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If you haven't read New Spring yet, Tor's giving it away as their free ebook of the month until 9/21.
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Calenth, I read your posts. Those stories are so cool and I’m insanely jealous. I know someone already asked you for more several years ago, but I’d still love to hear more. Did you ever partake in the indoor sports of poker, chess, pool, and/or pipe collecting with him?
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# ? Sep 18, 2019 04:39 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:There are two alternate canonically valid interpretations of loial I hope they do Loial as a muppet. Trollics and everything else can be CGI, but I need all ogiers to be muppets. Im actually pretty excited for an abridged version of the WOT because there is a shitload of fat that can get cut out, looking at you Valan Luca. Also, I really hope they flesh out the Black Tower more. I still feel like it was one of the biggest missed opportunities in the series, especially before the cleansing of Saidin. I also wonder how they're gonna work in New Spring, they definitely can't do it first. Oh, and they better loving give cameos to Micheal Kramer and Kate Reading The Glumslinger fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Sep 18, 2019 |
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I'd be 100% okay with all non-humans in the show being done by the Henson company.
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# ? Sep 18, 2019 10:30 |
The Glumslinger posted:. My guess would be as interludes after Moiraine "dies" to keep her in the series until the end.
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# ? Sep 18, 2019 21:11 |
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Reading everyone’s spoilers has made me realize I remember very little about the end of the series. I did a reread leading up to the last book, and then haven’t touched them again after finishing it. Maybe I’ll start a reread again soon.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 13:00 |
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I'm doing a reread for the first time since the last book came out and holy wow is the style so different. But I'm echoing what's been said here or in the other thread and there's literally nothing to suggest that anyone is Caucasian in the village except for Rand. Everyone is described as dark in tone and complexion, dark hair, dark eyes. Rand is marked as the odd man out and no one seems particularly bothered by it but some lovely Coplins and Congars who get punched in the face for it and it's never brought up in Rand's childhood again.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 14:13 |
By fantasy default most people still think they're European dark, so like, still white.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 16:40 |
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No no it’s their aura that’s dark, not their skin
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 16:58 |
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MORE TAXES WHEN posted:That sounds great, cool that you had the chance to interact with him! I guess I should trawl that thread. Read the sword fight Rand has with the Seanchan dude in Falme. It's anime as all hell, they practically yell the names of their attacks before they make them. Mad Hamish fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Sep 20, 2019 |
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Mad Hamish posted:Read the sword fight Rad has with the Seanchan dude in Falme. It's anime as all hell, they practically yell the names of their attacks before they make them. I agree that it's anime as all hell, but I always pinned that on a mutual influence - that being actual Kung Fu/wushu/asian martial arts in general as well as the film and fiction that dramatized them to the American public in the mid 20th century.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 19:09 |
I recall reading that the sword scenes are legit sword techniques
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 21:21 |
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I assumed all the sword techniques were funny made up names.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 21:38 |
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It's probably both. They're clearly descriptive names of sword techniques but it's up to the reader to imagine what Parting the Silk or Heron Wading in the Rushes look like.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 21:44 |
MORE TAXES WHEN posted:
Just off the top of my head: Galad is bishounen Avienda is tsundere Tar Valon is a school for magical girls Rand has three girlfriends, color-coded: one blonde, one redhead, and one brunette The series took twenty-three years to finish that's just off the top of my head
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 22:09 |
Hieronymous Alloy posted:Tar Valon is a school for magical girls That has lesbian/Yuri subtext
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 23:11 |
Stormangel posted:That has lesbian/Yuri subtext You can practically hear the OOOOOHOHOHOHOHO to this day.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 23:20 |
Stormangel posted:That has lesbian/Yuri subtext please we call them "pillow friends" edit: oh, every magic user has a literal numeric power level; the protagonist has the maximum power level Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Sep 19, 2019 |
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 23:21 |
Stormangel posted:That has lesbian/Yuri subtext Subtext?
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 23:33 |
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Been waiting for this thread to pop up. I don't know about this Rafe guy. Casting is fine, it was funny to see, almost invariably, some Slavic-sounding last name dude bemoaning the Forced Diversification. There are a couple of physical things other than skin color that don't feel right to me, but they are minor. I have a pretty strong emotional connection to these books and characters, so I at least hope we get something adequate if not spectacular. I was always on the "Make it an Epic Anime " train. Mostly I just hope the Seanchan sound like Texans and not the weird thing the (very good) audiobooks did.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 23:49 |
Hieronymous Alloy posted:Just off the top of my head: There is literally a thing in it called Sean-chan
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 00:06 |
Sean-chan is so dreamy.
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 01:03 |
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Mat Cauthon posted:Subtext? I don’t think it ever outright says that pillow friends have sex so I guess it’s kinda subtext.
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Plorkyeran posted:I don’t think it ever outright says that pillow friends have sex so I guess it’s kinda subtext. If it was a straight couple you wouldn't say the relationship was subtext
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 07:32 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Just off the top of my head: There must be an anime term for Gawyn's particular strand of stupidity.
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 07:51 |
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Torrannor posted:There must be an anime term for Gawyn's particular strand of stupidity. Protagonist
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 08:01 |
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i have decided to murder robert jordan
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 09:16 |
Death of the author indeed
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 10:02 |
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fauna posted:i have decided to murder robert jordan Can I borrow your time machine when you've finished with it?
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 10:36 |
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Rumda posted:Can I borrow your time machine when you've finished with it?
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# ? Sep 21, 2019 01:53 |
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3643994
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# ? Sep 21, 2019 10:18 |
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drat, it's impossible to like more than one kind of thing, you've really opened my eyes
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# ? Sep 21, 2019 12:59 |
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it is done. he is dead
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# ? Sep 22, 2019 03:00 |
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:In terms of economy of storytelling they could parcel out his impact to the other characters, but I sincerely hope not because the infinitely layered onion that is the badassery of Thom Merrilin is one of the pure joys of the books. Do over fantasies are huge in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese media, mostly recently in web comics and litnovels.
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# ? Sep 22, 2019 20:29 |
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Rumda posted:If it was a straight couple you wouldn't say the relationship was subtext There wouldn’t be a cutesy euphemism involved if it was a straight couple.
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# ? Sep 22, 2019 20:29 |
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Well gently caress. I got into these books in undergrad like 12 years ago and now this thread has caused me to buy The Eye of the World on kindle. Here's to the $130 I'm inevitably going to spend on that poo poo over the next year.
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 01:36 |
How are u posted:Well gently caress. I got into these books in undergrad like 12 years ago and now this thread has caused me to buy The Eye of the World on kindle. I'm planning on skipping books 6-9 myself, and probably a good bit of 5 if necessary. There's wiki summaries if I just can't handle it.
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 01:43 |
Book 6 is the worst one to skip. It probably has the best last quarter of a book with Dumai's Well.
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 02:05 |
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6 is good. Skip 8-10 if you are going to skip anything
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 03:35 |
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As bad as it makes this series look, we probably should compile a list of chapters worth reading in books 7,8,9 and 10.
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