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# ? Oct 23, 2019 09:34 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 21:53 |
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Okay, that's Perrin, Rand, Mat, Thom, Lan, Moiraine, Nynaeve, Egwene?, Egwene?, Elayne, Aviendha, Min, Ishamael. So who's the second Egwene?
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 10:12 |
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I think first Egwene is Faile.
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 10:19 |
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EvilTaytoMan posted:I think first Egwene is Faile. Correct, the third Moiraine is Faile.
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 10:23 |
loving lost it at those faces
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 12:40 |
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Data Graham posted:loving lost it at those faces The only thing that saves this from trash somehow elevates it to perfection.
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 13:05 |
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EvilTaytoMan posted:I think first Egwene is Faile. I totally forgot Faile even existed
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 14:36 |
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Warrior of the Altaii: Philip Pullman is very lucky this book wasn't published before His Dark Materials.
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 14:43 |
Statistically shouldn't at least one of those have a boob window dress?
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 15:29 |
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The Boob-Window dresses were the friends we made along the way
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 16:29 |
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 16:42 |
I'm pretty sure Aviendha should be included in this lineup.
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 17:06 |
VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:I'm pretty sure Aviendha should be included in this lineup. She's the one in the cadin'sor.
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 17:19 |
Where can I get a framed copy
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 17:24 |
Mat Cauthon posted:She's the one in the cadin'sor. Yes, but oh christ the joke is that she has the same face as the other 5 under that veil
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 17:26 |
Oh my god it's driving me crazy, I had all this snarky fanart I did during my read, and one of them was Nynaeve tugging her braid and making a face like that, only it was copied from this face And also she wasn't tugging the braid down over her shoulder like that, she was pulling it sideways like she was trying to tear her scalp off by the roots I can't find it because I seem to have lost all those drawings in a laptop re-image gently caress
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 17:34 |
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This is sublime and I can't stop laughing.
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 18:16 |
Can a mod just imbed that into the thread title?
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 18:19 |
I love how furious all the women are and then Min is just like YOLO
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 18:32 |
Mad Hamish posted:This is sublime and I can't stop laughing. I couldn't make anything out in the thumbnail so I expanded it and zoomed in, so I had each figure basically filling the screen, and started at the far left and slowly scrolled right. Perrin... Rand ... Mat ... okay, Thom ... Lan... uhhh whoa WHOA BAHAHHAHAHA
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 19:02 |
Looks like internet nerds have dug up 3 more unannounced casting decisions: 2 are Mat's parents, and 1 is a character named "Laila Aybara". I haven't re-read the relevant sections but apparently Leila Lewin is a character that Perrin was once considering marrying, like Rand and Egwene but slightly further in the past at the time of book 1. VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Oct 26, 2019 |
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# ? Oct 26, 2019 18:43 |
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It would make sense to give Perrin's family more fleshing out, if only to make his return to the Two Rivers in Shadow Rising and the discovery that they're all dead have more dramatic weight.
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# ? Oct 26, 2019 19:13 |
ONE YEAR LATER posted:It would make sense to give Perrin's family more fleshing out, if only to make his return to the Two Rivers in Shadow Rising and the discovery that they're all dead have more dramatic weight. Yeah as it is the books basically tell us about Perrin's family what feels like 1 whole pov before telling us they're dead.
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# ? Oct 26, 2019 19:33 |
Lol if the series makes up more characters
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# ? Oct 26, 2019 19:57 |
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:Yeah as it is the books basically tell us about Perrin's family what feels like 1 whole pov before telling us they're dead. And yet that moment has me in tears every time.
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# ? Oct 26, 2019 20:08 |
RC Cola posted:And yet that moment has me in tears every time. Book 4 is easily my overall favorite and a lot of it is Perrin's part of the story. Chapters 53 and 56 are probably as fine pieces of writing as RJ has in the entirety of WoT. Nearly all of it, always get me. Perrin deciding to face to the north. The Women's Circle bucking tradition in 53, then helping out in 56. The little tour Perrin does around the village perimeter. VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Oct 26, 2019 |
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# ? Oct 26, 2019 20:12 |
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If you didn't pay attention you might think he was an orphan for how much he quotes the Luhanns.
Brolander fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Oct 26, 2019 |
# ? Oct 26, 2019 21:04 |
Brolander posted:If you didn't pay attention you might think he was an orphan for how much he quotes the Luhanns, as if they were surrogate parent figures. Which makes a kind of sense for a live-in apprenticeship like that.
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# ? Oct 26, 2019 21:06 |
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:Which makes a kind of sense for a live-in apprenticeship like that. True, but did he start it when he was like, 4 years old?
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# ? Oct 27, 2019 12:24 |
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I finished Eye of the World last night. I really enjoyed it, no parts of it really dragged, which was the only thing I was concerned about. There is a chapter that really bugged me because of how he wrote it though. I think it was Chapter 33 where he used the concept of “let me jump ahead a few days and tell you where the characters end up and then jump back and describe the last few days up until that point”. It’s a pretty common writing (and film) technique but I just thought it was used really poorly in this case. A few of the bigger picture concepts were a bit more obtuse than I would’ve liked them to be but hopefully those things get more fleshed out in the following books.
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# ? Oct 27, 2019 13:46 |
Was that the scarves thing?
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# ? Oct 27, 2019 13:48 |
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Data Graham posted:Was that the scarves thing? Yes! In the hay cart?! Wtf was that about.
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# ? Oct 27, 2019 13:52 |
Mahoning posted:Yes! In the hay cart?! Wtf was that about. Idk but you and I are apparently the only ones who thought it was stupid. Just you wait till a thing in book 2, you'll know it when you see it
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# ? Oct 27, 2019 14:21 |
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It's a time jump forward with a flashback, it's unnecessary and doesn't really work but I think Jordan was trying to break up the monotony of "Rand and Mat stop at a small village and play for food, and then a small farm to do chores for food, and then another small village" but it's very out of place and confusing to most first time readers. I know I was very confused as well when I first read the book. I was also very confused at the prologue during my first read and re-read it a few times to make sure I wasn't missing something, why did I go from a palace to some guy walking down a road??
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# ? Oct 27, 2019 14:35 |
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I think the idea is that Rand and Mat are really sick and it's giving them trouble with the concept of linear time
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# ? Oct 27, 2019 14:44 |
Brolander posted:True, but did he start it when he was like, 4 years old? Kids that got shipped off for medieval-type apprenticeships weren't much older than that, yeah.
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# ? Oct 27, 2019 15:07 |
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Nihilarian posted:I think the idea is that Rand and Mat are really sick and it's giving them trouble with the concept of linear time Right. I think the problem with it is that we’ve been following Mat and Rand traveling down the Caemlyn road and it flashes forward to....Mat and Rand.....traveling down the Caemlyn road. If the chapter started out with the lightning strike and THEN went back for you to find out how they got to there, it would work.
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# ? Oct 27, 2019 15:20 |
Yea it’s weird, he probably needed some transition to those and the dream sequences. They just kinda happen and you have to orient yourself to going with it till he decides when to explain it. You get used to it but it’s very jarring and if it isn’t interesting to read will drag a bit.
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# ? Oct 27, 2019 15:38 |
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There's also nothing else in the book, and maybe even the series, that operates that way. I was expecting it this reread and how he transitions from "this is where we are right now" to "now we're in the past" is at best vague and is sloppily handled so that first time readers could easily think the story is progressing forward when it's actually gone back a few days.
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# ? Oct 27, 2019 16:04 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 21:53 |
I don’t even remember that one specifically and I read it recently. I just know whenever I’m confused the most with his writing is when he just time travels/dream prophecies all of a sudden. It might also be cause I’m reading on kindle but there has been a couple times he switches perspectives without a break and it takes like 3 paragraphs before you can figure that out.
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# ? Oct 27, 2019 16:12 |