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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 2765144" data-attributes="member: 8863">RJ I think did a great job with portaying the Seanchan.&nbsp; Not a place I'd like to live of course, but he sets them up TGH as a long-term threat, but in PoD he starts showing their side, because at this point most readers are probably hating their guts with stuff like damane and da'covale.&nbsp; They're not just faceless bad guys.I like the Aiel except for the Shaido.&nbsp; Many of the major recurring Aiel are among the more enjoyable minor characters.&nbsp; And their hostility makes some sense.&nbsp; They started out as complete pacifists.&nbsp; Everyone in the AoL knew what an Aiel was, but that changed in the Breaking.&nbsp; They had to become hard to survive, and it gave them a very strong mistrust of anyone who was not Aiel.&nbsp;&nbsp; When they followed the Jenn Aiel into the Waste they had to remain hard, because life there was harsh.&nbsp; Bair summed it up pretty well in TSR: &quot;Soft things die, here.&quot;I agree.&nbsp; They seem interesting at first, but RJ makes them boring.&nbsp; I don't know if it's because they seem so arrogant, or because of the annoying Windfinders vs. Aes Sedai vs. Kin plotline of PoD.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 2765144, member: 8863"] RJ I think did a great job with portaying the Seanchan. Not a place I'd like to live of course, but he sets them up TGH as a long-term threat, but in PoD he starts showing their side, because at this point most readers are probably hating their guts with stuff like [i]damane[/i] and [i]da'covale[/i]. They're not just faceless bad guys. I like the Aiel except for the Shaido. Many of the major recurring Aiel are among the more enjoyable minor characters. And their hostility makes some sense. They started out as complete pacifists. Everyone in the AoL knew what an Aiel was, but that changed in the Breaking. They had to become hard to survive, and it gave them a very strong mistrust of anyone who was not Aiel. When they followed the Jenn Aiel into the Waste they had to remain hard, because life there was harsh. Bair summed it up pretty well in TSR: "Soft things die, here." I agree. They seem interesting at first, but RJ makes them boring. I don't know if it's because they seem so arrogant, or because of the annoying Windfinders vs. Aes Sedai vs. Kin plotline of PoD. [/QUOTE]

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