Despite getting better and better with each season, Prime Video ultimately cancelled The Wheel of Time — and we’re still angry over it.
Despite getting better and better with each season, Prime Video ultimately cancelled The Wheel of Time — and we’re still angry over it.
I tried really hard a few times with the first book and I just couldn’t do it. Mat it just so fucking dumb with every single decision. I understand characters needing conflict but jfc it’s so, so bad in the first book. I really can’t get past it. Wolf boy or whatever was cool for a bit but every 15 minutes the book has to go back to mat and him whining about how every stupid thing he does rightfully fucks him over. I couldn’t stand it by halfway through the book.
Mat sucks donkey balls before they get the dagger away from him. But, he’s also eventually the best character, so…
“Eventually” doesn’t cover it when we’re talking 30 hours a book on audiobook. Mat sucks for as much of the wheel of time as I’m prepared to tolerate.
There are over 400hrs for the entire audiobook series, most of which Mat is the baddest of baddasses.
Sometimes the best story arcs come from drastic changes in the character, like going from super annoying to completely awesome. You thinking of him as making terrible decisions, being whiny and annoying may be a testament to the quality of writing since that was the foundation for his drastic change. He had to represent those characteristics to make his outcome that much more impactful.
You not liking him at that point of his story arc was the intention of the author.
Mat is objectively the best character, hands down.