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I want to say the soundtrack was one of my first purchases on Amazon. Got the CD buried somewhere in a box.
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Was RJ really bad at managing his IP or was the IP and other fantasy IPs at that time just not worth very much? There are just a bunch of weird, esoteric things in the hands of very questionable people that came out of the Wheel of Time while he was alive and even now not much is being done with it other than the Amazon show (which I assume is the test to see if anything else should be done with it). The video game is bizarre. The comics had all sorts of production issues. The TV rights bounced around forever. There was one really lame Kickstarter that was basically in the same vein as the 20 minute "Dragonmount", basically just demonstration that the rights holders were "attempting to do something" with them so they didn't revert. Plus the soundtrack mentioned above. I think the only thing that isn't a total headscratcher is the D20 sourcebook.
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Apr 7, 2021 03:40
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Spinoff material in general wasn't as big a thing as you would expect. A lot of it was just "fine, I'll take your money - I'll never have to look at the crap". There wasn't much worry about damaging the brand, because nobody really cared that the ancillary crap was crap.
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JOHN SKELETON posted:All three prologue scenes from the last three books with random new characters are great, they set the tone amazingly well. It's really surprising how well Sanderson can do dark, foreboding tone like that when you compare to some of the non-WoT books of his I've read. I haven't read further cause I go for the just post mentality. But from what I remember, the random farmers bit, the tower soldiers son, and isam at the town were all RJ written for the prologue. E: also it was the literal Last Battle in their minds. So yes they thought they were in danger. Also they were being killed so yes in their minds they were in danger because they were bring shot at and killed. Yes. Barreft fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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Apr 7, 2021 04:23
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i don't think 'prestige tv' and whatever for fantasy stuff was really as big of a thing back then, it probably wasn't until game of thrones hit it big that people started realizing that maybe some of these other series could maybe make some cash if they put some vague amount of effort into what they were doing, which is probably why amazon got in on wheel of time i'm sure. possibly the lord of the rings movies sparked some initial, faint interest even before that. i don't know. but yeah beyond those things they usually didn't give much of a poo poo because the books themselves were most of the main focus and the rest was mostly pumped out for a quick buck.
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Apr 7, 2021 04:53
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Anyone got a good image for an ebook of A Memory of Light? I hate the dumb pic of Rand with the sword. I need a good one for my TGS+TOM in timeline order plus AMOL. I've just used: https://i.imgur.com/x9kDaxb.jpg But now seeing it again just right there I really like it still so I'll probably keep it. Barreft fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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Apr 7, 2021 05:27
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JOHN SKELETON posted:But I don't think Sharan's are Darkfriends? None of them explicitly say they serve The Great Lord, they are just following the Wyld who says he's the savior. So they're more misguided pawns than actual followers. I suppose you could make a case that the Aes Sedai think they are Darkfriends, but it's never brought up in text as far as I noticed. It's a pretty easy jump to assume that people fighting along shadowspawn and under the command of the Forsaken at the last battle are Darkfriends. And that belief is enough to satisfy the oaths. No one at the battle is privy to all the details about why the Sharans are there.
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I'm still surprised we haven't gotten a trailer yet. The Boys had their first big trailer out in Jan 2019 for their July 2019 debut. A 6th month gap. If we get a trailer tomorrow we're looking at an October release? It looks like Amazon is still shooting for a 2021 release date, so we've got to be close to a full trailer at this point... right?
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Apr 8, 2021 19:03
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th3t00t posted:I'm still surprised we haven't gotten a trailer yet. The Boys had their first big trailer out in Jan 2019 for their July 2019 debut. A 6th month gap. If we get a trailer tomorrow we're looking at an October release? It looks like Amazon is still shooting for a 2021 release date, so we've got to be close to a full trailer at this point... right? One of the WoT YouTubers, I think Nae'blis maybe, was saying he suspected the trailer would be sometime in May, which if the six month rule holds puts us on time for a November 2021 release.
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Apr 8, 2021 19:09
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November is a good guess in general - the start of Northern Hemisphere winter is the best time to start a TV program since so many more people will be inside a lot.
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I started listening to the audiobooks again because I wanted familiar and comfortable background noise, and just got up to Egwene's capture. The earlier discussion about the oaths and "who is a darkfriend?" made me realize something which, if they figured it out, the Seanchan could use as an incredibly potent piece of memetic warfare: 1. The Seanchan are not darkfriends. 2. Being leashed is not being killed. (Bet you wish had warders now, Reds!) Like, it'd require regular open communications to work, so my first thought was of it happening in the Fourth Age: some Seanchan ambassador in Tar Valon patiently explaining that of course the Seanchan Empire would never kill an Aes Sedai, waiting for the implications to sink in.
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Vavrek posted:I started listening to the audiobooks again because I wanted familiar and comfortable background noise, and just got up to Egwene's capture. The earlier discussion about the oaths and "who is a darkfriend?" made me realize something which, if they figured it out, the Seanchan could use as an incredibly potent piece of memetic warfare: If the Tower were a agile and responsive organization I could see them altering the oaths to include a clause about being leashed. The Tower before the books began probably isn’t that kind of organization, the one after might be.
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Apr 11, 2021 01:27
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"Never to use the One Power as a weapon except against Darkfriends or Shadowspawn, or in the last extreme defense of her life, the life of her Warder, or another Aes Sedai" I dunno, it doesn't say anything about death. One could well interpret being collared as demane as essentially the end of her life.
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Apr 11, 2021 02:17
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Surely one of the classes the novices and accepted need to ace is Mental Gymnastics
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Apr 11, 2021 02:28
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yeah i don't think they're going to be mindgamed into magically accepting a scenario such as that. the oaths are very much something they can work their way around in most any scenario but the main thing is that they're not supposed to, to uphold the image of it. if push comes to shove they're absolutely going to do something to avoid it and explain themselves later if they have to.
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Apr 11, 2021 03:35
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They don't consider shielding or subduing people with the power as violating the oaths anyway, they just can't directly wound or kill with it. Warders are also not subject to the oaths. If a Seanchan wants to make it a fight they will certainly be able to fight. Also note that Seanchan's maximum circle size is 2, and as a sul'dam the second one doesn't meaningfully contribute any amount of power to the damane. They also do not have an effective way to control male channellers. Without the a'dam female-only circles can go up to 13 and if White Tower allies with Black Tower they can go up to 72. Past the Last Battle detente the channeller imbalance is untenable for Seanchan if they keep to the a'dam. Once the Aiel joined the Dragons Peace the Seanchan should hope that the Peace and the side agreements they make with the Wise Ones and the Aes Sedai hold. VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Apr 11, 2021 |
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Made it through the most recent chapter of that WoT liveblog. This past year has been rough for everyone, but hopefully she gets the blog going again. She’s has a ton of spot on predictions, and makes a case for Egwene being a better character than I remember, but brought down by the absolute cesspit of suck that is Gawyn.
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Apr 11, 2021 05:42
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Spek posted:"Never to use the One Power as a weapon except against Darkfriends or Shadowspawn, or in the last extreme defense of her life, the life of her Warder, or another Aes Sedai" And really, the Warder line seals the deal. Because the Warder's going to fight to keep his Aes Sedai from getting collared, the Seanchan are going to try to kill him to get to her, so that give the Aes Sedai all the justification she needs to blast away, regardless of whether she herself feels life threatened.
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It's why I called out the Reds. I saw this as working to aid the Seanchan in capturing individual Aes Sedai, in the style of Egwene's capture, not in assaulting the Tower or any act of open warfare. Defining life as a damane as no life at all is, I guess, one of the positions that my hypothetical Seanchan Ambassador / Psychological Warfare Expert has to patiently contest. A thing I really like: In some fantasy novels, there might be some argument supported by the narrative (rather than merely given by the characters) that it's right for some people to be leashed, or that some people are better off leashed, live better lives leashed, perhaps want to be leashed. (Gor. I'm thinking of Gor.) In The Wheel of Time it is a monstrous and deliberately dehumanizing act which the narrative seems to abhor.
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Apr 11, 2021 15:16
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Jordan makes it pretty clear that consent is a requirement for morality. Compulsion, leashing, bonding warders without asking, all made very clearly repugnant.
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Apr 11, 2021 15:32
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The a'dam creates a circle, and you can't join another circle if you are already in one. Can you use an established circle to keep from getting a'damed?
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Apr 11, 2021 18:06
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Bmac32 posted:The a'dam creates a circle, and you can't join another circle if you are already in one. Can you use an established circle to keep from getting a'damed? You could, yeah. You'd have to constantly be in a circle though. Plus, while it's harder to shield people in a circle, if you can single someone out and shield them would they drop out? I don't think that ever came up, as once the person you're trying to leash forms a circle you've got bigger problems and they're not going to drop it until they're safe from being leashed or they drop from exhaustion.
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seaborgium posted:You could, yeah. You'd have to constantly be in a circle though. Idk if that's necessary true. It forcefully takes ownership of a circle iirc
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seaborgium posted:You could, yeah. You'd have to constantly be in a circle though. From Jordan: quote:WEEK 8 QUESTION
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seaborgium posted:You could, yeah. You'd have to constantly be in a circle though. I would tactic it out as a circle of 13 sisters taking shifts. You can keep someone in the circle, even while sleeping I think, so just pass the lead when someone needed to sleep. But if you are fighting Seanchan, definitely go against them in circles, for multiple reasons. As far as the separating someone, what happened to the sisters at Dumai's Well's? When Rand finally breaks free of the shield they had on him, where the sisters linked? He stilled a few of them. Did they all sort of drop the circle at once cause of the surprise?
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Bmac32 posted:As far as the separating someone, what happened to the sisters at Dumai's Well's? When Rand finally breaks free of the shield they had on him, where the sisters linked? He stilled a few of them. Did they all sort of drop the circle at once cause of the surprise? The sisters were gradually tying off their portion of the shield and going to help with the fighting. Rand was then able to break the portion of the shield that had been tied off bit by bit until only, I think, 3 remained. Breaking through that shield caused them to lose their grip on Saidar and severed a couple of them. The tying off portions of the shield kind of implies they weren't linked but I have no idea why they wouldn't be, it would certainly make more sense for them to be. I have a very vague, quite possible wrong, memory of someone talking about it being a tradition that they don't link when shielding someone like that but I don't remember where that might've happened.
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Spek posted:The sisters were gradually tying off their portion of the shield and going to help with the fighting. Rand was then able to break the portion of the shield that had been tied off bit by bit until only, I think, 3 remained. Breaking through that shield caused them to lose their grip on Saidar and severed a couple of them. Man, you're right. Totally forgot that they were leaving. They should have been linked since that was Tower tradition when moving a man who could channel, but that was a very different situation.
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Apr 12, 2021 02:48
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seaborgium posted:Plus, while it's harder to shield people in a circle, if you can single someone out and shield them would they drop out? I think if you somehow manage to knock out a single sister they would leave the circle. But the remaining circle is still exponentially stronger than the sum of the parts soooo
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Just slap the a'dam on the sister leading the circle. Boom, done.
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The sisters might have voluntarily left the circle. Recall that one episode with Cadsuane and the Mashadar fog, where one of her Aes Sedai ask whether they should form a circle, and Cadsuane thinks it's better not to link, so that each sister can react to a danger she sees without having to get the attention of the sister leading the circle. Likewise, the Aes Sedai at Dumai's Wells were defending against a horde of Aiel, and might have thought it to be better if all of them could throw fireballs to keep them at bay.
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:I think if you somehow manage to knock out a single sister they would leave the circle. But the remaining circle is still exponentially stronger than the sum of the parts soooo Actually I think a circle's power is less than the sums of the individuals' powers. When Elayne was teaching the Sea Folk linking before using the Bowl of the Winds she made a comment to that effect.
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Apr 12, 2021 10:45
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Inspector 34 posted:Just slap the a'dam on the sister leading the circle. Boom, done. That wouldn't work for the same reasons. A crossbow bolt through the skull would though.
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DarkHorse posted:Actually I think a circle's power is less than the sums of the individuals' powers. When Elayne was teaching the Sea Folk linking before using the Bowl of the Winds she made a comment to that effect. Wwwwwwhy do it then? What's the advantage?
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Apr 12, 2021 13:50
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0.9x13 is still a lot more than 1. Plus then you can put all of that power into one big weave rather than many small ones, and for things like Bowl of the Winds where you need a ton of power AND someone who knows what the gently caress....
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DarkHorse posted:Actually I think a circle's power is less than the sums of the individuals' powers. When Elayne was teaching the Sea Folk linking before using the Bowl of the Winds she made a comment to that effect. Does this hold true for circles with the proper ratio of men to women? I know there were some distinctions noted in the latter books once we got POVs from people who had been in integrated circles but I can't remember if power level was one of the things.
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Apr 12, 2021 14:40
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Mat Cauthon posted:Does this hold true for circles with the proper ratio of men to women? I know there were some distinctions noted in the latter books once we got POVs from people who had been in integrated circles but I can't remember if power level was one of the things. I think that's true- balanced circles are greater than the sum of their parts, by a not inconsiderable margin?
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Not in terms of raw strength, but in terms of, like, the effect and complexity of weaves.
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Ok, I just finished book 6, and need some help deciphering what the gently caress actually happened?End of Crown of Swords posted:At first, he could not see Sammael, but then someone moved among the fluted, flaring columns of a palace. Rand waited. He wanted to be sure; he had only one chance. The figure stepped forward, out of the columns and a pace into the square, head swinging this way and that. Sammael, with snowy lace shining at his throat, waiting to see Rand walk into the square, into the traps. Behind him, the glow in the windows of the palace brightened. Sammael peered into the darkness lying across the square, and Mashadar oozed out of the windows, thick billows of silver-gray fog sliding together, merging as they loomed above his head. Sammael walked a little to one side, and the wave began to descend, slowly picking up speed as it fell. So what exactly happened here, in less flowery prose? Rand sees Sammael, with the fog growing above him. Sammael steps to the side (to avoid the fog, I assume). Rand gets made and starts to channel, but sees Liah being poked by fog. Rand then shoots her with the balefire instead (?), and sweeps the laser across the area, but stops before he hits the fog. The place where Sammael was is now engulfed in fog (?), and Rand is sure that means Sammael is dead. I'm avoiding spoilers as to future books, but that entire sequence is just confusing to me. Why did Rand zap Liah? Why didn't he zap the fog (that would have saved her)? Why does that action cause Sammael to be absorbed in the fog, when clearly he was avoiding it before? It even says "He had come here to kill one of the Forsaken, but instead he had killed a woman he had abandoned here to her fate," which seems to be in direct contradiction to his previous claim he knows Sammael is dead. Like at the end of the day all of the Forsaken that have died kind of went out like chumps, but this seems to be just silly. Sammael supposedly planned the confrontation in Shadar Logoth, but he just walked in and got eaten? Rand's actions with balefire don't seem to have any influence on Sammael's demise.
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