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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Gathering Storm - First Impressions *SPOILERS*
« on: November 02, 2009, 07:09:34 PM »
Here's a thought about Seanchan. Rand saw that the people in his empire are unhappy. He also saw the the lands ruled by the Seanchan prosper. We know that he has to kneel before the Crystal Throne.

Actually, no.  One of the things that Ishamael was able to do while the rest of the Forsaken were imprisoned was alter every single copy of the prophecies that went over the ocean with Hawkwing's armies (this is canon, not a theory).  So when their prophecies say that he has to kneel before the Crystal Throne, it's probably not true.

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I did miss some of (I don't know exactly what to call it) the gradiose,dramatic syntax mastery of Robert Jordan.  You know, like "on a day of fire and blood and the one power" kind of thing, maybe it's still to recent since my reading and I'm not done with my first re-read yet.  It seemed to me the closest I came to finding/feeling those moments came from Egwene's speech near the end, instead of finding it in the narrative.  Sorry, I don't have the right vocabulary to express what I want to say here and that's pretty ironic, considering what I'm trying to talk about.

I know exactly what you mean.  I felt that this was the standout strength of Robert Jordan: his ability to take a cool scene and just draw it out perfectly in a way that gave you chills while you read it.  I knew it would be missing in the new book, and it makes me sad that we'll never see the final volumes as RJ would have written it.

But BS really did a phenomenal job here.  With the exception of Mat and a few stylistic differences, everything just felt *right*.  Rand was fantastic - I have a hard time believing that RJ could have done a better job with that plot arc than BS did.  It is undoubtedly a WoT book, and a far better one than anyone could have hoped for.  Brandon deserves a standing ovation for saving the series.

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