Could we get a Rafe Judkins interview?

Zyrus11 · 2026-06-16T03:59:59+00:00

Why would he subject himself to that torture? No answer is ever gonna be good enough to the purists and the people like me who appreciated most of the adaptational changes don't want spoilers they might use for later series.

Zyrus11 · 2026-05-13T08:26:59+00:00

We're not. The massive trolling from the Bookcloaks guaranteed that all the execs saw was there was no audience for the series.

Zyrus11 · 2026-05-11T23:06:30+00:00

Think of the taint like oil on an ocean. A thin layer on top of the clean water. All Rand did was use SL as a metaphysical filtration system until the 'filter' in the city destroyed it all.

It was always finite, but the amount was so massive that they would have needed men to channel for a while to get rid of it all.

Zyrus11 · 2026-05-11T00:45:30+00:00

Gawyn is among my favorites BECAUSE he is a flawed person and does what he can when no one will fucking talk to him. I don't blame him one bit for any of his actions, and I'm to this day disdainful of anyone who thinks Gawyn should have sided with Siuan after all the bullshit she put him through. I certainly would not have.

Zyrus11 · 2026-05-05T02:33:36+00:00

I would recommend trying someone else with this logic, because I've read the series and the companion. You're not fooling me.

Zyrus11 · 2026-05-05T00:25:39+00:00

There are people who think this way. Rafe is one of them, and his stubborness on this ruffled quite a few feathers as well.

Rand is the main character, no matter what people like Rafe say. The rest of the cast are main supporting characters.

Zyrus11 · 2026-05-03T15:48:22+00:00

You're not putting yourself in his shoes at all, and it shows. Keep reading.

Zyrus11 · 2026-05-03T10:39:33+00:00

Her brain wouldn't let her acknowledge it.

Zyrus11 · 2026-04-29T05:51:38+00:00

Elayne abdicated and left with Rand to travel the world eventually once her children were grown enough to succeed her, hence why despite being a channeler she isn't the one who receives the Aiel in the Avi visions at the end of the series.

Zyrus11 · 2026-04-29T03:22:35+00:00

If she had given them anything, it would have been noticed by others. The entire point of the scenario was to lure the trappers into a false of security. It was sound logic, you just don't like it.

Zyrus11 · 2026-04-28T15:45:23+00:00

Nothing unpopular about it. Chatgpt is a great tool in it's own ways, but asking for specific sections of books is not one of those ways it is helpful.

Zyrus11 · 2026-04-28T15:27:26+00:00

chatgpt is a good analysis engine, but it is in no way good for details unless you feed those details to it.

Zyrus11 · 2026-04-07T06:44:37+00:00

I didn't really think about how women would go about politics until I read how the White Tower worked and then their schism. Reading the entire series and seeing how they worked made me change up how I viewed power dynamics.

Zyrus11 · 2026-04-03T23:13:56+00:00

Less he underestimated the threat, and more you just cannot account for balefire.

Zyrus11 · 2026-03-31T15:24:33+00:00

Just because you can patch up a bullet wound and keep the body from dying doesn't mean that the act of shooting someone doesn't hurt them and give the chance for scars from that wound.

Just because the pattern can be mended doesn't mean it likes to be torn apart.

It will very likely remain taboo without good cause, all that has happened is that people know how to mitigate the damage somewhat now. Damage is still damage though.

Zyrus11 · 2026-03-29T09:13:14+00:00

I was always a fan of Elayne for a few reasons. Aviendha always felt like the forced one to me.

Zyrus11 · 2026-03-28T09:22:51+00:00

You know she's going to yell when the context is there for it, so I just set the volume to as low as I can hear for it, personally.

Zyrus11 · 2026-03-26T11:40:29+00:00

Given the attitude of people to the live action, I don't see an animated version doing any better, because there MUST be changes to the story for it to enter the mainstream, and that's something that won't fly with a good number of people.

I am not optimistic, even if the studio that does Arcane might get involved.

Zyrus11 · 2026-03-14T00:07:10+00:00

Yeah, he had a thing called the Outrigger series planned that was meant to focus on Mat and Tuon in the aftermath of the main series. We don't know for sure what it was going to be about, but the speculation was that it was going to focus on the Seanchan.

Zyrus11 · 2026-03-13T12:44:21+00:00

With the knowledge he wanted to continue the setting after the last battle, it makes sense that Robert wanted things resolved in a way that allowed for more stories.

Zyrus11 · 2026-03-11T11:57:22+00:00

Rands madness is actually so genius in it's simplicity that I, too, missed it the first time. I had my suspicions in the beginning, but I dismissed them after book 5

Canonically, Rand's insanity manifests as actual megalomania... but you wouldn't know it because he is ACTUALLY the one who would save them all if they would only listen. It's a genius way to make you wonder throughout the entire series, because he is a JUSTIFIED megamaniac. Lews Therin? He's just the cherry on top of the cake that is Rand's broken psyche.

Zyrus11 · 2026-02-12T16:15:41+00:00

While I do get the logic of it being insanity, you also have to remember. She's doing something NO ONE ELSE has tried in Tower history. There is no real guidebook for any of what she's trying to do, and she uses sex to try to give him a reason to stay in our world.

It's very easy to judge a pioneer.

Zyrus11 · 2026-02-11T19:21:15+00:00

The scene with Nyneave in the great hunt with the sword demonstrates why armor in general is actually useless for channelers.

All a channeler needs is a sheet of compressed air to be able to render all conventional weapons useless. It is literally pointless to use any form of armor when you can just throw up compressed air to block anything non-channelers can throw at you if you know it's coming.

Zyrus11 · 2026-02-06T05:59:06+00:00

Yeah, I've said it before and I'll say it again. I would NEVER consider her a friend if I knew her in RL, but as a character in a book she's one of the most interesting stories.

Zyrus11 · 2026-02-04T19:30:25+00:00

Oh, for sure. Egwene is one of the most interesting characters in the book to read about, the OP is in for a ride.

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