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  2. Brandon Sanderson was live with the Dusty Wheel on the AMOL 10 year anniversary and revealed a certain thing about the ending that made a lot of people go kinda floompy. You can find it on YouTube as well. But I don't think you missed it. It's got to do with Lanfear's part in the ending.
  3. I’m curious, what recent podcast? I’m not current with the podcast scene
  4. Except the changes that were made to the show were not needed to condense the show. I'm sure it's been talked about here but most of the changes don't add any value. Making the EF5 older at the start when we already knew this show, if completed, was going to take 16 years. Perrin having and killing his wife left no room to develop him in season 1 because how do you comeback from that. Changing Mat's character and family fundamentally added nothing of value except ruin a lot of people's favorite character. The jumping off a cliff scene with Nyn and Eggy while I understand the point and imagery that time could have been better used showing the myrdral stalking the boys. The who is the DR was over played for no good reason and with that distracted from the world building and character development. Rosamund Pike is a good Moiraine but having her as the biggest actor when she isn't even in half the books was a mistake. Showing the fight at Edmods was a waste of resources and not very well done. As you said the budget and time is limited and they wasted it. You have 64 episodes to tell a story that spans 14 books new spring is a prequel so should be ignored. That's 4.5 hours a book to take the innocent kids from EF to TG. There's a lot of material that needs to be cut to achieve that goal adding original scene that are pointless (Stefin) or have a better in world scene too achieve the same thing (Perrin's frozen wife vs killing WC's after Hopper is killed). The show is full of questionable to bad decisions in the first season. They completely punted the finale, I know that covid and Mat's actor not returning were hurdles that they needed to overcome, it still shows that they lack the creativity, and understanding of the source material to make a pivot to tell a good story.
  5. Yesterday
  6. Huh, I feel like an idiot for not thinking about this. 🤣
  7. Just to be sure... Checking the latest data... Nielsen, Feb 12 – Feb 18 Again, no data regarding Amazon's WOT...
  8. Last week
  9. But again you were saying that he cares little for the money however this is the man whose policies forced his employees to wear nappies, pee in water bottles and not wear seat belts, and some of his work sites have 100%+ turnover rates. I fully agree that his reputation in certain areas is very important to him.
  10. You’re right his job was far from perfect. Along with it being an afront to interpretive integrity it is loaded with external elements that reeks of all the buzzwords that would keep this comment from being approved on here. I resent that someone did that to a story that I love. You would think that with the limitations he had (as you mentioned) that he would have spent less time completely changing entire personalities of characters and more time working with what was already there and was good.
  11. I know, you never intended to be in this world. But you’re in it all the same. So why not get started immediately. I mean, belonging to it. There is so much to admire, to weep over. And to write music or poems about. Bless the feet that take you to and fro. Bless the eyes and the listening ears. Bless the tongue, the marvel of taste. Bless touching. You could live a hundred years, it’s happened. Or not. I am speaking from the fortunate platform of many years, none of which, I think, I ever wasted. Do you need a prod? Do you need a little darkness to get you going? Let me be as urgent as a knife, then, and remind you of Keats, so single of purpose and thinking, for a while, he had a lifetime. ~Mary Oliver (Book: Blue Horses)
  12. so, you clearly are a serious fan; let's assume that you are given a big bunch of money to adapt wot. oh, but you have to fit everything in no more than 8 seasons of 8 episodes of 50 minutes each - meaning you've got three hours for each book. 100 millions for the first season seems a lot, but once you start hiring all the actors and the troupe and work on the set, most of it has already vanished. and you've got to replace all the info dumps and internal monologues with something that works on screen. rafe's job was far from perfect, but all the changes were caused by immense external constraints.
  13. I am/was- Cape Town. Been in Nebraska since 2013.
  14. Amazon may not have the movie rights so there are options. It just depends on how things are structured.
  15. I'm not saying he's a benevolent force or superfan. It's more a consideration of reputation (personal and for his streaming service) and ego. I just don't think that Bezos would part with the rights for WoT for an amount of money that wold reflect the economic value that someone else could get from them. He would jack up the price in order to compensate for the perceived harm to his own brands and that increase in price would make this an unviable venture economically speaking. So if someone wants to buy WoT from Bezos, they have to do that for a reason other than wanting to make money.
  16. As far as the unexplained crop growth around Ramd...strange that no one considered that he was just Singing [as in the Song of Growing].). He freely admits to as much when he goes to visit Mat and Tuon in Ebou Dar. As far as the other events prior to TG, Ta'veren twisting is most likely.
  17. Are you also from South Africa, Wynand?
  18. For a serious fan, Rafe seems unable to understand the source material. His adaptation changes things radically and not just to fit it on the screen. His team makes up a lot of content that never appeared in the book.
  19. He/_ho/_o_t_o__/the/____e/_o_t_o__/the/____e__e Poorly guessed: B
  20. It's obvious why bezos bought it he wanted his own GoT for his streaming service, and he wanted it almost entirely for the chance at more profit and the prestige it could bring too him. bezos is not some benevolent force or megafan you only have to look at the way he treats his staff or independent contractors to see the true worth of the man.
  21. Jeff Bezos is one of the richest men in the world. I'd say there is significant evidence that he isn't doing WoT because he wants to make a significant profit on it. That suggests he may not be willing to sell the rights to WoT rights for any amount of money that could possibly be re-couped in making a new TV show. Thus, you would need to find a fan or group of fans that might be willing to take a 9-10 figure loss for the love of the story. Possible, but seems a long shot.
  22. Yep. Whether a "serious fan" version would be better is up for debate given that Rafe himself and many of his team are themselves serious fans, but I welcome anyone with an extra billion dollars to generate more WoT content for me.
  23. Anaiya was not killed by Halima for no reason. She was killed, because she figured out from the other crimes, that Halima could channel saidin. The other two were killed for the same and another reason that was not realised.... Anaiya and the other two Aes Sedai Halima killed witnessed her attempt to kill Mat when he first arrived at Salidar, but Anaiya only realised what she saw when Egwene told her of the saidin killings. She realised Halima was Forsaken.
  24. This is the second day I've been asking for the games to be revived. Today I'll ask to revive mafia😁
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