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VanillaGorilla posted:Positive, but seems like book purists are going to continue to be mad, maybe! Look, we all suspected that the obvious homage to Mrs Doubtfire was unlikely to make the cut. Likewise the chapter with the eerily on-point prediction of Heath Ledger’s Joker.
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VanillaGorilla posted:First review I've seen: https://www.empireonline.com/tv/reviews/the-wheel-of-time-season-2/ Nothing about that review feels good. It seems like they are saying "it's mostly fine". *Their review for the 8 new episodes gets 4 paragraphs. Hughmoris fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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Hughmoris posted:Nothing about that review feels good. It seems like they are saying "it's mostly fine". At least Amazon was confident enough in all eight episodes to drop them to the press and influences all at once. Whenever Paramount thought they had a stinker on their hands they'd only put out like three or four so you could immediately tell where the show just fell off a cliff quality-wise before even watching it for yourself.
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VanillaGorilla posted:First review I've seen: https://www.empireonline.com/tv/reviews/the-wheel-of-time-season-2/ The only way to do a pure book adaptation would be to make it an anime-style thousand episode series with one episode per chapter. Cutting anything down to a reasonably filmable level with live action characters is necessarily going to be almost nothing like an entire book, let alone 1000 page monsters like WOT
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Have some more! https://twitter.com/rationalnerd/status/1697241491201302730?s=46&t=ecfqJck31S5kfQrefopaKQ
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Vim Fuego posted:The only way to do a pure book adaptation would be to make it an anime-style thousand episode series with one episode per chapter. Cutting anything down to a reasonably filmable level with live action characters is necessarily going to be almost nothing like an entire book, let alone 1000 page monsters like WOT 200 episode OVA. Give it the LOGH treatment.
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Vim Fuego posted:The only way to do a pure book adaptation would be to make it an anime-style thousand episode series with one episode per chapter. Cutting anything down to a reasonably filmable level with live action characters is necessarily going to be almost nothing like an entire book, let alone 1000 page monsters like WOT Unironically, and I'm optimistic for season two, I think the best Wheel of Time adaptation would have been a ridiculous anime.
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Morrow posted:Unironically, and I'm optimistic for season two, I think the best Wheel of Time adaptation would have been a ridiculous anime. No, i'd prefer it to be good instead of anime.
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Anime or not I also feel like it would be better animated. I feel that way about most sci fi and fantasy adaptations, though
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It has always been anime.
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Anime is the medium best suited for an adaptation of The Wheel of Time, and it always has been.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:It has always been anime. My mother, who fell in love with the series via the show sight unseen, started reading the books and the first thing she told me about them was "This feels like a cartoon."
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I think the ATLA American anime style would be fantastic for the Wheel of Time
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pik_d posted:I think the ATLA American anime style would be fantastic for the Wheel of Time That was actually how I sold the series to a friend. "It's basically like a moody, live action version of Avatar: The Last Airbender".
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Yea, but ATLA isn't anime. If WoT show was anime, there would be 39 minutes in a 60 minute show of nothing but Rand staring into the camera making choking sounds and with a so crazy eye twitch (that is just the same 5 seconds on a loop)
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They already made a Wheel of Time anime, it's called Tenchi Muyo.
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To quote an old post from the book thread:Calenth posted:
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:To quote an old post from the book thread: Oh you're telling me THIS DUDE  was a giant goddamn weeb? I'm floored (I am not).
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nine-gear crow posted:Oh you're telling me THIS DUDE 
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The new episodes are live. Looks like we get 3 of them. Also, I keep forgetting that Moiraine was distilled at the end of season 1.
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I'm so excited for this to come back!! My only concern is that the first season inspired me to revisit the books after decades of not thinking about them at all, and I hope that doesn't poison me against being able to appreciate the show on its own merits.Hieronymous Alloy posted:To quote an old post from the book thread: Wow this is super cool to have confirmation on. The influence in terms of tone and pacing is very overt, but the timing is so early in terms of when that stuff became known in the US that I always thought it had to be a coincidence of some sort.
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2 years later I'm kinda iffy on this show but as soon as Nynaeve shows up I get sucked back in. She's the dang best.
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update the thread title so people can see season 2 episodes are out imo. [No Book Spoilers] Wheel of Time Season 2 is out
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Ep.1 is good! Some genuine "rush" moments, some genuine  s, and abs galore
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exmarx posted:dialogue remains dogshit Yeah. The dialogue, and a good chunk of the acting, is still weak. I enjoyed the books but I might have to tap out of the show. 
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At least they got this right: someone crucified a Fade
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Granted I’m a very casual viewer and non book reader who forgot most of the first season, so I’m probably wrong, but that was a very mopey first episode. Zero narrative heft, and a lot of brooding
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I've watched all 3 episodes. They're great. I'm really enjoying Elayne, nuMatt is good.
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CainFortea posted:I've watched all 3 episodes. They're great. I'm really enjoying Elayne, nuMatt is good. Same. They picked a good replacement. He slips into the role really well. Elayne is really good too. I like how they're making Liandrin a more complicated character too. It's harder to completely hate her now. Really hyped for the back five now.
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Also I'm just gonna say it: I miss the old intro that poo poo ruled.
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first ep had great vibes, enjoyed the ending fight, nice way of reacquainting everyone with the world. dialogue was good. enjoying freaky alanna
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buffalo all day posted:first ep had great vibes, enjoyed the ending fight, nice way of reacquainting everyone with the world. dialogue was good. enjoying freaky alanna Alanna being freaky is good, but Adeleas being a horny old woman is better.
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CainFortea posted:Alanna being freaky is good, but Adeleas being a horny old woman is better.
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nine-gear crow posted:Also I'm just gonna say it: I miss the old intro that poo poo ruled. I didn't expect to see it in the first episode but I was super bummed it didn't show up in the second. We're not beholden to network time slots, here, gimme that long intro
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nine-gear crow posted:Oh you're telling me THIS DUDE Also speaking of this picture (or really any publicity photo of Jordan), I thought it was cute how they slipped in a "Robert Jordan" cameo in the first episode where you see a guy in the background of a crowd shot center frame on a horse and he's got the same hat, coat and beard that made up Jordan's iconic look. It's like he's watching over the show from the beyond 
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I thought they did very well, episode 3 in particular. Holy hell they did good there. Liandrin is just knocking it out of the park.
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Binged all three episodes. They're good. There's still a few clunky lines here and there, and more than that some bad editing. For example episode 2 Rand punching that dude in the Foregate was edited very strangely where I was left confused about what happened, and not really horrified / worried like I think they wanted me to. Some sort of rushed editing or production issues I guess. But overall I think the quality is up from season 1. Sets and costumes look much better and bigger, there's more variety in both, and the story feels less confined and rushed.
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nine-gear crow posted:Same. They picked a good replacement. He slips into the role really well. Elayne is really good too. I like how they're making Liandrin a more complicated character too. It's harder to completely hate her now. Really hyped for the back five now. oh lame, only 8 eps total?
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crepeface posted:oh lame, only 8 eps total? At least they're all feature length this time around apparently. They're doing fewer episodes but covering more ground in each one, so this season's gonna cover all of Book 2 and the first parts of Book 3, and then next season will be the rest of Book 3 and into Book 4.
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