Edit, 1 November 2019: I wrote this article quite some time ago, and it’s received a lot of comments since. I didn’t engage with most of them, for various reasons.
Recently, however, YouTuber Daniel Greene made a YouTube video raising excellent criticisms about my article. I think you should watch it. I’ve embedded it at the end of this article, followed by a video I made in response to his video.
And to handle the most prominent point of criticism Daniel raised, I want to preface the article with this: everything contained here is my opinion. It is the opinion of a 33-year-old man who read the Wheel of Time when he was 19, and abandoned it halfway through. Everything, down to my statement of the author’s intent, is my opinion on the subject, and should not be taken as a hard fact. See my video at the end for more details.
So someone on my Tumblr asked me:
Hi, so I just saw a post where you talked about the Wheel of Time Saga. I’ve been trying to convince myself to start reading the books, but now that I saw your commentary, I’m curious and apprehensive. I wanted to read them bc I’ve been told they have a lot of wonderful fleshed out, complex…
