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I made the mistake of suggesting that if someone wanted Hulu without ads, they should pay for the ad-free tier. This made someone Big Mad.
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Nov 3, 2023 15:02
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Rarity posted:Yeah I'm totally fine with 2 year season cycles if it means CGI artists aren't being crunched As am I, but it also means I'll be dead before the show finishes.
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Nov 3, 2023 16:10
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Soonmot posted:As am I, but it also means I'll be dead before the show finishes. In all likelihood, so will a non-zero fraction of the cast. 14 years between the filming of seasons 1 and 8 is a long time for life to happen.
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Nov 3, 2023 16:58
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Grundulum posted:In all likelihood, so will a non-zero fraction of the cast. 14 years between the filming of seasons 1 and 8 is a long time for life to happen. Yeah, this is starting to feel like a "Uuh, did no one think of the logistics of this setup for even a second?" situation the longer it goes on.
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Nov 3, 2023 17:57
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Kinda implies they aren't planning on the full eight seasons either that or they're gonna film it all and release piecemeal.
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Nov 3, 2023 18:04
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I mean, as long as they continuously shoot every year, then the year delay wouldn't be a problem. They have just finished most of the shooting for season 3 (only some shooting in South Africa left), so one year later would be late 2024 or early 2025. We'll have to see and wait.
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Nov 3, 2023 18:18
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there's a lot of weird decisions in this show logistically. why decide to make the moiraine/siuan relationship more important while also casting someone who apparently can't film more than 1-2 episodes a season?
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Nov 3, 2023 18:19
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That seems much more to do with logically fitting Siuan into the story of those early books rather than logistics
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Rarity posted:That seems much more to do with logically fitting Siuan into the story of those early books rather than logistics
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Nov 3, 2023 18:35
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All this season two stuff was also totally upended during the frantic covid re-writes following Barney Harris leaving, shutdowns, etc, as well, so it's not like what we saw in s2 was the ideal vision they had planned from the get go, in terms of character availability.
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Nov 3, 2023 18:41
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Starting to make sense why they cut out Thom, his actor wouldn't live long enough.
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Nov 3, 2023 19:03
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Jeez yeah. It's Harry Potter all over again
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Nov 3, 2023 19:26
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Gwaihir posted:All this season two stuff was also totally upended during the frantic covid re-writes following Barney Harris leaving, shutdowns, etc, as well, so it's not like what we saw in s2 was the ideal vision they had planned from the get go, in terms of character availability. So S3 is when we can judge it fairly, got it.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Starting to make sense why they cut out Thom, his actor wouldn't live long enough. Thom is in S3. There was a post recently about how his actor just finished wrapping on the season.
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Rarity posted:Yeah I'm totally fine with 2 year season cycles if it means CGI artists aren't being crunched I'd be more happy to get 20+ episodes a year, every year. Just reduce CGI until that is possible, tia.
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Issaries posted:I'd be more happy to get 20+ episodes a year, every year. Yeah, it's the "I would like more games with worse graphics by better paid, less overworked artists" axiom, but for TV instead.
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Nov 5, 2023 07:39
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I want a tv series that leans into Avatar: The Last Airbender's "The Ember Island Players" motif, where they tell an epic story that features truly extraordinary magic represented by thrown paper streamers and such. But played 100% seriously, like that's the magic. It'd be so cheap to film.
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Nov 5, 2023 08:06
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80s style star trek forehead aliens for trollocs and 80s style phaser effects for spells would have been enough then they could have ended the series before the dragon needs a walker
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Nov 5, 2023 10:24
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ChubbyChecker posted:then they could have ended the series before the dragon needs a walker The dragon rides again on the rascal of time
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Nov 5, 2023 17:22
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It'd be kinda cool if they took the extra-long production times into account and made the events of the series cover a longer period of time. The book time scale is less than 3 years, iirc? And most of that is in the first three or four books. Having time skips where Rand and Egwene consolidate their power and learn to rule, Mat builds up the Band, etc, would be great to iron out some of the very quick development they go through (it's taveren, I know) and also explain why these kids are in their thirties by the time the last couple of seasons come out.
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Nov 5, 2023 17:32
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Pleads posted:I want a tv series that leans into Avatar: The Last Airbender's "The Ember Island Players" motif, where they tell an epic story that features truly extraordinary magic represented by thrown paper streamers and such. But played 100% seriously, like that's the magic. Ember Island Players works so well because it's a clip show presented through an unreliable narrator in the guise of theater. Watching 8 years of that would suck terribly.
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Nov 5, 2023 21:27
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I still can't believe how good the replacement Mat is. He absolutely nails the trickster character.
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Nov 5, 2023 21:32
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The little fingers thing he did before drinking the tea.
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Nov 5, 2023 21:33
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ManSedan posted:The little fingers thing he did before drinking the tea. "Mini-mini-Min!"
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Nov 5, 2023 22:31
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ManSedan posted:The little fingers thing he did before drinking the tea. He headbonks things. Like Rand or the stick. He's like a cat.
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DarkHorse posted:"Mini-mini-Min!"
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CainsDescendant posted:It'd be kinda cool if they took the extra-long production times into account and made the events of the series cover a longer period of time. The book time scale is less than 3 years, iirc? And most of that is in the first three or four books. Having time skips where Rand and Egwene consolidate their power and learn to rule, Mat builds up the Band, etc, would be great to iron out some of the very quick development they go through (it's taveren, I know) and also explain why these kids are in their thirties by the time the last couple of seasons come out. Maybe but I think you'd need to cut the Bowl of Winds/weather stuff for suspension of disbelief reasons. The books already have what, like a year of drought? Then an abnormally harsh over-correction winter followed up by a blight. Normally I'd ignore that kind of thing but when there are Perrin chapters on a quest for grain and Rand summoning manna for every town he passes through calling attention to it. I'm not a history buff but my impression is that a lot of the worst famines lasted like a season to a year tops.
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ragnarokette posted:Maybe but I think you'd need to cut the Bowl of Winds/weather stuff for suspension of disbelief reasons. The books already have what, like a year of drought? Then an abnormally harsh over-correction winter followed up by a blight. Normally I'd ignore that kind of thing but when there are Perrin chapters on a quest for grain and Rand summoning manna for every town he passes through calling attention to it. I'm not a history buff but my impression is that a lot of the worst famines lasted like a season to a year tops. I mean, would anyone really care if the Bowl of the Winds stuff was cut? Or just change what that whole quest was about so you still have the events surrounding it? The exact details of the drought/weather is not important to the story other than its effects on the characters, and you can replace it with something else.
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I think there's still room to do the bowl of the winds stuff, but seeing how S2 went I can also see them rolling the search for the bowl into the search for the male a'dam as well. Since they've already introduced the a'dam.
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Nov 11, 2023 20:21
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When the whole endless summer thing gets bad they'll mention that there's a legendary ter'angreal that affects the weather and just pull it out from under the Amyrlin Seat
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Just finished my first read, mostly loved it. What is everyone's thoughts on Taimandred? Did RJ really change the story because his message boards figured out his twist? lmao Taim, Logain and Rand not really ever having a big moment together is probably my biggest bitch about the story, and Demandred being the Big Bad in AMoL felt a little out of left field. Seems like Taim being Demandred would have made some of this make a lot more sense.
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I think it was pretty obviously changed. If it was because people were figuring it out or he wanted to include more of the Shara stuff and thought that'd be a better way to do it I dunno. Could go either way on that.
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I prefer to assume that he changed it because it was a really lazy and stupid idea, personally. Taim not being one of the original Chosen fits far better because it allows Rand to start making the same kind of unthinking mistakes LTT did.
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Gnoman posted:I prefer to assume that he changed it because it was a really lazy and stupid idea, personally. Taim not being one of the original Chosen fits far better because it allows Rand to start making the same kind of unthinking mistakes LTT did. But Rand does that almost from the first time he meets Taim. It’s doubly funny if it’s to the same person, because he isn’t even drawing consciously on LTT’s memories at that point. It’s just apparently part of the Dragon’s soul that Demandred/Taim/the #2 best person is ignored and guided toward the dark due to irritation/jealousy.
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I see value in both ways, either Rand doing LTT's mistakes all on his lonesome or Rand doing LTTs mistakes to the guy LTT did them to 3000 years ago.
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Nov 14, 2023 01:46
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There should have been more forsaken from the current era. It just makes sense. It was never supposed to be an exclusive title
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It’s fine either way. He’s pretty imposing when he does show up but there is a lot little hints early on Taim is Demandred. If he was Demandred he wouldn’t do much anyways so it’s kinda moot, just a little weird when you read LTT scream at Rand because he recognizes Demandred.
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Invalid Validation posted:It’s fine either way. He’s pretty imposing when he does show up but there is a lot little hints early on Taim is Demandred. If he was Demandred he wouldn’t do much anyways so it’s kinda moot, just a little weird when you read LTT scream at Rand because he recognizes Demandred. I always thought (after the fact) that I remembered LTT raging more about specific Asha'man and that it was supposed to be an indicator that they had maybe been turned already. I thought at first his rage at Taim was from some ability to see his connection to the shadow, like those wires of darkness Rand saw and severed around Ishamael and Asmodean.
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It’s been a while but I think he’s much more pointed when he’s talking to Taim early on. He wants to fry all Ashaman but he specifically goes pretty crazy about Taim. Like much more so than when he’s around Logain for instance.
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