Rafe Judkins Reddit AMA

[DaddyFinn]

3 hours ago, mogi68 said:

It's cool that you want the show to fail and all @Maximillion but isn't this getting a little off topic?

 

Back to interviews and news articles :

Rafe is doing an AMA on reddit at Noon EST / 9:00AM PST

 

Sort the answers to Q&A to get to answers quickly

 

 

Edit. All of the answers here

 

https://www.wotseries.com/2021/11/24/reddit-ama-with-rafe-judkins/

Edited November 24, 2021 by DaddyFinn

[Reader]

 

haha, brilliant ?

[notpropaganda73]

Found this an interesting answer, in that changes from the books are dictated by even more than Rafe's own ideas and what the production team/Amazon wanted to happen:

 

 

Edited November 24, 2021 by notpropaganda73

[mogi68]

Westwood flashback is confirmed

 

[Agitel]

 

 

Edited November 24, 2021 by Agitel

[DaddyFinn]

Someone make a thread for this!

[Agitel]

I've a few more.

 

 

 

[AviendhaSiswai]

They've cast Aviendha already!! Ahhhh! 

 

I hope this also means she's appearing in season 2, because I don't think I can wait 2 years to see her.

[Elder_Haman]

18 minutes ago, DaddyFinn said:

Someone make a thread for this!

As you wish.

[notpropaganda73]

 

This answer gives me a lot of faith that Rafe has some great ideas in this area to be quite honest

[Agitel]

Oops, my apologies. I just found this topic. Could a lovely, helpful mod please move my last couple of posts in the Interviews and News topic to here?

Edited November 24, 2021 by Agitel

[notpropaganda73]

He said that we will "hear the word saidin in Season 1". 

 

The phrasing of this is curious to me and I wonder, coupled with what he said about people questioning the prophecies of the Dragon etc., whether this world has almost forgotten the two halves of the OP - or even, that the Aes Sedai view it as one whole, instead of two halves, with the men "poisoning" it somehow? (This would also make them more closely aligned to Whitecloak ideology funnily enough, in that all channelers are evil!). Interesting to think about the changes they may have made to how the world in the show views these things. 

[Agitel]

I apparently can't stop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Agitel]

I put the below previously in the Interviews and News topics. I'm putting it here, then calling it a day. Maybe.

 

I took caps of far more than I planned.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope I got those inserted right.

 

[themann1086]

"Hey what's the longterm effects if we kill Thom?" That is so mean, poor Sarah!

[Deadsy]

Great stuff, and what he's saying about getting out of the more typical fantasy stuff that people have seen before onto what makes WoT unique makes a lot of sense. Lots of people have been talking about that also. Bringing the Aes Sedai in early was a really smart move to try to separate this from LotR, imo. And making Logain a bigger character. I think the next episode will do a lot to show this is its own story.

[DaddyFinn]

https://www.wotseries.com/2021/11/24/reddit-ama-with-rafe-judkins/

 

All of the answers in one place

[Meskell]

Really enjoyed reading that, thanks for posting. 
 

I appreciated the explanation about the VFX and bringing together ensembles, outside of the lead characters is always more difficult than people think. 

[Windigo]

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Q: I sense a lot of foreshadowing in the show so far. Are there things that we are missing and should we be paying closer attention? Also, very well done surprising book readers with Dana! I know you won’t answer this one but was can you officially confirm that Nynaeve kept the trolloc blade to threaten Lan? It is a very Nynaeve move and I fully support it.
A: Yeah, I’m actually surprised how many little easter eggs a lot of the hardcore fans have still missed. Although, I don’t have visibility into a lot of the boards, so I’m sure people somewhere have found them. She obviously used that Trolloc blade on Lan. You can see it matches.

Now I need to start a list, and re-watch again. 

[flinn]

9 hours ago, Deadsy said:

Great stuff, and what he's saying about getting out of the more typical fantasy stuff that people have seen before onto what makes WoT unique makes a lot of sense. Lots of people have been talking about that also. Bringing the Aes Sedai in early was a really smart move to try to separate this from LotR, imo. And making Logain a bigger character. I think the next episode will do a lot to show this is its own story.

 Yeah it really does. I was hooked by the prologue, so when it went back to old style LOTR with Rand, I stuck through because I knew there was more to the story coming. Without that prologue to give a glimpse of where we can be heading they needed to do something.

[Beidomon]

On 11/24/2021 at 11:33 AM, Agitel said:

 

 

Everybody prefers Azkaban to the first couple of Potters, Rafe. Because it was better. 

[Skipp]

3 minutes ago, Beidomon said:

Everybody prefers Azkaban to the first couple of Potters, Rafe. Because it was better. 

It also more loosely adapted the book compared to the first 2. There were some major changes to the story as I recall.

[Beidomon]

1 hour ago, Skipp said:

It also more loosely adapted the book compared to the first 2. There were some major changes to the story as I recall.

True, and yet somehow they didn’t change it to “the boy or girl who lived” or give Hagrid a wife to fridge. 

[Beidomon]

Q: Do you think you missed a chance to make a really iconic episode set in Shadar Logoth? It’s my favorite section of EOTW and I felt it shouldn’t have been rushed over as you skipped Mordeth, the mydraal forcing the trollocs inside and maybe even padan fain’s experience there as an epilogue. Instead, it felt rushed and disappointing all around.
A: Did we skip all those things?
 

So, that’s cute, but yeah you totally rushed through Shadar Logoth, and it’s hard to understand why, given the amount invested in the set and how well you treated Winternight.

[Beidomon]

Q: When you decide something can’t make it into the show where it was in the books how do you approach bringing it to the show later in some form?
A: There’s actually a bunch of stuff in Book 1 that we hit in Season 2 already, and things from Books 2 and 3 that we have plans to hit later if we’re lucky enough to get there. I think when you’re adapting it as a series and have so many production/budgetary constraints, you have to be prepped to remix things a little. It’s sadly rare that we can do a scene from the books with the same characters in the same place saying the same lines at the same moment in the books. Often one of those things has to be swapped out.

 

So putting aside slight modifications to dialogue, and having to cut set pieces like Caemlyn due to actor availability, I’m confused what production/budgetary constraints are making it “rare” to do scenes that generally follow the order of the early books? It’s not like folks are teleporting all over the place. The world is small right now.