tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3158660411171191873.post5786823276914294388..comments2023-04-03T13:29:04.467-07:00Comments on The Orphan Wilde: Should have...Orphanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15676965414376632002noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3158660411171191873.post-76682099032541138582011-10-04T16:31:54.461-07:002011-10-04T16:31:54.461-07:00That's rather depressing. FotF was an epic im...That's rather depressing. FotF was an epic improvement, I had rather hoped it would continue from there in that vein.Orphanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15676965414376632002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3158660411171191873.post-9925258896560454532011-10-04T13:49:47.661-07:002011-10-04T13:49:47.661-07:00Considering that Goodkind changed his mind about s...Considering that Goodkind changed his mind about several things during the series, I just realized he probably changed his mind about the ending as well, but A: had already set it up and B: his editor had a few words with him. <br />So we get a flat, by-the-numbers ending. He didn't really believe in his own story anymore.Alrenoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3158660411171191873.post-16069144747187451432011-10-03T23:18:20.310-07:002011-10-03T23:18:20.310-07:00I'll have to read further to converse meaningf...I'll have to read further to converse meaningfully about them. It looks like I won't necessarily like what I see, however. (I have a suspicion I know where the story is going, however, after the multiverse was brought up as the underpinnings of magic)Orphanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15676965414376632002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3158660411171191873.post-6833403585711181142011-10-03T14:32:38.322-07:002011-10-03T14:32:38.322-07:00Pillars of Creation and Naked Empire are pretty te...Pillars of Creation and Naked Empire are pretty terrible too. For perspective, I liked Blood and Winds, though perhaps I have simple tastes. <br /><br />I'm conflicted about the Chainfire trilogy. The ending didn't work for me, but seems to have all the elements of endings I like.Alrenoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3158660411171191873.post-10085766826489264752011-10-02T13:18:43.304-07:002011-10-02T13:18:43.304-07:00His heroes were close to Randian already, to be ce...His heroes were close to Randian already, to be certain (hence that less modification was necessary); his villains less so, and hence his story merely possesses Randian heroes, they are not Randian stories. The first four books emphasize balance - a price must be paid for everything - and this emphasis exists as much in the villains as the heroes. The emperor is a curious exception, and his motives and the nature of his empire (beyond conventional "Evil empire") remains an enigma until FotF; it's possible Goodkind was planning that particular move in advance, but it was hardly forecast; in the books prior to FotF he came off the typical archvillain, evil because that's what the story requires, rather than accepting of evil for a purpose.<br /><br />For the first couple of books, a Randian hero story fundamentally needs a Randian villain; Darken Rahl wasn't. Sure, he pursued a utopian vision, but he pursued it deliberately, effectively, proudly, and through mechanisms that could achieve it, without regard to any morality but his own. Darken Rahl is in fact a Randian hero, not a Randian villain.Orphanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15676965414376632002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3158660411171191873.post-44451406298019578312011-10-01T17:19:04.376-07:002011-10-01T17:19:04.376-07:00After about 20 minutes of reading Wizard's Fir...After about 20 minutes of reading Wizard's First Rule, I was shocked by HOW Randian he was. It wasn't book 6/8 that he started the Rand bit...it's there from day 1.Aretaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15850678936908894274noreply@blogger.com