I just don't think she has the right look.  

On 6/13/2019 at 8:03 PM, DragonFairy said:

That's a good idea as long as they're as fair as Li is. She looks like a great Moiraine. She was good in "The Meg" (not my kind of movie but hubby has watched it a few times). Based on that and her eyes, I think she could project Moiraine's serenity and wisdom. I think the hardest part about playing Moiraine will be having her strong presence even though she's of short stature.

Here's a great picture:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0508356/mediaviewer/rm106180864

 

@Dagon Thyne Can he act? I don't remember Elyas being from Tear. Do we learn that early on, or later?

In his biography, it says he was originally from Tear, but ran away as a teenager to become a soldier in the borderlands, before becoming a warder.   

On 5/30/2019 at 6:03 PM, SGT She-Wolf said:

Can I have Jeff Bridges as Elyas? Please???

Try someone who can actually speak with an appropriate accent.  He is from Tear (Spanish)

OMG You know who would be perfect?  The Most Interesting Man in the World!

On 2/13/2008 at 2:48 AM, safwd said:

Another good question today.

Im not sure if a adam would work or not. A T'angreal that actually uses the one power would not work im sure (such as the balefire rod) but an adam does not actually use the power does it, it just established a link between the suldan and damane, but perhaps the link is done with the power.

Another question to ponder.

Everything about an adam is based around the one power.  The one power is what causes the pain and nausea when a person wearing a adam tries to remove it.  It's also what creates the link itself between the wearer and the suldan.  That is why only a person with the spark of the one power powerful enough to learn to channel can be a suldan.  

Moiraine having an Austrailian accent makes no sense.....

1; She's from a country where everyone had a French accent.

2; No one else in the entire known world has an Austrailian accent.

The only possible way that an austrailian accent makes sense is if she created her own accent to hide where she came from, but even that makes no sense, since the whole point is to be invisible, and yet having such a memborable accent would draw attention.  

I've always seen her as having a Received Pronounciation accent, maybe with a slight french twang on certain words.  

I honesty think that going with a "lead character" is a bad idea.  That's not the type of story Wheel of Time is.  There isn't one single character where the story focuses. 

They should avoid having a single "main character" and do the show like Game of Thrones, where there are multiple primary characters, with different story arcs that are all treated as main characters.  I mean, if they focus so much on having Moiraine as the fucus of the show, they might end up deciding to cut out many important things that don't focus on her.   

On 2/7/2019 at 9:45 AM, Pandemonium said:

whomever plays loial should get the main narration duties, aka the wheel weaves intro, etc

That makes sense, since he's writing a book on their adventures.  But I am sure it will be Moiraine.

It should be done by whomever plays Moiraine, since the show is gonna follow her mostly, at least until she dies.

The first episode should go like this...

Prologue:

Opening Segment with Moiraine reciting the opening lines of the book, while the camera, as though being carried by the wind itself soars over the mountains and mist and other areas being described.  The camera then moves downwards and blows through Rand's cloak exactly like in the book, basically a zoom in on Rand, and then a quick cut to whomever plays Rand pulling their cloak around them and shivering.

On 2/4/2019 at 11:27 PM, DemandredFO said:

Just dropping all of Valan Luca and having physical scenery instead of description will cut down. Combined Ishy and Be'lal since B shows up and gets killed, I wish I knew if RJ intended more for B. Oh and you need Narg, Narg smart. The Tylin story I think will be cut because WOT doesn't need a rape controversy. I think the travelling people could be cut down or left out entirely since they don't add much. Also I think the latter seasons will diverge more as books get cut down and there's time to expand on stuff Brandon either left out or had to edit for time, like adding seanchan and AS together at the tower. If you include that Min vision, the WT/seanchan lack of resolution has to change.

Where you need to add though is the OP battles because the descriptions sound cool but you can have 5 mins of Nyneave and Moghedien do a staredown in an ancient museum

I think they will do OP battles two ways....

1; If the scene if from the POV of a non-Channelor, there will be no effects.  An example being, lets say the scene follows a maid walking through a door into finding an OP battle.  She, and the camera, won't pick up any effects, just the channelors reactions.  

But if the scene follows the channelors themselves then all the effects, and all the weaves are shown.

The only reason I can think of to make nudity explicit is if they want to show the implied sex scenes, such as Rand and Min, Rand and Aviendha, Rand and Elayne, Mat and random Darkfriend Aiel whose name I can't remember,

I don't think they will have any issue having nudity, since there are plenty of scenes where people are naked in the books.....There is the dream Nynaeve has that she's naked and beong chased by one of the Forsaken, which is somewhat important to her character development.   

There are the public baths in Fal Dara.....The Aiel bathing tents............

I doubt they will have GOT style dull on sex scenes, but nudity is quite possible

I always pictured Moiraine as having a a french accent, since she's Caihien.  However, I could easily see her as having trained herself to speak several different accents to hide her roots.

I would say that there needs to be 7 or 8 episodes per season.  Similar to how GOT looks.  Amazon has already announced that for the first few seasons they will doing one book per season.  So, Season one is Eye of the World.

However, they are for sure going to add scenes.  They are gonna show many scenes that are implied in the books, but never shown.  For example, they may have scenes of the Trollocs' movements through the Two Rivers as they search for Rand.  Maybe one showing the fade giving orders, before you find out what it is.  

I want to focus on Eye of the World for now, but there are many things they can drop for time  There is no reason to have the entirety of Mat & Rand's travels after Whitebridge.  It can be all belded into one or two scenes where they encounter a nameless darkfriend.  

They will likely cast a few major stars in some roles for drawing power, then have the majority of the last be b-listers and unknowns.

I think some of the roles for major stars will be Thom, Tam, and Morgase.  

Thom could be played by Michael Cain, Gary Oldman, or Someone who looks good in a facial hair.

Tam only appears in a handful of chapters so he could be played by a major star who is just there to draw eyes to the premier.  Ideally, he needs to be a middle aged actor who can speak in a irish accent (The Two Rivers accent is Irish), who could be believable as a Blademaster, and soldier.  I say Liam Neeson.  

Like Tam, Morgase is a background character for most of the series, through she becomes a key supporting character later in the series and is the driving force for many characters developent..... (Rand feels he failed Elayne and Andor by failing to save Morgase, who he thinks he dead, Galad's grief over the presumed death of the only mother he had ever known, and fight to avenge her and bring her killer to justice are what pushes him into taking over the Children of the Light.)  It needs to be someone who puts while attractive, can put out a vibe of power and regal authority......Nicole Kidman would be the best pick, if they were gonna use this character to draw eyes to the show.

Sam Elliot will not be Thom.  He can't speak  in a british (Andoran) accent. 

I always thought that David Thewlis would be great as Fain.

She might have meant that he would need Mat's help to get back out.  Remember that Mat's had the key.  Maybe she figured that out.  

Again, a tar'varen can't make the impossible happen.  It can only effect existing odds of something that is possible.  With Rand, it's far more than just being a tar'varen.  

6 minutes ago, Dagon Thyne said:

He wasn't making the impossible happen.   It's possible to fall several stories without being hurt, just not likely.  The fact that something isn't likely to happen doesn't make it impossible.  But a dead apple tree magically coming back to life full of fresh apples?  That is physically impossible, and was caused by Rand.

 

So Rand was literally causes dead things to come back to life, and makes apples magically appear on a tree that had been complete barren moments before.  That seems like altering reality to me.  

He wasn't making the impossible happen.   It's possible to fall several stories without being hurt, just not likely.  The fact that something isn't likely to happen doesn't make it impossible.  But a dead apple tree magically coming back to life full of fresh apples?  That is physically impossible, and was caused by Rand.

So Rand was literally causes dead things to come back to life, and makes apples magically appear on a tree that had been complete barren moments before. That seems like altering reality to me.  

There have been several things throughout the series which have always been credited to Rand being Ta'veren, but this doesn't make sense.  A Ta'veren can only effect odds.  They make something that is possible, far more likely to happen.  However, they can't make something that is physically impossible happen.

So, it doesn't make sense for Rand's being a Ta'veren be responsible for the dead, barren apple tree in the prologue of TGS come back to life, with a full harvest of apples.  And of course, he literally altered reality when he fully recreated the Dark One's prison.  Does this mean that Rand is the literal avatar of the Creator?    

It seems Amazon is planning on basing the first few seasons on a book by book basis.....

Season 1; Eye of the World

Season 2; The Great Hunt

Season 3; The Dragon Reborn

This is fine, since all of these books have enough to keep them interesting, especially if they have some added scenes, that are implied, but not shown in the books.  

There are several books in the middle of the series that can be merged.  

And I would also say that TGS, ToM, and AMoL can be merged into a single season as well.  So the whole of the series could be done in 7 or 8 seasons.

On 11/25/2018 at 8:38 PM, Sabio said:

Wheel as in circular, the concept that time repeats itself in WOT.  Hence never a beginning or and end since the ages repeat themselves over and over without an end.  Just like if you walk in a circle you will arrive where you started.

Yes, we all get that. But that doesn't change the fact that a RJ seems to have mixed up his metaphors.  The wheel of time seems to be a metaphor for a yarn wheel, but a yarn wheel doesn't actually weave cloth, it creates yarn or thread.  So it doesn't make sense for a yarn wheel to create "age lace".  

On 5/22/2018 at 4:56 PM, TheSociopath said:

Well, one would assume that many fans think that tabac has no health risks from the fact that none are mentioned in the book. While they might very well be wrong, we don't have any evidence, and neither do they.

 

In fact, as for kaf, we don't even get any signs of it giving energy boosts.

The dangers of eating nails is also not mentioned    So since we have no evidence that eating nails is dangerous in the WOT world. it must not be.

Yeah I don't buy that.  I assume that it poses the same risk as it's RL counterpart, or, in peaches case, far more risk.  Remember OUR world and OUR time. ARE the First Age.  Tobac IS tobacco.  They are one and the same.   

On 5/22/2018 at 10:52 AM, solarz said:

 

Aes Sedai are known for keeping secrets, not for making public health announcements.

 

Personally, I just don't see Yellow Ajah Aes Sedai going around proclaiming the health dangers of this and that.

 

"First Weaver's Warning: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, and May Complicate Pregnancy."

Yes, but thatdoesn't mean it DOESN"T cause have those dangers.   There could be thousands of people traveling to the WT every year to get healed for lung cancers that they have no idea was caused by tobac, but for some reason, many fans have the mindset that because the dangers of smoking are not specifically mentioned in the books that tobac doesn't have the same health risks as tobac.