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Strom Cuzewon posted:Malazan features a race of dinosaurs who Jurassic Parked themselves by resurrecting an even more powerful race of dinosaurs who then killed them all. Yeah it's up its own rear end, but it's also wonderfully silly at times. You forgot to mention that the dinosaurs are also eusocial
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Barreft posted:I consider it "high" fantasy as in stoned out of your mind The best kind  The unique thing about Malazan that I haven't come across in any other series yet is the ascendancy system, whereby; individuals can have extraordinary adventures and experiences and begin to manifest godlike powers. Also- the warren magic system is good and cool and so are all the creepy, ancient civilizations and gods. Superb ambience. Hexel fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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Mayor Dave posted:You forgot to mention that the dinosaurs are also eusocial Oh yeah, the gradual re-contextualisation of the K'Chain from "demonic undead monsters" to literal space-aliens with forcefields and nanobots to tragic fallen civilisation is really well done.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:The Blight disappeared immediately, so I'd assume they just keeled over. Same with Trollocs I guess. they had to fight some trollocs after the sealing
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So I just re-read the bit of TSR where Egwain visits Tanchico in TAR and sees the dinosaur fossils and what people claim is a Mercedes logo. What doesn't make sense to me is Egwain claims the logo is older than the dinosaur fossils. How is that possible? For that matter, if the age of legends was the second age, when did dinosaurs happen? Do we get a mass extinction event in the 7th age which resets us to the Paleozoic, and the first age is everything from the Paleozoic to the modern world?
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I thought it was an elephant skeleton, not a dinosaur fossil, that she saw.
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Another season 2 location. This is Sanaa Hamri the director of episode 201 (IMDB only has info for 201 so far) and possibly more in what looks to be Morocco. Somebody in the comments calls her: The Moroccan boss doing boss things  A lot of animal wranglers listed for episode 201 too.
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The relevant quotes:quote:The artist had taken pains to show the massive skeleton standing there as if the rest of the creature had that moment disappeared. It had four thick-boned legs, but otherwise resembled no animal Egwene had ever seen. For one thing, it had to stand at least two spans high, well over twice her height. The rounded skull, set low on the shoulders like a bull’s, looked big enough for a child to climb inside, and in the picture it seemed to have four eye sockets. The skeleton marked the room off from any other; there was no mistaking it for anything but itself. Whatever it was. If Eurian Romavni had known, he had not named it in these pages. quote:Egwene could see some of those. On one side of the room was the skeleton of something that looked a little like a bear, if a bear had two front teeth as long as her forearm, and opposite it on the other side were the bones of some slender, four-footed beast with a neck so long the skull was half as high as the ceiling. There were more, spaced down the chamber’s walls, just as fantastic. All of them felt old enough to make the Stone of Tear seem new-built. Ducking under the rope barrier, she walked down the chamber slowly, staring. So there's three skeletons. A giant tusked beast with a rounded skull, head mounted like a bull. A bear with big fangs. A slender-legged beast with long neck. The last one sounds like a giraffe. The one being discussed sounds like some relative of the elephant. The "bear with big fangs" is the one that I can't match to any non-prehistoric creature. It sounds like a Smilodon more than anything else (though that's more of a cat than a bear, the skeletons would look similar).
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How are they already in the Waste? maybe flashbacks or flash-forwards?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:How are they already in the Waste? Could be some world building or a cold open if they are indeed using Morocco for the Aiel waste. That is just a common assumption for now. If I recall correctly, Morocco got on our radar from Rafe’s ama where he said he had to go to Morocco for a location scout. Hexel fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:How are they already in the Waste? Maybe after Rand walks out on Moiraine he goes and gets Wasted?
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Another interesting addition to season 2 is Jessica Boone who is Guy Roberts (Uno) wife. She was spotted in August of 2021 going around with the side of her head shaved so definitely a seanchan, possibly even Suroth. https://www.wotseries.com/2021/12/26/season-two-cast-melissa-james-jessica-boone-more/
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:How are they already in the Waste? Thinking about this a little bit more: maybe they want to bring more Aiel into the show quicker than the books and will show them deciding to and then leaving the Three-Fold Land to search for He Who Comes With the Dawn. Maybe even Aviendha  Aviendha is one of those who ventured out of the Aiel Waste, across the Spine of the World and into the wetlands in search of the Car'a'carn. Along with Bain, Chiad, and Jolien. The she runs into the supergirls and rescues them from brigands on their way to Tear.
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Shageletic posted:wasn't it a mastodon? They found the fossilized remains of a metal band?
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Dysgenesis posted:They found the fossilized remains of a metal band? Yes, Nynaeve throws it at Moghedien
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Mayor Dave posted:You forgot to mention that the dinosaurs are also eusocial They forgot to mention that some of those dinosaurs are zombie velociraptors with swords for arms.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:How are they already in the Waste?  Hexel posted:Thinking about this a little bit more: maybe they want to bring more Aiel into the show quicker than the books and will show them deciding to and then leaving the Three-Fold Land to search for He Who Comes With the Dawn. I googled Sanaa Hamri and her biggest thing (aside from a bunch of cool music videos) seems to be a musical show called Empire, anyone seen that? She also directed a few episodes of Shameless
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El Grillo posted:I googled Sanaa Hamri and her biggest thing (aside from a bunch of cool music videos) seems to be a musical show called Empire, anyone seen that? She also directed a few episodes of Shameless Nice, so we're getting a musical episode in S2?
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Dingleberry2 posted:Nice, so we're getting a musical episode in S2? The prologue
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Yes a giant brassy intro full of color and dance called I WIN AGAIN LEWS THERIN
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:How are they already in the Waste? Hexel posted:Thinking about this a little bit more: maybe they want to bring more Aiel into the show quicker than the books and will show them deciding to and then leaving the Three-Fold Land to search for He Who Comes With the Dawn. That's a possibility, but since the last we see of Rand he seems to be emerging from the Blight into the Waste, my guess is that while everyone else, save Moriaine and Lan, is doing The Great Hunt, Rand's getting a solo adventure reminiscent of his travels by himself in The Dragon Reborn. But since in the book we only get glimpses and aftermath of Rand's passage, the show is taking advantage of the relatively blank slate to give him more to do, just like they added the "Shielded Moiraine" thing to give Lan and Moiraine something to do in season two. I'd wager that instead of him attacking the Stone at the same time as the Aiel and them deciding out of the blue to follow him afterwards, he'll make contact with a smaller number of Aiel in the Waste, probably just the Taardad, maybe just a single sept. He'll meet Aviendha, Rhuarc, and Amys, get "Aiel 101: An Introduction to Aieling", and do something to get them to follow him to Tear where they all raid the Stone together. Afterwards, once he's reunited with the rest of the cast we go straight into The Shadow Rising for season three. jng2058 fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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Could an Aiel beat up a grolm
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Could an Aiel beat up a grolm Absolutely - arrows to the eyes seem to be the weakness, and Aiel are excellent archers. Plus they could probably spear it through the eye too.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Could an Aiel beat up a grolm one aiel could, but 5 probably couldn't
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jng2058 posted:That's a possibility, but since the last we see of Rand he seems to be emerging from the Blight into the Waste, my guess is that while everyone else, save Moriaine and Lan, is doing The Great Hunt, Rand's getting a solo adventure reminiscent of his travels by himself in The Dragon Reborn. But since in the book we only get glimpses and aftermath of Rand's passage, the show is taking advantage of the relatively blank slate to give him more to do, just like they added the "Shielded Moiraine" thing to give Lan and Moiraine something to do in season two. Could clean up that "Enter the tower, leave the tower, repeat" double dip for the girls by having them get one of the dream ter'angreal somehow (or just an Egwene talent manifestation thing) during the Seanchan escape, they happen into Siuan's dream home, and get a "Don't come back you're Black Ajah hunters now" order.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Yes, Nynaeve throws it at Moghedien Haha, holy poo poo, nice.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Yes, Nynaeve throws it at Moghedien I'm pretty stoked for the comedic scene for their fight where they keep switching between showing the weaves the two are throwing at each other and a non-channeler's view as a servant enters the room to dust stuff and they're just standing there staring at each other sweating.
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I just watched episodes 7 and 8 with my family today. Click on the links for part 1, part 2, and part 3. Their final episode ranking was collectively 6 >= 5 >= 4 > 8 >= 7 > 1 > 3 >= 2. Episodes 7 and 8 felt like a let down after the middle 3, but were still better than the first 3. I explained there were COVID filming issues, and they seemed to accept that. My mother and brother are both excited about watching season 2, but my stepdad is definitely the least into it and I assume he wouldn't continue watching if it wasn't for everyone else. Their opinions about the characters haven't really changed much, with their favorites still being their favorites, beyond Nynaeve replacing Moiraine as my mom's favorite again (she keeps flopping). My mother highlighted that she really doesn't like Perrin as she dislikes "his stupid faces" and how he has gotten "literally 0 character development." Generally they weren't impressed that Perrin didn't do wolf things in the finale. My collective take on what the "average" tier list of the main 7 from them would be from them would be: Nynaeve > Moiraine > Egwene > Lan > Rand > Perrin > Mat I asked about predictions and got the following: Next season we are going to see Rand start going mad, and the 3 beautiful women thing is going to be a twilight zone thing where he hallucinates them but really its a bunch of ugly people. The white flame clearly means that one of them is going to be an Aes Sedai ("from those white smoke wisps"), while the gold ring is a marriage one, either Egwene with Rand or Nynaeve with Lan. They believe there will be a big plot line about what Moiraine being stilled and how it affects her. This will involve her downfall from Siuan somehow. My brother thinks Siuan is power hungry and will discard her since Moiraine will no longer be powerful. Other random things: My brother successfully noticed Nynaeve pulling her hair is something she does when she is nervous/anxious. On the other hand, he also confused Latra with Liandrin and was confused on why she was there 3000 years ago. They confusedly thought Padan Fain was Matt even into episode 8, since the dark scenes were all hard to see on the TV and somewhat missed the Padan Fain scenes in episode 7. On a similar note, they weren't happy with how dark things in episodes 7 and 8 were because it was hard to see.
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Mat and Perrin are both so far from their book characterizations that they might as well be different people
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Somebody uploaded the pilot script for episode 101 and it's really different. It has Gitara Moroso and the Egwene paint pool scene and everything This must have been before 11,000 notes from amazon execs http://tvwriting.co.uk/tv_scripts/2021/Drama/Wheel_of_Time_1x01_-_Leavetaking.pdf
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Bezos you coward give me LAMB MURDERER NYNAEVE
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Hexel posted:Somebody uploaded the pilot script for episode 101 and it's really different. It has Gitara Moroso and the Egwene paint pool scene and everything Interesting that they have Tam talking about finding baby Rand in that script.
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Finished NEW SPRING after waiting forever. Fine I guess but Lan continues to have basically poofed into the universe as the automatically Most Stoic Badass Ever. His plot was really just him pinballing around until it was time for Moiraine to do the thing with the thing.
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Mayor Dave posted:Mat and Perrin are both so far from their book characterizations that they might as well be different people Mat barely has any characterization in the books until he is healed, and most of that time is dagger Mat. Show Mat is in the same place. They still gave him the "willing to run into the fire to save people" trait (see episode 1), which is the most important piece of his character. Yeah, his parents are different, but he feels right to me. We will see with the new actor and what they do with him.
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AlternateAccount posted:Finished NEW SPRING after waiting forever. Fine I guess but Lan continues to have basically poofed into the universe as the automatically Most Stoic Badass Ever. His plot was really just him pinballing around until it was time for Moiraine to do the thing with the thing. So now that you've finished, curious how you rate every book?
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Barreft posted:So now that you've finished, curious how you rate every book? Oh geez I haven’t done a proper reread in forever and haven’t read ANY of them since AMoL came out. Heavy nostalgia and bad memory is certainly at work.
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AlternateAccount posted:Oh geez I haven’t done a proper reread in forever and haven’t read ANY of them since AMoL came out. Heavy nostalgia and bad memory is certainly at work. Oh I didn't know the others were that long ago, sorry lol
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Having finished MoL I have to say I was really impressed with what Sanderson pulled off. Made me way more interested to read his other stuff. I’ve heard him be criticized for being poor at writing dialog but I didn’t feel that way at all.
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Gully Foyle posted:Mat barely has any characterization in the books until he is healed, and most of that time is dagger Mat. Show Mat is in the same place. They still gave him the "willing to run into the fire to save people" trait (see episode 1), which is the most important piece of his character. Yeah, his parents are different, but he feels right to me. We will see with the new actor and what they do with him. Speaking of Mat, I'm reading The Great Hunt, and he mentions being on a massive winning streak. I thought that didn't happen until he got healed, but I probably didn't notice it until Mat's POV made it a very explicit character trait 
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