I really can't see keeping the book story in video game form. It'd be a much looser adaptation than even the show.

I don't mind the additional movements to help the show tell the story, but I agree weaving is too slow and I hope it'll be sped up next season.

I will say regarding fireball speed, that depends on method. In the books, Moiraine casts one fireball at a time using her hand to lob them. It's how she learned. Aviendha does fireballs the Aiel way at the end of ACoS and fires them off rapid-fire without needing to use her hands to aim.

12 hours ago, Spiritweaver1 said:

This is very true.  However it is sort of beside the point I originally made which was that Moraine has said that the Wheel doesn't want or chose it just is.  In the book the Wheel (not the creator) choses the hero's.  So again how does the Horn work when sounded?  Does everybody come back?

No, just the 100 or so, as described, specially set aside and spun out to relive their classic tale or for other special purposes.

And I want to be clear I'm not just shilling for the show. If you asked me this on Dragonmount ten years ago and I'd give the same answer. We can take this over to the book boards if you want. The position is supported by words from Jordan, too.

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Edit: I went Google-searched ancient dragonmount posts of mine to back up what I wrote about "If you asked me ten years ago." Some of these may be nonsensical out of context, but implicit in them... My opinion is not just a recent show thing

1 minute ago, flinn said:

 Which even drives the point further home. Geralt is a lead and gets more screentime. If they can create a show around it, surely a secondary character would have been just fine.

What I mean is they have more time for subtle nuance and focus.

If people don't think 19.25 year olds (early college kids) are immature or pulling pranks, they're a bit delusional. ?

32 minutes ago, flinn said:

 For those who keep saying things like "non book readers would take a disliking to Lan"

 

 It works just fine for Geralt. People love Geralt and the tv series. So, the "Lan needed to be humanized" crowd is stating opinions. Lan was loved in the books for how he was, why would he not be loved? There are thousands of named characters in the books, make all the incompetent, butt of jokes out of all those characters and give us the Lan who was one of the best in fantasy.

Geralt is the lead and gets most of the screentime.

I'll just reiterate again, the people of the WOT world make their strongest oaths on their hopes of rebirth. In addition to the Jordan quotes provided, I think this establishes in-world belief that the people of this fictional world have of reincarnation for all.

34 minutes ago, Ralph said:

https://dragonmount.com/forums/topic/44135-thoughts-on-personality-and-its-connection-to-the-soul/

Thanks. Nightstrike provided relevant Jordan quotes in January 2010.

Everyone is reborn in the WOT books. It's not just the Heroes. The Heroes lived particularly heroic lives and are spun out regularly to repeat those particular stories or for specific purposes. But everyone, everyone from poorest da'cavole in Seanchan to the Amyrlin Seat is a reincarnated person who has lived infinite lives already. It's why all their Oaths are based on their hopes of rebirth.

Hello! I hope to return to this post later and make it more robust, but I wanted to make some basic suggestions about how to calibrate for watching The Wheel of Time. And really this advice applies to all TV shows. These adjustments won't magically fix every issue there may be, but should provide a better viewing experience.

You can find these settings in your TV Menu (Options/Settings). Your TV should have sub menus for Picture, Audio, General, etc... My suggested changes should all be under the Picture menu, and some buried deeper under Advanced/Expert options.

Turn "Motion Smoothing" Off

Motion Smoothing. Tru Motion. Motion Interpolation. 3:2 Pull Down. This TV feature goes by many names and is by default turned on for many televisions. With Motion Smoothing on, the little computer in your television makes up entirely on its own new frames to insert between existing frames. Your TV shows are not meant to be watched like this. They were not edited for this. It is entirely something your TV makes up on the spot and was not made by the directors or editors. The feature can cause artifacting and bad shadows. While this feature is not the worst when watching the news or sports, it is terrible for any narrative or drama based show. It creates the "soap opera effect". Turn off Motion Smoothing and it'll look more cinematic. Part of the issue may be psychological, but when viewers watch the same scene back-to-back with motion smoothing on and off and told it's two different performances, the scene with motion smoothing is almost always reported as looking more fake, like you can see it's filmed on a set, less engaging, performances seem more wooden. The list goes on. TV and movies are not supposed to be watched this way. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Do yourself a favor and turn it off and give yourself a little time for adjustment.

Don't use your TV's "Vivid" Picture Preset. Use "Standard" or "Cinema"

Imagine you're a director or editor on a TV show. Your life is spent balancing the color settings for a movie or television show so it looks just right. Nothing oversaturated. The hues set to just the right tone. Now imagine that everyone watching your show just sets their TVs to amp up the saturation and hues to max, causing all of your carefully balanced colors to practically look like they're bleeding out of the screen. That's what the Vivid preset does. Shows filmed in a range of colors from gray to brown may be less impacted, but watch cartoons with your kid? A sitcom like Friends? Or the Wheel of Time? The Vivid preset won't make your colors "pop". It'll turn them into an icky slime oozing out of your screen. Editors calibrate their shows to something more in line with your TV's Standard and Cinema preset options. Vivid is something retailers like to use on a show floor as customers flock like moths to the brightest screens in their super bright showrooms, but your programs are not made to be watched this way. It crushes and oversaturates colors. Take your TV off Vivid. Learn optimal settings or just use the Standard or Cinema preset (I prefer Cinema, though I've customized mine.) You will need time to adjust. It's weird at first, but once you do, the ickiness of Vivid will be clear.

Color Temperature to Warm or Normal

This may be the weirdest for you if you're used to watching your shows on a Cool temperature setting, but most shows are calibrated to be viewed with your TV's Warm preset (but not the Warmest option available). I suggest going to at least Normal, and notice how much more accurate skin tones and warm tones feel.

If you have any tips or comments, please share. And my brash phrasing above is meant to be a little humorous. I don't mean to offend. Your TV has a lot of customization options beyond what I've discussed, and for some reason TV manufacturers set their TVs be default to "improve" (not) upon what directors and editors intended with post processing effects. 

Each episode twice.

22 hours ago, AdamA said:

Yeah, we'll see. Wheel of Time itself was famously planned to be a six-book series. A Song of Ice and Fire was supposed to be a trilogy. These outlines have a way of getting bigger when it becomes time to publish and/or film. If he really only think he's going to get 64 episodes, he should probably outline how to tell the story in 32.

I'm hopeful for more. But Amazon execs no doubt asked Rafe how the hell he was going to adapt 14 books, and he no doubt had to pitch doing it in a "manageable" number for television, because walking in and asking for fourteen seasons for an unproven idea isn't going to sell.

12 minutes ago, DaddyFinn said:

They are in pieces so probably not

Phew! I forgot.

1 minute ago, Deviations said:

Dear God I hope so.

I hope he doesn't just use Stepin's axe/axes.

Chasing Fain to the Eye is a motivation I hadn't considered.

1 hour ago, Gothic Flame said:

We're not talking modern society here. We're talking about a warrior culture that refuses to put on public displays of emotion, up to and including a husband and wife holding hands when outside. As put in another way, such displays are private and for family and no one else's business. To such a culture to put on such a public show...to be judged by strangers is a mockery disgracing the dead and shaming the family.

The ending funeral wasn't public.

I actually am not disappointed by the wolf attack in this episode. I'm more disappointed by Perrin... um... ascension (?) to wolfhood. It felt very awkward to me, him just standing up and growling at Valda, even with golden eyes.

39 minutes ago, Ralph said:

Re updated time line on prime app and website, it says they arrive in TV ten days after the Dragon's army attacked. The show said one month later... 

I'll look it over, but my initial thought is that the oversimplification may be due to the three divergent story lines not being totally in sync. It may have been 10 days since we last saw Moiraine, but 28 or so since we saw Rand/Mat/Perrin/Egwene.

I'm not satisfied yet with the show's explanation (or still lack there of) of how Valda is capturing sisters. There are plausible ways to do it available to Rafe. We should have been shown something.

But WC operating immediately around TV under Valda is in the books themselves.

Let's just ignore that Galad first talks to the White Cloaks in the cities/towns surrounding Tar Valon because Valda had led troops into the area, and they're present and harassing the surrounding area of TV in TGH and TDR.

3 minutes ago, AusLeviathan said:

My proof is that by moving this scene to just outside the White Tower (so close they can easily see it) and making the Whitecloaks immediately Aes Sedai killers, they have made that scene make no sense.

 

Just like Loial no longer making sense when talking about crowds chasing him, just like how women can link but chose not to in episode 4 to shield Logain which would've solved the issue presented in the episode, just like how men control the world even though women don't appear to have anything holding them back and have the advantage, just like Logain seeing Nynaeve's weave even though he apparently didn't, just like how Stepin doesn't go into a rage until he see's his Aes Sedai dead, just like Lan who had already lost everything being extremely affected because one of his friends has dies when he should be used to it, just like Warder's praying to the Forsaken in the White Tower, just like a Warder killing himself instead of running off to the Blight to die doing the most damage he can, just like nothing in this show makes sense.

 

So many issue with this show that should've been fixed and yet Sarah the shill is there telling us how well thought out everything is. They couldn't even make it through half a season without destroying any sense in this world.

There are issues with the show, but it'd be nice if you didn't have criticisms of things that do match the books. They use unlinked Aes Sedai to shield male channelers to have multiple shields rather than one, and two linked sisters have a lower cap than two unlinked sisters. I should clarify there is a difference between subduing one male channeler (linking is good here) to maintaining a shield (they formally do it separately, usually).

Also, "Sarah the Shill"? Geez, man, that's just pathetic.

23 minutes ago, AusLeviathan said:

Interesting to see that even a lot of non book viewers are picking up on how it makes no sense for the Whitecloaks to be operating just outside Tar Valon.

But they operate right outside of Tar Valon in the books, harassing even within some of the bridge towns.

I love Book-Lan but he's described like an anime character with anime reflexes sometimes. 

1 minute ago, Skipp said:

The Tower is described as very empty.  They have entire living wings for Aes Sedai, Novices and Accepted closed down because they don't have enough people to fill what they do have open

This is true. Though I hope we see it busier at least when Nynaeve, Egwene, and Elaybe are there.

18 minutes ago, AusLeviathan said:

It was a little unclear, Rand said Egwene thought she was Jain Farstrider herself which made me wonder if they were gender swapping Jain or if they just got confused about how to word it. I figured Loial was just talking about how unlikely it would be to know who you're reborn as given how many souls there would be.

 

In any case if they're going with the argument that Ogier know this then it would make it even weirder that Aes Sedai don't. Though perhaps the show is different given Loial was being chased by people in Tar Valon as if he was a monster, despite there being an Ogier grove in Tar Valon.

Loial was going to point out