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<blockquote data-quote="papastebu" data-source="post: 3758415" data-attributes="member: 40894">This would be helpful, but who's going to do it, and what if somebody who's never read the series would have like the parts they cut?I agree with this. Most of these parts never seemed to actually push the story forward, to me. Seemed like they are just there to give some big characters something to do. In the volume that I am about to finish, you at least have the push -and-pull of Faile and Perrin aiding the Two Rivers as a way of pushing certain groups into position as key parts of the Last Battle. As far as Egwene becoming Amyrlin, I can see the necessity of her or one of the other three powerful channelers doing it, but why have the reincarnated Forsaken getting to her &quot;in the perfect disguise&quot;? It seemed to go nowhere. There were certain aspects of her ascension that made sense for the same reason as the Faile and Perrin in Emond's Field storyline. We all know why Mat is an awesome general, now, but why have him marry the Seanchan heir apparent? Just because that country's armies will do whatever she says, and by extension, follow him? More soldiers for the Last Battle.I was gonna say that, except that I think he does an OK job with writing women, mostly. I've always felt that women generally write better for male characters than men write for women, but I think maybe Jordan approaches the whole think in these novels from a &quot;battle of the sexes&quot; standpoint. My dad is fond of saying that you can never win an argument with a woman, because women are always right, even when men are never wrong. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Even with the extra verbiage, WoT is exempliary, in my opinion. That don't mean I don't have a few d'ruthers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="papastebu, post: 3758415, member: 40894"] This would be helpful, but who's going to do it, and what if somebody who's never read the series would have like the parts they cut? I agree with this. Most of these parts never seemed to actually push the story forward, to me. Seemed like they are just there to give some big characters something to do. In the volume that I am about to finish, you at least have the push -and-pull of Faile and Perrin aiding the Two Rivers as a way of pushing certain groups into position as key parts of the Last Battle. As far as Egwene becoming Amyrlin, I can see the necessity of her or one of the other three powerful channelers doing it, but why have the reincarnated Forsaken getting to her "in the perfect disguise"? It seemed to go nowhere. There were certain aspects of her ascension that made sense for the same reason as the Faile and Perrin in Emond's Field storyline. We all know why Mat is an awesome general, now, but why have him marry the Seanchan heir apparent? Just because that country's armies will do whatever she says, and by extension, follow him? More soldiers for the Last Battle. I was gonna say that, except that I think he does an OK job with writing women, mostly. I've always felt that women generally write better for male characters than men write for women, but I think maybe Jordan approaches the whole think in these novels from a "battle of the sexes" standpoint. My dad is fond of saying that you can never win an argument with a woman, because women are always right, even when men are never wrong. ;) Even with the extra verbiage, WoT is exempliary, in my opinion. That don't mean I don't have a few d'ruthers. [/QUOTE]

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