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    Wheel of Time is a high fantasy series consisting of 14 books published over a 23 year period. Sadly, the author Robert Jordan passed away without finishing the series. Jordan's widow chose Brandon Sanderson to finish the series based on Jordan's notes, and most fans were happy with the conclusion. Brandon Sanderson is a bit of a big deal and he has his own thread over here which you don't have to fill with Wheel of Time stuff anymore thank you god bless Amazon and Sony Pictures are currently developing a TV series for Amazon's Prime streaming service which has sparked renewed interest in the story. https://twitter.com/WoTonPrime/status/1161671427117867008 https://twitter.com/WoTonPrime/status/1161673919436185600 https://twitter.com/WoTonPrime/status/1161672659534413824 https://twitter.com/WoTonPrime/status/1161670278448947201 https://twitter.com/WoTonPrime/status/1161668876720984064 https://twitter.com/WoTonPrime/status/1141390183641866245 https://twitter.com/WoTonPrime/status/1169279471712497664 Presumably the show's twitter account will be a good source for updates on the development of the show. Somebody fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Dec 31, 2021 |
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 Prior WoT threads (now archived): https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3460087 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3508074
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Sep 5, 2019 18:41
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I was going to go with "Wheel of Time: Get a loving life. It's only tits and the Dragon Reborn"
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Sep 5, 2019 19:22
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I guess it's time to start my new reread
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Sep 5, 2019 19:59
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Is it mormon to have a lot of spanking, or is that just a reference to Sanderson finishing the series?
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Sep 5, 2019 20:17
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Ugh I thought Robert Jordan was mormon as well as Brandon Sanderson
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Sep 5, 2019 20:33
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These books suck and I’m mad at myself for starting them and madder that I know I’m gonna finish them anyway
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mewse posted:Ugh I thought Robert Jordan was mormon as well as Brandon Sanderson Phobeste posted:These books suck and I’m mad at myself for starting them and madder that I know I’m gonna finish them anyway
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Sep 5, 2019 20:35
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Cicero posted:Well I guess it does have less sex and brutal violence than GoT right? Yeah that was kinda the joke in my thread title, they're gonna try to sex it up for TV when it's a really tame series
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Sep 5, 2019 20:40
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Oh good, a dedicated thread I can annoy with my snide wisecracks
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Sep 5, 2019 21:34
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Data Graham posted:Oh good, a dedicated thread I can annoy with my snide wisecracks Ok, Mat
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Sep 5, 2019 21:45
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Technically, most people would call raken dragons as well, I think.
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Sep 5, 2019 22:34
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Torrannor posted:Technically, most people would call raken dragons as well, I think. more wyverns i think
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Sep 5, 2019 22:36
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I thought they were pterodactyls.
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Sep 5, 2019 23:12
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https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/Raken https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/To%27raken According to The Big Book of Bad Art, anyway
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Sep 5, 2019 23:27
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Well, then, the Ian McShane quote is entirely accurate.
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Sep 6, 2019 15:22
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That lady who'll be playing Nynaeve has braids to tug for days.
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Sep 6, 2019 18:57
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She should braid the braids together into one giant super braid
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Sep 6, 2019 19:11
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Also, I just want to say I'm pleased by how diverse that cast looks. I think a lot of the racial diversity in WoT gets glossed over or ignored, but while they may still be super hung up on nationalism they're pretty much a post-racism society. I don't remember just how long it took but I'm fairly sure Tuon had been a character in several books before it was mentioned that she was black. I hope there are like five times as many weird little gatherings of the Forsaken in the TV show, I loved those meetings.
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Mad Hamish posted:I hope there are like five times as many weird little gatherings of the Forsaken in the TV show, I loved those meetings. Yeah, like the first one in the first book, I was chortling to myself that it sounded like he was describing the Forsaken guys approaching each other on different staircases in one of those Escher drawings. 
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Sep 6, 2019 20:21
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I am going to thoroughly enjoy the inevitable screeching when all the marketing about "powerful women" runs into the books stating men are more powerful than women as magic users. This is not to say there are not issues that need to be addressed between men and women, but it always amuses me that people try to use books about wizards for that. This is also an adaptation that I hope is much less faithful to the books, because hoo boy if I hear "Bowl of the WInds" or "Faile" I am going to be the saddest panda.
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Cicero posted:Read Cradle instead the first three are free right now: https://www.amazon.com/Cradle-Foundation-Collected-Book-ebook/dp/B076G8DVN6/ Thank you for this, I just finished the first book and it's reasonably entertaining. Also: VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:
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Sep 7, 2019 05:52
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I don't know any of those actors but the only one that really clashes with the vision in my head is Nynaeve, and that's only because she doesn't have an enormous braid. Beefcake Lan is extremely correct.
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Sep 7, 2019 13:19
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Sep 7, 2019 13:26
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I am going to thoroughly enjoy the inevitable screeching when all the marketing about "powerful women" runs into the books stating men are more powerful than women as magic users. Faile will 100% be in the show.
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Sep 7, 2019 15:19
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RC Cola posted:Faile will 100% be in the show. After all, there aren’t enough women in the story
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Sep 7, 2019 15:31
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They still need to reveal casting for Fain, Min, Bella, Lews Therin, and Ishamael but I'm hella hyped so far.
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Sep 7, 2019 17:06
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Billy Zane with "proper motivation" for Ishamael, or bust. Other "major" characters we can meet in Book 1 that I would like to see casting on, grouped in order: Tam Thom Morgase Elaida Gareth Bryne Elayne Galad Gawyn Agelmar Masema Balthamel Aginor ... Someshta _____ Also, I'm not sure if casting the other Forsaken should be announced early. Most of them show up unnamed in the various Forsaken Social Gatherings until (much much) later on in the books. VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Sep 7, 2019 |
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Sep 7, 2019 17:24
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Was Elayne revealed already? I suspect they're in no rush to cast Tuon. She first appears in book 9 after all.
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Sep 7, 2019 17:25
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So, with game of thrones, almost everyone cast looked pretty much like how I imagined the book characters in my head. In this case, the cast so far don’t match the images I had as such, but I can also totally see them as interesting valid interpretations and I’m glad there’s loads of diversity because that was explicitly a thing. Anyway I hope this show is good/a grolm steps on some people
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Torrannor posted:Was Elayne revealed already? I bet they have her show up in the first Seanchan appearance at Falme.
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Sep 8, 2019 01:02
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Kind of the way Azula showed up a season early in a throwaway shot in I think S1 of ATLA. I was like “who is that and why is she grinning that way”
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Who are the showrunners? How much involvement does Jordan's widow have? What are the production values going to be? Are we getting visuals inspired by Bad Book of Art or the bad fan art or the bad covers or...why does this series have so much bad art? Wasn't there a proposed MMO or card game or something where the halfway decent stuff like this (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/35/15/3e/35153e1268f2b5402cb381ab63faa05a.jpg) came from? Anyway. I think the casting is pretty interesting, I'm glad they're using the excuse of the Two Rivers being a mishmash of families that immigrated there over time to shoehorn in more diversity. Rosamund Pike is a huge get and a much better choice for Moiraine than I would've expected. There's so much that could go left though. For better or worse the general level of complexity, dialogue, and characterization in Wheel of Time is much weaker than Game of Thrones, or even the Magicians, so I'm hoping that they take a note from the Boys and just excise huge amounts of stuff in favor of crafting something more cohesive, more entertaining, and less racist, sexist, etc. I guess I should get around to finishing the last two books. I gave up after reading the first Sanderson one, it felt too much like just jumping from plot point to plot point but invested too much time and energy to not eventually see it through to the end. Edit: Apparently the showrunner is a guy who worked on Agents of SHIELD? Dunno if that's good or bad. Mat Cauthon fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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Sep 8, 2019 01:59
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Now that’s one helluva username/post combo
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Sep 8, 2019 02:02
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Obviously I had/have a lot of affinity for the series and if there had been an adaptation in the works a decade ago I probably would've jumped for joy. Combination of expanding my literary horizons and the change in perception that comes with getting older just means it's easier to acknowledge that something that was my FAVORITE FANTASY SERIES OF ALL TIME!!1!1 up until like a decade ago was never really that great, despite my enjoyment of it. Amazon has generally done pretty well with their adaptations so I guess there's reason to be cautiously optimistic but in all honesty I'm probably looking forward to the adaptation of the Black Company series than this one.
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Sep 8, 2019 02:21
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It's certainly easy to just end the black company before it gets to the bad ones.
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Sep 8, 2019 04:26
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RC Cola posted:Faile will 100% be in the show. Please God no. Do we know how much they plan to cover in a season?
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Sep 8, 2019 04:41
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:Please God no. They can cut books 7-11 of Perrin's arc into 2-3 episodes. Cut out the prophet entirely actually.
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RC Cola posted:They can cut books 7-11 of Perrin's arc into 2-3 episodes. Hell no. Masema is a great recurring antagonist in his own right and Perrin setting up the mother of all combination shots in books 9-11 is one of the most underrated segments of the books. VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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