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Mad Hamish posted:Read the sword fight Rad has with the Seanchan dude in Falme. It's anime as all hell, they practically yell the names of their attacks before they make them. I agree that it's anime as all hell, but I always pinned that on a mutual influence - that being actual Kung Fu/wushu/asian martial arts in general as well as the film and fiction that dramatized them to the American public in the mid 20th century.
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# ¿ Sep 19, 2019 19:09 |
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# ¿ May 9, 2024 03:32 |
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I feel like it gets brought up again with other channelers but I could be crazy. I did enjoy that it helps to explain why she's such a good tracker in addition to "grew up huntin' with my dad" as she's been healing people in the village with the OP ever since she was an adolescent.
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# ¿ Sep 26, 2019 13:06 |
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Atlas Hugged posted:I just got to the part in The Eye of the World where Perrin and Egwene get caught by the Children and they start babbling about Warders and Shadar Logoth. I think it took until this reread to really hit me just how loving dumb and naive they were. On other rereads, I was much younger and more naive myself and got angry at the Children for being so happy to be so loving wrong, but this time, no, the Children definitely have the right of it. At best, at loving best, Egwene and Perrin are involved in some real loving poo poo and at worst they're totally Darkfriends. I mean, Byar is a piece of poo poo either way, but he's a scarily believable piece of poo poo when you read these books as an adult instead of just comically evil. It's going to be even more obvious how scary/bad the Children are in the show when they're a bunch of white dudes in white hoods torturing black and brown kids they found in the woods as darkfriends. aparmenideanmonad fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Oct 7, 2019 |
# ¿ Oct 7, 2019 15:59 |
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I guess it depends whether or not they're going for the cheap advertising/buzz via hamfisted political commentary that seems to be a thing these days. 1) The Children do accept people from all over Randland, so they have a good excuse to represent a blend of ethnicities if they want to go that route. 2) They are based on the Teutonic Order so they'll probably come off as crusader types, but they're literally called whitecloaks because they wear white cloaks with white hoods. Gonna be tough to avoid making that connection.
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# ¿ Oct 7, 2019 16:27 |
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Guys, there is 0% chance they make the Children look like the drat KKK on tv. Come on. The Lord Bude posted:Whitecloaks are worse. The Seanchan are an awful, twisted culture, albeit not without similarities to real world historical societies, but the Whitecloaks hit closer to home - They are essentially a stand in for the Christian fundamentalists that are a very real, very ugly threat that we can see existing around us in the world today. They represent hatred, intolerance and bigotry in a way that none of the other antagonists do; and that has a stronger impact than traditional 'fantasy villain' archetypes. The Children's ideals are only problematic in the sense that any unflinching moral fundamentalism is problematic in the hands of human practitioners - it's always going to end up subservient to convenience, power, and political agendas. That said, they're also less likely to ever be mainstream and evolve an empire, which is a big part of why I think the Seanchan are worse.
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# ¿ Oct 7, 2019 18:23 |
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Sab669 posted:Oh come on dude. There is exactly 1 group you were referring to by saying "they're a bunch of white dudes in white hoods torturing black and brown kids they found in the woods as darkfriends."
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# ¿ Oct 7, 2019 19:34 |
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Torrannor posted:There's not a lot of nudity after this IIRC? Some people being taken gai'shain by the Aiel, and Elayne bathing, I can't recall more instances right now. You've got Berelain trying to seduce Rand in Tear, naked spearfighters waking up to fight shadowspawn multiple times, the sweat tents, all the lady trips to Rhuidean, Aviendha every night after she's ordered to stay in Rand's tent (and him eventually "catching" her), Mat and Melindhra's massage sessions - I'm sure there's more even in books 4 and 5 because the Aiel LOVE being naked. It kind of worries me that I remember all this, but I guess I did first read these books as a horny teenager. aparmenideanmonad fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Oct 15, 2019 |
# ¿ Oct 15, 2019 15:42 |
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Yeah, in all seriousness I hope they learned from GOT that you don't need constant gratuitous nudity to get people to watch these shows... ...but on the other hand this really needs a followup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0K3TdS_Yk
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2019 18:06 |
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Sab669 posted:Was this ever used in a "meaningful" way? Like did X see Y in a vision and then go, "Oh poo poo I gotta get to Y immediately"? Maybe there's some suggestive ones leading up to Dumai's Wells or some stuff when he's going all Darth Rand leading up to the finale, I'm not sure. Hieronymous Alloy posted:I bet they have lan and nynaeve bang in the first book. Are you saying she's gonna be as forward as a farm girl during harvest?
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2019 19:03 |
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There's been the suggestion that the show is told more from Moiraine's perspective as well, so that gives them a lot of liberty as far as how much time to spend on anything during the bits that were all Rand's perspective in the first book. Also, they can just pay someone probably $100 to get the rights to this authoritative take on the prologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUQE0-G_GeU
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# ¿ Oct 18, 2019 20:03 |
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Invalid Validation posted:I get that but she’s physically not part of huge swathes of the story. Unless they just go by hearsay like they do in the books. That’s one of the things I appreciate even if it’s frustrating for me. Nobody knows poo poo unless they actually did it. I agree that it would be weird later on, but I think it would work OK for the first season. Also, some of this buzz may be hearsay based solely on the fame of the actors being cast - Rosamund Pike is a big deal so there's a presumption they're going to use her as such. I mean, she probably costs more than the the 5 kids put together, so you'd hope they're gonna take advantage of her chops.
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# ¿ Oct 19, 2019 01:29 |
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None of the Randland countries and ethnicities are straight lifts from our world, they're nearly all a mix.Data Graham posted:Weren’t the Cairhienins or someone described as having their heads shaved and topknotted like medieval Japanese lords? Shienarans do the shaved head except for topknot thing, which I've always seen as something like Yule Brynner is wearing in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAtbXBxj1sU Cairhienin noblemen shave and powder the front half of their head, but it's a new fad they stole from low class soldiers. I've always envisioned it as some kind of renaissance European take on a chonmage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chonmage) especially since they also wear sashimono (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sashimono)...but a lot of the rest of their culture and look is pretty clearly France. Here's an old post that I've only been able to find on archive.org lately that is about 1/3 confirmed RJ stuff and 2/3 pretty good speculation: https://web.archive.org/web/20110718121323/http://wotfaq.dragonmount.com/node/164 posted:Posted on October 20th, 2010 by Jennifer Liang aparmenideanmonad fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Oct 21, 2019 |
# ¿ Oct 21, 2019 23:22 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah, that's the key to Mat's character, that I'm not sure Sanderson ever fully picked up on. Mat doesn't want to be responsible but when the chips are down he is. In fairness to Sanderson, Mat was transitioning to doing his unbeatable TV luck + old general knowledge combo on purpose all throughout book 11, which is the last one RJ did alone. I do agree that Sanderson didn't really seem to get Mat, but I think trying to write him at the the tail end of this long-time-coming genuine character development was a big ask.
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# ¿ Nov 6, 2019 02:47 |
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I agree that Egwene is morally reprehensible but a good character in the sense that the story, especially the plot, greatly benefits from having her do what she does. A useful thing the show will have a chance to do is to flesh out one or more of the female characters (some combo of book Moiraine/Egwene/Nynaeve/Cadasune maybe, but mostly Egwene) into being a reborn badass in her own right. Latra Posae (went against Lews Therin in the Strike Against Shayol Ghul) or Eldrene (Queen of Manetheren) would be a good candidates as they both have canonical legends that are not super fleshed out with plenty of room for TV embellishments. Egwene suffered from being too much of a plot vehicle/super magical girl placeholder in the books, and she didn't have the cover of insanity/being super TV/reborn etc. that the boys did. She also had to deal with some of the other less-well-written female characters in one of the more poorly written dynamics. I don't think the show will improve on a lot of things, but this is definitely an area that's ripe for it.
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# ¿ Nov 22, 2019 04:40 |
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Brolander posted:good old Great vs. Good Yeah I mean, if anything, the real problem with the character is that I don't think she was supposed to be written as morally reprehensible in the way she turned out to be. Part of the unhelpful dissonance is that it seems accidental rather than intentional. She doesn't get the attention to development that Rand does to make her occasional trip into unempathetic sociopathy consistent with the rest of her actions, and she certainly doesn't seem wracked with the guilt that Rand feels (at least until he goes full Darth Rand). But it is good to have a female counterpart to him that actually gets poo poo done in a way that is not being obvious Deus Ex Machina/Lady-Gandalf/Moiraine.
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# ¿ Nov 22, 2019 04:54 |
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Osmosisch posted:Delta Force games
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# ¿ Nov 25, 2019 13:43 |
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ChickenWing posted:saidar is stored in the boobs What about saidin? I'm guessing it resides in well turned calves.
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# ¿ Nov 27, 2019 22:45 |
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Thom actor has a legit moustache and beard in The Last Kingdom (in which he's a viking rear end in a top hat). I actually didn't recognize him clean shaven. Loial actor is 6'3" so not tiny, but it's gonna be CGI/camera perspective shenanigans to make him look right. He's apparently a pretty decent physical comedy guy so hopefully that translates to the role in a good way - super large dude interacting with tiny furniture and table settings etc.
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2019 22:49 |
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:Those were good. I got really annoyed at the whole “super noble only good at making gates ashaman “ because if you’ve ever read any of his other books that is pure Sanderson and sticks out like a sore thumb on rereads. Androl was in winter's heart, he's a creation of RJ. Sanderson just ran with his gateway talent.
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# ¿ Dec 9, 2019 19:30 |
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silvergoose posted:Because then they'll be able to put some menacing aura-that-isn't-actually-visible around True Power wielders.
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# ¿ Jan 4, 2020 02:23 |
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Data Graham posted:That the flames. Flames. Flames ... at the side of their face. Heaving breaths, heaving — breathing, breath — heavi- channeling
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# ¿ Jan 5, 2020 14:59 |
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bloom posted:It's a safe bet that Jordan had something in mind for Fain though, at least originally. Could be an idea he had that never got developed further, but there was no reason to have Fain hang around as long as he did just for a completely pointless minor role in the Last Battle. I assumed he and the ways were going to be involved in cleansing Saidin at some point. Then after that turned out to be wrong I figured there'd be a cool showdown between him and Shaidar Haran at some point. Then he turned into a wet fart of a baddy. Would have been better to have been killed more meaningfully earlier.
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 21:05 |
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Soonmot posted:Yeah but Perrin has said to her, multiple times, that he's not interested in Berelin, and Faile is all, "well he hasn't screamed at me or tried to spank me yet, so he must be lying".
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 00:31 |
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Spek posted:He was supposed to have drawn too much? I thought Rand incinerated him with the Eye before heading off to murder trollocs/argue with Ishamael. I agree it feels less part of the system that RJ lays out on the rest of the books, but I think at least some of that is intentional. It's the only book where you get the perspective of someone who knows jack poo poo about channeling and almost no first person perspective from people who can see weaves. That poo poo is impressive and scary to normies.
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2020 00:57 |
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Yeah, Jordan always cuts away from the actual sex having, but it's pretty obvious that Lanfear dream-rapes all the TV boys. She definitely interrupts Rand's normal 3-way pond dreams to do it at least once.
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# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 17:43 |
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Anias posted:With jordan's penchant for fading to black, it's unclear exactly what level of sex lanfear and any particular character engaged in, but that's sort of moot. INVADING DREAMS is certainly a non-consensual rape part, and all the dreamers do that on the regular. They're not good people. Yeah, this is more what I meant in my original comment. Regardless of the "physical" circumstances of the dream invasions, the fact that they're sexual and absent of the possibility of consent makes them pretty blatantly rape. Dream penises don't have to go in dream vaginas. Invading another person's dreams for any reason is arguably rape, but Lanfear's shenanigans are straightforwardly so.
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# ¿ Apr 22, 2020 03:59 |
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She looks like she could open palm slam Cenn Buie into the Winespring for foolish talk. Well played casting director.
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2020 20:38 |
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Yeah Winter's Heart is a slog but With the Choedan Kal is probably one of the best payoff chapters in the entire series. I like it better than the series ending chapters tbqh. EDIT: Last 3 chapters of TSR are probably the best.
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2020 23:15 |
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silvergoose posted:Well I guess it was nice chatting about my favorite piece of fiction with y'all. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the wheel of shitposting. But it was *an* ending.
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2020 14:16 |
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They cast Valda and the older Bornhald. Considering Valda is barely mentioned in the first few books other than as Bornhald Jr's commanding officer who is hanging around Tar Valon causing trouble, what do you want to bet they're going to compress Byar, Bornhald Jr and Valda into a single character? Weird to cast him for the first season otherwise - his character isn't even "on screen" until LoC. https://www.tor.com/2020/07/01/the-wheel-of-time-has-cast-two-whitecloak-leaders/
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# ¿ Jul 2, 2020 21:29 |
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Prairie Bus posted:For what it’s worth Hurin was part of the prophecy of the Dragon, right? One of the “five ride forth,” if I’m remembering right. Reminds me that one of my favorite bits of writing is at the very end of The Great Hunt (I think), when the language becomes lofty and poetic, talking about the legend of the Dragon. I don't know enough about the relevant mythology, but I distinctly remember recognizing this 5 - 1 thing from The Dark Is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper, which is a heavily Welsh/Briton/Arthurian legend influenced fantasy YA series where a line from one of the good-guy prophecies is that "five will return, and one will go alone". It healthily predates WoT so I was always curious about whether it was a shared source, a hat tip to the series, or just coincidence. Not curious enough to actually find out on my own though, obviously. Also, merging or getting rid of Hurin/Sandar will totally ruin the multiple jokes about confusing the characters that RJ wrote into the text, but I would forgive the producers nonetheless. And making Valda a PoC is a clutch move - see the how to handle the obvious children = fantasy KKK??? for mass media discussion a dozen pages back or so.
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# ¿ Jul 3, 2020 01:08 |
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:On the other hand, he will be raping Morgase. aparmenideanmonad fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Jul 3, 2020 |
# ¿ Jul 3, 2020 05:08 |
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Data Graham posted:Excuse me I think the term is “terminal moiraine”
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# ¿ Jul 4, 2020 04:32 |
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:Doesn't he figure out a way to flicker back and forth between T'A'R and reality? Yeah, he escapes from TAR on his own and then later surprises the poo poo out of Slayer toward the end of their ongoing duel when he follows him in and out of the dream on his own, but it is rather late in the game by then. He gets several portals in and out up to that point - when Lanfear/Cyndane is helping him she even foreshadows his ability by refusing to make him a portal and saying he has to learn to do it by himself.
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# ¿ Jul 6, 2020 15:32 |
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CainsDescendant posted:I'm getting close to halfway through the fires of heaven and it feels like pretty much every chapter so far has been either Elayne or Nynaeve and I'm starting to pull my hair out. I Stop tugging your braid so hard.
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# ¿ Jul 6, 2020 22:15 |
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Spek posted:
Whatever the TAR version of training with weighted clothing is, I just assume Slayer was doing that after he got his rear end kicked by Perrin the first time. It makes the anime ending work better at least.
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# ¿ Jul 6, 2020 23:29 |
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The Grinwell parents have been cast along with some new character called Dana, so at least some of the Caemlyn road sequence is happening. The casting call for Else is gonna be fun - I bet they just have them stare at a shirtless guy and react. https://www.cbr.com/wheel-of-time-casts-three-more-characters/amp/
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# ¿ Jul 9, 2020 16:45 |
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Isn't the plan to have Aes Sedai retire into the Kin and get released from their oaths and the death sentence that entails? I mean, of course, Elayne always gets to be the exception to everything, but they're going to have plenty of old lady channelers around either way.
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2020 19:51 |
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You make up names for 1000 people and see how it works out!
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2020 22:01 |
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# ¿ May 9, 2024 03:32 |
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All sitters better get used to the taste of sheep dip or whatever the gently caress she used to wash out disrespectful mouths.
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2020 22:21 |