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cryptoclastic posted:My mental image of Thom was always Sam Elliott even though I didn't know his name. I think I had seen him in one movie or something, and when I read the books he just fit perfectly. It was definitely the mustache. His role as Virgil in Tombstone is my mental image of Thom.  I think he's a bit too old for it now, though. Dunno who I'd cast as him.
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Silly people. The ideal Thom is clearly Timothy Omundson. He’s even an excellent singer.
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Oct 16, 2019 07:07
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I have a feeling they'll make Thom younger than he is in the books. An elderly acrobat/pop star/assassin seems like it'd come across as silly on screen, and having him be the love interest of a much younger looking woman would be weird. Make him middle aged instead of white-haired old and it'll play better.
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Oct 16, 2019 07:41
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People can be white haired without being geriatric. Plenty of people go grey really young. Timothy Omundson with more white in his hair would look fine; or someone like Ted Danson.
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Oct 16, 2019 08:31
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Either way, he's like the anti- Little Finger and I hope he's in the show.
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The Lord Bude posted:Patrick Stewart’s gonna be busy for a while I think. Why, what's he up to?
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Data Graham posted:Why, what's he up to? He got his dog a part in some new show.
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Data Graham posted:Why, what's he up to? Have you been living under a rock? Ol' Picard is coming out of retirement. With 100% more dog; as has been mentioned. 1st episode of Star Trek: Picard is on January 23.
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Warrior of the Altaii: Bondage:  Paddling: Man Rape: Magic Rape: I, uh, think Robert Jordan was into some stuff.
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The Lord Bude posted:Have you been living under a rock? Ol' Picard is coming out of retirement. With 100% more dog; as has been mentioned. 1st episode of Star Trek: Picard is on January 23. I apparently have been. That's what I get for not having paid attention to Star Trek in like half a decade I guess.
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So I have had Eye of the World sitting on my book shelf for the better part of a decade. I think maybe my mom bought it for me for Christmas one year because she knew how much I loved Lord of the Rings. I tried reading it once and couldn't even get through the first chapter for whatever reason. But the prologue always kinda stayed with me and I always wanted to pick it up and try reading it again. So I finally did the other night and I'm about 100+ pages in and definitely enjoying it so far. The only thing that's driving me nuts so far is the names. Nynaeve, Egwene, Aes Sedai....not sure why but they're all really frustrating me. Anyways, I've tried not to read too much of the thread for fear of spoilers but any tips or advice you have for me would be nice.
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Mahoning posted:So I have had Eye of the World sitting on my book shelf for the better part of a decade. I think maybe my mom bought it for me for Christmas one year because she knew how much I loved Lord of the Rings. I tried reading it once and couldn't even get through the first chapter for whatever reason. But the prologue always kinda stayed with me and I always wanted to pick it up and try reading it again. So I finally did the other night and I'm about 100+ pages in and definitely enjoying it so far. Roughly similar story here, and I'm here to tell you the names don't really get better. My advice is to make a game out of it: count how many "M-R-N" names you run into over the course of the series. Write them down because you WILL lose count. But the names (the important ones anyway) do usually have an antecedent in some mythos or other, like the Arthurian ones in Caemlyn, and of the main party/secondaries. They can be fun to try to tease out the origins of.
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There's a pronunciation guide in the back of the books if you're not sure how these things are supposed to be said. Aside from that, have fun!
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edit: Woah sorry, internet timed out and I double posted.
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Mahoning posted:So I have had Eye of the World sitting on my book shelf for the better part of a decade. I think maybe my mom bought it for me for Christmas one year because she knew how much I loved Lord of the Rings. I tried reading it once and couldn't even get through the first chapter for whatever reason. But the prologue always kinda stayed with me and I always wanted to pick it up and try reading it again. So I finally did the other night and I'm about 100+ pages in and definitely enjoying it so far. There is a glossary in each book, although it can be kinda spoilery, in the sense that it can give away backstory and worldbuilding details that haven't been revealed in the text yet. The series is incredible and really benefits from not having to wait between books. On Thom casting: Given that they are already filming, Thom must have been cast already. Hopefully we'll learn who it is soon.
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I think the first book takes a while to get going but it’s fun when it does. I have a feeling the books have too much magic to be a good real life tv show.
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They should've made it an anime instead.
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EvilTaytoMan posted:They should've made it an anime instead. I was really surprised this ended up as an Amazon series rather than a Netfilx anime.
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EvilTaytoMan posted:They should've made it an anime instead. Most things would work better as a cartoon or cgi thing but I guess the margins are better on live action productions? Honestly I would love to learn more about the determinations that go into making these sort of decisions, seems to me like it would be much cheaper to adapt via animation but I suppose there's still a stigma about that (in the West at least) and fewer opportunities for crosspromotion/branding/spinoffs/etc.
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Animation is really expensive and also takes a long time to do. From storyboard to finished product we're talking 9 months lag time.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Animation is really expensive and also takes a long time to do. From storyboard to finished product we're talking 9 months lag time. Uh, most television animation is done cheaply with a really quick turnaround time. Production schedules are so messed up that episodes are often finished just before they air. A live action adaptation filmed in Prague in addition to all the special effects work it requires is exponentially more expensive than an anime. The market for this sort of animation is just much smaller. Basileus777 fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Oct 16, 2019 |
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I am by no means an expert and I'm sure things have changed in a decade but they mention many times on commentaries on The Simpsons and Futurama that it takes between 6 to 8 months to get an episode produced, from script to recording to storyboarding and to get final animation back from Korea. Apologies if I was incorrect.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I am by no means an expert and I'm sure things have changed in a decade but they mention many times on commentaries on The Simpsons and Futurama that it takes between 6 to 8 months to get an episode produced, from script to recording to storyboarding and to get final animation back from Korea. Apologies if I was incorrect. The Simpsons takes 6-8 months. South Park takes 1 week.
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It's not an anime because Amazon is trying for a massive decade long prestige fantasy series and Game of Thrones was not an anime.
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How are u posted:It's not an anime because Amazon is trying for a massive decade long prestige fantasy series and Game of Thrones was not an anime. Yep everyone wants the next GoT
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More precisely, Amazon is counting on the many, many Game Of Thrones fans who no longer have a show to be a ready market for something similar.
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They're also making that LotR series set in the Second Age, assuming it hasn't been cancelled, so yeah they're definitely going after GoT fans.
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Wait till they start releasing them before you say that. At least Wheel of Time is finished.
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And, regarding Game of Thrones, the special effects were really quite something amazing. I am confident they can pull off all the kickass weaving and spell slinging in a visually satisfying way.
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:It's actually pretty loving funny that RJ managed to plot these things all together for Perrin to take care of at once: Now that you put it like that, it makes me think it was all deliberate and it just never came across like RJ intended. Perrin was always the slow, methodical one, that people mistook as stupid, And if I remember right his internal monologue was that he compared his problems to a blacksmith's puzzle: lots of moving parts that seemed impossible, and then you find the trick that solves everything simultaneously. Like, it's agonizingly slow and tedious reading through it, but i can see how from the outside people underestimate him and think he's stumbling but then solves five or more problems with a single blow, so then they think he's a genius at Daes Dae Mar With a bit more editing that could come through more obviously, and been brilliant writing. It also mirrors how Mat just kind of chaos-dunks his way through life, putting no planning into things but still doing the right (and moral) thing anyway
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I would not even have 5% of the excitement over the WoT show as I do now if it was a cartoon.
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Please don't screw this up Amazon. What do we know about the film crew? I hope they bring some talent to adapting this monster of a series. Done right they can milk this for a decade.
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I thought I read somewhere that the plan was to do 2 books per season, but I guess if it becomes a huge hit they might adjust that to make it last a little longer.
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Has any Amazon show become a huge hit?
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ulmont posted:The Simpsons takes 6-8 months. South Park takes 1 week. Laughing imagining an enormously long animated Wheel of Time series in lovely south park style
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Invalid Validation posted:Has any Amazon show become a huge hit? The Boys, Marvelous Ms Maisel, a couple of others. Isn't the Expanse an Amazon show now too?
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Brolander posted:Laughing imagining an enormously long animated Wheel of Time series in lovely south park style 
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Mat Cauthon posted:The Boys, Marvelous Ms Maisel, a couple of others. Isn't the Expanse an Amazon show now too? I’ve never heard of The Boys, I’m not sure Maisel’s quality and Emmy buzz translates to viewers, and the Expanse is such a big hit that it was cancelled and picked up as Bezos’ vanity project. None are big hits in a GoT sense, certainly.
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