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I mean you don't want to rock the boat, maybe this extremely beautiful woman who appeared out of nowhere in the magic langoliers zone and has weird and specific things she wants us to do actually does desperately want to bone us all, don't ruin this you guys
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eke out posted:
It's not clear from the text but maybe? Either way that whole sequence is one that I'm really looking forward to on the show. Reading it as a teenager the first time was just "oh wow, hot lady? wait she's bad but, important thing here, hot lady?!" but listening to Wheel Takes react to that I realized that it's just a hilarious, hilarious scene as an adult. You stupid stupid horny teenager! No! Bad!
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Dec 14, 2021 15:10
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Oh you stupid boy
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Dec 14, 2021 15:12
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Perrin's the only one of the three who doesn't think with his dagger
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Dec 14, 2021 15:18
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I gotta assume the show will drop the thing where "Selene" is hot and young, but "Lanfear" is an even hotter MILF, which was one of RJ's hornier things coming through. I think he used the word "ripen" in there somewhere.
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eke out posted:was she doing her low level compulsion thing there? i forget Don't need compulsion to make a teenage boy too horny to think straight.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Perrin's the only one of the three who doesn't think with his dagger he prefers to think with his axe
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Omnomnomnivore posted:I gotta assume the show will drop the thing where "Selene" is hot and young, but "Lanfear" is an even hotter MILF, which was one of RJ's hornier things coming through. I think he used the word "ripen" in there somewhere. he does, but tbh i think it's kinda cool to portray a woman's aging as very attractive, so i'll give him a pass on this horny. he also uses language like this regarding morgase
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Dingleberry2 posted:But in the context of a show, if you're trying to attract viewers with no story knowledge, you have to make them think that even "important" characters can die. So Perrin's wife can die. So can seemingly important Green sister and her warder. I've seen many non-book reader reviewers who speculated that Nynaeve would bond Stepin eventually. So him dying gave them world building and drama. If you put all the focus on the Emonds Field people then eventually every side character is a Red Shirt and people will stop caring about people in danger because of plot armor. That's something that GoT definitely did right, as far as making danger real for every character up through season 6 or so anyways. I think people are invested in Moiraine and Lan, but don't care too much about the EF5 as individuals yet. Maybe the show fixes this in the remaining 100-110 minutes of the season, but it seems like they've run out of time.
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th3t00t posted:How are the Emond's Field 5 supposed to carry this show another 7 seasons when they've been developed less than Steppin, Siuan or Dana the dark friend? love making up a false fact to get mad about
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Dec 14, 2021 15:40
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dana the darkfriend is actually the dragon reborn, the clues are all there
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eke out posted:love making up a false fact to get mad about
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Perrin is the only one on that list below Siuan so you're not really proving your point.
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Raw word count seems like a poor metric for this comparison in any case.
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That doesn't take into account all the internal monologuing they're all doing that we don't see
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Does Perrin's RAAAAAAAAAW! screaming count as a word?
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Raw word count seems like a poor metric for this comparison in any case. what do you mean, it's obviously a flaw that the really quiet, big dude doesn't say much and that the other 2 main guys are literally right at the top along with the big name star playing lady gandalf nobody knows anything about these characters!!!!!
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Omnomnomnivore posted:I gotta assume the show will drop the thing where "Selene" is hot and young, but "Lanfear" is an even hotter MILF, which was one of RJ's hornier things coming through. I think he used the word "ripen" in there somewhere. Just finished the "Oops, fell over the wall!" chapter of Eye, and he definitely describes Morgase as "Elayne, but matured and ripened". I think the only thing I'm really disappointed about is them not doing anything with the heron mark blade after doing the zoom-in in the first episode. Devorum fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Dec 14, 2021 |
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Nitrousoxide posted:Does Perrin's RAAAAAAAAAW! screaming count as a word? Well, the metric is raw word count.
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Chapter 18/19 in The Great Hunt I'm pretty sure this is the only time they traveled, like by walking, through a Portal Stone. IIRC they still use them later but they just teleport to their destination through them. Did Robert Jordan ever say what was up with this mirror world with the sterilized water, huge burned plots of land, contrails in the sky, and absolutely no animal life (except for Gruns, which may have just been brought there by Lanfear). Was this supposed to be the wasteland of some sci-fi war with space lasers burning everything to death?
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Nitrousoxide posted:Chapter 18/19 in The Great Hunt i think it is a world where the trollocs won the trolloc wars?
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I thought it was just Kirby’s dreamland before he really set it into stone what the dreamland was.
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could have been just some potential outcome of a battle between channelers or some poo poo
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SerSpook posted:i think it is a world where the trollocs won the trolloc wars? I mean, yeah they won the trolloc wars based on the statue, but there was also the sterilized water everywhere they drank, "long thin clouds" that sound like contrails, and big burned spots shaped like an eye always going from east-west, like non-polar satellites. Edit: quote:Again they crossed land blackened and burned, even the soil crunching under the horses’ hooves as if it had been seared. The burned swathes, sometimes a mile wide, sometimes only a few hundred paces, all ran east and west as straight as an arrow’s flight. Twice Rand saw the end of a burn, once as they rode over it, once as they passed nearby; they tapered to points at the ends. At least, the ends he saw were so, but he suspected they were all the same.
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Johnny Joestar posted:what do you mean, it's obviously a flaw that the really quiet, big dude doesn't say much and that the other 2 main guys are literally right at the top along with the big name star playing lady gandalf Devorum posted:Just finished the "Oops, fell over the wall!" chapter of Eye, and he definitely describes Morgase as "Elayne, but matured and ripened". Nitrousoxide posted:Chapter 18/19 in The Great Hunt
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Jedit posted:Well, the metric is raw word count. So it should really be Perrin 1, everyone else 0.
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RandomReader posted:The other way of looking at it is that Rand/Mat have been here for 6 episodes to Siuan's 1, and they only have half again her word count (individually). okay, cool, i'm glad for that because she's an important character who will be more relevant later and won't be for a while after that episode, and literally most of her role in that episode is sitting there and talking in wizard court instead of running from being killed or whatever the gently caress, which is a fact i don't have to cope about and constantly complain about the presence of
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RandomReader posted:
Yeah the implication is that the trollocs won vs. Artur Hawkwing and then *everything* died in the Dark One's victory.
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Nitrousoxide posted:I mean, yeah they won the trolloc wars based on the statue, but there was also the sterilized water everywhere they drank, "long thin clouds" that sound like contrails, and big burned spots shaped like an eye always going from east-west, like non-polar satellites. I always figured the Portal Stones were Jordan playing with alternate worlds before he had settled on TAR as closer to his vision of the role of myth. It was jarring to come across them in Book 2 and then never really return to them later.
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Imagine having to write all the post-Traveling books with the same level of detail of trudging across-country as in the first couple of books
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Prairie Bus posted:I always figured the Portal Stones were Jordan playing with alternate worlds before he had settled on TAR as closer to his vision of the role of myth. It was jarring to come across them in Book 2 and then never really return to them later. T'a'R and alternate worlds both show up in book 2 for the first time I think. He just doesnt' do much with the alternates after flicker flicker flicker, because what else could be done?
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lol at dana having more words than perrin or thom
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:T'a'R and alternate worlds both show up in book 2 for the first time I think. He just doesnt' do much with the alternates after flicker flicker flicker, because what else could be done? also there's so much going on in the world they give a poo poo about that i figure they probably don't really feel like unpacking just what the gently caress is happening in those others
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:T'a'R and alternate worlds both show up in book 2 for the first time I think. He just doesnt' do much with the alternates after flicker flicker flicker, because what else could be done? Do you remember when that is? I’ll cop to missing it, but I remember feeling like it came out of nowhere in TDR when Egwene begins thinking she was a Dreamer.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Perrin is the only one on that list below Siuan so you're not really proving your point. Dana was 4th in word count for the entire series at the end of episode 3 and she was barely behind Rand and Mat. It would be like if LOTR gave the innkeeper in Bree a 20 minute monologue to almost catch him up in word count to Gandalf and Frodo. It's a bizarre use of the limited screen time the show has.
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th3t00t posted:It would be like if LOTR gave the innkeeper in Bree a 20 minute monologue to almost catch him up in word count to Gandalf and Frodo. It's a bizarre use of the limited screen time the show has. Who is the Innkeeper in Bree and who is Gandalf is this?
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CainFortea posted:Who is the Innkeeper in Bree and who is Gandalf is this? th3t00t fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Dec 14, 2021 |
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th3t00t posted:It's proving my point that the "mains" are anywhere close to the word count of single episode characters(1.5 in stepin's case). Haha we've seen 6 episodes of an 8 episode season with at least one more on the way, I'm gonna make a wild assumption that by the end of season 2 all of the main characters will have spoken more words.
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hmmm it's almost like the character who existed primarily to let Mat and Rand talk about each other and their place in the world... talked to both of them, in one episode therefore, she has more character development than either
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