He wasn't wrong, though. After feeling the vastness of the DO, he gave up on killing him in his prison as he had told Moiraine he was going to do. He never explicitly stated the DO was unkillable.
He was not wrong at the start. He dropped hope of killing the DO after entering his prison - he never said anything about it not being possible.
You are missing our crucial point. They had knowledge of everything, direct, verifiable knowledge, of everything sans the DO. The Forsaken, AoL...
It says they sensed a source of energy. This is most probably the TP, though it may not be - the negative energy of space is considered tremendous, and as RJ was a physicist this may be the answer.
Being an expert on Pattern metaphysics is far removed from knowing anything about the Dark One...
False. The Bore was drilled because the TP was detected, and if it could he felt, it could probably affect the Pattern. Remember, we are told he is not allowed to touch it while Sealed away. This is different from having some sort of entropic effect from a distance.
Saying that a Third Age...
You are saying that the DO experiences one event because the Bore occurs at one place. This equation is never expressly stated in the books. Second, that question I have asked previously. The only conclusion is that the LB goes different every time, unless BS will give us an answer in the future.
That is not backed up by anything from the books. While it is possible that this is the case, I see no fundamental evidence suggesting that the DO only has one experience rather than a succession of experiences, which by diction used in LoC seems to be the case.
I am not saying he did this, then left, then did it again. To him, he did it, was sealed off and immediately began doing it again. Time has proceeded forward for Randlanders, and it must also for the DO. However, as you pointed out, there is no time in between.
By this argument and summation, which I can accept, you must concede that, therefore, the DO is constantly going from battle to battle with 0 in-between time, rather than one singular battle.
But MuKen, he clearly remembers Rand. I don't have the book with me, but he says in the prologue of LoC, "done by my ancient enemy, the one called Dragon" or something of that nature. He has experienced Rand's presence before, has memory of him before, and so your theory falls apart. The DO...
I'm sure he left notes. If not, yes - for minutiae that is important to some people but not to the story, etc.... and I would love to see some synopsis of what comes after. Now that the series is over, I will pay as much money as I need to get the endings I want. I'm fine with them making money...
But how do you know that time for the DO is not linear? He refers to Rand as "adversary", and the DO referred to Rand as "my old adversary" in LoC. This indicates that the DO experiences time in a linear fashion, rather than a rose-petal type event.
OK. I guess I'm grasping at straws, because, well, this ending doesn't seem like much of an ending. I mean, I liked it, but it has to keep happening again and again, and as I pointed out in a previous tread, it has to at least be done differently next time because the DO can just deny the...