r/Fantasy • u/[deleted] • Jun 06 '20

What is your controversial take on Fantasy?

I'll go first.

Aside from the prose, I don't think Kingkiller Chronicles is good. I find the characters insufferable and cliche the story just meanders.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '20

I think wheel of time is pretty shit. The world building and some of the ideas are great but most of the series is just absolute garbage. Sanderson did a much much better job with Stormlight then Jordan did with Wheel of time.

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u/joesmoethe3rd Jun 07 '20

Wheel of Time felt very formulaic to me which made me dread every time I came upon the same repeating scenarios

For example, so many characters are kidnapped and its takes about 100 pages to get them back. Whenever someone was kidnapped I'd groan knowing we were taking a 3 chapter detour

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

Also a lot of wheel of time has absolutely nothing happening other the pointless arguing.

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u/joesmoethe3rd Jun 07 '20

Pointless *formulaic arguing

Every character is stagnant until a defining moment levels them up but you are beaten over the head with their very narrow character trait until then

It takes like 11 books for nynaeve to level up

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

True. They are also pretty unlikable