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[Asmodean82]

............. that was it????? That was so simplistic. And the voice.... from the freaking audio book????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Visually it was pretty. But I feel like they could've played with it a LOT more. Phaw. Whatever, give me the book already!

[AshSnow]

I Some-what agree with Asmo. The voices could have been different. But for a book commercial, I thought the visuals/actress were pretty.
Though there could have been more.....And as Olivia pointed out...why now? On book 13?

Though thinking about this lil clip, makes me want a movie :]

Oh, could someone tell me what was with all the fire/embers? Does it represent something?

Edited by AshSnow, 05 September 2010 - 05:36 PM.

[Sivart]

That was... well it... uh...

I don't know how to feel about that.

[Vertex]

Olivia, on 04 September 2010 - 11:49 PM, said:

I was kinda "huh?" when I first heard they were going to release a trailer too, Tosh. I mean, what's the point? It can't be advertising - we're freaking 13 books into this series and it has millions of readers around the world, so I'm pretty sure they're not trying to broaden the fanbase with this trailer.

But for every new fan, they'd get to sell thirteen books. I'm sure they wanna sell as many books as possible to as many people as possible.

Ekho, on 04 September 2010 - 09:01 PM, said:

...I think the only thing worse than reading that letter is hearing it aloud.

Marie, on 05 September 2010 - 01:04 AM, said:

Yes, the model was great (and the horse, I guess) but the voice over of old lady just...ruins it for me. Not to mention that letter is just so silly.

Maybe Moiraine is turning in to comic relief. She could be the next Joxer The Mighty. I think there is a basis for a theme song in the background of the video.

Asmodean82, on 05 September 2010 - 04:06 AM, said:

............. that was it????? That was so simplistic. And the voice.... from the freaking audio book????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Visually it was pretty. But I feel like they could've played with it a LOT more. Phaw. Whatever, give me the book already!

I kinda felt it anticlimactic with so many close close closeups and then no proper view of her face or figure. It was all building up and then you get a brief shot of her eyes staring up a bit cross-eyed(Such comic relief) before she rides off.

Also, on the topic of her dark eyes, they look unnaturally dark to me, kinda as if the actress is wearing lenses. Or they tried to make the eyes more intense by turning up the contrast way too much.

[Asmodean82]

AshSnow, on 05 September 2010 - 05:35 PM, said:

Though thinking about this lil clip, makes me want a movie :]

Oh, could someone tell me what was with all the fire/embers? Does it represent something?

Oh my goodness, I think I beat Olivia to a note of book facts!

Yes, Ash. The fire embers likely have to do with the Min viewing of (I think it was Min... if not Egwene dreamt this in Fires of Heaven) Anyway, the dream/viewing had Thom reaching into a fire and pulling out Moiraine's head jewel (can't remember its actually spelling right now.)

Kind of a symbolic freeing of her I always thought.

Yes, I also agree, this 'trailer' just made me want a movie. But I don't get one so stop teasing....

[Marie]

It's a kesiera.

And it was Egwene.

God I'm a geek.

I noticed on dragonmount someone made a comment that this vid contains spoilers (!) in so far as we see Moiraine riding off on a horse and her channeling.

I don't get the horse thing. Horses are the primary form of long distance travel. Of course she'll ride a horse! Maybe this person expected Moiraine to be legless I don't know.

The channeling thing I can see, but then I never thought Mo would be stilled/burnt out.

Having said all that, when watching the video I just thought they were showing all of Moiraine's trademarks not actually "spoiling" us about her current/future state. Ah, Dragonmount. The place that still debates Moiraine/Siuan pillow friendship.

[jan]

Um... I kinda liked it.

[Cerendrallion]

Well, at the very least, we can assume Moiraine's rescue is going to be the main thrust of this book, not some vague ramble in the country with Mat & Co, or Perrin playing with his axe.

[Vertex]

Marie, on 06 September 2010 - 06:29 AM, said:

I don't get the horse thing. Horses are the primary form of long distance travel. Of course she'll ride a horse! Maybe this person expected Moiraine to be legless I don't know.

Well, white horses have special significance. For example, the final incantation of Vishnu is represented by a white horse. And as wiki points out, they are often associated with an "end-of-time saviour".

Also, with Moiraine's very contrasting, completely black eyes, and (as far as I can tell) black hair, and dark (purple-ish?), contrasting clothes, I think she might come back as more than a little Blue Aes Sedai.

Fire raining down further hints of the end-of-time and underlines the role Moiraine has yet to play.

So yeah, spoilers in the sense that nothing has been said out loud before. Unfortunately, if Moiraine indeed is a savior, then I fear she has little hope of surviving past the final battle. Hopefully, she'll have an easier death than Jesus though...

[Erika Sedai]

Asmodean82, on 05 September 2010 - 04:06 AM, said:

............. that was it????? That was so simplistic. And the voice.... from the freaking audio book????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Visually it was pretty. But I feel like they could've played with it a LOT more. Phaw. Whatever, give me the book already!

I agree with this feeling. It felt very lazy of them to just use the audio book reader.

[Sam]

Vertex, on 07 September 2010 - 02:12 AM, said:

From 06 September 2010 - 06:29 AM:

I don't get the horse thing. Horses are the primary form of long distance travel. Of course she'll ride a horse! Maybe this person expected Moiraine to be legless I don't know.

Well, white horses have special significance. For example, the final incantation of Vishnu is represented by a white horse. And as wiki points out, they are often associated with an "end-of-time saviour".

Also, with Moiraine's very contrasting, completely black eyes, and (as far as I can tell) black hair, and dark (purple-ish?), contrasting clothes, I think she might come back as more than a little Blue Aes Sedai.

Fire raining down further hints of the end-of-time and underlines the role Moiraine has yet to play.

So yeah, spoilers in the sense that nothing has been said out loud before. Unfortunately, if Moiraine indeed is a savior, then I fear she has little hope of surviving past the final battle. Hopefully, she'll have an easier death than Jesus though...

[Aleyna]

I know it sounds petty, but I'm pretty sure that Aldieb, stayed on "Randland" side of the ter'angreal.

The old-lady voice was a turn-off, although it was probably better than some pathetic attempt to imitate her Cairhienin accent.
Not that I think that they would've remembered that.

[~Romanda~]

I watched it without sound a couple times first and was just loving the pretty. Awe, I forgive the old ladyness even though it's so silly.

[Ishmael Moridin]

Woah
I made a new thread for this on Kesiera before finding this one *covers from the admins*

Edited by Ishmael Moridin, 29 September 2010 - 12:32 PM.