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rotor posted:the wot author has this amazing ability to just not have anything happen but somehow make it seem like something is happening its bascially perfect for Ponderous Prestige TV
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FMguru posted:https://twitter.com/NussbaumAbigail/status/1461753120053202955 they spent all that money on blow
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WoT is the one where each book covers about as much time as a single chapter in the previous book right?
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bump_fn posted:this is one of the best openings to a 90s action movie there is "head or gut?"
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Sweevo posted:WoT is the one where each book covers about as much time as a single chapter in the previous book right? i was like halfway through the third one when i realized that nothing had actually happened in like 300 pages so i bailed
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MrQueasy posted:Is the WoT series at least a little campy and fun like The Witcher, or is it just Ponderous Prestige Television. I think the only nudity in the first 3 episodes is some dude butt
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Sweevo posted:WoT is the one where each book covers about as much time as a single chapter in the previous book right? The series is asymptotic in regards to time. I think it's Crossroads of Twilight that's literally one day for 800 pages.
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when i first heard of it, it was already like 8+ books and its literally called "the wheel of time" thats like calling it "the days of our lives" who in their right mind would begin reading that? it sounds exhausting and pointless
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qirex posted:I think the only nudity in the first 3 episodes is some dude butt
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lmao on that tetris ad and those uniforms
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narrator: "a hand in the bird's nest"
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Endless Mike posted:police squad! is so good
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FMguru posted:https://twitter.com/NussbaumAbigail/status/1461753120053202955
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rotor posted:i was like halfway through the third one when i realized that nothing had actually happened in like 300 pages so i bailed i slogged through the first book, just so that i could say i gave it a real try, as i have a couple of friends who are big wheel of time fans i told one of my other fantasy-loving friends about how i found the book so ponderous and slow, and he laughed and said "that's funny, most people regard it as the fastest book of the series." i have never regretted not reading any more of the books. (especially as my surface-level impression of the ending to the first book was "congrats, you're the kwisatz haderach!" and thinking lol this is how he ends the book? really??) qirex posted:it’s trying to walk a line but is trending on the side of dour slog it's been a good while since i read that book but my recollection is that it's... substantially more wholesome than game of thrones. so i wouldn't go in expecting much nudity.
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they requisitioned a handmade horse blanket from the warehouse, go figure. they're lucky it was a horse blanket at all
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as much as robert jordan deserves to be ribbed for his books grinding to a screaming halt midway through the series, he's still no peter loving hamilton. at least none of the wheel of time books managed to nearly be individually as long as the entire lord of the rings trilogy.
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he didn't miss by that much, the longest WOT book is just over 1000 pages while all of LOTR is about 1300 total page count for the entire WOT series is over 11K
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the WoT tv show is Extremely Serious and full of itself (more so than Foundation), going to be hard to watch. on the other hand the multi ethnic casting will be an infinite schadenfreude machine.
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can someone report on the number of braid pulls, skirt smooths, and arm folds performed by each character in descending order by height? my favorite parts of the books tbh.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:the WoT tv show is Extremely Serious and full of itself (more so than Foundation), going to be hard to watch. on the other hand the multi ethnic casting will be an infinite schadenfreude machine. im super looking forward to the sandman lmao
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haveblue posted:he didn't miss by that much, the longest WOT book is just over 1000 pages while all of LOTR is about 1300 word count is better to go off of than page count IMO been a while since i went looking - this is a source i found just now: https://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-longest-sff-novels-of-all-time.html LOTR is about 470k the longest wheel of time book is supposedly Lord of Chaos at about 395k - that's a substantial difference, you could fit Dune Messiah into that gap meanwhile peter loving hamilton's The Naked God clocks in at 469k words - and that's just one part of a trilogy!
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It is tsrnished by the chuddiness of the zucker brothers (not out of left field tho) and it's completely bullshit take on ska
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i told one of my other fantasy-loving friends about how i found the book so ponderous and slow, and he laughed and said "that's funny, most people regard it as the fastest book of the series." i have never regretted not reading any more of the books. yeah, bailed on that right then and there
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qirex posted:it’s trying to walk a line but is trending on the side of dour slog huh, i would've guessed that they'd start off right away hanging Lan dong between "arms crossed under breasts" scenes
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Ellie Trashcakes posted:It is tsrnished by the chuddiness of the zucker brothers (not out of left field tho) and it's completely bullshit take on ska oh no oh no 
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FMguru posted:the giant extruded fantasy series i noped out on was malazan book of the fallen. i had friends pitch it hard to me, i powered my way through the first giant book, found it very mediocre and disjointed, and when i reported that to my friends they came back with "oh yeah its a rough start but it all starts pulling together around the end of book three!" (note that the end of book three is 2850 pages distant from the start of book one) The first book is the weakest. The story was kind of eh until the 2nd book which is what really got me. I read 3-4, and then stopped after 5 as I felt like the story was getting boring. I think the big issue with books like that are there are too many characters and plotlines and it becomes difficult to keep track of everything. Steven Erikson is also a very tedious writer, which makes reading the series even worse.
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psiox posted:oh no I'm afraid so But like I said you can kinda see the signs if you look bsck
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bebop ep1 not THAT BAD but i knew what i was getting into. 7/10 if you're ok with a lot more wisecracking. This will prrrrobably go down as i get into it (yes ive seen the ed clip)
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:the WoT tv show is Extremely Serious and full of itself (more so than Foundation), going to be hard to watch. on the other hand the multi ethnic casting will be an infinite schadenfreude machine. don’t think you watched the same show as I did? apart from the opening credits scene I don’t get prestige tv series vibes at all. I thought it was really good, not grimdark like GoT, didn’t add weird marvel style humour, feels faithful to the books but also changes it to feel like an adaptation designed for television instead of just a word for word book retelling. casting seems overall great. feels like a well put together show that is the level below prestige drama in terms of vibe which is great as I’m sick of prestige drama and all it’s tropes
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SmokaDustbowl posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmxWHMIbUWM i remember this justice music video
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even as a fantasy devouring teen I was like "nope" on WoT, especially after I read some theory that the books were all angled so that you could lay them out in a wheel which would need there to be like 240 of them or something ridiculous like that. didn't they make a terrible RPG/mmo at some point as well? FMguru posted:the giant extruded fantasy series i noped out on was malazan book of the fallen. i had friends pitch it hard to me, i powered my way through the first giant book, found it very mediocre and disjointed, and when i reported that to my friends they came back with "oh yeah its a rough start but it all starts pulling together around the end of book three!" (note that the end of book three is 2850 pages distant from the start of book one) I love these, but it helps that I got in on the ground floor before there were 10 to read. Also, and I say this as a fan of them, towards the end Erikson clearly got a bit more free reign and less editing so they get longer and longer and lose a lot of the plot focus of the first 3 or 4. also there's a bit with lizard men carrying Tesla guns or something idk wtf he was on when he wrote that. but, the companion ones by Ian Esslemont are a lot more tightly plotted and paced and are worth it. nobody should try reading Erikson's Karkanas trilogy though, that's literally 1000 pages of emo whinging by the
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a neat thing with the Malazan is that the first five books can each be read independently (even if some secondary characters are shared) so if you don't like the first book, you can stop there, with no sunk-cost fallacy. the last five books tell a single story, though.Powerful Two-Hander posted:but, the companion ones by Ian Esslemont are a lot more tightly plotted and paced and are worth it. Bourricot fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Nov 20, 2021 |
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they overlap with some of the main ones but then start to diverge a bit, then go back and fill in some of the events prior to the first Erikson one. they vary a bit in tone iirc, I get the impression that of the two writers (who created the universe together), Esslemont is a lot less prone to writing 50 pages of some guy lamenting the past and using the word "potsherds"
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