who in this bitch reads robert jordan? -- The Wheel of Time thread

I have this mental image of Perrin towering over Rand and Mat but that may have been my mind translating "broad shoulders" into "is built like Kingpin in Into the Spiderverse"

I mean Moraine is supposed to be like three-foot tall or something

but yeah, Perrin is definitely more broad than tall

just as long as lan moves like animated batman its ok

good posts itt

adams description of GRRM as tits-and-ambiguity killed me again

that is a very goodlooking cast

― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 18:07 (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^^^^

Although rationally speaking it doesn’t really make sense for the two rivers crew to be so ethnically diverse (other than to make Rand the sole obvious outlier, which would kill at least some of the dramatic tension early on), at some irrational feels level if I had been asked how to split them up I totally would have done it the same way.

Perhaps that’s just buying into some cliched conception of “white dudes = gormless and goofily hopeless” as Rand and Mat tend to be for much of the first few books, but if one upshot is the actors playing Nynaeve and Egwene looking ready to dominate absolutely everything in sight then I am totally here for it.

Somewhat relatedly, one wish I have for the show is that, in the course of streamlining things, they tone down some of Nynaeve’s quirks. Egwene on the other hand can remain exactly as she is in the books.

One change I'm expecting is that other people will constantly be tugging on Nynaeve's braid

lol

LAN:

https://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2019/09/lan-mandrogoran-daniel-henney-wheel-of-time-1567606534222_1280w-720x405.jpg?fit=bounds&width=640&height=480

About 200% less craggy than you'd expect tbh

jason momoa too buff but i think hed have stopped lifting if asked

Momoa already has what looks like a pretty baller series coming out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__6VUXvCykI

this is relevant to my interests

yeah it looks really, really interesting

I probably will never see it because fuck subscribing to yet another streaming service but it looks neat

uh yeah subscribing legally to the service yeah that's how ill watch it sure

How Many Times Does Braid-Tugging and Skirt-Smoothing Happen in The Wheel of Time?

At least as often as forehead knuckling, no?

Ha, I see the link addresses "mustache knuckling" but I thought for sure it was more often forehead knuckling.

divided skirts aka skirts divided for riding
smoothing skirts
moustaches
knuckling
'fortune prick me'
tugging on braid
stout (two rivers) woolens
blushing
'enough to make a tinker blush'
sniffed
necklines vis-a-vis bosoms
sawing at reins
eyes-and-ears
tucking gauntlets behind belt
blacksmith's puzzle
horse types (particularly geldings)
every inn/horse must have a name
arms folded under her breasts
thumbing a pipe with tabac

imo

Something tomorrow. Trailer?

Wednesday approaches 🗡

— The Wheel of Time (@WOTonPrime) December 2, 2020

Low hopes for this so not worried as such

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Hey, spoilers!

wait was the wednesday announcement just a picture of a sword with a bird on it

Eighth grade me, huddled in the corner of the library, with a battered copy of Eye of the World is extremely stoked for this. The current me, with decades of awful adaptations behind me, less so. But I will still be watching the hell out of this.

xpost - and, apparently, a short video about making the sword

i kinda wish they skip eye of the world and get straight to the madness. bring on the seanchan and mat's wisecracking fedora phase and the meat grinder scene from the end of lord of chaos. and the sea folk and their dialect.

Another teeny tiny bit

Where the Shadow waits. pic.twitter.com/Y1WS0HFwqr

— The Wheel of Time (@WOTonPrime) February 17, 2021

Really trickling stuff out slowly here, huh? But I'll take it.

About 1/3rd of the way through A Crown of Swords in my re-read right now.

Oh no matt is a cockney

everything they show is a fucking sword or dagger or whatever. it's not called wheel of swords you ding dongs. tug a braid or smooth a skirt or gtfo

lmao

I support this ire even I don't presently share it

ha

How many seasons is this thing gonna be?

so few years ago when ppl where doing dream casting for show i had thought of grant gustin as a potential mat - fit initial physical description (stork like legs etc), showed could be snarky on glee and the earnest side of mat on flash

eager to see show but feeling, esp with covid delays, that i will be old before this finishes which perfectly matches experience of reading books

At least the books are done this time, so we won't have another GoT on our hands. I'd be curious to see how this ends up being paced, because even a season per book seems aggressive, at least for the first handful of books.

we won't have another GoT on our hands

I suspect we won't in several ways.

Very true, I was more specifically talking about the show outpacing the source material.

i remember reading that they were going to 'blend' books into seasons so not trying to match each book up. WOT def had lots of pages to be cut and/or compressed so can work esp if know your ending

the expanse, obv with fewer books, has been doing a great job of streamlining for tv so def possible. so, i hope?

There are, and look we're all fans here, entire books that could be covered by one five minute montage of people noticing the weather got better so i think we might be ok

lol, that's exactly what I meant by the early books being the packed ones, some of the middle books can be covered in a scene or two

just take out perrin and faile completely imo

Ah here not perrin

Aw, I've always had a soft spot for Perrin. Always seemed like the most relatable one when I was 15 reading the first few books.

+1 to Perrin (no relation)

perrin was perfectly fine early on and the story of him initially getting together with faile was actually very sweet . . . and then they spent the next 10 books acting out jordan's shitty ideas about relationships, largely away from the main action

They'd have to do smell-o-vision for the Perrin scenes of course

and then they spent the next 10 books acting out jordan's shitty ideas about relationships, largely away from the main action

My podcast cohosts and I have been chatting about the TV series and we're kinda all in agreement that it's proooobably good that Jordan's not around to oversee or comment on it.

Already renewed for season 2, etc. etc.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/amazons-wheel-of-time-has-already-been-renewed-for-seas-1846935381