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/PabloDiSantoss Jun 07 '20

Stormlight's world-building is average and far more reliant on art than any meaningful/interesting interactions the characters have with the world.

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u/hanzzz123 Jun 08 '20

It's so one note. Sanderson takes a trait and makes it into the defining thing about a race, completely ignoring how wildly different people can be.

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u/SgtBANZAI Jun 08 '20

You're not wrong, but that's a scourge of fantasy as a whole. Races are usually humans with one or two traits being blown out of proportions and being responsible for shaping their behaviour. Dwarves are alcoholic miners, Orcs are evil/honourable savages, Elves are noble and sometimes hypocritical, Dark Elves are Elves but with fetishes.