I don't think 'Finnland could ever really live up to the anticipation.
It could have come closer. But yes, after eight books and seventeen years (for some people) of waiting, true satisfaction would be hard to achieve.
Perrin, being on a timeline that was behind everyone else's (which is why he gets so much of the book), did actually study under Hopper for more than just a few nights
I was being a bit hyperbolic. :-) But the fact remains that it's a lot less time than Egwene spent learning Tel'aran'rhiod. And while I agree that the characters are regularly trumping the people who thought they knew everything, it's different when it's a protagonist trumping a villain or a side character than when it's one protagonist trumping another.
I doubt we've seen the last of Alviarin. Or maybe I just don't want practically the only capable Black Ajah to go out on a non-note.
Verin was capable!
. . . beyond her, though, yeah. Alviarin, for all her mistakes, stands out as a beacon of competence in that group.
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Date: 2012-12-01 05:13 am (UTC)It could have come closer. But yes, after eight books and seventeen years (for some people) of waiting, true satisfaction would be hard to achieve.
Perrin, being on a timeline that was behind everyone else's (which is why he gets so much of the book), did actually study under Hopper for more than just a few nights
I was being a bit hyperbolic. :-) But the fact remains that it's a lot less time than Egwene spent learning Tel'aran'rhiod. And while I agree that the characters are regularly trumping the people who thought they knew everything, it's different when it's a protagonist trumping a villain or a side character than when it's one protagonist trumping another.
I doubt we've seen the last of Alviarin. Or maybe I just don't want practically the only capable Black Ajah to go out on a non-note.
Verin was capable!
. . . beyond her, though, yeah. Alviarin, for all her mistakes, stands out as a beacon of competence in that group.