The Wheel Of Time

Belgarion213

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The slavery thing starts of as punishment but what we understand and from the Guide, we know that there are entire generations of slaves in the seanchan empire. Though they can raise to some pretty impressive heights of power....still slaves though.
 

seitora

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Ta'veren Chapter 5

No way I'm sticking my nose in the other topic yet because, to my shame, I still haven't finished AMoL yet.
 

sith2886

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For some reason I can't get the idea of Duo from (Gundam Wing) as Mat out of my head.

On a slighty more serious note can some one find me the pic at 0:37?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSArzDwcTIQ
 

seitora

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So Ta'veren updated recently with TWO big chapters, so Chapter 6 (I linked to 7) was up just a week ago.
 

seitora

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So the TV show is supposed to start airing next year.

The real questions are...will there be lots of skirt-smoothing and braid-tugging, and will they follow Robert Jordan's anal-retentive character name pronunciations? ("It's not 'Tame', it's 'TAI-EEM'")
 

seitora

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Season 1 re-confirmed to air this year on Amazon Prime Video. It will be 8 episodes long. Season 2, whenever it airs, will also be 8 episodes long.

Assuming the episodes are each an hour long...I would assume two books per season? Two hours seems way too short to cover a single book without chopping so much detail that script-writing for later books becomes hard to keep up with for making things inconsistent, but I doubt they'd do an entire 8 hours a book when there's 14 of them to cover.
 

chronodekar

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Season 1 re-confirmed to air this year on Amazon Prime Video. It will be 8 episodes long. Season 2, whenever it airs, will also be 8 episodes long.

Assuming the episodes are each an hour long...I would assume two books per season? Two hours seems way too short to cover a single book without chopping so much detail that script-writing for later books becomes hard to keep up with for making things inconsistent, but I doubt they'd do an entire 8 hours a book when there's 14 of them to cover.
I have mixed feelings about WOT as a TV series. I used to be really into the books many years ago - heck, there should be a collection of the first 11 or 12 books back at my parent's place. But then, well, I never finished the book series. More because, it just feels too daunting to start reading them again. As in; if I start, I know I'll get sucked into the books to the point of well, not doing anything else. Can no longer do that ... too many responsibilities.

Dammit. I became an adult!

-chronodekar
 

seitora

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It is Amazon producing it. I at least have faith in the big budget to do a decent job, especially with the magic channeling special effects, even if it doesn't blow us out of the water. A hell of a lot better than that 'Winter Dragon' promo the previous company put out to try holding the rights to a tv production.

Besides, the book series is actually finished, so they're a lot less likely to pull a Game of Thrones Season 8 on us :eek:
 

chronodekar

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It is Amazon producing it. I at least have faith in the big budget to do a decent job, especially with the magic channeling special effects, even if it doesn't blow us out of the water. A hell of a lot better than that 'Winter Dragon' promo the previous company put out to try holding the rights to a tv production.

Besides, the book series is actually finished, so they're a lot less likely to pull a Game of Thrones Season 8 on us :eek:
I'm more worried about how they'll portray the different relationships. The original writing, is, IMHO, very sexist. Different scenes had folks going, well, to both extremes. It was part of the charm for me. But with, well current ... unique ... views on such things, I have no idea if I'd want to watch what comes out.

That sounds too pessimistic. -sigh- ... Perhaps I should take a more healthy, wait-and-see approach?

Speaking of Game of Thrones ... I liked the first 4 or 5 seasons of the TV show. What came out afterwards ... well, I watched a bit, but didn't bother to see it to the end. My head-canon for GOT stops around season 5. :D

-chronodekar
 

sith2886

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Hey at least the red shit stain doesn't have there hands in it...well except that they're making a movie about the Age of Legends separate from the show
 
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