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The Wheel of Time PoV-problem

honestly op, if you think wot is ‘needlessly complex’ bc of all the povs, then there are plenty of other fantasy series out there with a small number of povs you could read & enjoy instead. (and personally, as a huge perrin fan who doesn’t really see the appeal in mat, i find your opinion hugely subjective, but obvs YMMV)

Oh wow, I’ve never even heard of you before so I must’ve really gotten the tags right.

But, dude, this has nothing to do with “other fantasy books do the same thing“ or “if you don’t like it, read something else“.

The Wheel of Time is a huge chunk of my childhood, and for all that I could drag it for numerous reasons, I could praise it for several others (not the least of which being that it brought me into the fantasy-genre like you wouldn’t believe).

That’s irrelevant to the point at hand, same as my somewhat uncaring dismissal of Perrin in the tags. The point is that the Wheel of Time has so many different PoVs that the MAIN CHARACTERS aren’t actually given any screentime.

Okay. So now you’ve actually said something that is like, specific and makes a bit more sense, thank you. I still think you’ve gotten the wrong idea, however, and I’ll explain why below.

If you still don’t like me after, fine, I don’t actually care. But I’m going to explain my stances on those things as best I can all the same, because I understand how it feels shitty when you see people trashing things you like (since I’m a DW fan who loves Moffat’s era and all), and so want to explain any “condoning” I might have done on these topics.

Now. 

J.K. Rowling is not synonymous with Harry Potter. I’ve never condemned people liking Harry Potter and I never will, because I myself love Harry Potter as much as millions of others do. 

J.K. Rowling, a being separate of her work, meanwhile has condoned Johnny Depp’s domestic abuse of his wife - by knowing about it and still casting him in her movies and expressing her excitement about his involvement. She also made a big deal about Dumbledore being gay when it was easy to claim without backlash, but now has allowed it to not be explicitly shown in the next Fantastic Beasts movie, which is going to legitimately detract from the story since the fact that Dumbledore and Grindelwald were gay is literally part of their characters and their motivations in regards to each other - Dumbledore’s character back then makes very little sense without his feelings for Grindelwald warping his logic. It’s a literal sacrificing of story integrity for the sake of pleasing conservatives so like, fuck that. And that’s just the tip of the JK Rowling iceberg. So yes, I think she’s a highly questionable person and I won’t apologise for thinking that because I think anyone who doesn’t think so and is going to get offended at someone criticising JK and not at what she’s excusing, has far more concerning priorities. 

Now. Game of Thrones. I don’t condemn people enjoying it as such, since I used to enjoy it a lot myself, and the world itself as created by George R. R. Martin is fantastic, as are the characters which myself and many others are very attached it. But I’m not about to pretend like it isn’t a show that glorifies sexual violence. The TV show went downhill in quality (in my opinion and the opinion of many others) the moment the showrunners started deviating from GRRM’s plot, and they’ve been making things more explicitly violent and sexually violent since the beginning. People can like it, but I’m not going to apologise for reblogging a post about being mad/upset that the showrunners in question are getting to do Star Wars when there are a thousand more talented people who could be doing it. 

(Also, the “qualeesi of the duckrathi” thing on my blog is a years old inside joke between myself, my girlfriend, and our other friends. It is much more to do with the ducks than the GoT reference. I don’t owe people anything just because it’s on my blog, lmao.) 

The MCU mention is interesting, because if I’ve ever criticised it I probably reblogged like, one thing. I really love the MCU, it’s enjoyable. If I was complaining about it, it was probably about a lack of diversity, because god it’s still got so far to go. LGBT characters who? The only reason they actually made a movie with a bunch of POC mains is because with Black Panther they literally couldn’t get around it. I’m more critical of Marvel than MCU, though, with that whole Hydra!Cap nonsense, so possibly you misinterpreted that. There’s also like, no mention of MCU on my blog description or anything so...

OUAT. Ah, OUAT. Look, I am sorry if there are people out there who are genuinely upset about it being cancelled, but for like 95% of people it’s a relief, surely. Like, sorry, but can you show me a person who genuinely believes that the plots of the last couple of season have been coherent and actually like... good? I was fairly sure it was a universal truth that even those who loved OUAT acknowledged the plots made no sense. (OUAT is a tragic example of having a killer cast and premise but how the mediocrity of white male writers is allowed to run rampant.) I never led anyone on about my opinion on OUAT, though, there’s little mention of it on my blog (other than my URL which these days seems more like a Missy reference even if it started as a Regina one), so anyone who follows me had to have known I care about a handful of characters and one or two ships. I’ve made my opinion on it pretty clear. I don’t have any loyalty to OUAT to betray, only loyalty to the one and only Regina Mills. 

As a little coda, it is also worth mentioning that in the end it is still my blog, where I am allowed to post my personal opinions, since that’s kind of the point. If people are worried about being upset by anything negative I’m saying, they can come and ask me to tag the thing/negativity in question, as one or two people have done in the past, in the rarer occasions where I am negative for more than a second since positivity is my general theme. That’s the logical course of action. 

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you mean perrin a) saving the two rivers, b) dealing with the shaido, c) making all those alliances with those other...

I’m replying to this to point out that your reply is being cut short. But even then... do you really think that Two Rivers matters? In the grand scheme of things, I mean?

Like, why was the Shadow attacking there at all? What was their reason? As a morale-attack on Rand and the others? Because it was within reach?

You could’ve probably written a long segment for Rand finding out about the attack and debating whether or not he had the manpower available to send to help his childhood home. That could’ve been a really difficult decision for him, or it could’ve left people around him staring at him and rethinking everything they knew about him (whether he decides to help or not).

Hell, it could’ve been the kind of thing that left Nynaeve trying to publicly tan his hide for even hesitating.

What I’m saying is that, whilst I don’t really think that Perrin was pointless (I very much consider him a main character, same as Nynaeve and Elayne and several others who compete for the already-limited screentime), his story was a lot more self-contained than the others.