I don't know the answer to the first part, but I think, if anything, this show has made Brandon Sanderson less likely to agree to option Stormlight Archive anytime soon. (Just from what I've seen of his comments about his involvement in season 1 before being cut out in season 2 and beyond.) My theory is that ultimately he will hire people himself to make it through his publishing company Dragonsteel Entertainment so he has complete control.Does anybody know if Amazon considers this a success? What are the chances of something like the stormlight archive getting made.
The whole story of bridge 4 would make for some great tv (I think?)
I saw similar comments elsewhere and I think it just emphasizes that she firmly believes the ends justifies the means. She sees weakness and rot in the Tower and will do whatever she needs to eliminate that.I don’t recall her being quite that blasé about death in the books, but it has been a while. Regardless, while she’s not capital-E EEEEEVIL, she’s clearly not a good person.
They seem to be pretty happy with it so far. Though in this day and age whether that's happy enough for renewals is often a question with counterintuitive answers.Does anybody know if Amazon considers this a success? What are the chances of something like the stormlight archive getting made.
The whole story of bridge 4 would make for some great tv (I think?)
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There hasn't been anything official from anyone. In the summary to the first three episodes, Tofystedeth indicated that Amazon is committed but that Sony was dragging their feet. Maybe they're waiting for the response to the full season.Does anybody know if Amazon considers this a success? What are the chances of something like the stormlight archive getting made.
The whole story of bridge 4 would make for some great tv (I think?)
Interesting. I couldn't get through two episodes of season 1.I found that season 1 was meh and 2 mediocre so I'd never have imagined the show turning into a masterpiece but season 3 is nothing but great so far.
Keep going like this and I'll eagerly await another 12 seasons.
It's pretty good, but some of the actors are....not great. They also need to stop with the swooshy blades sounds.I found that season 1 was meh and 2 mediocre so I'd never have imagined the show turning into a masterpiece but season 3 is nothing but great so far.
Keep going like this and I'll eagerly await another 12 seasons.
What made me chuckle out loud this episode was when the group went into the Whitecloak camp and the foley artists had the sisters' spears clank metallically... yeah, two women who were masters of stealth would let their weapons that they live and die by clank around noisily while strolling through an enemy camp....It's pretty good, but some of the actors are....not great. They also need to stop with the swooshy blades sounds.
Also, assuming the show is going to follow Elaida's path from the books, they probably thought she must start out more ruthless due to the content they had to cut to turn Wheel of Time into a TV series.I saw similar comments elsewhere and I think it just emphasizes that she firmly believes the ends justifies the means. She sees weakness and rot in the Tower and will do whatever she needs to eliminate that.
There were times in the books when I thought I'd picked up the BDSM fan fiction version on accident.Interesting. I couldn't get through two episodes of season 1.
It wasn't quite as awful as the (so-called) adaptation that someone did of the Wizard of Earthsea, or the Shannara one, but it was close.
Then again, I tried to get through all the novels recently and had a hard time as well, for different reasons. The last Jordan-written book with al the switching and spanking just grossed me out completely. "Hey, we've captured our sworn enemy who wants to kill us, lets switch her bare bottom--repeatedly, in detail--as punishment". JFC....
It's amazing to me how much better it is now. It really got its sea legs (or budget) and is fully engaging. And the plot differences are paying off, in the sense that I don't quite know what's going to happen and it's quite engaging.I found that season 1 was meh and 2 mediocre so I'd never have imagined the show turning into a masterpiece but season 3 is nothing but great so far.
Keep going like this and I'll eagerly await another 12 seasons.
I don't think this spoils the show - but be warned:I can't for the life of me remember Faile and what she was in the books. I recall Perrin having a spirit guide, wolf person. Is that her (I recall it being a male).
They had Elias (the other wolf-brother) in the previous season as a mentor-character to Perrin. The slain wolf, Hopper, was more a presence in the books because we got telepathic-style dialogue between him and Perrin that the show chose(probably correctly) not to do.I can't for the life of me remember Faile and what she was in the books. I recall Perrin having a spirit guide, wolf person. Is that her (I recall it being a male).
The show has only barely arrived at the point where actual armies and military stuff begins to matter.It's amazing to me how much better it is now. It really got its sea legs (or budget) and is fully engaging. And the plot differences are paying off, in the sense that I don't quite know what's going to happen and it's quite engaging.
I only have minor complaints. The Aiel not being all fair haired and redheaded and the difficulty of telling groups apart when they're all equally diverse.
All the main casting is great though (with Mat's replacement). Really shocking for how thrown together this series was originally.
Second is just that Perrin's wolves have been reduced almost to the point that only book readers would notice it. Not enough gambling for Mat I suppose either, something has to lose I guess.
And third, it seems like there's so much extra sex and none of the military details that the original author knew (Vietnam veteran) that grounded the book series at times. You know, the troubled first season skipped over some of the boys learning martial arts, there's no warder captain with the Princes, the Whitecloaks POV is (thankfully) scarce. But it's covering so much territory after all.
It's a shame they can't refilm the first season, but the irony is that the books needed an abridgement too as we all know.
It's finally going great, I hope they can keep it up.
My reading of the book is that the White Tower is a rather severe place to live. Thus, the idea that Elaida would kill one Black Ajah to threaten the other struck me as "typical Tower behavior" and Siuan's choice not to "unusual" by Tower standards. It reinforced how hard it is for Siuan to push the Tower toward "bending the knee" to the Dragon.I saw similar comments elsewhere and I think it just emphasizes that she firmly believes the ends justifies the means. She sees weakness and rot in the Tower and will do whatever she needs to eliminate that.
It's also pretty obvious in the books that the Red Ajah is quite...severe...with men (obviously, due to saidin's corruption) and with those it just doesn't like, or well, those they think are traitors. Siuan and Leane get a bit of that in the books, as does Egwene. Moiraine's headspeak in the books also shudders at the thought of being in Red Ajah custody.My reading of the book is that the White Tower is a rather severe place to live. Thus, the idea that Elaida would kill one Black Ajah to threaten the other struck me as "typical Tower behavior" and Siuan's choice not to "unusual" by Tower standards. It reinforced how hard it is for Siuan to push the Tower toward "bending the knee" to the Dragon.
I've never fully understood this complaint.There were times in the books when I thought I'd picked up the BDSM fan fiction version on accident.
(I should have sat on this before posting...)I've never fully understood this complaint.
Yes, Jordan clearly had some kinks he proudly displayed in the books if you know enough to parse his phrasing, but the books are really milquetoast about anything sexual - including the spankings. There might be a lot but there is close to zero titillation in the way he writes it.
This made me laugh hard enough my husband came to check on me. Very accurate & I can't wait to see your cousin's reaction to next episode!(which my cousin described as “a lesbian and her gay best friend hanging out, and it’s unclear which is which”)
Rand being unexpectedly good with kids
It is supposed to be 8. This season they’ll finish Tanchico, get Rand declared car’a’carn, advance the Perrin subplot, and advance the Elaida tower drama. That will get us almost to the point where they can do Dumai’s Wells and Ebou Dar in season 4, which would actually put them ahead of schedule. Seven of the 14 books, and the first 8 chapters of Book 8 would be done.I enjoyed this series so far, as a person who read the first six books but gave up when it got too complex and impossible for me to follow. Season 3 definitely has been the best though, clearly better television even aside from anything in the books (and I can't remember anything from the books, so discontinuities from the books don't bother me at all).
Curious: how many seasons will this go if it tells the full story? Assuming they skip over some of the middle of the series that really drags, could this be a 6-7 season show? I can't imagine it will be renewed for 12 seasons or whatever it would take to go one book per season...
Egwene thinks she’s expert, but all she’s actually done is enter her friends dream and get almost murdered by Lanfear. So I suspect there will be some consequences for this, perhaps even a realization that she needs two more episodes of training, prior to the Pattern/plot informing her that it’s time to leave the Aiel and go to REDACTED.Egwene just seems to jump into expert mode, flitting between dreams and things mostly sticking. Understandable, of course, from a budget perspective, but slightly disappointing nonetheless. They could've done some sort of visual effect to differentiate it more, at least.
Agree, but she shouldn't have even been able to do that. And they could've added a scene where she was sucked into a friend's dream and lost control or something like that to emphasise her inabilities and the dangerousness of the place... anyway, I get it, and am thankful for the show we have, even with the limitations.Egwene thinks she’s expert, but all she’s actually done is enter her friends dream and get almost murdered by Lanfear. So I suspect there will be some consequences for this, perhaps even a realization that she needs two more episodes of training, prior to the Pattern/plot informing her that it’s time to leave the Aiel and go to REDACTED.
I really wish we'd gotten a couple more eps per season. The first few eps this season were fast paced, but felt about right for introducing new status quos, starting the season off at a high energy level to get people excited, and setting people off on their various journeys. But this episode did feel a little rushed to me. The Perrin part and Egwene's training especially.It seems I have a different opinion to most so far – I was disappointed with this episode, and most disappointed with how they dealt with the dream world. Not just the depictions, but its introduction.
Egwene just seems to jump into expert mode, flitting between dreams and things mostly sticking. Understandable, of course, from a budget perspective, but slightly disappointing nonetheless. They could've done some sort of visual effect to differentiate it more, at least.
I also don't think there was enough exposition about her abilities, and Tel'aran'rhiod itself... 8-episode limitation strikes again, I guess.
Ah yes, I recall Hopper and Elias alright now quiet clearly.They had Elias (the other wolf-brother) in the previous season as a mentor-character to Perrin. The slain wolf, Hopper, was more a presence in the books because we got telepathic-style dialogue between him and Perrin that the show chose(probably correctly) not to do.
Faile is the love interest, but her arc is also most of the Slog in the middle books.
I was quite shocked Elaida simply executed someone. Isn't this a VERY clear violation of the Three Oaths? And wasn't such a violation a clear indicator that the perpetrator was Black Ajah? I realize the Oaths haven't been prominent so far ...Also, assuming the show is going to follow Elaida's path from the books, they probably thought she must start out more ruthless due to the content they had to cut to turn Wheel of Time into a TV series.
The show Aes Sedai are the same expert rules-lawyers that they are in the books. Here are the Three Oaths:I was quite shocked Elaida simply executed someone. Isn't this a VERY clear violation of the Three Oaths? And wasn't such a violation a clear indicator that the perpetrator was Black Ajah? I realize the Oaths haven't been prominent so far ...
1) To speak no word that is not true;
2) To make no weapon with which one man may kill another;
3) Never to use the One Power as a weapon except against Darkfriends or Shadowspawn, or in the last extreme defense of her life, the life of her Warder, or another Aes Sedai.
It's funny, I'm even greedier. I'd like a 90s era 20+ episodes a season. Really give it room to breath, like Babylon 5. As much as I liked the Road to the Spear, I kinda' feel a bit like it was a waste of the limited time they have, that maybe they could have trimmed it even further down to its essentials, not just cutting out the Sharing of Water and the First Maiden but even further, to just what the audience needs to know Rand saw when he... uses the knowledge later. That is, maybe it was a little too indulgent to book fans. (Not that I don't appreciate it)I really wish we'd gotten a couple more eps per season.
Do you mean are we worried that Perrin actually killed Geofram instead of being just accused of it as in the books?I was quite shocked Elaida simply executed someone. Isn't this a VERY clear violation of the Three Oaths? And wasn't such a violation a clear indicator that the perpetrator was Black Ajah? I realize the Oaths haven't been prominent so far ...
(And, an aside: Are we worried that Perrin actually DID kill Geofram Bornhald? How will this play out?
Yeah, I forgot about the darkfriend clause.When Elaida merks Amico, she's not lying, she doesn't "make a weapon" with the One Power (which most Aes Sedai seem to believe means something like "I won't fashion a sword out of Air and then hand it to someone else for them to do violence with"), and since Amico is a darkfriend, oath 3 doesn't apply.
Not sure I agree on how significant it will turn out to be, but we'll see how it plays out.This just merges those two events into one. It will probaby be much harder if not impossible for Dain to let it go, but that's likely the only part that might matter, and he wasn't exactly a load bearing character either.