Despite getting better and better with each season, Prime Video ultimately cancelled The Wheel of Time — and we’re still angry over it.

  • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 hours ago

    “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.

    • nixon@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 hour ago

      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.