aug 8 15:47:35 2023
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 6:43:36 PM UTC-7, Timothy Bruening wrote:
    On Monday, May 27, 2013 at 8:41:55 PM UTC-7, pbo...@conservation.org wrote:
    On Saturday, March 30, 2013 3:45:42 PM UTC-4, TB wrote:
    On Mar 29, 11:24 am, Aaron <ahste...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Red Ajah coming to their fucking senses and doing some good in the world.
    Nice spin on what the Red Ajah do from Pevara - "We train to fight channelers". More use could, and should, have been made of that.
    Warder bonds being used against forces of the Light, Rand specifically. Another fan idea IIRC.
    In this case it was likely planned from the start, since the whole Alanna bond was almost entirely neglected after it was introduced it was presumably meant as set-up for the endgame.
    One-sided Balefire usage for far too long. No way would the Light have been holding so well under those conditions. He even illustrated that in one scene just before Egwene discovers the counter to balefire.
    That whole section seemed a bit off. "Just a weave" = "a counterweave exists for every weave"? This is out of nowhere - what's the counterweave to a shield? A fireball? A gateway?
    No one can check the generals for compulsion and remove it, regularly? Seems they should have expected that move by the shadow.
    They wouldn't obviously have been expecting it to be laid on them in Tel'aran'rhiod, and they were supposedly guarding the tents.
    How did Graendal Compulse a Warder (Gareth Bryne, Warder to Siuan)?

    Since Graendal could Compulse a Warder, why didn't she Compulse Lan?

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