How are u posted:In the clip they just played Lan and Moirane introduce themselves with their actual names, to the Emond's Fielders. In the books they didn't have any problems with using Moiraine/Lan in Emond's Field, and only adopt Alys/Andra in the bigger towns. They didn't advertise being Aes Sedai and Warder but also never really hid it. (until the jig was up during Winternight)
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:In the books they didn't have any problems with using Moiraine/Lan in Emond's Field, and only adopt Alys/Andra in the bigger towns. They didn't advertise being Aes Sedai and Warder but also never really hid it. ah poo poo, my b
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bella being played by a male horse, immersion ruined they're talking about how he was the fartiest horse lol
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from looks and the description of "very important person" alone, i'm guessing natasha o'keefe is lanfear or another female forsaken also elayne confirmed to be that redhead on set that looked suspiciously like elayne https://twitter.com/TheWheelOfTime/status/1446553484434698241
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e: you switched your tweet ^^^ ![]() Gotta be Verin and, uh, Lanfear? Yeah that seems possibly right.
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Oh poo poo Meera Syal rules! She'd be such a great Verin
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Rarity posted:Oh poo poo Meera Syal rules! She'd be such a great Verin yeah she absolutely has the right energy for verin
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I'm not familiar with any of those actresses, but Natasha seems to have a really cool gaze that would be an excellent Lanfear
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Is it me or does that clip they posted show way too many people in the inn? I’m doing a re-read and the amount of people they show in Emond’s Field is how I was picturing Baerlon.
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Crini posted:Is it me or does that clip they posted show way too many people in the inn? I’m doing a re-read and the amount of people they show in Emond’s Field is how I was picturing Baerlon. Eh, naw. That's like, a significant percentage of the town, but it's one of the three major holidays, everyone's in town and such.
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silvergoose posted:Eh, naw. That's like, a significant percentage of the town, but it's one of the three major holidays, everyone's in town and such. I don’t know. It’s not exactly as I’ve pictured it in my head. And they are simply entertainment professionals with a history of making creative entertainment whereas I am an internet weirdo posting on a forum. I think we both know who’s more qualified to adapt these books to television….
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Has Min been announced? Meera for Verin was my first thought too. Edit: nvm, I thought Ceara was the big pic, but that’s Natasha. Lanfear fits well. latinotwink1997 fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Oct 8, 2021 |
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Crini posted:I don’t know. It’s not exactly as I’ve pictured it in my head. And they are simply entertainment professionals with a history of making creative entertainment whereas I am an internet weirdo posting on a forum. The Two Rivers is isolated but people aren't marrying cousins due to the small population, plus they fight off the Trollocs in book 4 so there needs to be at least 6-700 people in the wider area.
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sorry if this was posted and i am somehow missing it https://twitter.com/TheWheelOfTime/status/1446545085689057285?s=20
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Youtube link because Twitter's video playback is atrocious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIMkfP4JsxU
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word, yeah tv thread says crossposted anyway I got some pretty good tinglies from it, i wonder if nyn will be a beltknife grabber instead of a braid tugger
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I realise it won't be the same for all of them, but I'd be bloody hard-pressed to put an age to Rosamund.
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The tone for that clip is a little over-dramatic, something just feels off about introducing Moiraine with a big dramatic entrance.
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I did enjoy Rand and Perrin as wallflowers while Mat was chatting up a lady.
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Definitely not how I pronounce Mandragoran
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Man dra GOR an? That's how I've always heard it, but what's said there seems in line with how it's pronounced in the audiobooks.
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i feel pretty confident that they're probably pronouncing them the way that the people in the know want them to be doing it
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Not So Fast posted:The tone for that clip is a little over-dramatic, something just feels off about introducing Moiraine with a big dramatic entrance. Is that Egwene grasping the hilt of a dagger when Lan comes in? If so, why? In the first book no one carries a weapon, other than quarter staff or bow, until the ‘town watch’ is set up. The existence of Tam’s sword or that axe that Perrin ends up with makes it sound like weapons are rare and never displayed openly by locals. I do like the touch that Moiraine’s ring has a blue stone.
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Johnny Joestar posted:i feel pretty confident that they're probably pronouncing them the way that the people in the know want them to be doing it Although it's interesting that it's pronounced like Moira, wherein the glossaries it's said to be Mwah-raine
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Crini posted:Is that Egwene grasping the hilt of a dagger when Lan comes in? If so, why? In the first book no one carries a weapon, other than quarter staff or bow, until the ‘town watch’ is set up. The existence of Tam’s sword or that axe that Perrin ends up with makes it sound like weapons are rare and never displayed openly by locals. It's Nynaeve, and it looks like the type of utility knife you'd keep on your belt that would be pretty useful in day to day life in the 18th century.
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How are u posted:It's Nynaeve, and it looks like the type of utility knife you'd keep on your belt that would be pretty useful in day to day life in the 18th century. Why is Nynaeve working at the inn? I think I’m being unnecessarily harsh on what I’ve seen of the show. I really need to try to watch it as if I’d never read the books.
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Crini posted:Why is Nynaeve working at the inn? Pretty much the whole town was at the inn because of the holiday.
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Both Egwene and Nynaeve are in the scene. Egwene is tending tables. Nynaeve shows up defensively when the stranger walks in. They are wearing two different colour dresses.
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Egwene and Nynaeve brandishing their belt knives at bad guys was a pretty big part of most encounters early on in EotW as well. I love how a lot of the nitpicky complaints I've been seeing are coming from folks that clearly haven't read the books in a long time.
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CainsDescendant posted:Egwene and Nynaeve brandishing their belt knives at bad guys was a pretty big part of most encounters early on in EotW as well. I love how a lot of the nitpicky complaints I've been seeing are coming from folks that clearly haven't read the books in a long time. I know I’m not being fair to the show. If WOT on Amazon was a to-the-last-detail faithful retelling of the books it would suck a la the first two Harry Potter movies, not to mention be ridiculously long. If they manage to cut it down and make an enjoyable fantasy series like the first few seasons of GOT then only people (like me) who can’t let go of the fact that everything on the page isn’t on screen will complain. I’ve just got to let the differences go.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:The Two Rivers is isolated but people aren't marrying cousins due to the small population, plus they fight off the Trollocs in book 4 so there needs to be at least 6-700 people in the wider area. I love Rand's brief moment of panic later in the series when somebody refers to Morgase and Tigraine as "cousins." Explicit textual proof that the Two Rivers has a taboo against that sort of thing!
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Crini posted:I know I’m not being fair to the show. I wasn't really calling you out specifically, I've been seeing a lot of similar complaints all over the place since the video dropped and it's been bugging me a little. I definitely sympathize with your viewpoint here, every little change I'm seeing makes me tense up but I'm doing my best to stay limp and let whatever happens happen. I don't think it's going to straight up suck, but based on everything I've seen it's certainly going to be very different and that's going to take effort to make peace with.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:The Two Rivers is isolated but people aren't marrying cousins due to the small population, plus they fight off the Trollocs in book 4 so there needs to be at least 6-700 people in the wider area. I'd always imagined it to be a few thousand
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Crini posted:Is it me or does that clip they posted show way too many people in the inn? I’m doing a re-read and the amount of people they show in Emond’s Field is how I was picturing Baerlon. baerlon has five or six establishments like this one or bigger and emonds field has one. that's the first long clip of the show I think I've seen. i read this book when I was eight or nine years old. if it's melodramatic and bad, well, that's the series, but I never seriously thought I'd get the opportunity to ever see it like this!!
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latinotwink1997 posted:Definitely not how I pronounce Mandragoran The glossary in the books has it as man-DRAG-or-an, which is exactly how he pronounces it. It's bugging me that Perrin is taller than Rand.
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Crini posted:I know I’m not being fair to the show. Never, ever forgive them for clearly showing mortared stonework at the white towers Shining walls my foot, that's an insult to the Ogier to show that poo poo
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Crini posted:Is it me or does that clip they posted show way too many people in the inn? I’m doing a re-read and the amount of people they show in Emond’s Field is how I was picturing Baerlon. It feels more like a Baerlon Inn to me yeah but they cut Baerlon for the show I believe and making the two rivers more baerlon sized helps a bit with the latter parts. Also the winespring is supposed to be unusually large; it's an ancient survival.
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interesting that the winespring inn serves brandy
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What encourages me is that they did a full song in the Old Tongue, which in turn suggests that they may have enough of the language devised to have Mat spouting off in it once in awhile!
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:The Two Rivers is isolated but people aren't marrying cousins due to the small population, plus they fight off the Trollocs in book 4 so there needs to be at least 6-700 people in the wider area. There's enough people that with just Watch Hill + Emonds Field that after like a weeklong(?) siege by thousands of trollocs they still had enough manpower left that 400 mounted, armored whitecloaks were chased out of town without a fight. There's got to be thousands of people living in the Two Rivers, tens of thousands when the refugees start flowing in.
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