Franchise Original Sin: Difference between revisions

* The two most recent novels in the ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' series, ''A Feast for Crows'' and ''A Dance with Dragons'', succumb to the sprawling, complex nature of the storyline that had previously been a selling point. The series has always been about gradual plot development and long -term pay-offs, with a lot of detail put into exploring the backdrop of the action and the world in general - but this was all complemented by significant happenings. Though some POV characters had less to do than others, each book had a dramatic arc to it. ''Feast'' and ''Dance'', meanwhile, are criticized for (among other things) essentially very little happening because the focus is drawn so wide, with so much time spent describing characters and places that don't really matter.

* ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' is a similar case. The first book already had many POV characters and a rather slow pacing with lengthy descriptions of what everyone was wearing and what everything looked like. Later the number of new POVs would slow down the plot to the point that there would be things like 100+ page prologues detailing how everyone reacted to the end of the previous book and make the pacing positively glacial. Much-hated overused character quirks like Nynaeve's braid tugging and skirt-smoothing were there in the first book too, as well as male and female characters going on about how they don't understand the opposite sex.