That was perfect. All the people complaining are complaining because it didn't go the way they had envisioned it. 

 

Thank you Jason for saying it wasn't the ending you expected but it was the ending it deserved. Made me step back and wonder. By the time the book was released I had no preconceptions. 

 

Thank you Brandon for delivering a perfect ending to my favorite series of all time. Thank God Harriet picked you. I was shaking quite a few times throughout it. Masterful delivery of all the characters. I worried when RJ died that the characters souls would pass too. They didn't.

 

I feel like I need to shout for joy, cry in sadness, and scream with insanity all at the same time.

 

Good bye Wheel of Time. Thank you.

Lol didn't go how we envisined it? It didn't go period. What ending are you talking about exactly? The non ending?

If i wanted to finish stories for myself I would make up random bullshit in my head for entertainment. Authors are telling ME the story, don't leave it open ended to appease people. it is your story, so tell it. YOU tell ME what happens.

I just finished the book this afternoon, and am still digesting it, so to speak.  As a whole, I enjoyed it.

 

I honestly expected a lot of the side characters to fade into the background in this book.  I love the rich world-building and character fleshing out that takes place in the heart of the series, but at some point, the focus had to come back to the core characters. Just because we weren't with much in this installment didn't really cheapen characters like Siuan, Thom, Juilin, Domon, et al. Their stories had been told....they are three dimensional...it was time to return to the characters we started with.

 

As for the ending, I get it.  I think I understand why Jordan left off where he did.  If he had answered every little thing we as a fandom wanted to know, wrapped everything up neat and pretty with a bow, we'd have no real reason to go further.  Oh sure, we'd do rereads and revisit favorite scenes now and then, but the story and world would just......end.  As it stands, there are still things that need to happen in this story, this world....so we imagine them, we create them ourselves, we still discuss them.  In doing this, we let the world keep breathing, the Pattern keep weaving in some ways, and the Wheel keep turning.  We get a world that lives on, beyond RJ, beyond Brandon, and even beyond us.  We get a world that never truly leaves us, and after reflection, I would not want it any other way.

 

Anyone has a perfectly valid right to disagree with me heartily, of course. 

Strongly disagree, hate it when writers leave the ending unwritten. I want to know what happened I don't want to imagine it. 

Pisses me off when this happens in books and movies. Seriously absolutely hate it. I'm big time disappointed :/

I'd rather have less drawn out fights and more explanation of what happens at the end. I dont want to have to imagine and dwell on what happened to the characters after the fact, I have better things to do. Give me a conclusion and be done with it.

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Also why does Rand run away from everybody? he get's all this compassion for his people and bla bla bla then when the world is in shambles he walks away???

I would think he would want to be part of the rebuilding and help the people he could not save. I know he "let go" but still, with his new found self you would think he would want to stick around and help. Also considering hes the last person from the age of legends that can share his knowledge with the world.