Wait. They made Jaina racist?* Isn't that the exact opposite of the entire point of the character? She's always been the voice of reason! And she gets mad and hardcore without turning into an unreasoning twerp. That's the POINT. You can be a badass without resorting to... well, being Wrynn or any of the other nimrods. I was really hoping they were setting Jaina up to be a great teacher, especially since Anduin's shown signs of being the measured ruler his father isn't.
I don't know if I'm watching Blizz implode their own lore, or if it was always imploding and I only look back at the historical stuff as "right" because it was kind of static when I came to the canon for WC3. Not that there was much canon at the time....
*Not racist, I guess, because orcs aren't real and I don't want to belittle real world racism. Speciesist?
Well, she does calm down eventually, after Thrall and Kalec patronize tell her what she's about to become as if Jaina wouldn't have nightmares of becoming anything like e.g. Arthas and just in time to be a good girl again at the end of the book. But in between there's a lot of rhethoric about "greenskins" and "beasts", shit that comes right out of Varian's vocabulary, but which I couldn't see Jaina saying, period.
Oooohkay, I see my choice not to read this book may have been the right one. I mean, I could buy Jaina temporarily losing her shit, but not in that way. While trauma can indeed change people a lot, there is usually a sort of character consistency to how they turn out.
*nods fervently* As I said in the post, I could have bought just about any sort of breakdown from Jaina except this one. I might even have been able to buy into her teleporting to Orgrimmar and 'sploding anything that tried to get between her and Garrosh in the immediate aftermath of the destruction of Theramore... but the book has her not only intent on committing outright genocide, but planning and preparing for it over the course of days if not weeks, and trying to recruit support from others. All of whom tried to talk her down, but of course no one succeeds until the dramatically appropriate moment. *spits over shoulder*
Why have they not figured out that she cannot do proper characterization.
Why is this poor fanfiction-esque tripe now canon, Lore, and How Jaina Is, when not one expansion ago she was threatening Varian to stop his shit at the Argent Tourney or else?
I now feel retroactively awful for telling my guildies -- right around when Arthas came out, IIRC -- that Golden was the one writer whose stuff was worth reading. That was before, however, I'd heard about the problems in Arthas, or the steadily worsening train wreck of the later books. (I did, at least, warn them off anything with Knaak's name on it.)
I haven't finished yet (I have about 50 pages left), but I got to the children bullshit and nearly fell out of bed last night. And she's saying that and they're making Varian fucking Wrynn look reasonable and level-headed while she's the one talking about green-skinned beasts.
And, ugh, the forced romance between her and Kalecgos was bad enough. This? What the fuck am I reading?
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I don't know if I'm watching Blizz implode their own lore, or if it was always imploding and I only look back at the historical stuff as "right" because it was kind of static when I came to the canon for WC3. Not that there was much canon at the time....
*Not racist, I guess, because orcs aren't real and I don't want to belittle real world racism. Speciesist?
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What.
Why is this woman still writing WoW books.
Why have they not figured out that she cannot do proper characterization.
Why is this poor fanfiction-esque tripe now canon, Lore, and How Jaina Is, when not one expansion ago she was threatening Varian to stop his shit at the Argent Tourney or else?
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And, ugh, the forced romance between her and Kalecgos was bad enough. This? What the fuck am I reading?
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