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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Way too many things that were foreshadowed in early books that were forgotten, and with the conclusion was way too abrupt considering the glacial pacing of the middle of the series.
I smell more books coming.
And yeah, way too much deus ex machina.
Overall a disappointing ending to a series of I started reading 20 years ago.
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Sorry you feel that way Bobble but out of curiousity, what foreshadowed things were you expecting that weren't covered by AMoL?
From what I could see most of the major plot points were covered (if only briefly/unsatisfactorily like Fain). Sanderson has also made a point of saying that there were things that Jordan specifically noted were to be left murky as he didn't want to wrap the series up in a bow - he wanted to make people think & theorize.
Some of this was addresssed in a Tor Chat he did:
- Jordan deliberately played up elements, foreseeings, and prophecies in the series that he knew were going to be minor.
- Jordan did not intend for the readers to see the discussion between Rand and Alivia regarding how she would “help him die.”
- To Jordan, RAFO didn’t always mean he was going to give the readers an answer. Rather, that he wanted readers to consider it on their own.
- There were no substantial notes left about doing a new series focused in Seanchan, and Brandon further feels that to do such a series would be exploiting RJ’s legacy.