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Johnny Joestar posted:it's pretty much the thing that sets up the first real mat segment, he wakes up after that and there's the whole stretch with mat beating the poo poo out of the biggest idiot in the series
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My reread stalled out on TPOD as all my rereads do  I agree Fain's worthless after the halfway mark but at the same time show viewers should have to suffer through the Mat fakeout like I did 
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Oct 25, 2021 06:54
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ChubbyChecker posted:fain and masema could both be removed from the show and the main plot wouldn't be affected You'd need a reason for Perrin to gently caress off from Rand for the back half of the series
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Oct 25, 2021 19:57
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Torrannor posted:By the way, did we every learn why Moiraine came to Emond's Field in the first place? Why she thought there were possible Dragon Reborn candidates there? Explaining this was gonna be the third of RJ's planned prequels
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Oct 25, 2021 21:17
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Breen's Spring will be where Horny Else lives
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Oct 26, 2021 07:22
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I'm surprised it looks like they've cut Whitebridge. That seemed like a gimme location. I guess it's a fairly pricey setpiece that wouldn't see enough use to justify the cost of making it
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Oct 26, 2021 13:07
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I suspect the shows won't even dive into the ta'veren thing
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Oct 26, 2021 14:37
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Nitrousoxide posted:Mat's whole power is being ta-veren. He's not strong or have wolf stuff like Perrin, or have channeling like Rand. Mat's just a hyper-ta'veren who causes all probability to warp around him to his whims. Yeah you can just say he's lucky though
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Oct 26, 2021 16:08
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Vavrek posted:Probably don't have the budget to get Elba for a cameo role Just cast him as Gareth Bryne
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Oct 26, 2021 18:00
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Racing Stripe posted:I'm reading Sanderson's Stormlight Archive right now and I'm really enjoying it. It'making me think of going back to Wheel of Time, which I started in high school (over a decade ago) and quit after the first book. Not because I didn't like it, but I just didn't feel compelled to continue. I'm interested especially in the Sanderson finale of WoT, but I'm also interested in checking this prodigious series off my list since it's the only one if its stature that I haven't read. Two questions before I get into it: The writing is solid through book 6 then RJ gets lost up his own rear end on describing specific textures of silk and poo poo and it becomes a bit of a chore until Sanderson takes over. And RJ never gets good at writing women
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Oct 26, 2021 20:24
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How are u posted:This is a very derivative exaggeration. Jordan's books are fantastic all the way through, and Sanderson does a fairly ok job of wrapping them up. PoD and CoT are just plain bad, my guy
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Oct 27, 2021 06:23
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It's cool that we can recognise a wide range of opinions on this 
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Oct 27, 2021 06:48
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Jose Valasquez posted:Crossroads of Twilight would make a really solid cliffhanger
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Oct 27, 2021 13:49
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Also shows that drop all at once pass out of the cultural consciousness so fast that they become way more forgettable. Week-by-week is the way to go if they want WoT to be huge
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Oct 27, 2021 15:01
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Hell yeah Nynaeve gets to be a special girl too
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Oct 27, 2021 17:24
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jng2058 posted:It's Eamon Valda, played by Abdul Salis. Can't believe we're going to have to deal with that fuckhead for an extra 5 books worth of story 
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Oct 27, 2021 17:59
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eke out posted:woah there's moiraine and siuan in a bedroom in underclothes (presumably in some new spring flashback), maybe we're actually getting them canonically gay from the start Yes yes yes bestill my gay heart
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Oct 28, 2021 14:48
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*gay dude adapts story to promote more female voices and racial diversity* "Man I bet he screws up the lesbians"
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Brolander posted:it is entirely okay to say you don't like someone or something in a funny, perhaps hyperbolic way on a comedy forum Yeah but it helps to be funny
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Oct 29, 2021 03:49
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I swear we just had this conversation
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Oct 29, 2021 06:49
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Yeah Perrin and Mat and Verin meet a random dude called Urien on the way to Cairhien then we don't see them again until all the main Aiel show up in book 3
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Oct 29, 2021 11:27
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So if they're gaying up Moiraine/Siuan and Elayne/Avi then which men are they turning homo to keep things balanced? 
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Oct 29, 2021 13:51
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Hopefully, Mat is at least bi. Mat is pansexual fight me
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Oct 29, 2021 13:58
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:no you're right, I'm old and still working on updating my language, that's on me It's cool, the difference between bi and pan is pretty nuanced
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Oct 29, 2021 14:09
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jng2058 posted:And that right there is a good way to solve Mat in Ebou Dar. Make it so it's not that creepy relationship with Tylin but that Mat and Beslan get into a relationship that keeps Mat in Ebou Dar for so long. The Mat/Tylin dynamic really should stay in because media never highlights female-on-male rape
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Oct 29, 2021 15:35
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Rand's egg mirrors the cage we've seen Logain in so its hinting they're the same, that's what I see anyway 
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Oct 29, 2021 18:56
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I really dig Rafe's suggested implication that every ep's gonna have a prologue style cold open that's unconnected to the main episode but pulls back to reveal more of the world/story
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Oct 29, 2021 20:12
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Yeah that sounds a lot like Mat to me
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Oct 30, 2021 13:05
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i say swears online posted:edit on IMDB, Min has 3 episode credits this season and Thom has 1, lol. was Min even in the first book?? IMDB episode counts can't be trusted, especially before a show actually airs
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Oct 31, 2021 13:23
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I just realised we don't have anyone announced as Ishamael yet. I really hope they're holding back on a big name to surprise us with
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Invalid Validation posted:Still gonna have to be a big part considering only men have the ~TAINT~. Yeah the possibility of a sane female Dragon makes everyone's fear at the idea of the Dragon Reborn not really play the same way
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Nov 3, 2021 18:12
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I think the Nynaeve/Moiraine dynamic is very complex, boiling it down to just 'she has Lan' is reductive. Yes that's a part of it but it's also emblematic of Nynaeve's feelings towards channellers, the clear social class divides of villager vs noblewoman and Nynaeve's connection to the Two Rivers folk. Egwene's being dumb as hell though but y'know, she is 16 
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Nov 5, 2021 14:03
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Jimbot posted:those two have zero chemistry and not a single thing written has hinted that Nynaeve wanting to settle with Lan 
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Nov 5, 2021 15:22
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Jimbot posted:If you feel so strongly about this point, I'm open to examples of where this is so super apparent that I'm some kind of oblivious moron for missing. Maybe I did miss it but nothing comes to mind other than Lan being Lan. It's cool that if I were to reread this book after going through the whole thing and somehow remembering all of it that I'd pick up on these things but as a first time through it is sudden and not good. Off the top of my head: - In Baerlon when Lan's impressed Nynaeve tracked him and Nynaeve gets all flustered about it - Lan being very tender with her after Shadar Logoth - Their whole dynamic during the Perrin/Egwene rescue where Lan almost disobeys Moiraine to save her
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Nov 5, 2021 15:31
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Soysaucebeast posted:I think they're my favorite in the whole series aside from Rand and Min. Berelain/Galad ftw
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Nov 5, 2021 15:37
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Prairie Bus posted:The spoiler relationship really isn’t. Thom has a POV with an interaction with Moiraine in the Stone of Tear and there’s no evidence of any affection. If anything, he’s got a mild contempt. He doesn’t interact with her again until her return, where they’re both madly in love. Bollocks Thom's very impressed by her both for her looks and her political savvy and he's hinting at his attraction from as early as book 2 then after she dies he's constantly moping over her letter. On Moiraine's side she's very warm towards him in Tear and then obviously finds out she'll hook up with him in Rhuidean and hints at it after. Again they're super closed off people so they don't make their affections too explicit
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Nov 5, 2021 17:30
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Prairie Bus posted:Being impressed ain’t love. He literally keeps going on about her being a fine woman and very pretty
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Nov 5, 2021 17:38
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Jimbot posted:I guess maybe the people in this universe marry the first person they date Rand and Egwene assume they're gonna be shacked up for life just because they're the first people they crush on
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Nov 5, 2021 18:04
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It's a very common sexist trope from male writers in the 20th century and also today
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Lotta people who don't understand the basics of human attraction itt
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