Yea I really disliked that too. IMO that was rape. From memory it was written as if it were a humorous scene - cringey. Something I hope they cut out if the TV series if the seasons makes it that far.

Clearly I had too much faith in my fellow humans because I thought they were firing blanks.🤦‍♂️

Eh, it is a little different. He would describe the male character and then life goes on with the story. Like I'm aware the various male characters are muscular and all, but it isn't in my face. So it is more like - Dude who is axe handle wide and then back to the story The bosoms are drawn to the reader when a female character doing just about anything. So it is always in your face. So scene with ladies are more like *long description about appearance, dress and swishes (which may drop a neckline is so low it expose bosoms too, but not relevant here)* - back to story and then casually drops folds her arms under her breasts in response to something clutch the ter-angreal against her breasts because reasons wearing a pendant (yes - we must talk about her breasts - lets place the pendant in ... gasp... between her breasts) I certainly do not remember as similar treatment to guys but it has been 10 years so I'm happy to be proven wrong.

I think this solution would more or less have the same effect as severing as they will lose the will to live because they can feel the source but cannot touch it. I can't imagine a woman will want to head the link as then she would be exposed to the taint (certainly there will be outliers - but in general I can't imagine that would be the case) From recollection, it was the 100 companions that were instantly mad. Then the remaining male aes sedai gradually became mad. Some Male Aes Sedai used Stedding to avoid madness for a time, the Reds blamed the Ogier for prolonging the breaking, while the Blues felt that it helped reduced its severity. But in the end, they couldn't bear the loss of the power and went out and became mad Given the amount of knowledge is lost, even just for Saidar, I think the breaking was really terrible, and knowledge about working together with the power would have been lost.

I do like pecs more than calves 🤐 Though, power to RJ for reminding dudes their leg days.

I have to agree with your friend regarding female descriptions. As someone who was more interested in male description in my teenage hormonal years, it was like... what? folding arms under the breasts again? Why do you keep having to direct my mind to breasts? Please fold your arms under your well-toned hunky pectorals, dudes. My experience with recent experience romance novels are that they are very diverse and progressive actually, despite having quite a bit of erotic writing. It has changed a lot from when I was a teenager where it was more what you described.

Someone in AoL should have worked out how to make Deathgate act more like skimming than 'random' travelling. Just seems pointless dropping off the corpses back into the world at the risk of killing or damaging property at the random re-appearance of a gateway and then stinking the whole place up with corpses. If they worked out how to make it act more like skimming at least the corpses are disposed of and you can always pick a fixed location that is safe to open the other end of the gateway.

Here you go https://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=3

There is a similar ter'angreal for weather in AoL mentioned in path of daggers. While not 100% identified, it is suggestive that the Bowl of Winds is that ter'angreal from AoL - given that the windfinders used it in the exact way Moridin is concerned that they would.

Double post

I really didn't like River of Souls - but to be fair, it was cancelled from the books before it was reviewed by RJ's team so a lot of the weirdness and inconsistency was left in. I've lost count the number of times I've read the first 11 books (speed reading through 1). But for the last 3 books, I probably read tGS a max of 3-4 times, ToM a max of probably 2 times and AMoL only once. I actually overall enjoyed tGS. There were bits that sounded like RJ and I remember feeling quite nostalgic reading it at that time wondering if those bits were penned by RJ. I hated ToM of the 3. AMoL - I liked better than ToM. I do feel very conflicted about the ending (even though it has been 10 years). On the one hand, I am glad to get "an ending" even if it felt like RJ wasn't quite there other than the epilogue, but at the same time there is a part of me that would love WoT to never end. Had RJ survived, I would have been quite happy for RJ to drip feed me several more books after the last battle.

Rafe isn't the sole writer. It is colaborative, and the reddit post that someone linked earlier, BS (mistborn) said as much. Copied and pasted 2 responses from BS (the comment before BS responded in grey, and BS's comment in blue) 1st set 2nd set

Egwene has killed quite a bit in the books but the one that sticks out in my mind is Egwene killing Raken in hopes that she deny the Seanchan any access to a sister who knows gateway even if she kills them. And she probably thought she was doing those sisters a favour to prevent them from experiencing torture. Understandable that there was a strategic risk losing gateway but doesn't make it any colder a decision to kill her own people.

I agree with the Tom Clancy/Jack Reacher analogy and that BS is generally an easy read without needing to think hard. I do enjoy reading BS books, though I must admit that I find the last 3 of the WoT my least favourite of his books. The thing that amuses me is that 10+ years ago, there were similar vitriolic posts towards BS that are pretty similar to the ones now directed towards Rafe (such as. they are/were destroying WoT, they are/were disrespecting RJ, they are/were terrible at WoT lore, forgetting key stuff, and other personal attacks towards them etc). Yet present day, BS is carted out as the WoT expert. What a difference 10 years make. I am actually interested to hear what Maria Simons think about s2 (I think Dragonmount did interview her about S1) since often BS mark certain interview questions as MAFO (Maria and find out) and she must have been a very important part of RJ's team and WoT would have been such a large part of her career..

Egwene had to learn some ugly truths about herself - that she is an ugly green eyed monster earlier in the season in episode 2 - wanting to be treated as special just like Nynaeve. She never really appreciated Nynaeve until she thought she lost Nynaeve in the arches. When she got Nynaeve back, she finally realises Nynaeve was also hurting when she was there to comfort Egwene about Rand's purported death, but she cannot support Nynaeve like Nyneave did for her. And she feels smaller and smaller. Then the irony of it all was the Seanchan treated Egwene as very special - she finally got what she yearned for the in WT. Egwene freeing herself from Renna - I don't really think is intended to be a lesson that she can do anything by herself, rather than having the satisfaction of watching the abusee finally being able to turn on the abuser. He also faced Lanfear in the World of Dreams and removed Moiraine's shield. Someone posted something that said that Season 3 is linked to Book 4. So S2 is kinda part of book 3

As they say S2 also includes tDR in the adapation, then I assume this is their version of Egwene being a catty b-iatch to Nynaeve in tDR, resulting in Elayne slapping her. Happened in a more gentle way in this version. I did like Sheriam's casting. I actually also really like Leane this season giving people her withering looks and taking the keeper's role very seriously.

How to be an Amyrlin - namely Tower Law and understanding politics in the Hall. I guess the role could be also given to Leane if they decide to only keep 1 actress, but Siuan would be the better option

I feel like your dislike originates from a dislike towards Egwene (which is your prerogative). The other ladies involved in that scene: Moiraine removing the Damane's shield and Elayne healing Rand were pretty integral in turning the tide, so I'm not sure why you're dismissing their aid. (Also, I like Rand making moon eyes as Elayne.) Rand just spent the whole season running away because he doesn't want to hurt everyone/his friends. And I guess the lesson is he needs people/his friends. So it comes full circle. If he solves everything because he is the Dragon, then why does he need to gather this army or unite the Nations when he can solve it by being the Dragon/Chosen one? And if the show follows down the path of the book, then Rand has to deal with letting people (Maidens) die for him once he accepts he has to unite the world.

Dragon's of Autumn Twilight was my first fantasy novel. I sort of recall an animation adaptation was done. Mustn't been too memorable cuz I don't remember much about the animation other than it exist. I thought the recent DnD movie didn't do well in the box office (unless things has since turned around). Though BG3 has been amazing and may have helped generate interest in the DnD movie

Nooooo don't ruin the moment in my mind. 😝 (Though I honestly thought it was fire weaves)

Yea, those soldiers appearing did not make sense. What made me laugh was imagining from those soldier's POV - they cannot see the weaves - so it must have been a bewildering sight where this lone warrior is fending off, while some highborne lady in blue is doing strange body movement / dance in the middle of all that combat

Someone else pointed this out to me (don't recall it mentioned earlier in this thread). Didn't think anything about it in my watch. When Ishy walked into the room with Suroth around the 29 min mark, Suroth asked Ishy "Where have you been" Ishy started dusted his hands and the camera even focuses on his hands and Ishy responded, "I had other tasks to attend to." Presumably cuendillar/seals dust? - Which I thought was a nice touch

Thanks for that! It was really interesting. They mentioned that the Suroth's outfit was inspired by Imperial Chinese and Mesopotamia. Then later described the outer coat as Kimono (so maybe some japanese influence - though it could be they didn't know the Chinese term for the outer coat and used the term most commonly known in the West). I am not familiar with Mesopotamia's outfits so wouldn't have been able to pick that up. I like that they had the reptilain print on the Suroth's "Kimono"/outer coat. They said they were trying to go for "alien" but it is a nice link to the Imperial Chinese influence that they drew their inspiration from as the ancient Chinese Emperors wore Dragon Robes (Longpao), and the Dragon is reptilain. When I first saw Suroth's outfit on TV, I actually thought the patterns were smudgey Dragons because I thought they were trying to replicate the Dragon Robe, but since they cannot use the Dragon motiffs (since that obviously belongs to Rand). So the only choice they had was to smudge the Dragons haha. Not sure if that was in their consideration when they picked the reptilain pattern. I never noticed the under garment for the Seanchan Soldiers till this video. I really like it too. It makes me think of a Duan Da. Wonder if there are Mesopotamian influence in that as well.

Rand in his red jacket. I quite like Suroth's outfit - It is like a very westernized Hanfu/Hanbok/Kimono

Egwene was able to touch the pitcher later in the TV. This occured at the ending of S2e06. She poured water for Renna and then Renna poured the water away. In fact Renna spent episode 6 training her to learn that pitcher should not be thought of as a weapon. So it is established in the TV that the weapon is a matter of perspective. The book has similar rules about the a'dam but does not consider holding the collar or leashing as touching a weapon. I have some issue with the pain that transmit between the A'dam - but primarily the scenes where the Damane punches the Sul'dam and the Sul'dam experiences no pain and doesn't even flinches. However, the Damane flies off in pain (Egwene punching Renna and vice versa). I don't really have an issue with feedback loop as such as there is a possibility that the a'dam's pain is tuned specfically to pain experienced from physical contact. It could be cleaner, but not a glaring issue an issue for me.