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ok how about this: the aiel all veil up when they are going to kill, but they all wear discreet name tags with the actor's name on them
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Boring compromise: the Aiel are super duper arrogant and only veil when killing someone they respect aka other Aiel and Lan.
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Nov 8, 2021 04:54
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I really don't think there's even all that many scenes in the whole series where veils on Aiel would be a serious detriment to recognizing specific characters. They're almost exclusively used for dramatic "poo poo's about to go down" or "We cool" effect. The only real instances of Aiel fighting Aiel en masse are the first battle of Cairhein, Dumai's wells, and then kinda at the very end the red veils fighting at shayol ghul.
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Nov 8, 2021 04:59
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Democratic Pirate posted:I’m really appreciating Gus’ commitment to doing voices on wheel takes. The try hard pouty sexy baby voice for Selene is just perfect. Gus is a king among men who absolutely loves voicing a sexy woman. This, plus the fact that he actually puts a ton of thought into his accent work and making his voices match the characters' described tones, is why he is a king. I think he first gives a breakdown when explaining what he's doing with Faile's voice, how he's interpreting the description in the text of her voice, and incorporating the description of her personality.
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Nov 8, 2021 06:37
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Jaxyon posted:Yeah like, the veils were 100% going to get changed. The veils are only worn during fight scenes. All the acting would be done with face uncovered. I suppose the main reason is so the audience knows who is fighting, but that is kinda the point of the veils in the first place.
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Nov 8, 2021 12:15
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Nov 8, 2021 12:28
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Some more of the soundtrack dropped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3OP30RaSfg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeUIzF8BY4U
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Nov 8, 2021 13:22
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Nobody freaks out when sci-fi shows have space suits that light up the actors faces with lights in the helmet despite the fact that would basically blind the astronauts in a dark environment. It’s just something you have to do in a visual medium to let them act.
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Nov 8, 2021 13:27
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Nitrousoxide posted:Nobody freaks out when sci-fi shows have space suits that light up the actors faces with lights in the helmet despite the fact that would basically blind the astronauts in a dark environment. It’s just something you have to do in a visual medium to let them act. Well some people freak out, but the point is well made. I guess as others have said though the veiling is an integral part of who the Aiel are it would be shame to sacrifice that for actor's facial recognition. I'm hoping that the scene is the exception rather than the rule but I guess we will find out soon enough.
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Nov 8, 2021 14:32
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The wetlanders aiel dichotomy is a big critique of western cultural arrogance. Changing the aiel to suit western culture is, I suppose, on brand.
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Data Graham posted:Read that as "Ethnically Challenged" and was like drat oof Given that series' repeated focus on British Wizardry being incredibly racist, classist, sexist, speciesist, nationalist, and imperialist, I'm surprised that exact joke hasn't come up. (It's really good, you should read it).
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Nov 8, 2021 14:37
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for real though is anyone going to one of these screenings. 11 days till it's out!
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Nov 8, 2021 14:53
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Rarity posted:Some more of the soundtrack dropped Really liking the artist they picked to do the soundtrack here. Did they make a fake language for these songs or what?
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Nov 8, 2021 14:57
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Nitrousoxide posted:Really liking the artist they picked to do the soundtrack here. It's a somewhat expanded version of the Old Tongue from the books.
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buffalo all day posted:for real though is anyone going to one of these screenings. I didn't even know there are going to be screenings, but I think I'd rather watch at home. Gonna be a lot of weirdos at those I bet. I'll be a weirdo at home.
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Nov 8, 2021 16:56
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Nitrousoxide posted:Really liking the artist they picked to do the soundtrack here. It is the Old Tongue from the books, going by the lyrics from "al'Naito" they have added words--though, just going by "al'Naito," surprisingly few.
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Nov 8, 2021 17:23
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:It is the Old Tongue from the books, going by the lyrics from "al'Naito" they have added words--though, just going by "al'Naito," surprisingly few. Apparently Jordan went through and wrote a mini dictionary of old tongue "translations" for the 1,000 most common words (excepting ones that wouldn't make sense like television or whatever). So that may cover most everything.
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Nov 8, 2021 17:33
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How are u posted:I didn't even know there are going to be screenings, but I think I'd rather watch at home. Gonna be a lot of weirdos at those I bet. I'll be a weirdo at home. There might be weirdos. Okay there will be weirdos. But there are probably going to be a lot of cool people who happen to really like a book series that you enjoy as well! The world premiere is in London but it looks to be invite only and there seems to be nothing else here which is a shame.
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Nov 8, 2021 19:13
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I have a single pass to go to the Chicago screening, but the ACTUAL thing is first come first serve so I don't even know what the pass is good for.
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Nov 8, 2021 19:22
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jng2058 posted:It's a somewhat expanded version of the Old Tongue from the books. VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:It is the Old Tongue from the books, going by the lyrics from "al'Naito" they have added words--though, just going by "al'Naito," surprisingly few. Huh, neat. I didn't realize he'd created enough words to do that. I'd figured that Jordan had just made up a the handful of phrases that are in the books and nothing else. I assume it's probably just a replacement cipher for English though and doesn't have it's own grammar?
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I would go to a screening if there were one near me. I've been to a few WoT related events over the years. The first time someone introduced themselves as "Hi, I'm [name] Sedai and this is my Warder, [name]" I got kinda thrown. But in retrospect they were just ahead of the curve and I wasn't on their level yet. These days though I'd just be "cool, what Ajah?" and make sure their shawl didn't have a black fringe Point being yes there are gonna be weirdos but these days we might as well all let our freak flag fly. What's the worst that could happen? A plague?
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Nitrousoxide posted:Huh, neat. I didn't realize he'd created enough words to do that. I'd figured that Jordan had just made up a the handful of phrases that are in the books and nothing else. I assume it's probably just a replacement cipher for English though and doesn't have it's own grammar? I found an interesting article on this. Answer is "sortof but also not sortof." quote:Old Tongue is in most cases an OVS language – that is to say, its sentence structure follows an object-verb-subject pattern.6 Speakers of Klingon will recognize this pattern, as it is one of the very few examples of a language that follows such a structure. This means that even before we can take a crack at building sentences we have to re-learn how sentences are built. For example, in the beginning of this post I greeted everyone with Tia iqet mestani calichniye. A literal translation of this would be “To this lesson welcome.” Looking at an example from the books, we have Mat’s exclamations from his Healing in which he exclaims: Mia ayende, Aes Sedai! Caballein misain ye! Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye! Literally: “Me release, Aes Sedai! [ A ] free man am I! No Aes Sedai meat am I!” https://dragonmount.com/forums/topic/101603-old-tongue-as-a-spoken-language-%E2%80%93-sounds-and-grammar/
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This is fun when you see sentences spoken apparently in "common tongue" but however have the object verb subject pattern.
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Yeah that's the part I don't want, I'm just not a fandom type person. Yeeks.
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Nov 8, 2021 21:07
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How are u posted:Yeah that's the part I don't want, I'm just not a fandom type person. Yeeks. Eh, it's still just a movie theater. No matter how goofy or not the person next to you is, they'll shut up and watch the episodes same as you once lights are out. VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:I have a single pass to go to the Chicago screening, but the ACTUAL thing is first come first serve so I don't even know what the pass is good for. The pass gives you the right to try to get a seat. No pass means no chance at all. They do say straight up that they're putting out more passes than seats to ensure a full house, and since the Chicago showing is also the one the Wheel Takes folks are going to be at as I understand it, it almost certainly will be full. Show starts at 7, doors open at 6, I'd recommend being there as close to 6 as you can, maybe even earlier. I may see you there, since I've got two passes for the Chicago show myself. Unfortunately the person I grabbed the second ticket for bailed on me, so I'm casting about for someone else, but there's still a week to try and figure that out, I guess.
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jng2058 posted:Eh, it's still just a movie theater. No matter how goofy or not the person next to you is, they'll shut up and watch the episodes same as you once lights Sure, sure, fair enough. I'll still be very happy on my soft comfy couch with a fire going and a gin and tonic and my sweet partner enduring some weird fantasy show.
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Nov 8, 2021 21:32
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Watch nerds camp out overnight and form lines around the block. My rear end will be in my nice cozy mancave watching the way it was meant to be on the 19th.
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Nov 8, 2021 21:41
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I virtually never use my living room / actual TV, always on my PC in my room instead but I will for sure be watching this on my big cheap TV. It'd be fun to go to an "after party", but I don't wanna hear a bunch of random people's dumb commentary during the show. And virtually any movie I go to there is always SOMEONE talking.
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Nov 8, 2021 21:46
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I hadn't even thought about the cheering and hooting and hollering the audience will be going at non stop. No thank you!
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How are u posted:I hadn't even thought about the cheering and hooting and hollering the audience will be going at non stop. No thank you! You do you, but my favorite experience watching Babylon 5 was in a conference room at the Chicago ComicCon getting to see The Long Twilight Struggle months ahead of its official airing. The energy in the room was amazing, and I'm glad I got to share that with my fellow B5 fans. I expect it to be much the same with fellow WoT fans. To put it another way, I'll be able to watch the first two episodes of WoT at home for years to come. I'll be able to see it in a movie theater with hundreds of fellow fans only this once. jng2058 fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Nov 9, 2021 |
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Nov 8, 2021 22:38
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How are u posted:Yeah that's the part I don't want, I'm just not a fandom type person. Yeeks. You're posting on a thread on a decades old text forum about a decades old genre book. You are a fandom person, just a self-hating one. You're not better than them.
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Jaxyon posted:You're posting on a thread on a decades old text forum about a decades old genre book. You are a fandom person, just a self-hating one. I don't think I'm better than them, I just find that type of Fandom annoying.
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"what language speak we, hornsounder?" if i showed up to a screening and couldn't get a seat, it would be my duty to walk among the rooftops and sneak in with a firework "diversion" to watch from the rafters
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"This pilot wasn't the beginning. There are no beginnings or ends in the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning."
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jng2058 posted:You do you, but my favorite experience watching Babylon 5 was in a conference room at the Chicago ComicCon getting to see The Long Twilight Struggle months ahead of its official airing. The energy in the room was amazing, and I'm glad I got to share that with my fellow B5 fans. I expect it to be much the same with fellow WoT fans. In 2003 I went with a friend to see the Return of the King as an all-day "Trilogy Tuesday" event with a midnight showing following the extended cuts of the first two movies. All day event starting in the early afternoon, meal breaks between with some concessions space set up for it. Packed house, lots of audience energy even at 3am when everyone had been there for like 14 hours. I don't recall seeing so much theater-wide cheering at a movie before or since. Oh, and got a collectable set of three 35mm frames from the movies like this:  I wouldn't do that for just anything. I don't know that I'd do it for WoT like I would for LotR since that was always my first fantasy love. But if it's your thing it's not a chance you'll likely get again.
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Killer robot posted:In 2003 I went with a friend to see the Return of the King as an all-day "Trilogy Tuesday" event with a midnight showing following the extended cuts of the first two movies. All day event starting in the early afternoon, meal breaks between with some concessions space set up for it. Packed house, lots of audience energy even at 3am when everyone had been there for like 14 hours. I don't recall seeing so much theater-wide cheering at a movie before or since. Oh, and got a collectable set of three 35mm frames from the movies like this: I remember attending one of those as well because it just happened to be a random day off school. Me and a buddy ended up next to a couple where the dude was loving done with hobbits and elves after about 7 hours and they almost broke up next to us during Return of the King. I wonder if my little film display is in storage somewhere...
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https://twitter.com/TheWheelOfTime/status/1458117234778206208
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Theres an interview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5TY5ngL5uU where Daniel Henney talks about how a lot of them have relocated and moved their families and stuff to be a part of the series. I know only two seasons have been officially confirmed thus far but it makes you think that they must have some insider knowledge that it'll probably go the full 8 unless it was an unmitigated disaster. There also a bunch of new promotional stills in this twitter thread https://twitter.com/Wiki_of_Time/status/1458372502237896704 Including this glorious shot 
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Was Perrin's wolf thing really apparent in the first book? I mean I read that thing over a decade ago but I thought his wolf powers only really started showing up later in the series once the dream world was introduced, and until then he was just a strong dude.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Was Perrin's wolf thing really apparent in the first book? I mean I read that thing over a decade ago but I thought his wolf powers only really started showing up later in the series once the dream world was introduced, and until then he was just a strong dude. elyas was in the first book
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