Frustration

Depends on my mood. Did the US land on the moon?

I'm unaware of any radiowaves that would be generated by any of these, though I don't know if they wouldn't. Most matter is naturally radioactive to some extent, so depending on how advanced this civilization is you could sense that.

I don't like spring, fall is alright. You have to turn you friend into an animal to save them from dying what animal do you pick?

Sold into slavery to never become a problem again in exchange for saving your life? Seems like a heartless monster to me. And he worked for Restares.

Having fun. Favorite word?

I felt he was always evil, his rationalizations were thinly veiled power grabs. He killed dozens of people so he could have some shards, as if his marginally better skill would be the thing that saved the world.

I see no difference between the two. He wanted the shards so he took them, he felt bad about it, but he did it, then he went to Odium because he didn't want to feel guilty about it.

What do you mean, an African or European swallow? You can trade one candy bar for 1 year extra life, do you accept?

Probably. How much money do you have in USD?

Even if it was made of differnet metals it would have to be made of different pieces for anyone to do it, otherwise you would need someone with exceptional skill.

Are you saying my expirences did not happen because they don't match your own? The fact is there is a single choice I can make and depression goes away, I just have to stay phyisically active. Others need social interactions, and some have it far worse to the point of medical attention. At the time of OB it didn't seem that bad for Kal, circumstances, like military action, can cause spikes in suicidal tendencies, which is why I felt that after WoK, doubtlessly the book where circumctances were worst for him, he never got into the same position up to RoW. Additionally WoK-OB were largy planned together, RoW was not, it is well within the realms of possibility that Kal was planned to get better after this but Brandon decided to change it. And what help is that?

Not at all. Who is your ideal spouce?

Arson, easier to get away with. It is _____ my Dudes!

When was he ever nuanced?

He was far worse at the Chasm OB or RoW

alright Was Kal in the same mental position in those two times? I didn't get that impression It wouldn't be an eternal thing but it needs to happen at some point or another. that would be good, not quite the same impact but prety good.

Hyrule Heros How many kidneys should I donate to the hospital?

I'm pretty sure it's me. What's your favorite movie?

It's not that F-chromium was how he does it, but that it's the same basic principles.

By the end of WoK Kaladin still is unsure which path he wants to take, going so far as to say he thinks that bridge four will do whatever he does, and he doesn't know what he wants to do. On a pure character standpoint, he can get his men into a far safer position away from fighting altogether. When does someone say something to Kaladin that completly floors him outside of that scene? He was looking at a rock he put water on and said something to the effect of "He couldn't get rid of the darkness but he didn't have to let it rule him." Because without the tools other radiants have it doesn't show them at risk. And losing one character to highten stakes isn't that bad. Imagine Odium's Champion, who for the rest of this I will just call El, shows up in Shinovar to kill Ishar so Dalinar can't learn from him, Szeth and Kal go to stop him, and he beats the crap out of both of them, and kills Kaladin. And is only driven back by Nightblood. All without revealing that he is the champion. Then at the end of the book Dalinar goes to the top of Urithiru to find who his opponent is, and it's El. The guy who 2v1'd Kaladin and Szeth, powered up with Yelig-nar and now Dalinar has to beat him in single combat. End that part of the book. That would be such a moment of sheer dread, something to make the climax's of the last four books look like children's novels. Alright I'll let this point be from now on.

No, he was going to take bridge four and make a run for it. Afterwards he had no reason to stay other then simple curiosity. How much of that was RoW? How much of that actually incapacitated him? He was getting better by the end of OB, and there was a full year in between. Really Kaladin has ended every book in the same state. Would you prefer I call it convuluted? BAM get's released Adolin swears three-five ideals in a row and then dies in a single chapter. I mean, he could do it, but why? That just feels forced Taravangian winning in any manor doesn't mean anything if there isn't danger to the characters. It's not just a SA problem it's been consistent with all of his works.

What was he planing on doing before rescuing Dalinar? In WoK Kaladin talks to Syl about how he feels while looking at a fall that will kill him, after a slow build up of him hinting at it with his conversation with Gaz, In RoW Moash says "They're all going to die," no build up, nothing, and Kal is now incompasitated. There are things you can do with him. Boring things, but things. That would be... complicated. Taravangian was actually one of the better moves with the villains in Stormlight, but I doubt he's going to be much more effective at putting the characters in danger. It will probably be used more for Szeth, than as a threat.

No choice is made simply because of character, otherwise Kal would have left the Shattered plains after WoK, but because that would take him out of the plot for WoR he stayed. Character decisions are used to have the choice make sense in world, contextualize it, but is almost never the reason behind it. I can say the same, but it was done better in WoK, Brandon had Kal's deppresion written in RoW already done, but decided to scale back on it after alpha reads, and it shows. That works to, but Kaladin serves better because he has more reader attachment, or alternatively kill Syl and render Kal powerless, that would work as well. And it pushes past the thought that a character can only die once their arc is complete, death should leave things incomplete, that's how death works in real life, on occasion someone has done everything they wanted, but that's rarely the case. Because in WoK it showed Kal's mental state, we got to watch things happen to him. In RoW we are told what happened, we know Kaladin had nightmares, but we don't know anything beyond that, we are told Kal is tired, but we don't feel that. Kal's reaction to Teft dying felt like melodrama because we didn't see Kal taking care of him. As stated above death should leave things unfulfilled. Kaladin has about as much potential as Dalinar Adolin doesn't have stormlight so it won't be the same. You don't have a monoploy on depression.

But that's not why they were made. Didn't watch Endgame And in mine it was the least realistic depiction of depression so far, WoK did an excelent job but it's been downhill from there. No that is an excelent ending, because it adds stakes, these characters feel immortal, the taking of Urithiru had no impact because it didn't matter, no one was in danger, Dalinar's chances of winning were still the same. If Kal dies that mean other characters like Dalinar and Shallan can die to, it would make the contset of Champions actually mean something, instead of the Dalinar curbstomp it's looking to be.

And why did they come out the way they did? Why did Dalinar releive him of active duty? That was not a character decision, that was a contious choice by Brandon to forward the plot So let's say your right how does this play out. SA 5 has him travel to Shinovar and try and fix Ishar, but he can't because Spiritual madness isn't something you fix a normal way. SA 6 comes around and over the timeskip Kal has set up his surgeon shop. SA 7 we cut back to Kal doing surgery SA 8 we cut back to Kal doing surgery SA 9 we cut back to Kal doing surgery SA 10 we cut back to Kal doing surgery. That's not a good ending, that's not exciting, that's a let down, Is Jasnah a character you really want to see in the first five? Wondering how her story in those books will go? After SA 5 Kal is done, everything after that will be Cameo appearances.