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CapnAndy posted:Sadeas is living in Game of Thrones, the dumb stupid fucker. GODDDDDDD I still can't get over how (WoR spoilers) loving satisfying Adolin just being like "Nah, gently caress this!" and eye-stabbing Sadeas was. 
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Mordiceius posted:GODDDDDDD I still can't get over how (WoR spoilers) loving satisfying Adolin just being like "Nah, gently caress this!" and eye-stabbing Sadeas was. I stood up and yelled "Hell yeah! Let's go Adolin" when I read that. Finally killing that SoB.
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Sanderson really built a wonderful antagonist in Sadeas
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A Sneaker Broker posted:I stood up and yelled "Hell yeah! Let's go Adolin" when I read that. Finally killing that SoB. I also really appreciated that Dalinar was very worried that somebody killed Sadeas, while the others around him like Aladar were more like "good riddance!".
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Torrannor posted:I also really appreciated that Dalinar was very worried that somebody killed Sadeas, while the others around him like Aladar were more like "good riddance!".
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Torrannor posted:I also really appreciated that Dalinar was very worried that somebody killed Sadeas, while the others around him like Aladar were more like "good riddance!". early Oathbringer is really funny like that, just the scenes played straight with Dalinar deadpanning 'none of you care he's dead do you' or stuff like Shallan excitedly trying to help Adolin solve the murder that HE committed
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This just made me realize something about the Cosmere. Full spoilers for all released books so far: I like that villains basically never overstay their welcome. The Lord ruler just works as a complex (but still unquestionably evil) character because he dies in the first book. Ruin is getting built up properly over Well of Ascension, and then gets dealt with in Hero of Ages. Sadeas bites it when the scope clearly grows beyond petty "realist" power politics in the vein of GoT, and moves into the proper "epic high fantasy" direction. Original Odium gets replaced by a much more scary version in book 4! Sure, Autonomy is still around after The Lost Metal, but she hasn't really been the focus of the books. The Odium thing is genius, really. It's still the shard of hatred, but Taravodium is probably a lot more clever, and will at least at first not be as invested in just destroying what he can have as Rayse was. The overarching villain somehow both stays the same and changes a lot. I'm really exciting to see how Taravodium shakes out. And you have the hints about the Roshar/Scadrial cold (?) war going on in the future, and who is driving this? Freed Taravodium? Ruin-dominated Sazed? What's going on??
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Torrannor posted:This just made me realize something about the Cosmere. Full spoilers for all released books so far: I like that villains basically never overstay their welcome.
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Torrannor posted:This just made me realize something about the Cosmere. Full spoilers for all released books so far: And you have the hints about the Roshar/Scadrial cold (?) war going on in the future, and who is driving this? Freed Taravodium? Ruin-dominated Sazed? What's going on?? Wild speculation on full Cosmere: Sazed is no longer controlling the shards of preservation and ruin, and when Kelsier takes up those two forces he becomes Discord instead of Harmony. A theory.
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road potato posted:Wild speculation on full Cosmere: i don’t see Kelsier craving that type of power. He’s always been more of a background operator to me (even though he did want to go out very publicly to send a message)
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road potato posted:Wild speculation on full Cosmere: I think it far more likely that Sazed's will becomes beholden to the slight excess of Ruin in his Shard's makeup and that's his change from Harmony to Discord
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Hero of Ages - Chapter 19 Kelsier is alive?!?!?! AND HE GAVE SPOOK THE POWER OF PEWTER?!?!!?!?!? WTFF
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A Sneaker Broker posted:Hero of Ages - Chapter 19 
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I well remember your reaction to that particular scene! Here of Ages is soooo good!
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Torrannor posted:I well remember your reaction to that particular scene! I've been laughing and giggling and oohing and awing my way through this book so far. It's awesome.
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Stormlight talk - I have been genuinely surprised by how much I love Shallan. I'll be honest, I was a little nervous about Shallan based on how people talked about her in this thread. When thinking about the other prominent women in his books - In Mistborn, I loving love Vin. She's my absolute favorite character in anything ever. For Warbreaker, I really liked Vivenna and her arc but Siri was fine... I guess.. and, honestly, found her kind of annoying at times. And as for Elantris, I think Sarene is one of the worst and most annoying characters Brandon has ever made. By the way people seem somewhat split on Shallan, I was worried she would end up landing like Sarene did. BOY WAS I WRONG. My favorite Stormlight character, by far, is Dalinar. I mean, how could it not be. But lately, I find myself most exciting when I come to a Shallan chapter - which is not at all what I expected to happen.
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Mordiceius posted:Stormlight talk - I haven't read RoW yet, as I'm gonna complete HoA, then Warbreaker, and finally Dawnshard. But so far, my favorite character in Stormlight has been Dalinar. An absolute chad of a man.
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I kinda hate what he did to Dalinar by retroactively making his lovely character traits not his fault. Even if he says it was still his fault it kinda wasn’t.
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It was 100% his own fault.
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Invalid Validation posted:I kinda hate what he did to Dalinar by retroactively making his lovely character traits not his fault. Even if he says it was still his fault it kinda wasn’t. Dalinar was absolutely lovely. He might've had encouragement, but a recurring theme in all the Cosmere is that you're ultimately responsible for all your decisions and Dalinar is no exception
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M_Gargantua posted:It was 100% his own fault. But you can't have his pain!
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Unrelated note: Brandon Sanderson going this four-week break means we will get another secret project and, finally, a step forward for the Mistborn Movie/TV series since he said he is heading to Hollywood. E: The more I think about it, the more I realize the Cosmere is a sitting diamond mine worth billions in terms of entertainment value if it's developed and adapted properly for Movies and TV Series. A Sneaker Broker fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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One thing TV writers would have to be very careful about is casting. The Cosmere books won’t be finished for another 20-25 years, IIRC, and there are characters who may appear in already-published books but also those last couple of novels—depending on what stories Sanderson saves for last. Good luck finding an actor or actress who can hang out for that long and age the appropriate amount (maybe zero years, maybe hundreds of years).
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any sanderson movie/series would be better animated anyway
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A Sneaker Broker posted:Unrelated note: Brandon Sanderson going this four-week break means we will get another secret project and, finally, a step forward for the Mistborn Movie/TV series since he said he is heading to Hollywood. official word from the latest weekly update is not to make a big deal about it, apparently it's fairly routine stuff but he didn't say what it was (maybe WoT season 3 consulting?) apparently the previous mistborn movie got as far as putting people in mistcloaks and casting a lord ruler before it fell through " it really is no biggie. He’s meeting people and doing things, but it’s not anything exciting enough to announce or even tease."
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Part of me hopes that Brandon's popularity would grow even a little bit bigger before any adaptation is done. That way he can leverage an even higher budget.
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Mordiceius posted:Part of me hopes that Brandon's popularity would grow even a little bit bigger before any adaptation is done. That way he can leverage an even higher budget. Time for him to finish ASOIAF /s
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Scadrial and especially Roshar would be great for a video game. Ten orders = ten classes, you surely can make a great RPG set on Roshar.
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Torrannor posted:Scadrial and especially Roshar would be great for a video game. Ten orders = ten classes, you surely can make a great RPG set on Roshar. Brandon was contemplating giving the rights of Mistborn to CD Projekt Red. I wonder if he would do that for Stormlight Archive.
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I'd be perfectly fine without a CCU; it's special having read the whole cosmere and getting others to do the same. I'm tired of tv/movie adaptations and I'm tired of tv and movies in general. Books are life.
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We already have a CCU, the Graphic Audios are a movie in your mind! Also Brandon would probably get burnt out desperately trying to prevent Hollywood from whitening the Stormlight cast.
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Ojjeorago posted:We already have a CCU, the Graphic Audios are a movie in your mind! Just make it in bollywood
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Mordiceius posted:Part of me hopes that Brandon's popularity would grow even a little bit bigger before any adaptation is done. That way he can leverage an even higher budget. There are stories (I probably read them here, maybe he talked about it on his Youtube or a podcast?) where he was in the negotiations with some studio folks and was like: Brandon: "I need complete creative control and a huge VFX budget" Execs: "but what if we just paid you more" Brandon: *gestures at kickstarter numbers and Utah compound* "nah, I'm all good for money."
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Please, just animate it. Metalborn powers aren't going to translate well to live action without hilariously large budgets, and Stormlight's even worse.
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pointlessone posted:Please, just animate it. Metalborn powers aren't going to translate well to live action without hilariously large budgets, and Stormlight's even worse. While I don't disagree - animation is immediately going to limit your audience dramatically. It doesn't matter how good the animation is, your audience is going to be 1/3 what it could be. There is a wide swath of people that will not watch any animated feature/show, no matter how good it is.
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Mordiceius posted:While I don't disagree - animation is immediately going to limit your audience dramatically. It doesn't matter how good the animation is, your audience is going to be 1/3 what it could be. There is a wide swath of people that will not watch any animated feature/show, no matter how good it is.
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Just get Fortiche Productions, the studio that animates Arcane, to make it.
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CapnAndy posted:But this is already, as the colloquialists say, genre as gently caress. The target audience will watch a Netflix anime. I mean, I don't know that it will make much difference. You could say that Spider-man is genre as gently caress as well. Yet the Spider-verse films make about a third of what the live action films make. Into the Spiderverse (2018) was 380mil. Across the Spiderverse (2023) was 690mil. In comparison: Spiderman Far From Home (2019) made 1.13b Spiderman No Way Home (2021) made 1.92b Whether we like it or not (I don't like this, it sucks!) a very very large percentage of people will never see animation as anything more than "for kids" and will immediately write it off, no matter how much they would possibly enjoy it.
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I am bordering on 50% done with HoA. What else do I need to read before Rhythm of War? Warbreaker, Dawnshard. Anything else?
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