The Wheel of Time
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 17:06 last edited by
No interest. For some reason the promotional material with Rosamund Pike turned me off. I think I'm intimidated by strong women.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 18:02 last edited by
I watched the first couple, and thought it was OK. They seemed to make a number of rather unnecessary changes, and it’s really rushing along, but I think I will watch the rest. They’re going to have to cut quite a bit out, I think.
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Premiered this weekend. I guess they dropped the first three episodes.
Anyone see it yet?
Reviews, for what it's worth, are mixed.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 22:05 last edited by@george-k said in The Wheel of Time:
Reviews, for what it's worth, are mixed.
The reviews I’ve seen were clearly written by people who hadn’t read the books. Complaining about it being derivative of Tolkien is like complaining about there being sex scenes in Lady Chatterley.
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@george-k said in The Wheel of Time:
Reviews, for what it's worth, are mixed.
The reviews I’ve seen were clearly written by people who hadn’t read the books. Complaining about it being derivative of Tolkien is like complaining about there being sex scenes in Lady Chatterley.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 22:08 last edited by@doctor-phibes said in The Wheel of Time:
The reviews I’ve seen were clearly written by people who hadn’t read the books.
As I said, I haven't read the books. The book/film debate is decades old, of course.
Look no further than the Dune franchise to see how well, and badly, it can be done.
Look no further than Foundation to see how almost unrelated to the book it can be.
I watched the first 15 minutes and it just didn't move me. I'll pass for now.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 22:39 last edited by
Read the books and loved them.
Hard pass on this B.S.
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No interest. For some reason the promotional material with Rosamund Pike turned me off. I think I'm intimidated by strong women.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 22:40 last edited by Aqua Letifer@horace said in The Wheel of Time:
I think I'm intimidated by strong women.
Part of the point of the whole damn series is that sometimes strong women are okay, and sometimes they fuck things up, just like dudes. Handing over the societal keys to feminazis is a lateral move.
No chance this point, which was very much belabored in the books, is in any way referenced in the show.
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@horace said in The Wheel of Time:
I think I'm intimidated by strong women.
Part of the point of the whole damn series is that sometimes strong women are okay, and sometimes they fuck things up, just like dudes. Handing over the societal keys to feminazis is a lateral move.
No chance this point, which was very much belabored in the books, is in any way referenced in the show.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 23:15 last edited by@aqua-letifer said in The Wheel of Time:
@horace said in The Wheel of Time:
I think I'm intimidated by strong women.
Part of the point of the whole damn series is that sometimes strong women are okay, and sometimes they fuck things up, just like dudes. Handing over the societal keys to feminazis is a lateral move.
No chance this point, which was very much belabored in the books, is in any way referenced in the show.
Not today…
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@horace said in The Wheel of Time:
I think I'm intimidated by strong women.
Part of the point of the whole damn series is that sometimes strong women are okay, and sometimes they fuck things up, just like dudes. Handing over the societal keys to feminazis is a lateral move.
No chance this point, which was very much belabored in the books, is in any way referenced in the show.
wrote on 22 Nov 2021, 03:10 last edited by Doctor Phibes@aqua-letifer said in The Wheel of Time:
@horace said in The Wheel of Time:
I think I'm intimidated by strong women.
Part of the point of the whole damn series is that sometimes strong women are okay, and sometimes they fuck things up, just like dudes. Handing over the societal keys to feminazis is a lateral move.
No chance this point, which was very much belabored in the books, is in any way referenced in the show.
I didn't get that from the first couple of episodes. The reds were pretty much portrayed as feminazis in the short clip featuring them. I was expecting it to be more PC than it appeared, at least in the first episode.
It's at least worth a look before writing it off completely.
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@aqua-letifer said in The Wheel of Time:
@horace said in The Wheel of Time:
I think I'm intimidated by strong women.
Part of the point of the whole damn series is that sometimes strong women are okay, and sometimes they fuck things up, just like dudes. Handing over the societal keys to feminazis is a lateral move.
No chance this point, which was very much belabored in the books, is in any way referenced in the show.
I didn't get that from the first couple of episodes. The reds were pretty much portrayed as feminazis in the short clip featuring them. I was expecting it to be more PC than it appeared, at least in the first episode.
It's at least worth a look before writing it off completely.
wrote on 24 Nov 2021, 05:55 last edited by LuFins Dad@doctor-phibes said in The Wheel of Time:
@aqua-letifer said in The Wheel of Time:
@horace said in The Wheel of Time:
I think I'm intimidated by strong women.
Part of the point of the whole damn series is that sometimes strong women are okay, and sometimes they fuck things up, just like dudes. Handing over the societal keys to feminazis is a lateral move.
No chance this point, which was very much belabored in the books, is in any way referenced in the show.
I didn't get that from the first couple of episodes. The reds were pretty much portrayed as feminazis in the short clip featuring them. I was expecting it to be more PC than it appeared, at least in the first episode.
It's at least worth a look before writing it off completely.
Meh, just through Episode 1 and I don’t know how they can
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square Perin’s story arc.
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@doctor-phibes said in The Wheel of Time:
@aqua-letifer said in The Wheel of Time:
@horace said in The Wheel of Time:
I think I'm intimidated by strong women.
Part of the point of the whole damn series is that sometimes strong women are okay, and sometimes they fuck things up, just like dudes. Handing over the societal keys to feminazis is a lateral move.
No chance this point, which was very much belabored in the books, is in any way referenced in the show.
I didn't get that from the first couple of episodes. The reds were pretty much portrayed as feminazis in the short clip featuring them. I was expecting it to be more PC than it appeared, at least in the first episode.
It's at least worth a look before writing it off completely.
Meh, just through Episode 1 and I don’t know how they can
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square Perin’s story arc.
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wrote on 24 Nov 2021, 12:27 last edited by Doctor Phibes@lufins-dad said in The Wheel of Time:
Meh, just through Episode 1 and I don’t know how they can
Your post was very reminiscent of the books in that it suddenly stopped about 80% of the way through.
For some reason I can't see the spoiler.
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wrote on 24 Nov 2021, 12:46 last edited by
@Doctor-Phibes Yeah, I can’t either. I recall something about the spoilers being down.
There were a few casting choices I didn’t care for, Lan and Tam primarily. While it felt odd at first for the Two Rivers to be populated by Indochinese , I was able to check my white privilege at the door and get past that. I don’t like where they have Perrin and Matrim at, though. I also didn’t feel the connection between these 3 Taveeren.
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wrote on 25 Jan 2022, 03:18 last edited by
I just finished the second episode. It was as meh as I remembered the first one… Of course, the books improved over time, maybe the show does, too?
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I just finished the second episode. It was as meh as I remembered the first one… Of course, the books improved over time, maybe the show does, too?
wrote on 25 Jan 2022, 03:45 last edited by@lufins-dad said in The Wheel of Time:
I just finished the second episode. It was as meh as I remembered the first one… Of course, the books improved over time, maybe the show does, too?
I think it takes itself way and I mean way too seriously.
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@lufins-dad said in The Wheel of Time:
I just finished the second episode. It was as meh as I remembered the first one… Of course, the books improved over time, maybe the show does, too?
I think it takes itself way and I mean way too seriously.
wrote on 25 Jan 2022, 12:47 last edited by@aqua-letifer said in The Wheel of Time:
@lufins-dad said in The Wheel of Time:
I just finished the second episode. It was as meh as I remembered the first one… Of course, the books improved over time, maybe the show does, too?
I think it takes itself way and I mean way too seriously.
So you did watch it?
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@aqua-letifer said in The Wheel of Time:
@lufins-dad said in The Wheel of Time:
I just finished the second episode. It was as meh as I remembered the first one… Of course, the books improved over time, maybe the show does, too?
I think it takes itself way and I mean way too seriously.
So you did watch it?
wrote on 25 Jan 2022, 16:39 last edited by@lufins-dad said in The Wheel of Time:
@aqua-letifer said in The Wheel of Time:
@lufins-dad said in The Wheel of Time:
I just finished the second episode. It was as meh as I remembered the first one… Of course, the books improved over time, maybe the show does, too?
I think it takes itself way and I mean way too seriously.
So you did watch it?
The first episode. The script and acting were so humorless it was actually funny.
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wrote on 25 Jan 2022, 16:44 last edited by
Can we now post spoilery stuff without worry?
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Can we now post spoilery stuff without worry?
wrote on 25 Jan 2022, 17:08 last edited by@lufins-dad said in The Wheel of Time:
Can we now post spoilery stuff without worry?
I think so? We have the spoiler text thing still.
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@lufins-dad said in The Wheel of Time:
Can we now post spoilery stuff without worry?
I think so? We have the spoiler text thing still.
wrote on 25 Jan 2022, 17:13 last edited by@aqua-letifer said in The Wheel of Time:
@lufins-dad said in The Wheel of Time:
Can we now post spoilery stuff without worry?
I think so? We have the spoiler text thing still.
It doesn’t work anymore…
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wrote on 25 Jan 2022, 17:22 last edited by
I’m going for it…
Perrin… Married? WTF? And she dies in the first episode? There can be no possible way for them to bring that character to where he’s supposed to go from there. And no axe? Now in the second episode, Mat gives him a knife that was crafted by Perrin’s wife and a long and expository talk about balancing it’s use as a tool and as a weapon…
Matrim… In the books he grew from being one of my least favorite character’s to being my favorite. The whole thing about his protectiveness towards his sisters and the issues with the parents? No frigging way. Sorry, but I don’t see where and how they go anywhere with him.
And everyone is frigging unlikeable.
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I’m going for it…
Perrin… Married? WTF? And she dies in the first episode? There can be no possible way for them to bring that character to where he’s supposed to go from there. And no axe? Now in the second episode, Mat gives him a knife that was crafted by Perrin’s wife and a long and expository talk about balancing it’s use as a tool and as a weapon…
Matrim… In the books he grew from being one of my least favorite character’s to being my favorite. The whole thing about his protectiveness towards his sisters and the issues with the parents? No frigging way. Sorry, but I don’t see where and how they go anywhere with him.
And everyone is frigging unlikeable.
wrote on 25 Jan 2022, 17:40 last edited by@lufins-dad said in The Wheel of Time:
I’m going for it…
Perrin… Married? WTF? And she dies in the first episode? There can be no possible way for them to bring that character to where he’s supposed to go from there. And no axe? Now in the second episode, Mat gives him a knife that was crafted by Perrin’s wife and a long and expository talk about balancing it’s use as a tool and as a weapon…
Matrim… In the books he grew from being one of my least favorite character’s to being my favorite. The whole thing about his protectiveness towards his sisters and the issues with the parents? No frigging way. Sorry, but I don’t see where and how they go anywhere with him.
And everyone is frigging unlikeable.
From what I've seen, the characters really aren't the same people they were in the books, and it was the characters that made the books worth reading. The actual plot is pretty silly.