(BT) - 5 (WT) - 31 (SG) - 41 (S) - 33 (BT) Arie - 5 (WT) Arie - 4 (WT) WD - 17 (WT) CaddySedai - 3 (WT) Heavy - 7 (SG) Arie - 26 (SG) Lily - 15 (S) SD - 33

Nope. The Nielsen ratings are delayed a month... I'm not sure about international numbers... I think there is something but I don't have a link to it.

https://www.tor.com/2015/10/27/the-wheel-of-time-companion-strength-chart-of-major-channelers/ Technically, The only wonder girl she isn't stronger then is Nynaeve. There's some discrepancy between what the books say about her power level and the wonder girls and what RJ's notes state... And his notes don't state that her power level is with any additive support (sa'angrael/wells)

(BT) - 4 (WT) - 30 (SG) - 41 (S) - 32 (BT) Arie - 4 (WT) Arie - 4 (WT) WD - 17 (WT) CaddySedai - 3 (WT) Heavy - 6 (SG) Arie - 26 (SG) Lily - 15 (S) SD - 32

There put that in the right topic. Dunno why the hell I put that in the wrong topic. Dammit @Elder_Haman . lol

(BT) - 3 (WT) - 29 (SG) - 41 (S) - 31 (BT) Arie - 3 (WT) Arie - 4 (WT) WD - 17 (WT) CaddySedai - 3 (WT) Heavy - 5 (SG) Arie - 26 (SG) Lily - 15 (S) SD - 31

(BT) - 2 (WT) - 29 (SG) - 41 (S) - 30 (BT) Arie - 2 (WT) Arie - 4 (WT) WD - 17 (WT) CaddySedai - 3 (WT) Heavy - 5 (SG) Arie - 26 (SG) Lily - 15 (S) SD - 30

No problem. I hope that she is an amazing person, and that she is such an amazing actress that she has successfully created this gut feeling in me that I can't trust this "amazing person" personification she projects as trustworthy because of all the awful people she portrays in Movies... Because blocking another actresses nomination is exactly something one of her characters in one of her movies would do. lol So again. I hope I'm wrong and I will 100% eat crow when Madeleine Madden gets nominated for best actress. 😉

No you completely misunderstood the point I was making. Let me make this as perfectly clear as I can. Ashton Kutcher. Now replace the above with words "she" and "her" with "Ashton Kutcher". Why? Because until a few weeks ago. This was also true of Ashton Kutcher. Hence when @notpropaganda73 replied with this I was agreeing, and just making sure the context of "Ashton Kuthcer" reply was clear to notpropaganda73 and others by clarifying the context with the direct quote of just the bolded text in the original quote.

It was from that post. Literally could have scrolled up and read the post where I replied "Ashton Kutcher" and expanded the quote where I bolded the text I quoted you in...

The above quote, is why I replied with the name Ashton Kutcher.

Truth be told, I've personally re-read the series less than some of ya'll crazy people who re-read the before each new book came out, and then re-read it again every single year. I like to read new books, I don't got time to re-read the same book over and over again. Either way, I'm the guy that can go years between re-reads and still recall random information some of you can't recall a day after reading that same book! When I FIRST read the series, I read it very thoroughly. I was reading it between classes, even during class, and I'd often re-read the same chapter 6-10 times before moving on to the next chapter because I'd only get a paragraph in here, or a paragraph in there, and I'd just restart an entire chapter when if I had no idea what was going on. (Except the Perrin/Faile kidnap Chapters) When it comes to our individual attachment to a book series and how it's adapted (how accurately, well, poorly, etc) that just comes down to our individual personal views. There's adaptations that the fanbase absolutely despise, that I have no strong feelings about the adaptation. The Last Airbender is a prime example of this. I've never watched the Cartoon. I've heard it's an absolute crap adaptation, but I have no strong feelings on that front because the movie was just "meh". If anything, I recall that the casting in that film was severely guilty of being white washed. Then there's adaptations that are completely different from the original that I don't care that are different.. I actually ENJOY them better for being different. Case in point. The Shining. Then there's adaptations that I actively hate because I've read the source because they used the name nothing else. Example? I, Robot. As a film, it's an okay adventure flick. As an adaptation. I absolutely despise it. These are just my opinions. I don't try to force them down anyone's throat. I can give you reasons for my I think something works in an adaptation. Why I might like it in an adaptation. Or speculate how the changes made so far could affect future seasons based on what we know in the books, because for me that's half the fun of discussing an adaptation. If everything was exactly the same as the books, don't think we'd be discussing much of anything.

Let's put it this way. Cutting/Changing the clown arc, the people involved, putting Nami into the story earlier and making her a "traitor", really is the equivalent rewriting Moiraine's arc in S2 to give her "more to do" in S2 then what happened in the books. The "Captures the Heart" really comes down to style. One Piece had manga and an anime. We already knew HOW it looked, and HOW it sounded. Most people haven't reread the one piece manga 10 times, or rewatched the anime 10 times. How many times have some of us reread the WoT books?

I mean, that's not bad if you have access to a car and wanted to be an extra or something. Lmao

Having read the foundation series, There's a good reasons for this. 1. Asimov was great at world building. 2. The bulk of the first novel was basically a collection of short generational stories, repeating similar plots of one crisis or a other and what's his face's tape recorded message playing for everyone to say "hey, I was right." 3. Asimov's technology predictions were outdated for modern audiences. 4. Asimov himself admitted he could not write women characters. So he stopped. He was shite at writing romance. 5. The foundation series 'plot' was always very "abstract" or "macro" in nature rather then "micro". It fit the theme of pyschohsitory, which is basically macrohistory/statistics on a galactic scale. 6. Having the full novels at their disposal, they would know that the Robots were involvement in the background events the entire time. Something Asimov may not have knew until he wrote the novel where he revealed that. All in all, Foundation is literally the perfect series to adapt precisely because the source has nothing worth adapting to the screen. The stories as written would be TRASH if adapted 1:1 as a TV series. Lmao. *Note* I still need to watch season 2 of foundation.

Ashton Kutcher.

They definitely did more then just cut content. They introduced characters earlier, which means that characters met and interacted earlier then they did. Which means that some characters were never in the same room during certain fight scenes as they were in the Manga/Anime as they were in the Live Action adaptation. One early change is Luffy eating the Fruit. He did it accidently in front of others, not by himself and hidden. (Change of Motivation) The clown episode was totally different. So much so that they completely rewrote everything about that town. This is literally on the same vein as "luffy having sex with Nami or Sanji fridging his wife". Why? Because the towns people weren't kidnapped, and Mayor Boodle and Chouchou were willing to die to defend their town. Usop's two episode adventure. "Merry" the Butler was never killed in the Manga or Anime. He actually gifted them the ship. In the Manga/Anime, Nami's sister & village knew about her sacrifice the entire time. They knew she wasn't a traitor. Obviously Garp never visited the Island in the Manga/Anime. You can thank this list for all of the above points I highlighted. https://beebom.com/one-piece-live-action-vs-anime-major-changes/#:~:text=The most substantial change in,stop from chasing his dream. Those were "significant" changes to characters arcs, motivations, and story arcs. The difference here is. You aren't as attached to One Piece as you are as you are to Wheel of Time, so those "changes" don't cut as deep.

It's most definitely True to the style of the source material. It had a significant number of cuts to the source and rearranging going on. If someone were arguing about the accuracy of One Piece as an Adaptation, I'd say that the Netflix Adaptation of One Piece only covered about ~25% of the content that the Anime covered and I'm assuming that the Anime covered at least 95% of the Manga content with an additional 20% filler content.. and that's just based off of what I vaguely remember from watching One Piece over a decade ago. Here's an article from screenrant talking about some of the changes. https://screenrant.com/one-piece-live-action-manga-changes-creator-convincing/ The Netflix adaptation also had the original creator of One Piece heavily involved in the creation of the Netflix Adaptation. As an adaptation, it went from the text/visual format of Manga before being adapted into an anime. Which was then adapted and condensed by Netflix into a TV Show with 8 episodes. For Reference The anime up to "Arlong Park" Covers 44 episodes. The next closest example we have of this. Is the Expanse. Where the literal Writers of the Book Series, were also Writing the Show. And then Game of Thrones were Martin was moonlighting by Writing some of the Scripts but not there for the day-to-day show running. For the Story, they used the "main starter arc" of the Manga/Anime that introduces the major prime characters/cast for the first 8 episodes and does it in an arc path that was fairly coherent without including all the filler content that is generally included with Anime, while introducing certain characters earlier in those 8 episodes rather then springing them in the last episode or two to keep it "accurate" to the source material. I really don't know how much exact dialogue they ripped from the manga or anime. Like I've said before. One Piece is an example to DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVES, and PRODUCERS, that you can create content that is as WEIRD as One Piece is, and still be successful. Audiences aren't nearly as dumb or weirded out by strange things as they seem to think we are.

How many hours drive is that for you? 😛

My thought is. A) Rosamund's acting in Gone Girl still sits in the back of my mind. B) Pretty much every actor is by definition a Narcissist. The "image" they let the world see is the image they've curated for the world to see. C) If we only see Rosamund's scenes nominated and no one else I believe that would confirm my gone girl paranoia; But if Madeleine, Zoë, and Kate get nominations in addition to Rosamund, then I think that'll erase my gone girl paranoia. lol

Obviously if she did block it, such an action wouldn't be made public... but it would be public in the sense that the show would only put forth Rosamund Pike's nomination.

For Reference, that's S2E6: Eyes without Pity, which is the episode where Madeleine Madden acted her ass off. I suspect we'll see a we'll see a spike at the start of the following week coming off this episode, followed by a dip over the weekend/start of the next week. (Episode 7 was kinda meh) Episode 8/finale numbers could be lower then expected, but it'll be the week after that, that I'm looking forward to seeing. Hopefully Rosamund Pike doesn't try to block any kind of nominations for Madeleine Madden on this episode or Zoë Robins a few episodes ago, or even Kate Fleetwood...

Because the Head of State, and the Head of a lot of the Nobles tend to be Female? We don't know that every Inn in Andor is owned by a Man. We only have some examples of that. (Rand and Mat's travels from Two Rivers to Caemlyn) We don't know that every business, or every farm in all of Andor is owned by a Man. We don't even know if it's a patriarchal society outside of the royal houses. RJ's world building isn't that complete on matters like this, and he'd have likely told us to go inflate some animals had we asked in-depth questions like this in person. We can make assumptions about who runs the household, and where the power dynamics come in. Odds are the answer is... It's complex. Exactly. It's not particularly toxic. Because it's relatively balanced. In western societies, those would have been called a Witches Coven and they would have ben burned at the Stake. I believe it is. Because What's the main theme in the novels regarding the issue with Saidin and Saidar? Is it balanced that women and men cannot work together at the beginning of the novels? Is it not a strong theme through out the novels that both genders need to come together to solve their problems? That both have to work together to... cleanse the taint? To seal the Dark One? Why shouldn't the literal "Dragon" come from a culture that is balanced along gender line, rather then a culture that views "women" as superior or "men" as superior? I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure Rand recites the line Regarding the Women's Circle & the Village Council at least once or twice in the series... I don't know if I'd call that balanced so much as I'd call that RJ's views/commentary on Egalitarian Marxism. (Think Starship Troopers) https://www.theoryland.com/intvsresults.php?kw=matriarchal Probably referring to this. As he said. It doesn't all work perfectly. People have bellybuttons. As you mentioned above, tavern maids still get sexually assaulted even in Andor despite it being a possible "Matriarchal" society. But that's just the thing. Even if the power of the land is Matriarchal, that doesn't mean power dynamics downstream are Matriarchal. Supposedly RJ grew up in a Matriarchal household. That doesn't mean the South is a Matriarchal society.

All of that can still be true, while allowing for people to still get frisky in a hay loft. They don't need to be mutually exclusive things. The Two Rivers aren't exactly the "Amish" in Randland. The Two Rivers culture doesn't value their women only if they they are pure (virgins) and the men for their piety and strong calves. That narrative is something that's often read into what makes the Two Rivers culture stand out, rather than what makes the two rivers stand out from the rest. As I've said before. Culturally, within the dynamics of the World RJ built, the Two Rivers is the one where Men and Women are more in "Balance" with each other then many of the others. It isn't perfect... but The Men on the Village Council feel that they are in power. The Women's Circle know that they are in power. That's more balanced then... The women that lead Tar Valon. Or the Woman lead nation of Andor. Or the "Lords" lead the Nation of Tear. Or the Female lead Seafolk... The world's out of "Balance", all because the last dragon "Broke" the world... The Two Rivers culture doesn't stand out because they exhibit modern day Christian values like not having sex until they're married. They stand out because they're one of the few cultures in Rand land where the two sexes are more in balance with each other. Albeit, they both think they're in charge of things and can't communicate worth a shit... which goes on to explain why we have 14 novels instead of 6.