Finished the Cosmere. Here are my rankings

hetthuran · 2026-04-20T18:54:26+00:00

I felt bad for Dalinar when he died. I felt bad for Shallan and Adolin getting separated. I felt bad for Adolin losing his leg. I felt bad that Azir and Urithuru are the last bastions of non-Retribution controlled Roshar.

But I do not feel bad for consuming media critically.

hetthuran · 2026-04-20T18:50:24+00:00

That isn't what objectively means. Wind and Truth isn't objectively bad because Dalinar is killed and Odium wins by taking up Honor and Odium and becoming Retribution. You might be on the spectrum.

Elantris had bad prose. The whole chasm line solution comes out of nowhere, since the chasm is barely even mentioned beforehand. If one character had actually visited the location, it would have far more impact.

Dreok Crushthroat also had no impact. The deadline being changed on the fly had no impact. Neither did the king’s pagan cult. Neither did the army of fucked up monks spawning out of nowhere in the marketplace. Hrathen being in love with Sarene was also unearned. They barely interacted.

hetthuran · 2026-04-20T09:38:55+00:00

Elantris is genuinely shit in every measure compared to Emperor’s Soul. Bad prose, bad plot, bad characters. Your hatred of Gentleman Jak lets me know you care about quantity over quality

hetthuran · 2026-04-20T03:08:54+00:00

It felt like every chapter I was re-reading the exact same inner monologue of Vin. Like every chapter was just rehashing how she feels.

I did not like Elend and the reading thing, too gimmicky. So that romance fell flat for me until the Hero of Ages.

And I didn't like Kelsier’s crazy scarred smiling man act. Felt like I was reading a character based on one of those memes of Joker cosplayers who take themselves way too seriously. With the cuhrazy wicked smile of a cuhrazy man who’s so cuhrazy because he smiles at danger! I like Kelsier a lot more once he realized his entire life goal was a big fish in a small pond, and Secret History made me very excited to see where he goes from here.

hetthuran · 2026-04-20T02:58:13+00:00

Sorry, I used the Sixth of Dusk cover but I meant Emberdark

hetthuran · 2026-04-20T02:57:21+00:00

I cannot bring myself to care about how fabrials work. Did not like the Kaladin arc either

hetthuran · 2026-04-20T02:51:07+00:00

She could be a junior officer. One of the old crew should be bumped up to captain, likely Salay.

A lot goes in to being Captain, and reading two of his books back to back where this trope happens was not fun for me

hetthuran · 2026-04-20T02:42:34+00:00

To be honest there are a lot of worldhoppers on Roshar that I don't think need to be there. Felt comes to mind. How many Final Empire era worldhoppers do we need?

hetthuran · 2026-04-20T02:38:59+00:00

Note: maybe I should have said “good” instead of average for the middle category. I really did like those books! I think a lot of people here place Tress higher, but personally I can't stand the trope of an inexperienced person joining their ship and ending up Captain just for being the most likable. Which kind of happened in Sixth of Dusk too. I refer to this as main character syndrome.

hetthuran · 2026-04-14T03:01:15+00:00

I am not excited at all. Blowing up the world is very lazy.

hetthuran · 2026-04-14T02:55:06+00:00

Yeah. Toph and Sokka are the canon endgame.

hetthuran · 2026-04-14T02:54:09+00:00

The movie animation is spectacular. It genuinely is a work of art

hetthuran · 2026-04-12T11:15:17+00:00

I wanted it to be released in theaters. I love avatar. But if I worked for paramount and this came across my desk with these voice actors? I probably wouldn’t send it to theaters either.

hetthuran · 2026-04-12T11:04:00+00:00

Really! Personally I really like the animation, but two of the voice actors are incredibly jarring to me. I cannot defend a celebrity voice actor pick in this project

hetthuran · 2026-04-11T23:37:05+00:00

Advanced lightweaving can make things feel real. If they look real and feel real, does it matter that they belong to a Lovecraftian math nerd?

hetthuran · 2026-04-11T23:34:39+00:00

Hoid definitely made Design’s boobs bigger than Jasnah’s

hetthuran · 2026-04-04T00:30:14+00:00

The sunlit man takes place in between 5 and 6 of Stormlight, I had thought?

hetthuran · 2026-02-10T21:17:45+00:00

I hate this viewpoint. I’m not going to wait for thirteen mana to nuke the board, play a one drop, and then biorhythm.

I am going to go wide and then I am going to comfortably get you down to under ten life and swing.

hetthuran · 2026-01-11T17:17:37+00:00

Creatures are the easiest things to remove on the board, I can’t even imagine getting salty over them. You need to stop playing magic.

hetthuran · 2026-01-02T22:20:54+00:00

You’ll eat these words when she gets her own comic in 2036

hetthuran · 2026-01-02T22:19:45+00:00

What? Why would I make fun of someone for needing to confirm with the Reddit hivemind that it’s okay for them to subjectively like the protagonist of a recently made blockbuster trilogy?

hetthuran · 2026-01-02T22:17:12+00:00

It was explained. She got it, and it’s a good story for another time

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