Atlas Hugged posted:I've talked to people for whom the politics did not go over their heads and they fall into two camps: Username post combo holy lol
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 14:06 |
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i have only the barest contact with sword of truth but lmao that tracks
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 14:11 |
I basically don't remember the first 6 books at all.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 14:18 |
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Pleads posted:I have never heard of Gene Wolfe, Shadow of the Torturer is not available at any library in my city of 1.3 million, and Amazon(.ca) doesn't have a physical version of it for less than $140. A city with 1.3 million people must have at least one used book store or thrift shop.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 14:18 |
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Gawyns supposed to be handsome though. Cole Sprouse as Galad KJ Apa as Gawyn Timothée Chalamet is also close to my head canon for Galad.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 14:24 |
th3t00t posted:Cole Sprouse as Galad Chalmette is pretty enough but it's the wrong kind of pretty. I think galad is supposed to be blonde bishonen pretty like that Swedish dude who was in Death in Venice.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 16:31 |
Ah yes, blonde bishonen pretty,
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 16:39 |
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I see Christiano Ronaldo in my minds eye for galad - dark, graceful, super athlete
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 16:41 |
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"he was almost too handsome for masculinity."
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 16:51 |
Hooplah posted:Ah yes, blonde bishonen pretty, Wheel of Time is basically an anime
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 16:53 |
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:"he was almost too handsome for masculinity." the dark one's touch on the pattern is strong...
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 16:53 |
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https://www.gq.com/story/inside-ama...m_medium=social good pics here imo
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 17:06 |
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buffalo all day posted:https://www.gq.com/story/inside-ama...m_medium=social That's a nice find. I know we already saw them in the BTS thing posted a short time ago, but these Children of the Light look pretty good. Not how I envisioned them when reading the books, but the aesthetics is unique and appropriate for what they are trying to represent. The Waygate is functional, but doesn't evoke the Ogier crafted feeling that it's supposed to. Sophie Okonedo looks great as Siuan Sanche. Her clothing is pretty cool, certainly gives the feeling that this is what a proper fantasy pope wears.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 17:11 |
Hieronymous Alloy posted:Wheel of Time is basically an anime An Isekai thanks to the reincarnation.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 17:25 |
quote:Daniel Henney, who plays a character called Lan Mandragoran, told me that he was getting used to his new life here. “I was on a show for six years in L.A.,” he said. “When I was done with that, I was ready to try something very different.” He paused to indicate the mud and the woods and the Eastern Europe of it all. “And this is very different.” He said the hardest part of being over here was figuring out how to eat like an actor from Los Angeles. He would kill for some Sweetgreen. “I've got a naked hot tub scene coming up,” he said, even as he was being inundated with dumplings and sausage. “What the gently caress?” lol
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 17:28 |
Torrannor posted:
I like the way it looks, but how are they going to seal them? There's no door like in the books, maybe it just stops working if you take off the leaf but I liked the idea of a door opening up so you didn't just accidentally fall through.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 17:33 |
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eke out posted:lol I see there will be more equal opportunity nudity than in the books.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 17:38 |
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Torrannor posted:I see there will be more equal opportunity nudity than in the books. That was actually in the first book, the boys all got naked and took baths in Baerlon and Matt nearly told the attendant about all of the crazy poo poo they had been through
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 18:07 |
Hieronymous Alloy posted:Wheel of Time is basically an anime Time to toss the dovie'andi [RJ note: Dovie'andi means dice]
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 18:09 |
The Glumslinger posted:That was actually in the first book, the boys all got naked and took baths in Baerlon and Matt nearly told the attendant about all of the crazy poo poo they had been through Also it's referenced plenty of times, with the mixed baths in Fal Dara, sweat tents in the waste, Aiel jumping out of blankets naked to fight trollocs, etc.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 18:57 |
The Glumslinger posted:That was actually in the first book, the boys all got naked and took baths in Baerlon and Matt nearly told the attendant about all of the crazy poo poo they had been through I loved that it mirrored LOTR in that way. First leg of the journey done, time for a bath. But less singing and more shouting at Mat.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 19:21 |
Invalid Validation posted:It took till the book that he did an atlas shrugged knockoff and spent like 1000 pages carving a statue while lamenting communism for me to start questioning the bullshit. I get it.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 19:51 |
Nitrousoxide posted:An Isekai thanks to the reincarnation. Nah. Implicit in isekai is being able to bring across useful knowledge or perspectives from the original world. All the main WoT characters, even the ones like Rand and Mat who can access their previous lives are still native to that era of Randland and their perspectives are of Two Rivers kids with occasional insights into the past, not Age of Legends folks trying to adapt to the Third Age. If anything, it's the Forsaken who are living in an isekai, but since they're antagonists and we only get their perspectives rarely, their presence doesn't make Wheel of Time itself an isekai series.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 21:03 |
Oh word
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 21:16 |
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jng2058 posted:Nah. Implicit in isekai is being able to bring across useful knowledge or perspectives from the original world. All the main WoT characters, even the ones like Rand and Mat who can access their previous lives are still native to that era of Randland and their perspectives are of Two Rivers kids with occasional insights into the past, not Age of Legends folks trying to adapt to the Third Age.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 22:09 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Chalmette is pretty enough but it's the wrong kind of pretty. I think galad is supposed to be blonde bishonen pretty like that Swedish dude who was in Death in Venice. using anime words is fitting because the kid was underage
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 22:14 |
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I'm very much looking forward to seeing the dragon tattoos on Rand's actor. They need to be appropriately shiny or I will be upset.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 22:37 |
Torrannor posted:I'm very much looking forward to seeing the dragon tattoos on Rand's actor. They need to be appropriately shiny or I will be upset. If they don't sparkle it'll be a failure. Put them on him but use the VFX to give them an ethereal quality.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 22:59 |
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The Notorious ZSB posted:If they don't sparkle it'll be a failure. Put them on him but use the VFX to give them an ethereal quality. And they must be wingless dragons, but I'm not worried on that front. Eastern dragons are surely easier to fit on arms than western ones.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 23:12 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Chalmette is pretty enough but it's the wrong kind of pretty. There is very little pretty in Chalmette:
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 23:28 |
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eke out posted:lol “I say sometimes that showrunning is basically just laying your body over the show and trying to protect it as you take 10,000 swords into your back,” Judkins told me wearily one day over the phone. He said he'd had his assistant keep track of how many suggestions Amazon had had, just for the pilot. In the end “we got 11,000 notes,” Judkins said. Actual number. “Even if I only do like a 10th of those, that's still like multiple notes per second,” he said. Executives had questions about individual shots and how the show was depicting magic. They had questions about style and tone. And they were friendly questions, but they were also infinite, and every time Judkins got one—usually while he was on some faraway set full of new and different problems to solve—he had to consider whether it was worth doing or whether to dig in. “It's very hard to take your little precious kernel of an idea and deliver it at the end of the production-and-notes process,” he said. I would pay to see what tech execs think is good storytelling. Please, for the mother of god, I'd pay!!!
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 23:29 |
Torrannor posted:I'm very much looking forward to seeing the dragon tattoos on Rand's actor. They need to be appropriately shiny or I will be upset. they need to be so bright they're blinding people and there's an ongoing joke of people shielding their eyes from them, including rahvin losing to rand because of it
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 23:47 |
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Because of Wheel Takes, I am finally watching Winter Dragon. I'm a little over halfway through and I'm honestly pretty impressed, given that I assume they had almost no budget. Also, god drat I am in love with Billy Zane's Ishamael. I never would've thought to give him an exasperated "are you loving serious?" tone when speaking to Lews Therin and it's amazing. edit: "If you'll excuse me old friend, I have to join my family." Vavrek fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Oct 20, 2021 |
# ? Oct 20, 2021 00:21 |
Zane should be one of the Forsaken. Winter Dragon wasn't great, but he saved it singlehandedly. Though I do like the shot where Lews Therin looks into the mirror and the camera swings around to show reality.
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# ? Oct 20, 2021 00:29 |
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Zane should be one of the Forsaken. Winter Dragon wasn't great, but he saved it singlehandedly. Though I do like the shot where Lews Therin looks into the mirror and the camera swings around to show reality. Is Zane a big fan or something? It makes no sense that they paid him to do that given the budget on the project.
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# ? Oct 20, 2021 00:36 |
Yeah I actually go back and scrub through to some of Zane's lines in winter dragon from time to time, he really kinda nailed it.
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# ? Oct 20, 2021 00:39 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Wheel of Time is basically an anime if by some fantastic mistake i become a billionaire, this is absolutely the thing i will spend into existence RE: Wheel Takes. Ali sounds like Leslie Knope often. And she just toes the line of "too theater-girl for me to feel positively about". When she sings it reminds me of jenna from 30 rock. her reads do tend to be pretty good still, I'm partway through TDR
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# ? Oct 20, 2021 00:43 |
I want the sword fights to be them shouting the name of the move, and each move being some ridiculously stylized motion, overlaid with a clip of an actual boar rushing down a mountain, etc
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# ? Oct 20, 2021 01:26 |
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I want the sword fights to be them shouting the name of the move, and each move being some ridiculously stylized motion, overlaid with a clip of an actual boar rushing down a mountain, etc I want it to be like a JRPG where the target doesn't move and the charging boar just tramples over them.
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# ? Oct 20, 2021 02:21 |
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I choose you Boar rushing down the Mountain!!!
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# ? Oct 20, 2021 06:31 |