rleegoldman.bsky.social
He/him. Language learning (CJK), linguist, Wheel of Time enthusiast.
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Anyway, hope you enjoy the show as it goes on. I feel that each successive season feels much more like the WoT -- not that the stories are *closer* (some are, some aren't). I can't really explain why -- perhaps it's just that I've internalized the changes more.
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I also chalk up several things (Mat's "is he evil?", the love triangle, "who's the dragon?") to a belief that certain elements "must" be in a dramatic TV show. (Some evidence points to this coming from Amazon execs, but it doesn't really matter.) It's unfortunate.
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I feel the show does much better with Rand- and Tower-adjacent story, and that yes, Mat and Perrin get short shrift or unexpected characterizations.
I will say, just because a particular moment seems missing, doesn't mean it's gone, just that it's been moved. Hammer/Axe is one such thing.
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Also, if you plan on watching season 2, obviously that was tremendously changed from the original plan, because they had to find something plausible for Mat to do to somehow get him re-aligned with the desired storyline.
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But also, yes, nothing in episodes 1-6 (aside from Mat not entering the Ways) was affected by covid, so those changes did reflect the creative vision.
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Mat wasn't directly due to covid, but if they had continued filming on time, probably the actor wouldn't have left right when he did.
They also had to find a new location for the blight, spend a bunch of time rewriting S1 and S2 scripts, and maybe other things I'm forgetting, on very short notice.
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Biggest ones are probably writing Mat out of episodes 7 & 8, and inability to have any large battle scenes in 8 due to limited number of people on set at once, and physical separation of those on set. 1/x
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Yet another reason to resent Covid!
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@jparish.bsky.social @pitohui.org does this ring a bell?
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Is there a “gee/boy” at the beginning of this, or a question mark at the end?
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I’m afraid you’re transforming a personal peeve into a sort of quasi-objective claim; which is further unlikely to be backed up by observational data.
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Are you sure it’s a tense?
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At first I thought the AoL was full of the amazing things accomplished by saidin/saidar togetherness. But on later reads I thought, maybe back then it was also rare and special for men and women to work together, as it takes much trust to create a full circle, give all your power to one person etc
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So the show has a chance to do something much better, I think.
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The books did include a character whose channeling-alignment did not match their body, but not in what anyone today would say counts as a positive or allied way.
Not sure who the subservient/less intelligent folk you’re referring to are. (Oh wait maybe that was a Mistborn reference?)
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If there hadn’t been (and the wheel still cared about Rand specifically) then he might also be a wolfbrother and so on.
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When I read it as a kid my theory was the wheel was aiming itself at Rand and there were a bunch of really closeby people/threads and they got hit (ie born with extraordinary talent/whatever) by being nearby.
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Wait no, that was Evangelion. I streamed Lost on the Wii’s Netflix app.
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Also, I watched all of Lost in maybe two months through Netflix dvd rentals.
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(Maybe they interpreted my question as metalinguistic, in which case it is *still* hilarious, but for very different reasons.)
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Thumbnail Evangelion, here we come?
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I was about to say that sadly I do remember my SAT score but then I actually tried, and I don’t! Or at least it’s one of a few and I can’t remember which. (As for GREs, I forgot those within a year)
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I’m inclined to agree. Maintaining the characters themselves, even if their circumstances are adjusted, seems to be a continuing priority of the show.
But, I can see how it’d be tempting to do this. Assuming Thom’s role continues to be “mostly gone but makes a splashy entrance every now and then.”
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The threads weren’t colored but I’d assume knocking down the door in 103 and the trolloc in 107 were likely not fire.
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Breaking-era folks just couldn’t help hiding things in chairs!
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Like you’d swap the roles among the actors, or just want totally different people?
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I agree the show didn’t devote the time to emphasize the “we know only battle” aspects of the Aiel, as well as the disdain/disgust for Tinkers (they can cross the waste unbothered, etc). But I don’t think focusing on oath-breaking is a *reversal* of importance.
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Just glancing at tFoH, Rand speculates a couple times that breaking the oath to be pacifists must be just as shameful as having one been pacifists (akin to swearing eternal gai’shain and then each successive generation breaking it).
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TBH it is also totally possible to do with the books! At a certain point yet another Aes Sedai with a gorgeous gown and an “S” name is introduced and you’re like, yep, sure, let’s do it.