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WheelofCussin on Twitter is pretty funny, if you like cheap humor. These are my favorite: https://twitter.com/WheelofCussin/status/1464517074848559104 https://twitter.com/WheelofCussin/status/1467669391370244100
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MegaZeroX posted:I posted this in the other thread, but I'd thought I'd post it here. I've watched through dozens of reactions/reviews from not book readers, and here are my favorites: Hey thanks for posting this list. I'm going to check out some of the channels. I just tried listening to the Ep 4 Wheel Takes pod episode on a plane ride last night, and just died inside when they all started squealing about polyamory. Christ.
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So Parrot Analytics has Wheel of Time as #1 for digital shows last week, slightly above Arcane and Hawk Eye. It is worth noting that their numbers aren't directly streaming numbers though (which are kept private). Instead, it has a nebulous "demand" which is their measure of social media influence of a show (hence why Game of Thrones is still sow high). However, it does directly correlate with viewership numbers, and is taken seriously by the industry. It also is used even by the companies with the viewership numbers to identify the strength of audience engagement. How are u posted:Hey thanks for posting this list. I'm going to check out some of the channels. I just tried listening to the Ep 4 Wheel Takes pod episode on a plane ride last night, and just died inside when they all started squealing about polyamory. Christ. NP. All of those reactions/reviews are fun in different ways. It is also interesting just how different new viewer's takes are, particularly about who is the Dragon Reborn. MegaZeroX fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Dec 7, 2021 |
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It’s also like reading tea leaves cause streaming services cancel shows at their own whims. It’ll probably see at least 5 seasons though.
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Honestly as this season has gone on the hooks have gotten deep. After the first 3 i was very okay with catching them over the weekend, after the end of 4 and now 5 I feel very hyped waiting for the next one to drop this Friday. Hopefully others are feeling that way and that can help carry it through. I'm really enjoying the small foreshadowing they're dropping that will be great to revisit. I get the impression this is going to be a lot of fun to rewatch as you catch more of the detail hidden in the show, which is a great parallel for the enormous amount of detail given in the text. I honestly feel like they wouldn't have invested in starting this if they weren't reasonably dedicated to seeing it through given it has all the content you need. LOTR probably makes them more money, and I hope that helps keeps this going too since the expectations were I think smaller from Amazon for it. I feel like this has done well enough that as the series ramps up, it'll be increasingly harder to kill it off without that becoming an issue as the fanbase it builds will want to see that through even if it doesn't do exponential viewership expansion. That said who knows how they decide what they decide with their billions for what they choose to waste it on in any given year. I'm honestly just very impressed and pleased with how they've managed the adaptation so far, and my trust that they'll get it right enough is very high at this point.
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Invalid Validation posted:It’s also like reading tea leaves cause streaming services cancel shows at their own whims. It’ll probably see at least 5 seasons though. Usually not top performing shows in metrics like these. Particularly since WoT is also doing pretty well internationally on these metrics (at least for last month). Better then Arcane, though a bit worse than Hawkeye. If you look at shows that get cancelled, they are way more niche (always in "average" or "good"), and strongly US audience focused. eg: MST3K? The analytics showed it performing mediocrely, and the audience is very US based.
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amazon would have to be very visibly eating poo poo on multiple metrics for them to just arbitrarily cancel the show that they are pushing as their big jump into prestige sci-fi/fantasy television adaptations. like i get that people are cynical about this stuff but there's generally reasons why it randomly happens for other titles and this one isn't going to magically qualify for that unless later seasons somehow do absolutely dogshit in numbers.
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Amazon aren't going to drop their most watched show of the year and of their most watched shows of all time. We're getting a long run from this
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The Notorious ZSB posted:Honestly as this season has gone on the hooks have gotten deep. After the first 3 i was very okay with catching them over the weekend, after the end of 4 and now 5 I feel very hyped waiting for the next one to drop this Friday. Hopefully others are feeling that way and that can help carry it through. I'm really enjoying the small foreshadowing they're dropping that will be great to revisit. I get the impression this is going to be a lot of fun to rewatch as you catch more of the detail hidden in the show, which is a great parallel for the enormous amount of detail given in the text. My parents (my father read the books, my mother hasn't) are also absolutely loving the series and they really aren't TV series watchers at all.
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I have informed my boss that I'm leaving early every Thursday until after Christmas because this show is good enough I need to watch it immediately
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The latest Inside the Wheel of Time had an in interesting map that showed the culture and costuming they wanted for each country of the world.
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Y'know what I keep circling round to? And this is a small thing, really, but: we've not had a single one of Ba'alzamon's fireside chats yet. All the dreams have been super perfunctory to this point. And god forbid I suggest they try to cram even more material into these wildly overstuffed episodes, but this does mean Ishamael's had no characterisation whatsoever. I feel like that that's something you'd want to do before we move into the finale. It's not like a massive confrontation with him at the end, but I do feel like, if they keep it, it is going to land a little flat if Ishy's just some random weirdo still at that point. Maybe they can flesh him out in Fal Dara? e: That is a neat map, is there a shot of the full thing?
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Y'know what I keep circling round to? And this is a small thing, really, but: we've not had a single one of Ba'alzamon's fireside chats yet. All the dreams have been super perfunctory to this point. And god forbid I suggest they try to cram even more material into these wildly overstuffed episodes, but this does mean Ishamael's had no characterisation whatsoever. I feel like that that's something you'd want to do before we move into the finale. It's not like a massive confrontation with him at the end, but I do feel like, if they keep it, it is going to land a little flat if Ishy's just some random weirdo still at that point. Based on what people are saying of episode 6 being amazing, I get the feeling they're going to do a bit of a time jump of some sort. Rand gets some training with the sword in, Mat gets healed/rested up and his fight with the rich boys, maybe Perrin gets some more characterization and we see see some more dreams with Ishy, and we see the start of Egwene and Nynaeve's training. And I'd love to see that full map of where they're getting costumes from.
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seaborgium posted:Mat gets healed/rested up and his fight with the rich boys unless there's a real surprise, they haven't cast those boys i think we get the thing where he's made better but not fully healed
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Or that, they do the thing where it slows it down a lot so they can recover it from Fain. Forgot about that part where it gets stolen.
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Yeah in TGH they kinda seal the corruption so it's not taking over Mat's mind but it is still eating away at him physically.
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Oh and one thing that's in the behind the scenes feature where that map comes from there's a board with the various national designs on it and Seanchen is one of them. Heck yesss
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Oh and one thing that's in the behind the scenes feature where that map comes from there's a board with the various national designs on it and Seanchen is one of them. Heck yesss Marcus Rutherford pulled a Tom Holland and mentioned the Seanchan in an interview, so I presume we're seeing them in season two, which makes all the sense in the world.
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jng2058 posted:Marcus Rutherford pulled a Tom Holland and mentioned the Seanchan in an interview, so I presume we're seeing them in season two, which makes all the sense in the world. The imdb page for the show lists a "young girl on coast" in the season credits. People are extrapolating from that to posit that the final shot of the season will be Seanchan boats approaching the coastline.
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This story cannot happen without them and I don't know why you wouldn't want them around. They're important foils for the cultural norms of randland and another example of the influence of the DO on the current state of the world.
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For some people, if it's not explained as existing in screen by someone in the most obvious way, then it doesn't exist on the show
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CainFortea posted:For some people, if it's not explained as existing in screen by someone in the most obvious way, then it doesn't exist on the show I know writers who use subtext AND I REFUSE TO WATCH THEIR SHOWS
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Jordan7hm posted:I know writers who use subtext AND I REFUSE TO WATCH THEIR SHOWS Why are these kids so surprised at Tar Valon?! It's like 4 hours away from their house!!
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Regarding Mat, there's a spoiler that is still going around despite a photo that got leaked a couple weeks ago that looks to show the opposite of that: Episode 6 is Barney's last as Mat.
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The cowards still haven’t shown an overhead view of Tar-Valon. So much for being inclusive Rafe.
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Invalid Validation posted:The cowards still haven’t shown an overhead view of Tar-Valon. So much for being inclusive Rafe. at least they made the tower look like dick & balls
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ad090 posted:Episode 6 is Barney's last as Mat. noooooooooooooooooooooooo
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ad090 posted:Regarding Mat, there's a spoiler that is still going around despite a photo that got leaked a couple weeks ago that looks to show the opposite of that: Episode 6 is Barney's last as Mat. I could see him not making the journey to Fal Dara as he recovers. maybe nynaeve stays with him and enters the novice book and they all head to Toman Head later. i could also see that spoiler being total nonsense
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ChubbyChecker posted:at least they made the tower look like dick & balls I just about choke-laughed when I saw that. Magnificent.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I just about choke-laughed when I saw that. Magnificent. I'm just waitnig for the camera to rotate up over the top and show the island from above. They kept the shape
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ad090 posted:Regarding Mat, there's a spoiler that is still going around despite a photo that got leaked a couple weeks ago that looks to show the opposite of that: Episode 6 is Barney's last as Mat. There's also a pic of Mat with everyone at the Waygate so y'know, believe what you want at this point
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MegaZeroX posted:I posted this in the other thread, but I'd thought I'd post it here. I've watched through dozens of reactions/reviews from not book readers, and here are my favorites: Everyday Negroes and Tori Talks are the funnest to watch.
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William Bear posted:WheelofCussin on Twitter is pretty funny, if you like cheap humor. These are my favorite: Yep, this owns
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Uno's one of us https://twitter.com/robertsguy/status/1467985028156112903
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What's the best, high quality map of the world that I can find for the Wheel of Time world? I've seen a few on google image search but not all of them are particularly nice.
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JosefStalinator posted:What's the best, high quality map of the world that I can find for the Wheel of Time world? I've seen a few on google image search but not all of them are particularly nice. Frankly, those are probably the best you're going to get. Maps are not a strong point of the franchise. Actually, did Jordan not draw that thing under duress? Like he didn't want one and his publisher was like, no we cannot sell epic fantasy with no maps. That is flatly not going to happen. Did I imagine that? e: I know I heard that about some fantasy series and I'm pretty certain it was this one, but maybe I'm confused.
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JosefStalinator posted:What's the best, high quality map of the world that I can find for the Wheel of Time world? I've seen a few on google image search but not all of them are particularly nice. https://atlasoficeandfireblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/newwotbase-1.png I took "high quality" to mean "high resolution" and that's the best I can find. It doesn't look as artsy fartsy as the original maps.
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JosefStalinator posted:What's the best, high quality map of the world that I can find for the Wheel of Time world? I've seen a few on google image search but not all of them are particularly nice. There was a large map included with one of the calendars they put out like 15 years ago. Right now the best option is probably to check on etsy. Some good images here: https://dragonmount.com/gallery/album/13-wot-maps/ My favorite map is this one: 
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I like WoT but I've always found the "big rectangle" map to be a little lazy. You can use the breaking to hand-wave it, I guess. Still used to have fun looking at the map and guessing which country the next book would go to.
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