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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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"What do you call a group of warders playing video games? A Lan party" 
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He starts one chapter with the scarf thing, then flashes back in time and spends like 2 chapters catching up to that moment again. It's extra confusing because they get rides from like 3-4 different farmers in those chapters but only one of them is handing out scarves. I guess he wanted to mix up the monotony of "R+M arrive in village, play music, get hassled by darkfriends and move to the next village".
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I reread the series a couple of years ago and skipped Nynaeve/Elayne chapters that didn't feature Mat, all Egwene chapters after she got to the rebel Aes Sedai and all of the Faile hunt. Sure there's a few important things that happen in there but it's just unbearable to read for a second time.
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Sep 24, 2019 18:10
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To be fair desperately running from monsters that he until very recently thought were fairytales is probably not the sort of adventure he'd been daydreaming about.
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Sep 25, 2019 06:44
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RC Cola posted:Do you remember his 3 answers? It's been foreshadowed since book 4. Since book 1 actually. Unless I'm remembering it wrong Min's initial vision about Mat was an eye on a scale.
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There's also the aiel sauna tents which are supposedly co-ed but only seem to include women. Also I think the third book has a scene where Perrin walks in on Moiraine just chilling naked for some reason. I can't be arsed to look it up and maybe it made more sense but I recall it being a bit of a "wait what?" moment.
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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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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I'm still a fan of Semirhage being all staunch and stoic and not being able to deal with being treated like a child. That would have been cool if it hadn't come down to spanking. Jordan you drat perv.
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In one of the later books someone makes the point that the oath about not lying actually makes people more suspicious about Aes Sedai. Like everyone always assumes they're doing some wordplay pseudo-lying even if they're just trying to tell the truth.
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Oct 29, 2019 14:51
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The Two Rivers should have led Andor and the world in a workers' revolution
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Oct 29, 2019 22:54
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My right nut is better than Goodkind.
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Nov 11, 2019 20:33
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Fighting Ishamael in the sky is sort of a swordfight. Also doesn't he fight Belal for a bit before Moiraine backstabs him with balefire? Other than that I think he just chops up the occasional shadowspawn with his fire sword.
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Nov 19, 2019 16:39
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Yeah she's only like 99,5% awful until that point.
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bloom posted:I have a feeling they'll make Thom younger than he is in the books.  ONE YEAR LATER posted:I am still holding out hope for Billy Zane as Ishamael, not gonna lie. Same tbh. He was the one good thing about Winter Dragon
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Dec 4, 2019 20:48
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Didn't Sanderson break the traveling limitation by going "hey I'll just make a gateway right next to me so I immediately know the area"? It must be really fun to play any kinda rpg with that guy.
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I feel like Jordan took Aes Sedai incompetence a bit too far. I get that they're stuck in a "this is how we've always done it" mindset and that Ishamael and the black ajah have been loving with them, but it gets a bit silly considering the massive amount of discoveries the wonder girls end up making.
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Dec 9, 2019 21:17
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Did anyone in the series ever use a shield? e: as in an actual physical piece of wood to stop sharp bits of metal from going into their body
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A buckler isn't a real shield  Yeah, somehow I forgot all about the aiel. It's still kinda silly that the most noteworthy shield users are the people who fight as skirmishers instead of in formation.
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That never quite sat right with me. Especially considering that LT was paranoid as hell about them.
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Dec 16, 2019 18:29
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The main Taimandred thing for me was always the "so called aiel" line.
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Dec 17, 2019 07:35
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Moiraine just intended to call them a bunch of loving hicks. Out of curiosity, can someone who has the ebooks handy tell me if the word "district" gets used past the early chapters?
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Dec 19, 2019 00:33
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He can also explode you with his mind so what are you gonna do?
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Dec 19, 2019 22:55
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I tend to give various fantasy names and words their Finnish pronounciation since I have no idea how they'd sound in English. It works out pretty well since so much fantasy apes Tolkien and Finnish was apparently a big influence on his made up languages.
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Dec 20, 2019 22:08
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Also the queen hadn't tried to exert power over the Two Rivers for generations. I might be wrong about the time but it had been a while anyway.
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When I first properly read the series(not counting reading the first few books as a kid) Winter's Heart was the latest book out. I waited like 1½ years for Crossroads of Twilight. I was not happy with it.
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Dec 28, 2019 18:02
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Thinking that "the primitives" couldn't possibly come up with anything new was like the main weakness all the forsaken had. That and constant infighting.
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I like the idea of the forsaken failing because of their colossal arrogance but the books did kinda go too far with it.
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Did Ishamael originally join up because he wanted to end existence or was that something that he came up with as a forsaken? It's still pretty nutty but at least you could sort of see it from a philosophical point of view.
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Jan 7, 2020 18:31
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I wonder if the design of the dragon changes with the ages. Would really suck to be in the age after the modern day age and have your personal banner be a big titty anime dragon.
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The Lord Bude posted:In 2002 they decided to attract younger readers to the series by putting out a new edition where they split the first (and possibly the second?) book into 2 books to make them less intimidating, and they added a second prologue to the first of these new books, where are much younger Egwene sits down to listen to someone tell the story of the dragon reborn and the breaking. I don't believe that addition was ever added to any subsequent printing of tEotW as a single volume. Also I'm pretty sure the divided books were only ever released in Britain. The Finnish translations of the books were published divided back in the 90s. I was like 10 when I read them though so I don't recall if that extra prologue was there. e: I got curious and looked it up. Books 1-3 were split into two parts, 4-6 into three parts, 7-11 into two parts again and apparently the last three were never translated. The translated names are mostly what you'd expect. bloom fucked around with this message at 12:18 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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The Glumslinger posted:Just show the Billy Zane prologue Winter Dragon was hilariously low budget and scummy but Billy Zane was great and the guy playing Lews Therin wasn't terrible either.
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DarkHorse posted:danger zone A bunch of nobles keeping up fragile smiles as Rand yells this at no one
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Jan 10, 2020 14:58
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EvilTaytoMan posted:Lews Therin should be there as a cartoony dragon that only Rand can see. Happy! meets WoT I'm down
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It would make sense as a nightmare with one of Thom's stories setting up some of the background so it doesn't feel too infodumpy Billy Zane should still be there though
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They dumped the new season of The Expanse at once but The Grand Tour is apparently coming out one episode at a time so I don't think they have consistent model for releasing shows.
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I don't know if I'd read that as an example of Rand being nuts yet. It's more that he has barely any control over the power at that point so him messing with that sa'angreal could go really badly.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Probably true, but to an observer it amounts to the same thing To most observers yes, but from what I recall Lanfear has a good grasp on how little about the power Rand knows. She's worried because it's like being in a room with a toddler playing with matches and a box of dynamite.
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