Lews Therin isn't THAT crazy. I mean Padain Fain, now HE'S nuts. ;)
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Is Egwene really more of a protagonist than Matt or Perrin? Or even Elayne and Nynaeve?Egwene is absolutely the co-protagonist of the story, along with Rand. The key theme of the series is duality: order/chaos, good/evil, law/anarchy, light/shadow and of course male/female. Rand and Egwene's stories really mirror and parallel one another, and the way their story arcs differ from one another is kind of telling.
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Well when you put it that way...
Rosamund Pike cast as Moiraine.
I suspect we'll be getting the rest of the main cast soon, as production ramps up for September.
Well I don't DISAPPROVE of the casting... Still waiting to see who they cast for Rand, Matt and Perrin though. That and Padan Fain.
Rosamund Pike cast as Moiraine.
I suspect we'll be getting the rest of the main cast soon, as production ramps up for September.
HAAAAAAAAWWT!
Never thought Moririane as "icy"...practical sure. A little secretive. But if anyone had the cold ice queen feel, that would be Siuan Sanche myself. But that's just me.
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Aes sedai come in two varieties. ice cold or hot headed.
Hama,
Suian??? The woman that helped Moraine keep the secret of Rand's birth??? The one that had like two-three plots moving at once? Sorry I guess we've read different books then.
But Vid is correct, Aes Sedai do come in two flavors.
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...I mean, yeah. XD That tends to happen when dualism is the #1 theme of your series.
Red,
Fair point.
Primary cast announced: Rand, Egwene, Perrin, Nynaeve, Mat.
Mostly unknowns, as expected, although the actress playing Nynaeve is a former Power Range, which is kind of cool.
The cast choice for Mat appears spot on! :) :) :)
I like the casting in terms of its diversity, but I agree with PDK. They cast Mat perfectly.
Also Matt, I'm assuming the braid tugging was a limited factor...
I'm assuming more emoting than braid tugging.
Nynaeve has so many braids! How will she tug them all?
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I have no idea but I'm not betting against Cape's idea.
Yeah I always feel like a good 10-20% of the books was braid tugging and skirt smoothing.
I honestly only care if they don't get someone scary to pull off Padan Fain. He always struck me as one of the more interesting villains.
I always imagined him as Wormtongue if Wormtongue was dangerous.
Eh. I mean I get it...but I always thought of him more like Iago with a dash of Joker's slightly crazy.
I mean...he SORT of looks like Lan...I just never imagined him as Asian.
The Seanchan sure. But not Lan.
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I mean...he SORT of looks like Lan...I just never imagined him as Asian.
The Seanchan sure. But not Lan.
The Borderlanders are pretty much Asian (or Asian predominating over the mixed ethnicities that populate the WoT world). The Shienarans are Japanese, the Saldaeans are possibly Chinese and the others are somewhere in between. I know some fans saw Malkieri more as Tibetan, but Korean also works.
The Seanchan continent is utterly gigantic and contains a vast range of ethnic groups, including European-like areas and African-like areas. Tuon is basically equatorial African, for example.
I guess you and I had different visions of what nationalities in WoT looked like. But then again I already was not happy with how they treated the one NON-Shadow bad guy at the end...
I don't know who that is...but I'm glad you're happy Set.
^ The actor chosen for the part of Lan is also the voice actor of Tadashi Hamada from Disney's Big Hero 6, who was Hiro's older brother & creator of Baymax.
--C.
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Ah. Thank you for clarifying Psiphyre.
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First glimpse of Rosamund Pike as Moiraine Damodred.
I'm getting that Amazon are VERY happy they cast her in this given her slew of awards recently.
I'm just happy to get SOME kind of hope for the Battle of Dumai's Well...
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Tadashi is here.
Hoping for a preview and air date soon. Only thing I won't like is Amazon will most likely do weekly episode releases instead of all at once like Netflix. I love to binge.
That's unclear. A lot of the weekly releases in the past year have been due to Covid impacts on production. Choosing to start the release earlier rather than delay for the full season to be ready. That being said, with Disney+ showing huge success with weekly, and more data points Amazon gets from it's experiments with weekly, if the numbers for overall hours streamed and unique customers watching are good, there's a greater likelihood more and more shows will be released episodically. Netflix has also experimented with some shows episodic, so I wouldn't be surprised if they will start doing more episodic releases as well.
Yeah some times binge watching just makes me sad. So episodic watching grabs my interest more. Which I hope Wheel of Time will do.
That's unclear. A lot of the weekly releases in the past year have been due to Covid impacts on production. Choosing to start the release earlier rather than delay for the full season to be ready. That being said, with Disney+ showing huge success with weekly, and more data points Amazon gets from it's experiments with weekly, if the numbers for overall hours streamed and unique customers watching are good, there's a greater likelihood more and more shows will be released episodically. Netflix has also experimented with some shows episodic, so I wouldn't be surprised if they will start doing more episodic releases as well.Tadashi is here.
Hoping for a preview and air date soon. Only thing I won't like is Amazon will most likely do weekly episode releases instead of all at once like Netflix. I love to binge.
Amazon was veering towards weekly releases pre-COVID anyway. With such short seasons these days, it really doesn't make much odds anyway, the only gain you get is a few extra weeks to work on post for the final episode, which is not to be sniffed at, but it's also not absolutely essential.
The trend back towards episodic release is more to do with buzz. Various data analysis showed that discussion of STRANGER THINGS Season 3 peaked about six or seven days after the entire season aired and then faded away quite quickly after that, compared to the likes of THE BOYS, THE MANDALORIAN, THE EXPANSE and WANDAVISION which kept a high level of engagement up for week after week after week, and as the buzz grew more subscribers signed up.
I think Netflix will reluctantly move away from the binge model, though, as it is their thing and they've committed heavily to it, whilst other streamers are much less wedded to it.
As for an air date, they still need to finish filming. If they can get back to Prague in May/June for the couple of weeks they need to get the last shots, this could easily air in September/October. If not (the Czech Republic's COVID outbreak is one of the worst in Europe), they could release the first six episodes and put the last two back to Season 2 (which I wouldn't be surprised were filmed elsewhere).
If streamers move back to the weekly release I hope they start writing and filming for it. The Boys and The Expanse didn't pace well (the writing wasn't great either, especially for The Boys).
I look forward to more for sure.
Sweet! :) More things to enjoy in November then.
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squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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They have already started shooting Season 2 as well, so it hopefully won't be too long a wait between seasons.
Worth noting at this point that the TV show is going to be very faithful to the books in some area and a massive departure from them in others.
I hope that means they cut goodly parts of book 8, 9 and 10... I forget most of 11 and 12...