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DojoToad

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  1. I think that Amazon's rights would have to expire and then purchased for a boatload of money from Jordan's estate/Harriet. If that part happens, is there enough money left over to do anything with...? Not a lawyer, but a lot of money tends to make most things happen.
  2. Why would Egwene need help to make a fight believable. Nynaeve took out a trolloc in S1:E1 all by herself. Fair is fair!
  3. Think I mentioned this on a thread here years ago - the last books Jordan put out were a slog for me personally (there were some great scenes, but overall hard to get through). Had he lived, we might have gotten to book 20 and still not reached the last battle. RJ seemed to have lost his way and was struggling with how to complete the series. Visions of GRRM... We got different books because Sanderson had to finish the series for Jordan, but at least he wrapped it up. Some folks were more satisfied than others. But I think we would have had complaints about plot line and character endings even if it had been Jordan. So criticisms of how Sanderson finished it ring hollow for me. And I don't really care for Sanderson's writing style in his own books. Love the first Mistborn novel, but the other two fell flat for me overall. Same with the Stormlight series. Some great ideas regarding the magic system and world-building for both but in the end I didn't care about his characters. So that Sanderson could get me loving WoT novels again was a major accomplishment from my perspective. Jordan created a world, characters, and story that I would stay with to the end no matter what. But Sanderson rejuvenated the series for me and brought it home strong if not perfectly.
  4. I don't recall enough Faulkner to know. But read 'The Belgariad' series by David Eddings and you will see lots of overlap.
  5. Going off of @Jaccsen's post. Don't know if they are correct or not, but as you didn't disagree with that portion of the post I assumed that the drop was real...
  6. True, but I doubt that Amazon would consider an almost 30% drop in viewership a success.
  7. As @Asthereal said, Brandon is a very different writer from Jordan. I also think Brandon did a fantastic job considering how much he had to change his own style to mimic Jordan as best he could. I will be forever grateful to Brandon for taking on the Herculean task. He did well more than 'good enough' in my opinion.
  8. I've never understood the 'it is a different turning' perspective. If it is a different turning, change the names of the characters. Would make it easier to swallow the other story changes because the differences in the adaptation from the book would be more obvious - for me at least. Birgitte, for example, had many different names and adventures that were tied to her through the Ages. So if it is another turning change Rand, Egwene, Logain, and etc. There can be some overlap from events in the books because there are no beginnings, but the differences wouldn't be as jarring and maybe even welcome because it is obviously not the books that were adapted, but the world. We would expect changes but still have a familiar world that we could comfortably sink in to. 🤷‍♂️ Just Monday morning quarterbacking...
  9. I was just getting ready to stream 'The Office' on Peacock last night. Five minutes in - commercial. A few minutes after that - 90 second commercial. Done. I've already seen all the episodes without ads, not going to sit through them with ads. I too grew up watching ads growing up but have now been too spoiled by the streaming age. I can't go back and don't watch network TV anymore. I never see an ad when reading, running, working on hobbies or playing a video game. Sorry to see Amazon is going this way. The glowing screen will be seeing me a lot less - except for video games, of course 😁
  10. I liked Cadsuane fine until her confrontation with Tam in the Stone when he exposed her as the bully she was - not that there weren't hints before, but it couldn't be ignored after that. Part of being Aes Sedai is being a bully with words and the Tower mystique to get stuff done without resorting to sword or the Power. In the end, I think she just went too far. Still a badass character, just because I dislike her as a 'person' doesn't mean she isn't awesome/imposing in her own way.
  11. I disliked many changes in the show, but I liked several too: aging up the characters, Logain prominent early, Moiraine bigger role, Mat's family having major issues, etc. I refuse to watch the show because I think it was horribly executed. Terrible fight choreography overall, Lan looking like he had two-weeks of sword training at the corner McDojo, superfluous time spent on peripheral characters, not enough time on main characters, writing overall, short Ogiers 😁, etc. I think the adaptation changes shocked me at first. Now it just comes down to quality of the final product, which I know is heavily shaded by personal preferences. Some enjoy it and others don't for whatever reason.
  12. Many of the characters change over the course of the books. This may be a bit jarring for you, but the man he becomes is much better than the boy that left Emond's Field. You don't have to like him, but I liked him better as the books advanced.
  13. I was annoyed by some of the characters as well, but I plowed ahead because the books were great (for me). Maybe that is why the books were great?
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