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The swearing is all fantasy swears and the sex is described with fantasy euphemisms instead of contemporary ones so I can see where some readers would be confused.
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Plus it sounds like the priest mentioned confirmation, which isn't the same thing.
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Aug 20, 2021 17:29
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Determinism doesn't have much to do with consent in any ethically meaningful sense, one way or the other. A prophecy is a prediction, not an intention. It is a story about (among many other things) how four people got into a weird polycule. Each of them had their own reasons and their own opinions, none of them was immediately into it, mistakes were made.
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Sep 8, 2021 00:57
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Remember not to spoil things for first timers.
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Oct 22, 2021 20:06
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I think that it's understandable to come up with a reason to show an actor's face when they are portraying an important character in an important scene.
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Nov 6, 2021 22:56
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With any faithful adaptation of Robert Jordan, folks are gonna have to learn to understand how episodes that aren't about the main characters are still actually about the main characters.
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Dec 6, 2021 03:38
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If they changed the story that fundamentally, when would they have had the time to do the extensive rewrites that would require?
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Dec 6, 2021 23:51
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At that point, they're not adapting the source material, but squandering it. And squandering one of the bigger selling points, which is that this isn't gonna pull a Game of Thrones because the ending is already written and known to be really good.
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Dec 7, 2021 01:06
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Jordan seemed like he had finally gotten through the mid-series slump in the last book he wrote.
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Dec 8, 2021 20:54
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Sanderson stood on the shoulders of a giant.
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Dec 8, 2021 21:52
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I find myself wishing this show had longer episodes.
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Dec 11, 2021 10:45
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Since things will have to be simplified in the process of adapting these books, it would be convenient for that simplification to include the removal of elements that have few consequences, but require a lot of words to explain not only how they work, and would benefit from at least some acknowledgment of the ethical concerns it raises.
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I know where this is all going but I'm interested to see how it's going to get there. The adaptational changes have been pragmatic and I can sense the payoff coming. I feel like the parts of the show that have been less than I hoped for - and there haven't been many of those! - were a consequence not of incompetence, but of production challenges, like an actor's sudden departure or too few episodes, that are likely to be less of a problem as the show is found to be empirically popular. When's season 2? Oh god, this is going to be waiting for the next book all over again.
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Dec 24, 2021 10:18
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The Dark One promotes his underlings on the basis of how evil they are. Their incompetence is irrelevant since he doesn't actually need them to do anything for his plan.
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Invalid Validation posted:It’s gonna suck rear end when they rewrite the ending to have Rand super saiyan the DO instead of philosophizing with him for the show. I don't think that's likely to happen.
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I think of it as a comment about what it would take for the fantasy of reforming the cops from within to actually manifest. The book's saying it'd take someone who is described as basically unnervingly, even inhumanly ethical and conscientious, so that they have enough fortitude to keep at it for their whole career, plus needing enough privilege and cunning to be able to get away with morally-motivated insubordination, enough strength to prevail when he at last faces retaliation by force, enough charisma to persuade the regular cops to submit to his command, and an unprecedented crisis to give him the opportunities to push his reforms; and even then they'd only manage to come through at the eleventh hour.
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I think that the sad warder episode was good irrespective of what it sets up.
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Invalid Validation posted:What’s supposed to be on that Madlands island? That's where Mad Max takes place.
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He just wants to make people sign up.
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Aug 31, 2023 19:26
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Twelve letters, and Liandrin didn't mention Mat when reading them one time.
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That character's name wasn't spoken anyway.
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Sep 18, 2023 23:54
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The simple fact is that corny poo poo is awesome when portrayed with conviction.
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Oct 8, 2023 22:44
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I think you should try to avoid getting hung up on details like that.
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Oct 10, 2023 04:39
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I really wanted Rings of Power to be good, but they just didn't put the ingredients together into an interesting story.
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Oct 10, 2023 19:48
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If I got stabbed with a magic evil dagger I'd simply recover from the wound. Sorry to hear about your instant death but I'm different
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I think that it would be appropriate for an adaptation into a visual museum to increase the emphasis that is placed on cool looking objects.
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