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The state of mainstream high fantasy when The Eye of the World was released was so direly formulaic that it was considered fresh for having the Gandalf analog be a woman. However, starting with cliché didn't keep the series from quickly developing its own distinctiveness and originality. There's plenty of good poo poo in the source material and I'm hopeful for a quality adaptation.
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What does Dungeons & Dragons have to do with the writers' room on that other show?
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Sep 7, 2021 19:16
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Who said fantasy means grime, anyway? I want to give that person a piece of my mind.
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Sep 8, 2021 19:24
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~bathing~
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Sep 8, 2021 19:36
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The books' extensive use of ironic interiority as a source of characterization is sure to have been one of the big challenges in this adaptation.
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Sep 12, 2021 21:33
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The Wheel of Tim
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Oct 7, 2021 22:15
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Count me as one who is in favor of the funeral stuff. A memorable quality of the books was their willingness to focus on minor characters as a way of providing many different perspectives on things important to the main characters and main story. I also like the tone achieved by frequently having characters who, y'know, care about each other.
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Dec 4, 2021 05:37
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Wailing and rending garments in grief is awesome, by the way.
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Dec 4, 2021 07:37
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ChubbyChecker posted:i feel like that people are trolling me when they praise that scene. it's the most cheesiest scene i remember ever seeing on tv That's why it's good.
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Dec 4, 2021 11:05
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Ishamael posted:But the real disappointment for me was the funeral scene. Seeing Lan screaming and beating his breast over the death of a minor friend/acquaintance felt like a huge misstep for his character. I think that the implication is meant to be that he is not a minor friend/acquaintance.
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Dec 4, 2021 21:43
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Your Gay Uncle posted:I have a passing familiarity with the books and just watched the first episode last night. Haven't watched all the other episodes yet and have a spoilery question. Does Loial show up ? I'm curious if they are going the cgi route with him or more practical effects. Saw the Mydraal and it looked like practical effects, but it was wearing a hood so I don't know what it looked like in motion. The Trollocs looked pretty, obvious cgi when they were running on all 4. The answer to your question is: yes, and practical effects.
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Dec 5, 2021 21:40
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The implication is that they sold the horses before reaching the city. Mat is a horse trader.
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Dec 5, 2021 23:17
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They mention that the inn is expensive to establish that everything is more expensive in the city than out in the sticks, as part of a series of details that reinforce that they are in a place that is strange and unfamiliar to them, but they're making do. They're rural, not stupid.
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Dec 5, 2021 23:22
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Wait, hang on, what's the inconsistency again?
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Dec 5, 2021 23:34
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twistedmentat posted:Rosemund Pike Moiraine twistedmentat posted:Rand's Girlfriend Egwene twistedmentat posted:Rand's Girlfriend's mom I don't think she was named on-screen. twistedmentat posted:The adorable dog man Loial twistedmentat posted:The Red Aes Sedai Liandrin twistedmentat posted:i think the serial killing Questioner is name Valad? Eamon Valda
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Dec 6, 2021 09:26
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The Wankatorium is inside of each of us
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Dec 8, 2021 20:39
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Unrealistic fight scenes own. If you want to see a realistic swordfight, HEMA events often have spectator stands.
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Dec 19, 2021 05:16
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I'm sure the context of that scene will be expanded upon in non-x-ray form in due time.
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Dec 20, 2021 08:33
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Niwrad posted:I guess my question is why is each season only 8 episodes like it's some tightly wound limited series with a few characters? Wouldn't a show like this with so many characters and stories benefit from a few extra episodes a season? The only character that I feel has any depth so far is Moiraine, and that may just be because Rosamund Pike is so good. I can only assume it's because episodes cost money.
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Dec 20, 2021 23:47
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MegaZeroX posted:So my guestimate would be about 20.5704 global viewers. I'm the 0.5704 of a viewer.
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Dec 22, 2021 01:00
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From a strictly Doylist perspective, I expect that in the next season or so we'll learn that Loial survived because if he was only gonna be around for such a small part, they'd have either cut him completely or made him CGI and huge.
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Dec 24, 2021 08:49
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It's less a love triangle and more a conflict based on the characters being freaked out by the suggestion of the possibility of a love triangle. I felt like they threw it in there as a substitute for whatever it was that was originally incited the events of the episode, but had to be cut due to the sudden loss of a major actor. The same holds true for everything going on with Padan Fain in Fal Dara. The war scene was pretty weak in parts. It's not that it's tactically unsound or anything like that, of course. Stage fighting is a metaphor, so for instance when the channelers were outside the walls with no cover that meant that they were there expecting to die as the next line of defense. It could've been done better, more spatially interesting and so forth, but it looked pretty and got the point across. The part that didn't do it for me was the cavalry charge. They weren't charging at anything! They're waiting for the enemy to attack the fortress!
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Dec 25, 2021 09:43
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The other ones who burned out died, whereas Nynaeve was just about to die, so she could be saved with a timely intervention. I feel like the unfocused and unsatisfying use of Perrin in episodes 7 and 8 is because he was the one who got stuck holding the plot-critical details that would have gone to Mat if he hadn't suffered actor loss.
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Dec 27, 2021 13:33
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It's because linguistics is not one of the fields where an effort toward realism was made.
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Jan 4, 2022 16:02
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Sometimes TV shows show something cool that doesn't make a lot of sense in hindsight. Sometimes they follow it up with a some details that make it make more sense. Other times it just stays nonsense. Who knows which will come to pass, and who knows whether it will correlate to anything else in the show being good? I think it's loving unbearable for it to be the only thing discussed in this thread for pages and pages, however.
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Jan 6, 2022 14:05
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Sparseness is, at least, not an attribute of the source material.
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It was also a pretty good episode in its own right, irrespective of what it sets up for later.
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