Well I didnt see that coming! Book 11 Spoiler.

[trakand_01]

Seriously, no sarcasm. Beonin! Sneaky little wide-eyed blighter!

 

Sorry, this is the glory of still getting through book 11 for the first time - there are true surprises!

[DhaiMon]

Seriously, no sarcasm. Beonin! Sneaky little wide-eyed blighter!

 

Sorry, this is the glory of still getting through book 11 for the first time - there are true surprises!

Yup.

 

I liked the scheming in Crossroads of Twilight somewhat better, though...Setup for greater things to come...

 

The Knife is just the knife of events cutting in, faster and faster, a whirlpool...a precursor of things to come...

 

 

Keeping my fingers crossed for the grande finale of all this....keeping my fingers crossed....

 

No deus ex machina please, though. Please not.

[Auld Manriva]

Seriously, no sarcasm. Beonin! Sneaky little wide-eyed blighter!

 

Sorry, this is the glory of still getting through book 11 for the first time - there are true surprises!

Yup.

 

I liked the scheming in Crossroads of Twilight somewhat better, though...Setup for greater things to come...

 

The Knife is just the knife of events cutting in, faster and faster, a whirlpool...a precursor of things to come...

 

 

Keeping my fingers crossed for the grande finale of all this....keeping my fingers crossed....

No deus ex machina please, though. Please not.

 

Why not?  ;D ... The Wheel of Time (well, it's proxy The Pattern) spins out improbable solutions like gumballs from a glass globe.. I would not be surprised at all....

[DhaiMon]

Seriously, no sarcasm. Beonin! Sneaky little wide-eyed blighter!

 

Sorry, this is the glory of still getting through book 11 for the first time - there are true surprises!

Yup.

 

I liked the scheming in Crossroads of Twilight somewhat better, though...Setup for greater things to come...

 

The Knife is just the knife of events cutting in, faster and faster, a whirlpool...a precursor of things to come...

 

 

Keeping my fingers crossed for the grande finale of all this....keeping my fingers crossed....

No deus ex machina please, though. Please not.

 

Why not?  ;D ... The Wheel of Time (well, it's proxy The Pattern) spins out improbable solutions like gumballs from a glass globe.. I would not be surprised at all....

 

That's been kinda done to death already, though. :D

 

So please, Rigney, show us that you got style. TRUE style.

 

Sanderson...get over yaself and else CHANGE THAT!!!!

 

I'll scream your name in wrath and despair else.

 

SAAAAAANDEEEEEEERSOOOOOOON, NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! WHYYYYYY!!!!!!!!

[Shard]

Okay everyone take a breather, calm yourselves down. I've not seen Deus ex Machina in either WoT or Sanderson's books so far so I don't know why any of that would show up now.

[Auld Manriva]

The device need not be clumsy nor ineptly used. Merely improbable or unexpected. An effect of a ta'veren perhaps, or cavalry riding over a hill. Sudden mastery of a skill to extract oneself from a sticky wicket. We've not seen ANY of these?  ;)

[Shard]

The device need not be clumsy nor ineptly used. Merely improbable or unexpected. An effect of a ta'veren perhaps, or cavalry riding over a hill. Sudden mastery of a skill to extract oneself from a sticky wicket. We've not seen ANY of these?  ;)

 

Not as far as I can tell, unless you mean Hurin maybe.

[trakand_01]

Hurin? The sniffer? Or do you mean whats'is'face (sorry, never been great with names...) that turned out to be DF and saved the day for Mat... Five ride forth and all that?

[DhaiMon]

Hurin? The sniffer? Or do you mean whats'is'face (sorry, never been great with names...) that turned out to be DF and saved the day for Mat... Five ride forth and all that?

I don't mind Ingtar's confession and turning at all.

 

That was tragic. Very tragic.

 

Something like that, I would not mind at all...

 

 

The Creator's foot stomping down....that would be fun to watch, if it were executed like that.

 

Anything else, like the solemn Creator destroying all opposition and pressing the Dark One back into his prison...

 

...I'd call that "gay". Just to have another word than "bad".

 

 

The Creator turning out to be the Dark One himself, though....

 

...That would be rich. Very, mean rich. :D

[Shard]

No I meant Hurin  the Sniffer and not Ingtar, I don't see how Ingtar confessing to being DF could be Dues Ex Machina at all. So far as I can tell the Creator has thus taking a back seat to events not really doing anything. Which is I think the way we want it. I can't recall any incident of someone mastering an ability to get out of a sticky situation.

[Guest The Thin Inn Keeper]

Why not?  ;D ... The Wheel of Time (well, it's proxy The Pattern) spins out improbable solutions like gumballs from a glass globe.. I would not be surprised at all....

My favorite has to the ta'averen get out clause.

 

Like all the times someone is looking for another character in a city. And ... tah dah ... there they are, staying just across the road. Or walking down an alley. Or sitting in a bar etc.

[trakand_01]

Why not?  ;D ... The Wheel of Time (well, it's proxy The Pattern) spins out improbable solutions like gumballs from a glass globe.. I would not be surprised at all....

My favorite has to the ta'averen get out clause.

 

Like all the times someone is looking for another character in a city. And ... tah dah ... there they are, staying just across the road. Or walking down an alley. Or sitting in a bar etc.

 

I'll make it easy for you - if anyone is ever looking for me, check the bars first.

[Shard]

Yes but the Ta'veren luck has been explained since the first book so by the time we get to points of Rand, Mat or Perrin finding people we know already about the luck aspect so it's not sudden and unknown. So it may be a "weak" plot device to some but it's one the book defines before hand of using it.

[Alderthal]

I liked Book 11 too.

 

Hah, and here's how it's gonna end.

 

Rand: No! The Dark One is breaking free! Quick! Let's make a circle and channel him off the face of the earth!

Dark One * STRETCH *: "AHHHH! LEMME TELL YOU, BEING STUCK IN A TINY PRISON FOR ALL OF SEVEN AGES JUST MAKES YOU GLAD TO SEE THE SUN AND STRETCH YOUR LEGS!"

*SQUISH* "UGH! MORIDIN, I STEPPED ON SOME BUGS, COME WASH MY FEET!"

Moridin: "Yes, great lord!" *sneers at Rand's squished form* "I win again, Lews Therin!"

[Tumeric]

Why not?  ;D ... The Wheel of Time (well, it's proxy The Pattern) spins out improbable solutions like gumballs from a glass globe.. I would not be surprised at all....

My favorite has to the ta'averen get out clause.

 

Like all the times someone is looking for another character in a city. And ... tah dah ... there they are, staying just across the road. Or walking down an alley. Or sitting in a bar etc.

But isn't that the point of all that lovely ta'averen-ness?  That chance works in their favour sometimes?

[trakand_01]

It didnt work in Mat's favour last night - he thought of Rand and accidentally spied on him and Min in an uncompromising position. He's currently trying to desperately think of something else, everytime Rand is mentioned  :D