Team C is going to Tar Valon on cart, disguised as traders, keeping a low profile.
The most we get out of this chapter is some worrying vibes RJ wanna go into national politics. With a series that already as too many factions, too many characters, too many NAMES, where the basic groundwork is not done after ... hwat, this is the 5th book in the series, a thousand pages at average per volume? We should already start focusing on stuff, not expanding! And I say that along the countless retcons, character-swaps, characters still lacking personality or narrative reason to exist or both, inconsistent characacters, unimaginative plot and more!
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Elayne develops daddy-issues, falling in love with Thom?!? His own father?!? Another retcon?!?!? Aside them being father-daughter, they had no attraction to each other. Is this a soap opera now on?
The gorls go in to some aes sedai spy for informations. They are knocked out.
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One of the men is to the rescue (I could tell which one, but what's the difference, that's the point I make this way). Turns out the spy acted on the command of the Amyrlin Throne. Now common sense would make you ask in such situation: why? Or make your characters say "Siuan would never do that". Or ask "Who is the Throne?" But then the plot couldn't happen, so the characters are made DUMB for this scene. Brain dead even.
The party trades their cart to a carriage.
PS: did not mention because all the rush-readin, but I checked after my notes, and yes, ninive tried to stop thugging her hair, which was a sign of gaining controll over her bailities in Book 4. Now fuck that too, who needs anything even mildly interresting, she is back actively thuggin her hair again.
The most we get out of this chapter is some worrying vibes RJ wanna go into national politics. With a series that already as too many factions, too many characters, too many NAMES, where the basic groundwork is not done after ... hwat, this is the 5th book in the series, a thousand pages at average per volume? We should already start focusing on stuff, not expanding! And I say that along the countless retcons, character-swaps, characters still lacking personality or narrative reason to exist or both, inconsistent characacters, unimaginative plot and more!
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Elayne develops daddy-issues, falling in love with Thom?!? His own father?!? Another retcon?!?!?
Aside them being father-daughter, they had no attraction to each other. Is this a soap opera now on?
The gorls go in to some aes sedai spy for informations. They are knocked out.
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One of the men is to the rescue (I could tell which one, but what's the difference, that's the point I make this way). Turns out the spy acted on the command of the Amyrlin Throne.
Now common sense would make you ask in such situation: why? Or make your characters say "Siuan would never do that". Or ask "Who is the Throne?" But then the plot couldn't happen, so the characters are made DUMB for this scene. Brain dead even.
The party trades their cart to a carriage.
PS: did not mention because all the rush-readin, but I checked after my notes, and yes, ninive tried to stop thugging her hair, which was a sign of gaining controll over her bailities in Book 4. Now fuck that too, who needs anything even mildly interresting, she is back actively thuggin her hair again.