This chapter is analogous to the final episode of the netflix show Chilling Adventures of Sabrina in the way it is the franchise-killer, by stripping the main character of its free will, giving even the option of BREATHING to an alien and hostile force.
There it was Sabrina signing the Book of Shadows, here it is Rand being forced to be Protector of some random aes sedai.
The sole hope of this series was that its Messiah is ahead of everyone, and by wisdom, brute force and luck rides into the Apocalypse. And before you ask that what about someone breaking this chain (and neither here nor there the character could ask such thing) the link, the control over Rand remains in the hands of the proven wrong aes sedai to the very end.
The characters lack any goal (since book 5 at latest there remain no goal aside riding to the Blight), being stripped from any chance of marking progress wwith the Forsaken being continuously resurrected, neither faction showing any chance to change their warring ways, there is no story possible, just endless stagnation and filler-arcs (like Fail's abduction). The exact same thing everyone complained about.
Then the only thing remain to be discussed is the ending. As expected, the nazis survive. As suspected on an I-don't-want-to-believe level, the nazis even prophecised to rule over all, fulfilling Adolf Hitler's dream, the epitome of Christianity.
What little else remains is the so-called "final battle" with Satan, which is a theology-lesson about Satan's importance to the Great Plan, so they reset the status-quo at the end of that plotline.
It's astonishing anyone even considers touching this franchise with a ten-feet pole.
There it was Sabrina signing the Book of Shadows, here it is Rand being forced to be Protector of some random aes sedai.
The sole hope of this series was that its Messiah is ahead of everyone, and by wisdom, brute force and luck rides into the Apocalypse.
And before you ask that what about someone breaking this chain (and neither here nor there the character could ask such thing) the link, the control over Rand remains in the hands of the proven wrong aes sedai to the very end.
The characters lack any goal (since book 5 at latest there remain no goal aside riding to the Blight), being stripped from any chance of marking progress wwith the Forsaken being continuously resurrected, neither faction showing any chance to change their warring ways, there is no story possible, just endless stagnation and filler-arcs (like Fail's abduction).
The exact same thing everyone complained about.
Then the only thing remain to be discussed is the ending.
As expected, the nazis survive. As suspected on an I-don't-want-to-believe level, the nazis even prophecised to rule over all, fulfilling Adolf Hitler's dream, the epitome of Christianity.
What little else remains is the so-called "final battle" with Satan, which is a theology-lesson about Satan's importance to the Great Plan, so they reset the status-quo at the end of that plotline.
It's astonishing anyone even considers touching this franchise with a ten-feet pole.