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You could also pretty easily flesh out the sequel Year of the Griffin into a full on magic school series. I'm honestly a bit surprised it was never really optioned during the big wave of Harry Potter fever.
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Stopped reading about 15 pages ago to skip ahead: does anyone else get the sense that Rand's polygamy wouldn't play well so they'll pair off Aviendha with Perrin and Min with Mat? Obviously a huge change in many respects but would cut down on an ever-increasing cast and avoid the whole harem quagmire.
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Oct 12, 2023 05:32
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regulargonzalez posted:Stopped reading about 15 pages ago to skip ahead: does anyone else get the sense that Rand's polygamy wouldn't play well so they'll pair off Aviendha with Perrin and Min with Mat? Obviously a huge change in many respects but would cut down on an ever-increasing cast and avoid the whole harem quagmire. They already cast Faile so the first seems very unlikely at this point.
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Oct 12, 2023 05:35
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regulargonzalez posted:Stopped reading about 15 pages ago to skip ahead: does anyone else get the sense that Rand's polygamy wouldn't play well so they'll pair off Aviendha with Perrin and Min with Mat? Obviously a huge change in many respects but would cut down on an ever-increasing cast and avoid the whole harem quagmire. I recall an interview or AMA or something with Rafe where he said they wanted to keep the poly aspect but change it to something a lot less harem fantasy and more something that all parties are invested in. I tried to find it a few weeks ago but couldn't so it's entirely possible I'm remembering something wrong. But I definitely don't get the vibe that Aviendha has any romantic interest in Perrin. Bain might tho. Chiad will not care.
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regulargonzalez posted:Stopped reading about 15 pages ago to skip ahead: does anyone else get the sense that Rand's polygamy wouldn't play well so they'll pair off Aviendha with Perrin and Min with Mat? Obviously a huge change in many respects but would cut down on an ever-increasing cast and avoid the whole harem quagmire. No I think that's why they had included the gay/poly warders earlier on, to balance out the rand poly thing.
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Oct 12, 2023 05:55
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Killer robot posted:They already cast Faile so the first seems very unlikely at this point. If there ever was a character that could have been safely cut this would have been it.
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Oct 12, 2023 06:00
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Oasx posted:If there ever was a character that could have been safely cut this would have been it. Gawyn. He's just so pointless. Which I get it's the whole subversion of the Prince Main Character trope but gently caress he's just so dumb and full of idiotic betrayal.
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CainFortea posted:Gawyn. He's just so pointless. Which I get it's the whole subversion of the Prince Main Character trope but gently caress he's just so dumb and full of idiotic betrayal. Dude lived stupid and died stupid. Not a single braincell in that head.
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Devorum posted:Dude lived stupid and died stupid. Not a single braincell in that head.
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Devorum posted:Dude lived stupid and died stupid. Not a single braincell in that head. He is not Kenough.
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CainFortea posted:He is not Kenough.
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regulargonzalez posted:Stopped reading about 15 pages ago to skip ahead: does anyone else get the sense that Rand's polygamy wouldn't play well so they'll pair off Aviendha with Perrin and Min with Mat? Obviously a huge change in many respects but would cut down on an ever-increasing cast and avoid the whole harem quagmire. quote:Question vvvvvvvvvv nine-gear crow posted:"The lack of commitment to bigamy on the part of the showrunners generated outrage among fans" is certainly... a thing... I guess.  I mean I get it from a „staying true to the books“ standpoint, but taking it 1:1 from the books would really not go over well nowadays. DTurtle fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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DTurtle posted:From Here: "The lack of commitment to bigamy on the part of the showrunners generated outrage among fans" is certainly... a thing... I guess.
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Oct 12, 2023 07:14
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KilGrey posted:I’m trying to remember a depressing as gently caress series I read when I was young…gay protagonist with a magic horse? Another of her series was weird and had Griffins and poo poo. I just remember them being very dark and sad. You are remembering the last herald mage trilogy. It is, in fact, pretty depressing.
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Mercedes Lackey is a talented writer that writes depressing stuff. If you’re into that, enjoy, else avoid. She’s like an older, grimmer, sadder Seanan McGuire writing mostly pure fantasy instead of urban fantasy.
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Oct 12, 2023 13:42
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Man they need to rename The Gathering Storm the Egwene Al Vera Own Zone
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CainFortea posted:Gawyn. He's just so pointless. Which I get it's the whole subversion of the Prince Main Character trope but gently caress he's just so dumb and full of idiotic betrayal. Yeah TGS is chapter after chapter of escalating plotlines and it's keeps awkwardly braking to talk about this Gawayn idiot. We don't need to know about him! He sucks!
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Oct 12, 2023 13:49
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you: theres nothing the show can offer me that the books don’t also provide Me: 
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Oct 12, 2023 14:10
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Oct 12, 2023 14:52
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Starting to see more reactions, and positive ones, from higher profile critics. Like this one from Kathryn VanArendonk. https://twitter.com/vulture/status/1712151936701534395?s=46
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Oct 12, 2023 18:21
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buffalo all day posted:you: theres nothing the show can offer me that the books don’t also provide She might be showing too much rounded flesh but goddamn if she doesn't have a well-turned, uh... I ran out of RJ adjectives
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Oct 12, 2023 18:36
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:She might be showing too much rounded flesh but goddamn if she doesn't have a well-turned, uh... I ran out of RJ adjectives Fifty four page bath scene making more sense
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Oct 12, 2023 18:39
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Big Mutha Truckers 2 posted:Just reread Verin's final scene. So many tears.
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Nihilarian posted:i'm pretty sure Egwene says the opposite You're correct; Verin says tell everyone my soul was brown and Egwene says no, it's as white as the light. That always bugged me. Let Verin be her chosen ajah! The light doesn't need to be pure white.
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Brandon Sanderson is doing a live stream tonight with Matt Hatch and Daniel Greene to discuss the season finale if anyone is interested. (I guess Greene is a YouTuber and I think Hatch does the Dusty Wheel YouTube?) https://www.youtube.com/live/ylnkmh6BZtU?si=B4xWkXqW0dETGoMy Goes live in about 6 hours. KilGrey fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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Oct 12, 2023 19:45
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I believe Greene is a published author as well, on top of being a youtuber
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Nihilarian posted:I believe Greene is a published author as well, on top of being a youtuber Yeah but the YouTube came first. That said he's a big WoT fan and he seems like a decent guy -- not a chud . He was barely positive about the first season -essentially saying that it had a lot ofnroom to improve -- but has been grudgingly enthusiastic about the second.
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Holy poo poo! I just checked out The Dusty Wheel. Some of their episode reactions clock in at over 6 hours? I love WoT as much as the next person, but I can’t imagine what there is to talk about for 6 hours straight, even as a show enjoyer. Even the shorter ones are a few hours. Are they worth a watch?
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Oct 12, 2023 21:31
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Thread getting horny
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Further into TGS (ala the Egwene Al Vera Own Zone) and I feel like the dialogue heavy, long speeches that knock people back with their eruditeness, thing that Sanderson is doing is kinda breaking my immersion a little. A little too perfect protagonist thing. It's a bit noticeable with Egwene and Elaida's confrontation for example. Jordan did a bit of that, esp with Mat. But with Jordan usually it's bracketed with heaps of personal narration counteracting what's actually being said, dampening the stilted Mary Sue/John Galt speech pitfalls. Not saying it's happening here, just that Sanderson's style makes me more aware of the possibility.
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KilGrey posted:Are they worth a watch? KilGrey posted:Some of their episode reactions clock in at over 6 hours? I think you answered your own question.
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KilGrey posted:Holy poo poo! I just checked out The Dusty Wheel. Some of their episode reactions clock in at over 6 hours? I love WoT as much as the next person, but I can’t imagine what there is to talk about for 6 hours straight, even as a show enjoyer. Even the shorter ones are a few hours. Are they worth a watch? But yes, that is a long time. If you have time and/or need a distraction/something running in the background they are usually quite good. DTurtle fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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I mean, between my private chats, forum posts, discord chats, and making/sharing memes, I probably spend the same amount of time per episode talking about the episode. But I can not watch someone else just talking about it for that long.
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thrawn527 posted:I think you answered your own question. They go way too deep in the weeds for me but if you want what they're selling they have lots of it. I appreciated their takedown of the "rj would've cast aryans in every role" shitheads. Hatch went through in detail start to finish including background notes etc. And explained why and how WoT was always envisioned as a multi racial epic, egwene and Perrin were always "brown", etc.
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Shageletic posted:Thread getting horny Robert Jordan shelters this thread in the sweaty palm of his hand.
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buffalo all day posted:Robert Jordan shelters this thread in the sweaty palm of his hand. Man I was chuckling when I found out the Aes Sedai test requires nudity E: at least for Moiraine
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buffalo all day posted:Robert Jordan shelters this thread in the sweaty palm of his hand. There is always horny in the Wheel of Time
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DarkHorse posted:There is always horny in the Wheel of Time I just got to Cadsuane....speaking Semirhage Jesus christ. I barked out laughing in public for that one
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:They go way too deep in the weeds for me but if you want what they're selling they have lots of it. Got a link to that by chance? I have an intense hunger to see people ruthlessly poo poo on people like Shad Brooks for being trinary hybrid Racism, Misogyny and Queerphobia Elementals. Gross cocksmears like that can't get dunked on enough as far as I'm concerned.
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nine-gear crow posted:Got a link to that by chance? I have an intense hunger to see people ruthlessly poo poo on people like Shad Brooks for being trinary hybrid Racism, Misogyny and Queerphobia Elementals. Gross cocksmears like that can't get dunked on enough as far as I'm concerned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7lDwNU770 Easiest link I could find is actually Daniel Greene and Mat Hatch working together.
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