He might be his best friend in this tepid excuse for an adaptation. But in the books Moiraine is his best friend.
Before that the closest friends he had were his teachers, the five that survived getting him away from Malkieri and taught him everything, who it can be said were his family. Maybe he cried the first time when one died, and maybe the 2nd time. Eventually he's one man waging a war. He's already accepted death.
Oh wait! We're not talking the books...we're talking this...failed characterization of a character in a book being portrayed in some show.
Nevermind.
par for the course with a lot of these teen drama fantasy series that seem to be churned out. this show reminds me a lot of legend of the seeker, where 80% of the show is set in a vaguely european-north american forest with cosplay tier costumes and D&D homebrew dialogue.
are you saying that this thread titled the tv the wheel of time is not about the tv show, the wheel of time or what
from what I can see, this thread has 64 pages of people discussing its source material, but very little about the production quality of the show. I haven't read the books, so I can only talk about my experiences with the show.
right. and its looking at MORRAINE is what makes him finaly break down. because as much as it hurt to lose his friend and brother at arms, it would hurt to lose Morraine that much more. reminder, again, his friend took his own life because he lost HIS best friend, HIS Aes Sedai.
Stepin being his close friend, does NOT negate his relationship with Morraine, it underscores and emphasizes it.
its not just death. its guilt. and pain amplified. but wait, I forget in this fucked up society, men are not allowed to show pain. EVER.
I take it you haven't actually read the books right? They were both getting emotional because of the warder bond. What each feels the other feels. A Aei Sedai can dampen that a bit but warders have no such power. It is essentially a feedback loop of the emotions which is why warders try their best not to drink or get overly emotional. It can impact the sister they are bonded with.
The show referenced this a little bit but it is unclear how much of the bond is like in the books and how much has been changed for the show.
No one is saying men can't show emotions. They are saying that it doesn't fit the character from the books to show it in the way that they did.
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"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
I'm not, I'm sorry if I communicated that but I'm pretty sure I didn't.
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wait, you genuinely believe the warder's response to losing their Aes Sedai isn't emotional? Lan is so torn by guilt and pain that he basically tries to get himself killed despite being compelled to make his way to Alanna and that's a warder whose bond got moved rather than just severed.
al'Lan Mandragoran
"To stand against the shadow so long as iron is hard and stone abides. To defend the Malkieri while one drop of blood remains. To avenge what cannot be defended."
Lord of the Seven Towers, Lord of the Lakes, uncrowned King of Malkier, Dai'shan, Diademed Battle Lord of Malkier, Aan'allein. At age sixteen he was given the hadori and became a man. He began his one man war against the Shadow that he could not win, with the oath graven on his mind. He has nothing left to defend, only to avenge. He will not raise the golden crane to lead other men to their deaths, but will court death himself without a second thought.
I don't know what book you read but that's...not it.
Moiraine has a contingency that moves her bond to Myrelle who has had success keeping warders alive after the bond severs. He was never afraid of death. And his only reaction were red eyes and a word of advice to Rand about not falling in love since he knows the he also is courting death.
Ah yes, the bastardization of the novels continues. Why is it so hard for people to follow an already made, massively successful story map to create a tv series/movie? This Lan is a sad shell of the true Lan, I don't watch fantasy to see some John Hancock, I see it to watch slightly to very unrealistic personifications of key human attributes/caricatures, and in this case Lan was a badass stoic warrior. Alas we have to have this in touch with his emotions mediocre warrior that requires rescuing. Think this is the last episode I watch.
Yes it was rofl. Dark of hair and eye doesn't mean dark of skin. Again look at every book cover look at RJ's casting notes look at the comics especially new spring which RJ was hugely involved in.
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New one is read by Rosemund Pike instead of the duo who does every other audio book. Not sure if you can still get it or not. The audio books at least the ones I have are unabridged so if you consider the series good they are good.
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and Rafe is a terrible writer so why should we care what he wants? Fans of the book want to see Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time not Rafe's fanfiction.
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They are already stealth editing posts lol
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Don't forget to attack those who dare to like the books because you're such a big fan that you don't even know who Lan's bond is passed to rofl