Wheel Of Time Plays The Ultimate Trick On Its Readers Because It Markets Itself As This Very Good Vs

Wheel of Time plays the ultimate trick on its readers because it markets itself as this very “good vs evil” “the world is very black and white” story, but when you get into it, you realize that the true message is about the detrimental effects of thinking of the world in such opposites. In this essay I will—

Rand: this sucks

Moiraine: it do weave like that sometimes

Mat ‘I think with my d*ck’ Cauthon is the only one of the boys with the presence of mind to realize Selene is suspicious af, and that’s why he’s my favorite

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it's me boy lews therin speaking to you from inside your brain, leave your friends you don't need them, come with me and play my games we'll have dragon times on the astral plane doot do do do yeah you need me boy your free will is an illusion

its kinda funny that Nynaeve and Elayne told Siuan and Leane about keeping Moghedien prisoner and planning to torture her for information indefinitely, because they had absolutely no reason to tell them. like I know Nynaeve wanted to try to use Moghedien to heal them, but she could have just pretended she rediscovered miracles like they did with every Aes Sedai. they 100% were like "if we get in trouble for doing this, you're getting in trouble for being an accomplice"

but also I'm just imagining the scene where they burst into Siuan's room and are like "GUESS WHAT NYNAEVE DID" and Siuan thinking on how she gave Nynaeve permission to hunt Aes Sedai for sport and she came back with a Forsaken on a leash and she's internally like "well I should have expected this honestly"