Author Topic: Way of Kings Discussion (prelude, prologue & chapters 1-3) :SPOILERS:  (Read 48450 times)

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Re: Way of Kings Discussion (prologue for now) :SPOILERS:
« Reply #75 on: May 14, 2010, 05:49:50 AM »
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Re: Way of Kings Discussion (prologue for now) :SPOILERS:
« Reply #76 on: May 14, 2010, 09:34:51 AM »
I was kind of expecting something as epic and brilliant as 'Dragonmount', the prologue to Eye of the World.

OK, woah.  I have to disagree here.  I thought Dragonmount was the most blah, gouge out my eyes prologue I have ever read.
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« Reply #77 on: May 14, 2010, 05:16:33 PM »
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Re: Way of Kings Discussion (prologue for now) :SPOILERS:
« Reply #78 on: May 14, 2010, 07:06:25 PM »
The new prologue is even better. I feel so smug.
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Re: Way of Kings Discussion (prologue for now) :SPOILERS:
« Reply #79 on: May 14, 2010, 07:29:07 PM »
The Prologue is the prologue for book one. There's a Prelude before that which is like the prologue for the whole series. If you want a "Dragonmount" look there, though its ramifications won't be clearer until several books into the series. And Brandon would be hesitant to make any comparisons. So I'm not saying you'll think the Prelude is awesome if you also thought "Dragonmount" was awesome. Or that you'll hate the Prelude if you hated "Dragonmount." But the thematic and structural role "Dragonmount" plays for the Wheel of Time, the Prelude plays for the Stormlight Archive.
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« Reply #80 on: May 14, 2010, 07:46:25 PM »

I thought the prelude brought up a lot of good questions.  I would say it's similar in fashion to Dragonmount, but I liked it better because there was actually a sense of knowing what was going on rather than a blatant.  "Oh you're the dragon and you killed everyone." "Oh no, now I'm going to kill myself."
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Re: Way of Kings Discussion (prologue for now) :SPOILERS:
« Reply #81 on: May 18, 2010, 06:25:29 PM »
I find it interesting that passing through realms is cold (note: condensation on blade, frost on clothes), however, this may be an effect of wielding stormlight.

I hope stormlight isn't too similar to the One Power.

Also, the reasons he was given for wearing white: BOLD BRAZEN AWESOME.
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Re: Way of Kings Discussion (prologue for now) :SPOILERS:
« Reply #82 on: May 19, 2010, 06:05:10 PM »
Is the prelude to the series available? Or is it only for alpha's?
Just wondering cause I love his books and drink in as much as possible; except they still won't send Dragonsteel to my library--Grrrrrr...

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Re: Way of Kings Discussion (prologue for now) :SPOILERS:
« Reply #83 on: May 19, 2010, 06:41:31 PM »
Is the prelude to the series available? Or is it only for alpha's?
Just wondering cause I love his books and drink in as much as possible; except they still won't send Dragonsteel to my library--Grrrrrr...

More then likely it's just Alphas. I haven't heard anything about it. Can't wait for it tho.

I find it interesting that passing through realms is cold (note: condensation on blade, frost on clothes)

Don't most books and movies represent time travel/realm travel/other sci-fi travel with some form of frost or cold. Takes energy to travel through these barriers and energy is heat, so it makes sense that heat would be the cost of moving through a realm like that. Just speculating, I don't have any references just recall always things it was true.
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Re: Way of Kings Discussion (prologue for now) :SPOILERS:
« Reply #84 on: May 19, 2010, 07:15:25 PM »
They do the cold thing in Stargate. In the TV series they dropped it after a few episodes for convenience and said that their machinery was now better calibrated.
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« Reply #85 on: May 19, 2010, 07:41:06 PM »
They do the cold thing in Stargate. In the TV series they dropped it after a few episodes for convenience and said that their machinery was now better calibrated.

I am currently re-watching SG-1 from the very beginning. I loved that it used to THROW you out of the stargate, then they just stopped doing it and said nothing... cold stopped. My favorite is that the Zat'nik'tel (zat) used to disintegrate the body, then they stopped mentioning it and in later seasons everybody can get zapped 10 million times and live. Built up an immunity or something.

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« Reply #86 on: May 19, 2010, 09:05:00 PM »
The disintegration thing was retconned along with Hathor. They made fun of it in the "Wormhole X-Treme" episode.
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« Reply #87 on: May 19, 2010, 11:10:04 PM »
The disintegration thing was retconned along with Hathor. They made fun of it in the "Wormhole X-Treme" episode.

Awesome episode.
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Re: Way of Kings Discussion (prologue for now) :SPOILERS:
« Reply #88 on: May 20, 2010, 02:59:29 PM »
Is the prelude to the series available? Or is it only for alpha's?
Just wondering cause I love his books and drink in as much as possible; except they still won't send Dragonsteel to my library--Grrrrrr...

Grr... Same here.
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Re: Way of Kings Discussion (prologue for now) :SPOILERS:
« Reply #89 on: May 24, 2010, 04:32:22 PM »
Is it just me, or are shardblades remarkable similar to The Subtle Knife? (Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy)
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