Not knowing where else to fit this but:

 

GAWYN IS NOT A MORON.

 

There.  I said it.  I never particularly liked his character, but after a number of missteps he made a couple key saves, namely:

 

- Egwene's 3 assassins, enabling Egwene to 'tard a forsaken and participate in the LB

- Egwene after Sharan attack.  Leilwin was important but without Gawyn, Egwene didn't stand a chance

 

While his character gets a lot of flak for the decision, his notion to go after Demandred alone wasn't that stupid.  He had no way of knowing Demandred was the best swordsman in 3000 years, while Gawyn had ample combat evidence that he was probably one of the best swordsmen in the world, and Gawyn wore Seanchan rings so potent most Seanchan thought death from a ring-wearer is a forgone conclusion.

 

Later, Mat validates Gawyns strategy by essentially sending two other swordsmen on the exact same mission.  Third time's a charm, I guess.

Mat sent Galad to kill channellers in general, not to try to storm a forsakens headquarters and hope he'd agree to engage him in a duel. The only reason Demmy would agree to such a thing is if he felt he had no chance of losing, which proved true. A more realistic expectation should have been 500 guards overpowering Galad and Gawyn both while 50 channelers dropped boulders on their heads. And Galad was performing a much more useful function assassinating channelers than distracting Demmy for 5 minutes in a days long battle. Same for Gawyn, who in fact could have distributed those rings to others.

 

And Mat didnt send Lan on that suicide mission, that was Al Lan, Al The Time.

Agree + as I wrote before Gawyn must know that his death will affect Egwen in negative way !!!!! That is my problem with this storyline others I can understand but this can't wrap in my head :/ :-(

Nynaeve is bonded to Lan, and she is one of only two Aes Sedai supporting Rand.  Of those two, she is the only one with much strength in the OP.  So Lan's death would have affected Nynaeve in a negative way too, but he went after Demandred anyway.

Not knowing where else to fit this but:

GAWYN IS NOT A MORON.

There.  I said it.  I never particularly liked his character, but after a number of missteps he made a couple key saves, namely:

- Egwene's 3 assassins, enabling Egwene to 'tard a forsaken and participate in the LB

- Egwene after Sharan attack.  Leilwin was important but without Gawyn, Egwene didn't stand a chance

While his character gets a lot of flak for the decision, his notion to go after Demandred alone wasn't that stupid.  He had no way of knowing Demandred was the best swordsman in 3000 years, while Gawyn had ample combat evidence that he was probably one of the best swordsmen in the world, and Gawyn wore Seanchan rings so potent most Seanchan thought death from a ring-wearer is a forgone conclusion.

Later, Mat validates Gawyns strategy by essentially sending two other swordsmen on the exact same mission.  Third time's a charm, I guess.

I feel like his character is being vilified because he didn't succeed.  Doesn't that demonstrate Rand's point about the Light?  That even if there's no hope of success, they'll try anyway?  Even if they fail, they'll keep coming?  If Sanderson had decided to make Gawyn the one that killed Demandred, I'm pretty sure you'd all be singing his praises right now.

On a side note, I wish it had been Mat to kill Demandred.  Would have been a more interesting end to me if, after Tuon's army showed up again and put Demandred's army on the ropes, Demandred went nuts and just started cutting his way through the forces of Light, dispatching Galad then Lan and finally getting his head cut off by Mat in an homage to Couladin.  This ending would have emphasized Jordan's (and Mat's, and Hammar's) earlier assertion of quarterstaff ueber alles.