Edit: I tried to keep it as spoiler-free as possible. But beware...you've been warned.

[quote:c19b8edce3="Garner"]er... there's pretty clearly some 'bad' guys in Wheel of Time. it's only slightly less dualistic than Zorastrianism.

as for sexism, that's something i was going to raise later on, and will want to confer with grace once she's read a bit more...[/quote:c19b8edce3]

Zoroastrianism is something I know next to nothing about, so I attempted to read the Wikipedia article and I'm not sure what your getting at. But yay for big words.

There is a lot of ambivalence between the characters...even if we assume Rand is the main protagonist and the trollocs are the main antogonist, there's also the Forsaken, which are mostly bad. ish. Some of them appear to be good people reincarnated, or bad people reincarnated. Then there are Aes Sedai, with whom we are supposed to side with Egwene. Ok, Egwene good, Elaida bad, but there are some sisters who are spying on one for the other, some are on the fence, some are just nasty, etc. And the Seanchan? well obviously their bad, but now Matt (good) is...involved, and Perrins made some treaties and Tuon is...good? bad? Whatever the Seanchans faults, they seem to want to help Rand. What with all the signs and all. And then the Shaido/Aiel...some are good, some are bad, some are quite clearly insane. And what's with Rand and his nine wives? You can't help but have a favorite and hate the others (I'm a Min fan myself. And that means me and Elayne have some fights. But sorry, she's good). For all of the ten million plotlines affect the same characters and throw them into a different light until you like everybody or don't like anyone. And maybe good/evil is not such a good word as protagonistic/antagonistic.

I like it. It adds a sense of gray to the black and white of most works like this.