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Good trailer overall with some intriguing shots, and they especially nailed the shadowspawn. The only stuff that looks concerning is some of the CGI and a few action shots, looked a bit amateurish or low budget.
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Sep 2, 2021 17:22
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I just saw the trailer and what the gently caress, this looks awesome???
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Sep 2, 2021 17:24
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JOHN SKELETON posted:Good trailer overall with some intriguing shots, and they especially nailed the shadowspawn. I think this is maybe what I was trying to convey. The trailer was well put together but there's something very B movie about the production design.
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Sep 2, 2021 17:27
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:I think this is maybe what I was trying to convey. The trailer was well put together but there's something very B movie about the production design.
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Sep 2, 2021 17:30
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CainsDescendant posted:I've been pissing and moaning about how dull and not colorful media has been for years, everything's always grey or all graded into some kind of monochrome. I'm very ready for something that has lots of bright colors, magic, epic fantasy! Big bright and bold is what I've been hoping for from this show and it looks like they might actually deliver Big same for me. I love the bright and colorful shots vs everything being muted/muddy/shades of brown and gray with washed out color grading.
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Sep 2, 2021 17:38
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Sep 2, 2021 17:55
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Omnomnomnivore posted:Alright they definitely cut a good trailer. The fade looks rad. See, I thought they were supposed to look almost exactly like a pale dude, just not having eyes. Otherwise what's the point of having the "No covering your face" rule in the Borderlands? It looks good, it just doesn't seem to fit for me. Same with the channeling, I'm hoping that's kind of slow-time to show what's going on. It's nitpicky I know, but it still looks really good and I'm really looking forward to an actual trailer.
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Sep 2, 2021 18:22
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Yoooooo, that was off the hook! This looks amazing and I can't loving wait. Trollocs! Fade! Hell yeah. So pumped. I just hope they don't get canceled or run out of money before the end.
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Sep 2, 2021 18:33
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The more times I watch it the more I like it, I'm afraid that my carefully cultivated un-hype is crumbling away
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Sep 2, 2021 18:35
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I just hope these no-namers can act, and that the dialogue is not something out of a CW show.
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Sep 2, 2021 18:43
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I am excited for this
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Sep 2, 2021 19:02
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Trailer looks good - does anyone else think it looks a bit too....I don't know, bright and polished, almost plastic? Every scene looks super bright, gives it a very PG13 look. yeah, but imo it feels novel compared to the usual fantasy stuff where everything is brown or grey
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Sep 2, 2021 20:03
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Hughmoris posted:I just hope these no-namers can act, and that the dialogue is not something out of a CW show.
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Sep 2, 2021 20:07
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th3t00t posted:Yep. Holding out hope that the writing and acting are both as good as the visuals. I was hoping that with how the promos for characters Rand, Mat and Perrin look very much like ‘pretty face brainless CW teenager’ that it wouldn’t be bad acting. (Although to be honest they do act kinda like brainless CW angsty teenagers in the books) The shot of Rand in the tavern with crazyface (at least at 14 seconds his face is lit weird) seems promising, looks like they chose someone who looks like they could progress from normal into ‘omg so crazy and on fire’ Goreld fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Sep 3, 2021 |
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Sep 2, 2021 20:25
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Sep 2, 2021 20:40
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Having seen the trailer I am definitely preserving my scepticism about the likely quality of this. I'm guessing it's going to be palatable but not very good. Basically all the voices all having standard posh RP 'I went straight from RADA to Hollywood' accents isn't great. Trollocs, well we didn't get a good look but they really are going to need to look proper hosed up to be at all scary and non-dumb-looking, and I'm not confident based on what was in that trailer. Fade looks pretty generic/uninspired. Give me an actual man's face with no eyes or some poo poo, something proper creepy, not B-movie alien/doctor who poo poo. They can redeem these things with decent shooting and editing though. But why show it now? Spoils the reveal. Maybe the Draghkar will be properly cool. One other thing I really would like them to do is to go to the effort of making the One Power not visible to non-power-wielders. But I suspect they haven't done that because they felt it would be too challenging. Don't know if there's an answer to this somewhere in an AMA or something. FLIPADELPHIA posted:Trailer looks good - does anyone else think it looks a bit too....I don't know, bright and polished, almost plastic? Every scene looks super bright, gives it a very PG13 look. Anyways, we'll see! There was good stuff in there too.
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Sep 2, 2021 20:58
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El Grillo posted:Basically all the voices all having standard posh RP 'I went straight from RADA to Hollywood' accents isn't great. I disagree with most of your post but I think we can agree on this point. I'm getting pretty sick of fantasy=non specific english accents for everyone. Hopefully we get proper southern drawls when appropriate in an upcoming season, though.
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Sep 2, 2021 21:05
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I'm excited to watch this show do great and then watch as it has a great ending because the author actually gave a poo poo about his series being finished by an author and not some lovely hbo writers
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Sep 2, 2021 21:08
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Apparently the first three episodes will drop on premiere date?CainsDescendant posted:I disagree with most of your post but I think we can agree on this point. I'm getting pretty sick of fantasy=non specific english accents for everyone. If people come from a total arse end of nowhere farming village I would love it if they sounded like it at least at first. Character progression can take many forms. Ah well. RC Cola posted:I'm excited to watch this show do great and then watch as it has a great ending because the author actually gave a poo poo about his series being finished by an author and not some lovely hbo writers Does anyone know anything about the writers/showrunners?
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Sep 2, 2021 21:12
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El Grillo posted:Does anyone know anything about the writers/showrunners? The lead writer was on season 11 of Survivor, he did pretty well
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Sep 2, 2021 21:17
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The shot of Egwene embracing the Source was a good visual. This trailer gives me a lot of hope that the show will be good.
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Sep 2, 2021 22:02
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El Grillo posted:Having seen the trailer I am definitely preserving my scepticism about the likely quality of this. I'm guessing it's going to be palatable but not very good. Yeah I've watched this a couple times and I agree with your take. There is a good compromise between "everything is covered in gray mud" to "this looks like it was made in 1993" and I hope they find it. The Aes Sedai should have fabulous clothes in certain scenes but they can easily go overboard and make the world unrelatable. Revealing the trollocs and the fades in the very first trailer is also a bit of a letdown IMO. No buildup whatsoever. Very "show the best parts in the trailer" vibes. Regardless, I'm still very excited and am glad the show looks at least somewhat promising.
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Sep 2, 2021 22:24
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If there weren't Trollocs and Fades or something sinister in the trailer it'd just look like a period piece; they kind of had to include something to establish that "yeah, there's some fantastical creatures and objectively evil poo poo going on and it's not just country bumpkins being led around by fancy people".
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Sep 2, 2021 22:27
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Yeah I've watched this a couple times and I agree with your take. Nah, we haven't even seen Thom or Fain yet. There's much more they still haven't shown.
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Sep 2, 2021 22:39
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Yeah I've got a feeling that just about everything we saw in the trailer is from the first three episodes that are gonna drop together. Ogier, The Ways, Fal Dara, the Blight, there's plenty of cool stuff to come.
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tsob posted:If there weren't Trollocs and Fades or something sinister in the trailer it'd just look like a period piece; they kind of had to include something to establish that "yeah, there's some fantastical creatures and objectively evil poo poo going on and it's not just country bumpkins being led around by fancy people".
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El Grillo posted:One other thing I really would like them to do is to go to the effort of making the One Power not visible to non-power-wielders. But I suspect they haven't done that because they felt it would be too challenging. You could have a collection of scenes showing women channeling, both from the perspective of normal people ("oh poo poo things are happening and I can't see what's causing them") and from the perspective of women who can see the flows ("ah, she's doing [X], I should do [Y] to help/counter that."), and then suddenly mix the two tones when it's something like Aes Sedai vs. Logain, "oh poo poo I can only see our weaves, he's unpredictable." El Grillo posted:I mean for a Brit it's basically like sitting and listening to incredibly posh/upper-class people for hours on end. So yeah it's pretty poo poo/unimaginative.
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Sep 3, 2021 03:25
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Yeah I've watched this a couple times and I agree with your take. It'd be weird if they didn't include the ubiquitous monsters that show up really early in the plot. Fellowship of the Ring put orcs and Nazgul straight up in the earliest trailers, why wouldn't their
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Need some Somerset accents in this thing, and then gradually move westwards across Wales, Ireland, eastern seaboard US and so on.
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Sep 3, 2021 03:54
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Killer robot posted:It'd be weird if they didn't include the ubiquitous monsters that show up really early in the plot. Fellowship of the Ring put orcs and Nazgul straight up in the earliest trailers, why wouldn't their True, but orcs and such are fairly standard fantasy fare that didn't have any shock or scare value for most people. In the novels, the build up to the first fade reveal is pretty awesome. I feel like showing a dark figure might have gotten the same point across, which I think they actually did elsewhere in the trailer. But yeah, they need to market the show. I get that.
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Sep 3, 2021 04:32
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I'm hyped that it looks good, ready for a new fantasy series after the letdown that was GoT.
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Sep 3, 2021 04:45
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I'm into this, tentatively, but I know the show is going to get slapped hard for the CGI and I'm really not there for that conversation. I'd rather a show go for it, and it look like Snowpiercer (the film), than concentrate its resources for the cost of less cool stuff.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:True, but orcs and such are fairly standard fantasy fare that didn't have any shock or scare value for most people. You greatly overestimate how much exposure the average moviegoer had to standard fantasy fare in 2001.
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Sep 3, 2021 04:58
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Isn't like almost every movie just so much cgi? Cheaper then building sets I guess.
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Sep 3, 2021 06:16
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Affi posted:Isn't like almost every movie just so much cgi? Cheaper then building sets I guess. is it cheaper?
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Interesting that the episode titles seem to strongly suggest that book 1 will be dealt with within the first four episodes: https://dragonmount.com/tv/s1/episodes/ Although elsewhere I've seen the Dragonmount folks suggest that season 1 focuses very much on book 1 and warning people not to read too much into the episode titles. If it is as the episode titles seem to suggest, that would be a pretty fast pace for a series I think.
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ChubbyChecker posted:is it cheaper? It is now, not so much in the past.
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