So Egwene becoming the leader of the arguably most powerful organization in the world and then sacrificing her life in the battle against the literal devil isn't "powerful female character" enough for them, is it?
So Egwene becoming the leader of the arguably most powerful organization in the world and then sacrificing her life in the battle against the literal devil isn't "powerful female character" enough for them, is it?
The hilarious thing is that people that have read the books thinks this is a possibility.
It is for the people that have not read the series and dont know what or who is what! To keep the uncertainty as long as possible.
I mean if she would be the Dragon then it would upend so much in the whole series that it would have to be a completely new script/story.
Them/they has always be used in english for not just the recent stuff. It was/is a word quite often used for someone not specific or someone you don't know beyond that they exist in some form. True there is no gender conotation. But i also doesn't say it could be female. It is just a more grand speak. Like fantasy tends to do. This is making a problem out of nothing tbh.
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Not possible. The books play out over 3 years. How long do you think the series would take to make for all the books? Actors are going to be sooooo old at the end if it even gets finished. They have to change a lot to fit into a tv format. Like.... a LOT!
And i am fine with it. Better than nothing.
Length has fuck all to do with being faithful to the story, you blithering fool. You can be faithful to the story without ruining it, while cutting out a lot of the filler that permeated the books. And by faithful I mean not race and gender bending characters unnecessarily or changing the story just for some woke brownie points with people who won't even watch the series and have never read the books.
Meh. idgaf about what race someone is. Riverfolk has been described as darker skinned in the book. Maybe not black. But this does not take anything away from me. I think you will not have with any new tvshow from america or britain.. or france... or israel... in the next lets say... forever or until something like the third reich comes again.
But i guess you can have fun in the forums and insult people there to your hearts content.
Todays trailer
The Wheel of Time - Main Trailer 360 Experience | Prime Video
The entire production has been about ignoring the details Jordan prized himself on not sure why people thought the white cloaks would be different.
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It's very obvious who the dragon is the instant you learn about the after effects of channeling for the first time and connect the character who had those after effects with when a certain horse got a second wind. Something else I'm sure they will mess up.
I love how people wanting a faithful reboot are considered man children for daring to think something that has basically nothing to do with the original isn't good. It's great ... seriously just advertise it as something else if the main character people want to watch dies twice maybe don't advertise it as a continuation of that character's story. I'll happily watch a Teela centric story really that's what the old She-Ra largely did the new one I'm not going to talk about. Campy is fun nostalgia is fun starting campy and nostalgic then stabbing you in the back isn't fun.
Well, that trailer confirms that they're throwing the girls in as Dragon Reborn candidates, not just Egwene but Nynaeve too. Really skeptical about how this is going to go if they change something pretty central to the story trajectory. I'll wait and see how much else they change or end up fucking up trying to cater to today's audience.
I'll go along for the ride, but I'm honestly not that hopeful this will be faithful to the books. It might still be a good show, as my wife said she's interested in it and knows nothing about the book series and may enjoy it for what it is, but if it strays too far from the source material I'm going to have a hard time enjoying it.
Logain probably but yeah they look like cosplay stills in a very bad way.
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Wow that actually looks terrible like wow that looks terrible. Campy way overdone sequences on channeling that should be instant and still don't show the weaves doesn't look like Moraine in the slightest wtf was with the shoving off a cliff bs.
Well this looks like shit. Boring generic fantasy fare with some pretty puzzling storyline changes apparently. Nothing looks like it really comes together naturally, everything seems tacked on and artificial from the monsters to the SFX to the costumes.
I'll give it a shot because I have Prime anyway for other reasons, but this is not making me hopeful for a good watch.
Plus one of the plot threads was that they loved each other but were not for eachother them getting together in the nude doesn't really sell that at all.
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Of course even with all that description it's going to look nothing like it was described. I wonder how they fuck up heartstone maybe have a constant vibration oh or an electric current so you can tell it's special oh I know an ominous hum when near it.
Exactly.. well pointed out. one of the fascinating things about it was it's female dominance, but you never felt that males were nothing either.
It boggles my mind, why make this change? who are you pandering to that the original tale doesn't already satisfy?
I didn't know what the dragon reborn was at first, but it seemed a double edge sword, the women had the magic and the wonder and the power
That Egwene could become Aes sedai when you discovered what that was, was very exciting and promising compared to the double edged mystery of the dragon reborn which only one of the males could be. Nevermind they were also all Ta'veren. The ladies had everything and were as good as the males in this world, not to mention the true seat of power. And you know what? I didn't care!!!! that's what' so stupid about the nonsense today, the story was amazing, i enjoyed his dynamic for what it was, and the power women had was part of it, thoroughly enjoyed
totally un-necessary.. unless it's just a teaser scam.
Anyone who loved the books should be completely off the wagon after them trying to push the girls could be the dragon. The entire reason the dragon is terrifying is because the male half of the source is tainted anyone using it will go mad. Having the strongest channeler outside the dark one being reincarnated is terrifying because he will go mad also because last time he broke the world in his grief. Give me back that campy 20 min pilot that premiered on a random midnight over this crap. Rafe needs to be fired into a volcano and the show should completely go back to the drawing board along with canning the entire cast outside maybe Rand.
It says a lot bad when the Netflix adapt of Cowboy Bebop legitimately seems more faithful so far.
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That's the stupid thing about it, yeah. It makes ZERO SENSE to look for a female Dragon, that doesn't work almost by definition. The whole reason the Aes Sedai are looking for potential Dragons is because they tend to go insane, and they only go insane BECAUSE THEY'RE MEN. If you change that, you might as well get rid of the entire concept of Saidin and Saidar and then the entire story falls to pieces.
This is one of the single most inane continuity changes I have ever seen.