I had a whole essay typed out and accidentally backed out, so I’ll just say that I love a lot of the changes the show has made but the author is doing a real disservice to the books. Early in the books Nynaeve is comedic at various points with her anger, but her arc is incredible and I hear and read people saying its almost impossible to finish the series without loving Nynaeve. She starts the books using anger to mask her insecurity, and finishes with the confidence that lets her condemn the tower as an institution moments after they raise her to the shawl. She is an iconoclast, a bleeding heart, and she has a CV to make Cadsuane humble.
I absolutely loathed the existence of Nynaeve for the longest time. Always wanting to play the parent, bound to the hierarchy of the two rivers and tradition, cold as ice and hard as stone.
Then she starts to change, the children she helped raise start firing back. People smarter or more experienced than her knock her down a peg. She tugs her braid and you truly know someone got to her. She starts to lecture, then someone gives her a look and she stops.
You can’t help but smile or laugh at this matronly figure realising the world is bigger than her influence and yet she remains an immovable object stuck in the wake of the Dragon Reborn. Always standing up for what’s right no matter the cost.
She went from my least like character to one of my favourites.
I had a whole essay typed out and accidentally backed out, so I’ll just say that I love a lot of the changes the show has made but the author is doing a real disservice to the books. Early in the books Nynaeve is comedic at various points with her anger, but her arc is incredible and I hear and read people saying its almost impossible to finish the series without loving Nynaeve. She starts the books using anger to mask her insecurity, and finishes with the confidence that lets her condemn the tower as an institution moments after they raise her to the shawl. She is an iconoclast, a bleeding heart, and she has a CV to make Cadsuane humble.
I absolutely loathed the existence of Nynaeve for the longest time. Always wanting to play the parent, bound to the hierarchy of the two rivers and tradition, cold as ice and hard as stone.
Then she starts to change, the children she helped raise start firing back. People smarter or more experienced than her knock her down a peg. She tugs her braid and you truly know someone got to her. She starts to lecture, then someone gives her a look and she stops.
You can’t help but smile or laugh at this matronly figure realising the world is bigger than her influence and yet she remains an immovable object stuck in the wake of the Dragon Reborn. Always standing up for what’s right no matter the cost.
She went from my least like character to one of my favourites.