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Cause it still suffers from RJ's late book writing style where you get 5 pages of descriptions of types of lacquerware for every 1 page of plot
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crepeface posted:everything was good except the [...] forsaken scenes
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Sep 16, 2023 15:07
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Actually Mat is the best part of the books.
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Sep 16, 2023 15:22
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JOHN SKELETON posted:You must be a moon alien from a different dimension. The Forsaken are the best part of both the books and the show. it's pretty hard to make compelling mysterious bad guy archetypes at the best of times, let alone when book readers know how dumb they and their plans are. also: Invalid Validation posted:Actually Mat is the best part of the books.
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DTurtle posted:Man, this episode was just amazing from beginning to end. You weren't thinking about the a'dam correctly if you thought it was meant to come off. Goofballs posted:Not sure about Lanfear's Maleficent make over and crucifying Rand in the dream. He wasn't crucified. He's literally bound to the Wheel. Lanfear is making a point.
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Sep 16, 2023 17:55
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Jedit posted:You weren't thinking about the a'dam correctly if you thought it was meant to come off. It is meant to come off. Once they've used that damane until her death. No reason to waste a perfectly good a'dam!
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Sep 16, 2023 18:02
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Well then you just cut her head off, easy peasy
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Sep 16, 2023 18:05
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I've been thinking about how to show the Cleansing. Sit Rand and Nynaeve down, point heat lamps at them, feed them 20 cups of coffee, and make them stay put for 6 hours then start filming at the last 20 minutes.
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Sep 16, 2023 19:24
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WELL. That was something. What a fabulous episode. Clapped my hands with glee when Aviendha turned up and introduced herself 
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Sep 16, 2023 19:53
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Has the show explicitly stated yet that nobody is so far gone to the Dark that they cannot return to the Light?
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Grundulum posted:Has the show explicitly stated yet that nobody is so far gone to the Dark that they cannot return to the Light? I think Ingtar hinted at that when Perrin asked why they were taking the time to bury known darkfriends, but I don't recall anyone using that exact phrasing. One thing I am noticing, though, with the culling of characters is that almost every named Aes Sedai is going to be Black Ajah if they stick to the books. So I'm guessing they're gonna have to change that up somehow, or it'll end up being everyone they run into is a darkfriend.
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Sep 16, 2023 21:15
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To be fair it kind of explains why this massive organization of wizards is pretty useless.
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Morrow posted:To be fair it kind of explains why this massive organization of wizards is pretty useless. Also yknow . . Whitecloaks had a point
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Also yknow . . Whitecloaks had a point https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576
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CuriousSymptoms posted:WELL. That was something. What a fabulous episode. Clapped my hands with glee when Aviendha turned up and introduced herself 
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Torrannor posted:I generally like CoT, but I can understand everybody who thinks it's a slog, as well as quite large stretches of 7-9. But KoD has a ton of stuff happening, and a lot of plot threads being resolved, I'm honestly surprised somebody would call it "75% annoying fluff". There's a lot of stuff in those books that could be condensed quite a bit and still keep some really good bits. Mat really starts to come into his own, Rand goes through a lot of dark poo poo, Nynaeve and Egwene have a lot of development but you could still dump a bunch and get all of that.
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Invalid Validation posted:Actually Mat is the best part of the books. Mat beating up the boys, after rising from his sickbed, specifically. Thom stacking bodies while being too old for this poo poo is the best part of the Sanderson books.
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Sep 17, 2023 04:10
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hootin' and hollerin' for aviendha
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Rarity posted:Galad is this guy This actor would make a great child of Liandrin's. Just look at those cheekbones! Or he could be a relative of this guy 
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I assume this show is dipping in to (and possibly depleting) some sort of national strategic reserves of jawlines.
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The show is just as horny as the books, but instead of hair pulling and spanking it's for the female gaze. But why male models?
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Morrow posted:The show is just as horny as the books, but instead of hair pulling and spanking it's for the female gaze. There was a lot of that in the books too, though. Admiring calves and eyebrows and bottoms and all that.
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Sep 18, 2023 14:07
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“He imagined he would find him attractive, if he were a woman” Lot of that
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Data Graham posted:“He imagined he would find him attractive, if he were a woman” I swear to god we'd better get pansexual Mat
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Sep 18, 2023 14:29
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The TV series is making me seriously interested in doing a re-read. Though the series is doing such a good job with the characters I have a feeling the book versions would disappoint me.
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The TV show is extremely good at capturing the spirit of the characters, so it's kind of like a distilled version of them.
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Rarity posted:I swear to god we'd better get pansexual Mat They've apparently cast a dude as aludra so signs are lookin good
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:They've apparently cast a dude as aludra so signs are lookin good Aludran was Liandrin's 90 year old son, not genderbent Aludra
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pik_d posted:Aludran was Liandrin's 90 year old son, not genderbent Aludra Tbf he could also be genderbent Aludra, we don't know
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The decision to name him aludran baffles me. They could have named him anything but they went for a name 1 letter off another character despite renaming a warder for being too similar to another character
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Nihilarian posted:The decision to name him aludran baffles me. They could have named him anything but they went for a name 1 letter off another character despite renaming a warder for being too similar to another character
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CainFortea posted:If they're not having aludra on it at all it could have been a pump fake or just a nod to the character I really hope it's just them trolling us, his name was never said on screen, and I really like Aludra.
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Nihilarian posted:The decision to name him aludran baffles me. They could have named him anything but they went for a name 1 letter off another character despite renaming a warder for being too similar to another character You say this as if the source material doesn't have Siuan and Seaine and Saerin and Shiaine
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Colonel Cool posted:Non book-reading wife's predictions after the latest episode. Please keep doing these. They're wonderful. What I bolded? Amazing.
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Rarity posted:You say this as if the source material doesn't have Siuan and Seaine and Saerin and Shiaine
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That character's name wasn't spoken anyway.
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Nihilarian posted:The decision to name him aludran baffles me. They could have named him anything but they went for a name 1 letter off another character despite renaming a warder for being too similar to another character Liandrin and Aludra are both from Tarabon. How many names do we have in this world that are genderflipped by adding a letter? It's a nod to the books, and it does suggest that Aludra won't be included, but it's not dumb.
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RembrandtQEinstein posted:Who? I'm not familiar with that character in the Wheel of Time show. Must have been a bit role or something. Peter Franzén ... Stepin 3 episodes, 2021 Alexandre Willaume ... Thom Merrilin 2 episodes, 2021  I'll hang up and listen.
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Jedit posted:Liandrin and Aludra are both from Tarabon. How many names do we have in this world that are genderflipped by adding a letter? It's a nod to the books, and it does suggest that Aludra won't be included, but it's not dumb. If this is the case, and I don't think it is, it's the clumsiest, most pointless "nod" they could possibly have done. I'd be more likely to believe it if she'd mentioned him being an Illuminator.
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My new head canon is that Ishamael is ace because all he cares about is ending the world and he has no time for love.
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