I was engrossed right up until the "red wedding" -- when a minor character brutally murdered a central pillar, despite foreshadowing that he would live. It was badly written, badly plotted crap, and any author that would inflict something that mirage-breaking doesn't deserve his royalties.
He was never 'foreshadowed' to live, more like foreshadowed to die both from milsindre's prophecy she saw in the fire (Those cast into the fire would DIE) and a early glimpse of the desicration of his corpse in the Warlock's temple from book 2. Course it would have been nice had he lived but that wasn't the case and your just being furious over one of your favorite characters dieing... just like 10% of the readership. Dispite his death making sense in terms of storytelling.
Frankly I'm surprised you made it past the first book if you knew something like that may happen again.
As for the wheel of time series something like that would never happen. I'm kinda wondering if robert was going to go along with the prophecy or not. Course it wouldn't be till the End of the story so unlike Martin he could have gotten away with it since its the last book anyway. No big reprecussions, and now that he's dead and the mantle's been passed on I rather much doubt people would be pissed if Rand did die.
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He was never 'foreshadowed' to live, more like foreshadowed to die both from milsindre's prophecy she saw in the fire (Those cast into the fire would DIE) and a early glimpse of the desicration of his corpse in the Warlock's temple from book 2. Course it would have been nice had he lived but that wasn't the case and your just being furious over one of your favorite characters dieing... just like 10% of the readership. Dispite his death making sense in terms of storytelling.
Frankly I'm surprised you made it past the first book if you knew something like that may happen again.
As for the wheel of time series something like that would never happen. I'm kinda wondering if robert was going to go along with the prophecy or not. Course it wouldn't be till the End of the story so unlike Martin he could have gotten away with it since its the last book anyway. No big reprecussions, and now that he's dead and the mantle's been passed on I rather much doubt people would be pissed if Rand did die.