yeah I know nothing about the books and am enjoying the series thus far, it has done about the right amount of world-building and exposition as compared to actually advancing the plot. Agree that Rand is a bit of a charisma vacuum but the rest of the cast seems pretty good.
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 6 December 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
Liandrin, and i mean look ok its why she was cast and its a living, ok, has just a great hateful face and i hated her straight away more than i should and i looked up other roles and shes from les mis, where if anything her hateful face is put to even better use
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 6 December 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
it is an astonishing face. absolutely steals all its scenes
― mookieproof, Monday, 6 December 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
Shes good in the role too, i dont want to undermine that, but yeah
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 6 December 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
read a couple things about the series and found it exhausting. it's either 'this is not like the books' (don't care) or a representation scorecard (half the cast is people of color and half the characters in this world are evil -- there's gonna be some overlap, and also a lot of people are gonna get killed)
that said, making *both* eamon valda and padan fain black dudes seems . . . sketchy
i'm told the latter was in the crowd for logain's grand entrance, although i missed him
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
in the show it's not yet apparent that padan fain is evil - I doubt anyone who has not read the books would have even noticed or cared that he was in the crowd in tar valon. And the Eamon Valda character is so much more impressive and magnetic than any whitecloak that actually appeared in the books - he's probably the best character in the whole show so far.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
Im not sure the performance fits at all tbh, its trying to do a lot shorthand
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
Just catching up now
Episode 5: Nothing happened
― bespoke sausages (seandalai), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 00:55 (two years ago) link
otm
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 01:18 (two years ago) link
I did enjoy the whitecloaks beating up the crusties tbf
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 09:24 (two years ago) link
Well I didn’t expect that.
― ian, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
Twists, turns (just finished watching it myself)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
nice
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 December 2021 23:25 (two years ago) link
Could be worth a listen!
#WheelOfTime fans - I interviewed Rosamund Pike (Moiraine) & @Hammedhamz (Loial) a few days ago for #TarValonOrBust & @TheNerdsofColor, and it was a delight! #TwitterOfTime Apple Pods| https://t.co/bRGdkn0E8O Spotify| https://t.co/Gt6SQMnBSf ACast| https://t.co/Crf6voRr9j pic.twitter.com/gtpPWaK7je— Preeti Chhibber (@runwithskizzers) December 14, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
The casting of Daniel Henney and Zoe Robins even more fully justified per this latest episode.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 December 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
Just finished six, heading into seven, rattling along
Its very sexxxay
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 17 December 2021 21:50 (two years ago) link
Whole lotta romance.
― ian, Friday, 17 December 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
Too much maybe
I dont mind it
Theyve shorthanded a lot of the world so swearing and romance has to get modernised to translate
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 17 December 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
poor perrin
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 December 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link
At this stage id be unsurprised he ends up shagging wolf
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 17 December 2021 23:10 (two years ago) link
I’d be fine with the romance if it hadn’t taken 3/4 of the episode to drive home things the viewer already knows but tbh this was one of my main problems w the books too. More political intrigue and machin shin, less sexy Lan.
― ian, Saturday, 18 December 2021 01:55 (two years ago) link
Min seems chill tho
― ian, Saturday, 18 December 2021 01:56 (two years ago) link
i'm not sure a non-book reader would 'already know' lan was ready/willing/available
my only caveat is that nynaeve should have totally freaked out upon learning lan was a king but whatevs
min was always the best
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 December 2021 02:51 (two years ago) link
#WoTShowSpoilersBook Nynaeve: Tugs braid at Rand and Min getting jiggy outside marriage. Show Nynaeve: pic.twitter.com/wpkPUBp1fq— Fatimah (@_Meraxes__) December 17, 2021
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Saturday, 18 December 2021 07:50 (two years ago) link
Final episode seen. All I'll say is: the opening title card.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 December 2021 04:06 (two years ago) link
Pacing continues to be weird AF. I should watch it again when I’m less distracted by holiday preparations. “The dark one” is not very scary
― ian, Friday, 24 December 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
One tie away from a business suit
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 December 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
Is this suitable and/or non-embarrassing for watching with one's mum?
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 24 December 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
Not that I'm stuck isolating with my family over Christmas
Well lads
Id have Rafe Judkins, if that is his real name, kneecapped for the lack of quality control across effects, sound mix, plotting, scripting and performances across that first season
Other than that it was mediocre with decent moments.
I've no idea how a major studio sends it out in 2021 having spent big money on it, whose nephew is this cunt anyway.
― Angela's Seshes (darraghmac), Saturday, 25 December 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
*checks*
Rafe Lee Judkins (born January 8, 1983, in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American showrunner and television personality best known as the showrunner of the Amazon original show The Wheel of Time, based on Robert Jordan's book series of the same name and also for appearing as a contestant on the 11th season of Survivor, which took place in Guatemala. He is now a working TV and travel writer with credits on other shows such as My Own Worst Enemy, Chuck, and Marvel's Agents of SHIELD.Early lifeJudkins was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to a large Mormon family that is said to include 60 first cousins. Rafe's childhood involved him spending time painting rocks and taking apart machines. This was probably because of his mother being an artist and father being an inventor. He moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the age of five. His time was spent towards teaching English and science to inner city middle school students. He graduated in 2001 and was selected as the member of the senior class most likely to be on Survivor.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 December 2021 01:01 (two years ago) link
hesitate to disrespect a child of the #burgh but fuck sewickley
ned pls start a thread for mormon sci-fi
― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 December 2021 01:35 (two years ago) link
we've got original battlestar galactica, orson scott hatecrime, this guy
also brandon sanderson who finished the book series
― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 December 2021 01:38 (two years ago) link
lews darragh tottenham?
no wonder the world got broken
― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 December 2021 03:07 (two years ago) link
WoTtenham
― Angela's Seshes (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 December 2021 03:33 (two years ago) link
FWIW
https://gizmodo.com/the-wheel-of-time-tv-series-works-because-of-the-change-1848281234
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
Cant be clicking into that given the link claims that the show works
― pandmac (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 17:13 (two years ago) link
My friend Mikey, meantime, on the very last scene of the final episode:
14addendum: oh oh oh word of the creator has it that the Seanchan have Texan accents and I fucking DARE Rafe and co to have it be that way in the show too.— Mikey says hey (@erlking) December 29, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
I read the first two and a half books way back in high school so watching this series, the story was vaguely familiar, but it was basically like going in blind. This first season was solid, enjoyable, at times very good. I understand a lot of the criticisms thrown at the show but feel most are minor. Pacing is probably the biggest thing I hope they improve next season
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 23:38 (two years ago) link
Acting is what I hope they improve the most but I have little hope because of the casting.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 23:50 (two years ago) link
hope they work on improving the being a good show part
― Vangelis fleadh (seandalai), Thursday, 30 December 2021 01:54 (two years ago) link
dunno about that article but I feel this sentence
Despite the infinite things I dislike about the show, I somehow still like the show.
― Vangelis fleadh (seandalai), Thursday, 30 December 2021 01:56 (two years ago) link
xp Yes thats where id have them focus
Now id also make them start over because that would be easier ito getting to the good show part at this stage
― pandmac (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 December 2021 01:57 (two years ago) link
man...I could just never imagine this ever working on screen...and boy did this confirm my worst suspicions. something about making high fantasy like this so literal just brings out the ridiculousness of it for me. game of thrones overcame this through sheer violence and nudity i think.
― ryan, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link
Visually its too clear and bright, everyone is too clean, which is imo an awful start
― pandmac (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
From the Gizmodo article: Tossing aside the novels’ obstinate adherence to the gender binary is a welcome and inclusive update.
Not to repeat myself from a million years ago but the better path to take here is to portray a world (one not unlike our own!) that is suffering from its obstinate adherence to a gender binary!
― ryan, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
I'm trying to figure out why the first two LOTR movies worked for me (I think the third one starts to become what the Hobbit movies would be...) and maybe it's simply just that Jackson had the budget and skills to go for actual grandeur and menace.
― ryan, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link
Starts to wilt halfway through two towers for me as jackson began to exercise his editorial brilliance with ever more confidence
The guy in charge of this started out in that mode alas
― pandmac (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 17:51 (two years ago) link
lmao at the sexposition being one of GoT's strengths, though
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link