Four eps in
This is good now, its own thing
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 26 November 2021 23:24 (two years ago) link
They pronounce everything wrong, ofc
Maria Doyle Kennedy is, I think, trying for an irish traveller accent, i think thats a bit literal but a choice is a choice
Only just spotted merrillin as merlin whether thats just coincidence or jordan playing with names as is his wont or them pronouncing it that way (cf above) is hard to say
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 26 November 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
End of episode 4 - that didn't happen in the books right
Agree on MDK's accent it's definitely not her normal one but it's not a traveller either it's like "imagine you're still Irish but you have a different accent good luck"
― bespoke sausages (seandalai), Saturday, 27 November 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
The paving on this show is so strange.
― ian, Saturday, 27 November 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
The pacing too.
― ian, Saturday, 27 November 2021 21:11 (two years ago) link
crazy
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Saturday, 27 November 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/hGCpcjVq1d— Assmodean (@AsmodeanChosen) November 30, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
i dont see an issue, and the potential was there, because of the extensive and immediate changes
Its not the books, nobody can mistake it for the books, wonder what theyll do with it
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link
I'm actually enjoying that while I'm reasonably confident as to the broad outline of where things will go (i.e. I think a one minute summary of the show's overall plot ultimately will basically match an equivalent summary of the books) I can't be sure of the specifics.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
Yes, pretty much
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 00:21 (two years ago) link
Disappointment: various kingdoms and lands are just gonna be transposed eg spain
In my head while reading its a lot freer, and its important imo to have the national/ethnic/whatever entities not shorthanded to the familiar
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 00:26 (two years ago) link
episode 4 was v exciting! rand seems like such a smoothbrained idiot, i really dont care for the character or the actor at all so far everyone else v good, no complaints yet
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link
i have to say, i really love the CGI scenes where moraine is doing some incredible spell and lan is tromping around the spell's area effect, kicking ass like it's Diablo II
― skull. kneel. kneel. kneel. kneel. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 01:34 (two years ago) link
The bad news is that this contravenes major elements of the magic and world as written in several serious and important ways the good news well the producers liked it too i guess
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 01:40 (two years ago) link
wait, why can't moraine charge up and do her cool magic spells?
― skull. kneel. kneel. kneel. kneel. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 02:46 (two years ago) link
Good new episode, I thought. Felt the last minutes were especially striking. Loial of course now the greatest character.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 December 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
loial was really awkward/corny, but i suppose that's vmic
can only assume that making rand the least interesting person the wheel has ever spun out is being done on purpose? i guess it worked for star wars
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 December 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
Won't be watching until tonight, but wishing I hadn't already stumbled on photos of Loial on Twitter already. Would have been a nice surprise to see how he was rendered.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 December 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
Bad episode furthered nothing corny ending changes served no purpose at all
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 3 December 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
Given that I've landed closer to Ned's opinion than darraghmac's on the previous episodes, I'm still excited.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 December 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
That Chris Eubank wannabe mf character is getting on my nerves, annoyed that he wasn't seen to be killed, hope a wolf polished him off.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 3 December 2021 23:57 (two years ago) link
pvmic i cried my face off during that ending
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 December 2021 05:24 (two years ago) link
I'm glad they made Perrin bad ass at the end of this last one, I was going to completely lose my shit if they decided to just have him cry through the entire series
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Monday, 6 December 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
I think the character is right i think the actor is fine i just think theyve given him nothing yet
Rand otoh given nothing yet and im still worried about the lad tbh
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 6 December 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
Mat and Nynaeve are clearly winning the series so far
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Monday, 6 December 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
serious Hayden Christensen vibes from your man playing Rand alright
Show is a dutiful slog so far. Wonder what the general public makes of it
― Number None, Monday, 6 December 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
I just don't feel like they've given Rand much chance to show off any kind of range at all yet.
Fwiw, my wife enjoys it and came to the show blind.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 December 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
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