theforteminem

I really like this idea of the yellow as the third, invisible hion line a lot, not just for the reasons already mentioned but also because of how the hion is essentially investiture electricity, and in real life electrical devices there's usually a third wire, not just a positive and a negative one. that third wire is the grounding wire, so to have the investiture version of the grounding wire be the force anchoring the stone towers to the ground, making them incapable of falling over has a certain amount of poetic sense.

I really, really like brandon's books, especially his sanderlanches. mistborn era 1's took me by surprise, as they were my first brandon books, and by the time I finished reading stormlight I was thuroughly addicted to them. I love how intense they could be, how they feel like a kick in the teeth and get me hype as hell while reading them. but I feel like the last several books brandon's done haven't had the same kick-in-the-teeth, gutpunch feeling. part of that I can attribute to era 2 of mistborn having a very different feeling to mistborn era 1 or stormlight, and part of that I can attribute to TotES's more storybook fantasy tone, but I also think part of it has to do with how brandon has been trying to have each of his parts end in a climatic way, not just having part 4 be the climax to end all climaxes, as he's done in the past. I haven't really posted in the 17th shard forums before (despite lurking on here for over a year and a half), but I figured I should see if anyone else has felt any of this. to clarify, I still very much love his books, and I thought TotES was one of the best he's ever written in terms of character work, but the feeling of the oppresive, overwhelming sanderlanche is what I've been missing.