9 hours ago, CaddySedai said:

I never cared to put myself mentally in their world.

 

Throughout my life I have always imagined myself in those worlds. I have lived beneath the golden canopy of Lothlorien. I boldly went where no one has gone before, and I also did it in a galaxy far far away. I traveled back to the future in a DeLorian DMC-12, and came back after an Excellent Adventure. I visited Avalon and even once rode a Luck Dragon to the Ivory Tower. I learned magic as a student in Slytherin and then wearing my trademark Green I was there during Tarmon Gai'don.

 

I never once saw myself anywhere in GoT. 

This is so well put, and I completely agree!

It could be because you stood a 99.9% chance of not only dying, but dying horribly in GoT.

Then, none of the cultures were something I would hold in any kind of esteem or want to be part of.

20 hours ago, Rose said:

Here for Gay!Perrin but he needs to be with Gaul.

Yah but the title of this thread is RIDICULOUS plot changes ... Gaul would not be a ridiculous partner for Perrin *grins*

Perrin is actually gay and hooks up with Gawyn. Or Galad. Or both! Why not? They can be the counter-part to Rand and his ladies.

Welcome back! Hope you can find a home again here ?

I like what he did there.

10 hours ago, Daenelia said:

Dropping the o from 'to' is a very common Northern thing. Also a lot of glottal stops, skipping letters in the middle of words. (Bottle = boh'-lll.)

That does sound exactly like that!

Though I agree that it would sound really cool to have some weird and wonderful accents on the show, they might be incomprehensible to most viewers. Maybe they could do them with sub-titles, though *grins*

10 hours ago, Daenelia said:

You dated a Northerner then ?

I have no idea! LoL ... He sounded something like this: Wha' ya' doon tday? Go'a go t ban' a' draw moony.

4 hours ago, DojoToad said:

I was highly offended as Midwesterners don't have accents...

You must sound just like us South Africans then! *grins*

I must say that there are some American accents I find very hard to understand. I think they're Southern.

And then there are quite a few British accents that are incomprehensible. In fact, I dated a guy from England for 2 years - couldn't understand a word he said. Didn't even know we were dating because I just said yes to every question he asked.

12 hours ago, thehumantrashcan said:

I remember hearing an interview of the Stark "kids" from GoT and how they all settled on the accents they loosely kept during the show.  They were trying to see what accents the actors were able to do so they all sounded as close as possible and when they asked Sean Bean what accents he could do he told them something along the lines of Yorkshire

Yep. It's a beautiful accent too! ?

Luckily most people don't know accents well enough (unless it's from their own area) to know that actors aren't doing them quite right. As long as the actors portraying characters from the same are sound sort of similar, I think that's enough for most viewers. But when you start mixing a Dutch accent with Irish and maybe Welsh ... that won't work ... lol

Welcome to Dragonmount, Ana! I hope you're going to love it here ?

14 hours ago, Analiese Sinclaer said:

I have tried the audio books, but I am not an auditory learner, and I can't concentrate on the words. It just becomes noise that doesn't mean anything after a while.

I'm exactly the same! I used to beg my teachers to just give me the handbooks to read, because whatever they're saying up front in the class just becomes "blah blah fish paste" from the 3rd sentence ?

Do you mind telling us where you're from? I ask, because the name Analiese sounds more Afrikaans/Dutch/German than English. I'm from South Africa, and my home language is Afrikaans (derived mostly from Dutch and German).

That would sound ridiculous.

Has there been any talk of how they're going to handle accents?

If we look at the Emonds Fielders, they're Dutch, English, Irish, Australian, and New Zealander (main lot).

Are they going to have them all speak with one accent, like they tried with the Northeners in GoT?

If so, which accent?

I've always thought that the ageless look is described exactly like an overdose of botox and facelifts.

Talmanes, Lord Dobraine, and Narishma spring to mind.

And Laras ?

I think those would have been an excellent replacement for portal stones - not sure how they're going to turn them into Waygates. But, I'm glad they're using something real as something from the books - it must be so meaningful to the people who live there.

On 9/17/2021 at 4:02 AM, CaddySedai said:

The Keeper does keep count, Mother. *grins*

Sealed to the Flame, darlin'! ?

7 hours ago, CaddySedai said:

 

Mother likes her landmarks. Helps her get home when shes had a bit too much. 

*Sniffs* just because that 1 ... 2 ... a few *chokes a bit* times ?

I think Ceara would work. She looks the part, and seems like a really good actress to boot.

Rachelle Lefevre is still my favourite for Morgase. She's a good actress, and looks that part too.

Going off topic somewhat, what about Nils Allen "Booboo" Stewart Jr for Narishma? He's so damned cute! Plus, the hair!

7 hours ago, Guire said:

Squagly made perfect sense to me.  Squat plus ugly equals squagly.

You so get me *grins*

I don't even think it's the fact that it's squat - it's the ... not-smooth not-pearlescent finish on the outside.

This does not, in my extremely un-humble opinion (Aes Sedai can't lie :P) resemble something made by Ogier and Aes Sedai.

This looks like something designed and made by men. I think that's my gripe, in a nutshell.

I don't really care where the Ogier Grove is, but that Tower just looks squagly ☹️

3 minutes ago, Skipp said:

The characters are being aged up

There is that, yes. But hopefully not THAT much.

30 minutes ago, Skipp said:

I was thinking Ritu Arya, from Umbrella Academy, would be a great Faile.

Faile is supposed to be about 15!

5 hours ago, Kalessin said:

Besides the obvious - he meets up with Azog the Defiler and becomes his drinking buddy - there's Rand and the Monolith, where he becomes the Star Child; Rand the Master Chef - with his control of the One Paua: Abalone if you really want to know, and the True Chutney - he wins it every time ...

And Marco Pierre White is the daddy of all the Fades? Light knows, he would scare the brown stuff out of me with one look.

5 hours ago, Kalessin said:

Shaidar Haran is prowling around the halls and corridors of the White Tower when he encounters Egwene. Smitten, he falls to his knees and offers her his hand in marriage - and just by-the-way, the hand of Geofram Bornhald, Jaret Byar, and anyone else she might like ... on being refused, he becomes a C&W singer, wandering the villages of Randland singing of the girl that got away .... ?

I'll take him! ?

16 hours ago, Harldin said:

13 Channelers and 13 Ogier can turn Shadowspawn to the light.

15 hours ago, Elder_Haman said:

The Finn are just a bunch of stoned college kids playing pranks.

I snorted my Kaf out my nose over these 2!! ?