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Heavy Metal posted:I'm a gay friendly friend of the gays, very gay friends, liberal etc, at least 10% gay. But an artistic choice and how it's presented, it's made apparently political, so anybody who says hmm I'm not into this choice, treated like a Maga chud assclown or whatever. But uh I like softcore that appeals to me, if for some reason the show we're talking about has softcore or whatever. honestly a very weird first post in the thread lmao
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This is SA, you gotta get in front of these things. It is ad hominem o'clock when you talk about something pertaining to the issues in art/entertainment. Glad I could amuse you! Like Joe Pesci! Part of the post was supposed to be funny, so yeah! I'm with it! Totally cool, not a weirdo, clearly.
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Nov 10, 2021 02:09
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No, im a gay friendly friend of the gays
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Nov 10, 2021 02:10
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I'm glad you liked that. The 10% gay thing was a tribute to Brody Stevens, one of my fav comics.
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Nov 10, 2021 02:12
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eke out posted:honestly a very weird first post in the thread lmao The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV >Jeff Bezos Presents: Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time: I'm a gay friendly friend of the gays, very gay friends, liberal etc, at least 10% gay.
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Nov 10, 2021 05:41
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Hey! Pal! It's self-deprecating knowingly offbeat posting. Are you in a point and laugh convention? Do you not get that it's silly to roast somebody who already roasted themselves, and if anything it's uh mean? So my post was a ramblin half-cocked disaster. You want me blood, that it? You want blood you animals?
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Nov 10, 2021 05:49
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Let's just chill and enjoy this hopefully fun good and dumb show together.
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Nov 10, 2021 05:58
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The hell is going on in this thread?
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Nov 10, 2021 07:17
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You can't stop horny posting. It taint be done.
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Nov 10, 2021 07:29
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I can't get over how devastating of a criticism it is to say it looks like the Shanarra series. Hopefully they can at least stay away from using modern slang.
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Nov 10, 2021 08:18
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It reminds me of people saying The Witcher looked like a Xena/Hercules episode, clearly they haven't watched one in probably 20 years because that poo poo was low budget and shot for syndication. People are just bad at making comparisons, things look much better when remembered through a decades old haze.
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Rarity posted:The hell is going on in this thread? Tviv
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TOOT BOOT posted:I can't get over how devastating of a criticism it is to say it looks like the Shanarra series. Hopefully they can at least stay away from using modern slang. I went and looked up a trailer for the Shannara Chronicles because I never bothered to watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDR8b1SpoSc Honestly ok yeah I kinda see the comparison The difference between WoT and Shannara has always been that WoT had better writing.  The difference in those two clips is that WoT has hotter actors and a bigger budget.It is hilarious that the top comment on that from six years ago is "Looks great, now just get AMC to make a mega budget Wheel of Time series. Then we're set" Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Nov 10, 2021 |
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Nov 10, 2021 12:59
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eke out posted:honestly a very weird first post in the thread lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIx-wmOU8GI
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Nov 10, 2021 13:41
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Data Graham posted:
What exactly am I looking at here? 
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Torrannor posted:What exactly am I looking at here? i was a kid when i last read those books but i recall it being a twist at the end of the first that the Extremely Tolkienien Fantasy World it's set in is actually post-post apocalyptic Our World (but apparently they just put it in the trailer for the show)
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eke out posted:i was a kid when i last read those books but i recall it being a twist at the end of the first that the Extremely Tolkienien Fantasy World it's set in is actually post-post apocalyptic Our World (but apparently they just put it in the trailer for the show) I looked up some stuff to refresh my memory and there were hints that it was a post-apocalyptic version of some advanced technological society, but there wasn't anything explicit to make it Future Earth until the 2000s when the author decided to retcon his other book series as a prequel to the Shannara series Anyway it's not a twist at all in the show, the credits sequence explicitly shows a nuclear apocalypse on earth followed by the family tree of all the races that mutated out of humans
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Nov 10, 2021 14:35
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Vavrek posted:Hooray for nudity equality. As I said back in May, in the book (spoilers!) thread: https://twitter.com/smallandstrange/status/1455224190215278592?s=20
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Nov 10, 2021 15:31
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eke out posted:i was a kid when i last read those books but i recall it being a twist at the end of the first that the Extremely Tolkienien Fantasy World it's set in is actually post-post apocalyptic Our World (but apparently they just put it in the trailer for the show) It wasn't just in the trailer, there were several episodes set in a ruined city that they showed the name of. I don't think it was Seattle, but it's been a while. Yes, I watched it. It wasn't horrible, just cheesy like the Sword of Truth show or Xena back in the day.
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seaborgium posted:It wasn't just in the trailer, there were several episodes set in a ruined city that they showed the name of. I don't think it was Seattle, but it's been a while. yeah i meant "just put it in the trailer" as in "it stopped being a twist and just became part of the premise from the beginning"
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TOOT BOOT posted:I can't get over how devastating of a criticism it is to say it looks like the Shanarra series. Hopefully they can at least stay away from using modern slang. Then again I'm probably just overall very sceptical of the WoT writers' ability to do anything good, they don't exactly scream massive talent. Those credited for the first six episodes are, I believe, (i) Judkins (a few episodes of a notoriously badly-written show, Chuck (n.b. I actually enjoyed Chuck so no hate for that here)); (ii) Justine Juel Gillmer (nothing notable or good as far as I can see https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2188444/); (iii) Celine Song (uh... https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10227660/); (iv) Dave Hill (the infamous GoT assistant dude; no other writing experience it seems https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4984276/); (v) Michael Clarkson (no idea https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4561085/); (vi) Amanda Kate Shuman (another Chuck alumnus https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4415526/). None of the above is to say it won't be an enjoyable show, or maybe they can even pull something genuinely good out of the bag. You don't have to have masterpiece writing to make something fun and engrossing. But yeah, it's most likely going to be poorly written IMO, so we will probably just have to deal with that and focus on (hopefully) decent acting and worldbuilding/action stuff.
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Nov 10, 2021 19:07
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lol every once in a while I forget that this show will be written in part by a coffee boy who was made a main writer for the biggest show in TV history.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:lol every once in a while I forget that this show will be written in part by a coffee boy who was made a main writer for the biggest show in TV history. it's amazing
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:It reminds me of people saying The Witcher looked like a Xena/Hercules episode, clearly they haven't watched one in probably 20 years because that poo poo was low budget and shot for syndication. People are just bad at making comparisons, things look much better when remembered through a decades old haze. The Witcher was all over the place visually. The fake winter scenes, the scrotum armor and the episode lifted from Sean Connery's Dragonheart all channeled that late 90s fantasy feel. I can forgive people making the Xena/Hercules comparison.
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Please refer to Rafe as "Survivor Guatemala final three contestant" in future post tha k yoi
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I decided to get the first book on Kindle and looked at the page count and what have I done
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Well the first book is at least a serious page-turner.
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Nail Rat posted:I decided to get the first book on Kindle and looked at the page count and what have I done Good news: you have fourteen more after that one! Most of them are even good
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Nail Rat posted:I decided to get the first book on Kindle and looked at the page count and what have I done I always found the books to be very fast reads. Like, I am kind of a fast reader generally, but I think "read 200 pages in a day, at work, during the breaks between needing to do actual work" says more about the book than the reader. Or more about my job at the time.
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Twelve thousand pages in the series. Holy gently caress Edit: I've only read the pre-prologue on my commute both ways today but it was a fast and interesting read given it was about redneck minutiae.
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Nail Rat posted:I decided to get the first book on Kindle and looked at the page count and what have I done set yourself up for a really enjoyable ride 
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Nail Rat posted:Twelve thousand pages in the series. Holy gently caress Is that the chapter Ravens, all about sheep shearing? That one was added later, when they split the first book for the YA market. I only read it recently, because it's not in my copy of the book.
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Nov 11, 2021 01:44
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That's the one.
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El Grillo posted:In the latest trailer at one point Matt says, 'You have FULLY lost your mind'. It's a kind of eyerolling bit of slang/idiom among young Brits which I think first gained popularity a few of years ago. I fear we might see quite a bit of this crap inserted as dialogue. Witcher managed to integrate modern-pattern speech quite well into its overall aesthetic, but to be honest Witcher is weird/silly enough that I think they can get away with that sort of thing more easily than a WoT adaptation which is likely to be much more serious in tone. Judging the writers on your objective opinion of past shows (unless they were the obvious show runners) shows an extreme lack of understanding of how tv writing works, and is not an accurate judge of the ability of the writer at all.
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Nail Rat posted:I decided to get the first book on Kindle and looked at the page count and what have I done You've started the best epic fantasy series ever written. (So far).
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Nail Rat posted:That's the one. I mean, I found it interesting, but only really because I'm someone on my fifth reread and it was something I hadn't read before. And I liked seeing young Nynaeve. It mostly exists for Tam's story at the end, and to go "hey look! kids!" so that the standard introduction of the book (the prologue, Dragonmount, and the first chapter, An Empty Road) have any kind of connection to each other.
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This is great and I wish I had more friends who would laugh as hard as I am at it.
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There's a thread, *not* the SPOILER thread, in the book barn for people picking up the books for the first time because of the upcoming show. If that's your jam.
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How are u posted:There's a thread, *not* the SPOILER thread, in the book barn for people picking up the books for the first time because of the upcoming show. If that's your jam. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3983558&pagenumber=1&perpage=40
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