Zore posted:

Probably because its an incredibly widespread text in a world without printing presses. The fact that copies made it even to the backwater Two Rivers when the main characters were children stretches a lot of inbuilt assumptions.

In general though the 3rd age has a ridiculously high literacy rate and apparently booming trade in hand copied books if a pulp novel became a near universal part of pop culture within its author's lifetime. Which, to be fair, does jive with the fact that almost every single personal home we see has at least some books.

Hexel posted:

I really enjoyed the Marco Polo netflix show

gently caress them forever for cancelling it after 2 seasons

silvergoose posted:

Huh. If I ever resub to netflix, I might check that out, sounds intriguing.

wotseries.com posted:

Known as one of the gateways to the Sahara, Ouarzazate is a city that’s proved as popular with tourists as it has with filmmakers. Numerous productions have filmed in Ouarzazate including Gladiator, The Mummy, and Game of Thrones. The area is home to various incredible locations such as the fortress Kasbah Taourirt, UNESCO World Heritage Site Aït Ben Haddou, and of course the Sahara Desert.

Ouarzazate also houses two large film studios, Atlas Studios and CLA Studios. CLA Studios offers 370 acres of backlot space plus three pre-built sets for production use: a massive Jerusalem set built for Kingdom of Heaven, surrounded by land with plentiful room for battle scenes; a kasbah (“fortress”) with buildings arranged around a central square; and a galley, famously used for scenes in Ben Hur.

wotseries.com posted:

Speculation: Desert locations immediately bring to mind the Aiel Waste. While the Waste doesn’t make an appearance until The Shadow Rising in the books, it’s very possible we could see some scenes in the Waste that show “offscreen” elements of the books, such as the Aiel crossing the Spine of the World, or events like Egwene meeting the Wise Ones in Tel’aran’rhiod could be moved up. During his recent interview with the Empire Spoiler podcast, Rafe did mention that season two will have more Aiel than we might expect. The numerous fortresses could also serve as Falme or the Stone of Tear, which was briefly spotted in episode 6 of season one and is integral to the events of The Dragon Reborn.

The fact the production is using CLA Studios might indicate that there is a specific set already built there that they would like to use, because otherwise it would be logistically simpler to film in Prague at Jordan Studios or at barren outdoor locations in the Czech Republic.

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Interview #1 (2001):

QUESTION: Will there be more talk about necklines?

ROBERT JORDAN (paraphrased): Jordan answered something about it only being natural that men will notice such things. If a man sees a woman, the odds are that he'll notice things like her legs, and her mouth and her bosom. And women will notice necklines as well, usually thinking other things like, "could I wear that?"

Interview #2 (1996):

CHARLES DOCKENS JR.: Your female characters have so much feeling and emotion. How do you accomplish this as a male author?

ROBERT JORDAN: With difficulty. I'll tell you, when I was about four years old, I was picked up by a friend of my mother and she hugged me, she was wearing a soft, silky summer dress, and her perfume smelled life. And as she put me down, my face slipped between her breasts, and throughout the experience, I was thinking, "this is wonderful, this feels wonderful". And though I was four I found I wanted to spend my life observing these fascinating people, and I've learned that they look different, they feel different, they are different, and I've put all this into the books.

”ROBERT JORDAN” posted:

my face slipped between her breasts, and throughout the experience, I was thinking, "this is wonderful, this feels wonderful”

Hexel posted:

Hexel posted:

Holy poo poo CoT is tedious af

100 pages of rando Aes Sedai nattering in the tower until..a Gawyn chapter

Hexel posted:

At least Eggy finally made it to the tower. Doesn’t she manage to get captured while loving with the harbor chains?

Hexel posted:

And this dumbfuck Gawyn is still taking orders from Elaida even knowing she wants him dead

There has never been a more useless character in literature

goethe.cx posted:

Remind me, why does Elaida want him dead and how does he figure that out?

CainFortea posted:

She wants him dead because she's a loving idiot.

He figures it out because he gets sent on really stupid and useless missions that almost kill him like 5 times.

goethe.cx posted:

The first part goes without saying, but I forget her logic. Is it because she’s convinced the “royal blood of Andor” in her Foretelling is only Elayne and wants him out of the picture so he won’t interfere?

CainFortea posted:

Yes. That's it.

goethe.cx posted:

Lol that’s what I thought, but that seemed amazingly dumb even by Elaida’s standards. Welp,

The Notorious ZSB posted:

She never understood poo poo, but being constantly undermined by your #2 who is head of the black probably made her go dumber & wilder faster than she otherwise would have on her own. That is basically Eladia in a nutshell though, she was only dangerous because others propped her up and pulled her along further than she should have been because she was so easy to manipulate.

silvergoose posted:

Also Fain's influence cannot have helped.

DarkHorse posted:

Building a palace just for herself that was to be larger than the white tower, but without ogier masons or the Power to help was just nuts

The Notorious ZSB posted:

She never understood poo poo, but being constantly undermined by your #2 who is head of the black probably made her go dumber & wilder faster than she otherwise would have on her own. That is basically Eladia in a nutshell though, she was only dangerous because others propped her up and pulled her along further than she should have been because she was so easy to manipulate.