Sivart Reborn
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This lovely lady left us back in 2021, but I found this photo on my Desktop and wanted to share her with all of you who might see her. And also the goober whippet.
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I'm well. Looking for a new job as I am tired of my career cul du sac. But nothing bad has happened in my life, so I honestly cannot complain.
Oh! I am 39k words into my own attempt to write a book! That is exciting, as writing is a hobby I haven't really revisited much since I was a teenager. You know, back before the WoT series of completed.
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Hello everyone. Just wishing everyone well. Strange as it is to say, I think I would be sad if I checked for this little forum and could not find it anymore.
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I would really like to go to Istanbul for my studies, but that keeps looking more and more unlikely.
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I'm not innately put off by this idea. A lot of Perrin's conflict is internal, particularly the "axe vs. hammer" stuff. It could be useful visual shorthand for why he is so angst-ridden all the damn time.
That said, this also runs the risk of having only a superficial resemblance to the source material, and setting that as precedent. If that is the case, why no make an original fantasy series rather than an adaptation?
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I intend to at least start watching this show, but I'm not going to go in with any kind of hopes. I'm largely indifferent towards the casting so far, but I'm also not one of the sort who necessarily wants actors to resemble the characters physically.
Fingers crossed, but not holding my breath.
If nothing else, finding out people know something about WoT is kind of interesting among my friends.
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It seems so weird seeing threads literally twelve years old while I'm browsing this forum. It makes me feel both nostalgic and old.
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The debauchery. Guys, we can't strip people and ring bells at them for not having read books. Maybe we can ring bells at them, but that is still rude.
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Eye of the World is a really good fantasy book, but blood and bloody ashes I dislike everyone from the Andoran Royal Family. I can totally relate to that stumbling block.
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I don't even remember how Sammael died. All I remember about Bel'al was that Mo balefired him.
You think they might actually condense Taim and Demandred? They're wholly divergent characters but the Shara thing in the Last Battle wasn't particularly essential to the story.
I don't even remember a quarter of all the named Aes Sedai, I'm sure.
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How many of the male Forsaken can we par down on the basis of "He's like Lews Therin, but not as awesome and evil"?
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Pancakes. Never waffles unless times are dire.
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Anyone want to take a guess at which characters will be merged or altogether dropped? It's been literal years since I've read a WoT book, but I still feel like I could name so many characters as to be impossible to do in a TV format.
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Disney, and Disney Star Wars! I probably won't actually see either, unless someone drags me along at this point.
Apologies for missing for nine months. I was not pregnant, nor did I impregnate anyone. I am just trying my best to get a do-over on this adulting thing.
Honestly, it's mostly the news of the WoT TV show combined with the fact this forum is pinned to my favorites still after all these years that keeps me checking.
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This place is alive? Wow. Now I'm feeling sentimental. Glad everyone's doing well!
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I actually do every few months, usually just for a second to see if anyone posts. I miss this community too. It was a cozy little internet corner, and nothing in my adult life is even remotely like how this was for me as a teen. Every time I check in I contemplate rereading WoT from the start, but the time sink intimidates me.
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I actually have some hope for a decent (maybe no overly faithful) adaptation of WoT, if only because something is going to want to fill the GoT gap in television when it ends.
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You watched the whole thing? I'm impressed.
I'm just afraid this will harm the possibility of a serious cinematic adaptation of WoT getting made in the near future.
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So did anyone else see or hear about that "Winter Dragon" thing that was done?
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Random thought: I miss WoT, I miss the excitement I had in the build up to a new book being released (even if the result was slightly dissapointing) I don't feel like any series I'm reading at the moment has captured me in the same way that that Wot did
I have found no fandom really replaces this one for me.
I am in agreement.
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I have that kindle thing on my laptop, but I don't own an actual one.
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The ending was very much conclusive. It was disappointing in that regard. It really doesn't leave much to say or think for. And at the same time, it leaves me cold on topics like Seanchan. The epilogue also came across as very abrupt, after that drawn out climax sequence, it was as if the story was trying so very hard to suddenly try to wrap all it's characters. That just highlights the poor pacing of the series as whole in my opinion though.
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Well, these forums seem dead, appropriately enough with the series ended. But I was having some weird Moiraine's World nostalgia tonight, which in turn made me think about the series and why I decided to stick it out til the end.
Honestly, I cannot say I liked this series. I liked parts of it. I liked parts of it a lot. Moiraine is one of my favorite fictional characters, period. I liked Rand, Mat, and even Perrin at times, even if I spent good chunks of the series not liking them. I liked the villains mostly. I liked the supporting cast mostly. I liked the story on a whole. But there is so much I cannot say I care for. The pacing is awful in my opinion, especially in the middle of the series. Jordan's views on sex/gender got awkward or tiresome (honestly, the Aes Sedai needed to prove they were all women? They had a problem with men joining at the White Tower?). Some (many) of the characters were just downright grating. And Min's existence rubs me wrong, if only because I liked her at first, then was disappointed in how she was used, to say nothing about how I feel about the harem in the first place. And then built up, highly anticipated events *cough*Moiraine*cough* are seemingly entirely tangential that I might've forgotten about Thom and Mat retrieving her altogther. And other times events just kind of happen without any satisfying conclusion, such as Suian's death in the last book. Not all of this can be blamed on Jordan, the last three books were in part written by another author from his notes. Sanderson's style is distinctive from RJ's, and it is not necessarily consistent with the tone of the previous books. But at least we got a conclusion, I can certainly be thankful for that..
Will I reread the series one day? Probably, almost undoubtably. Would I recommend the series? I don't think so, not unless the person was just dead set on some long fantasy reading.
So, does anyone else have some thoughts back on the series as a whole now that we've had a bit to digest the last book? If anyone will see this?
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I hate how fantasy treats this sometimes. Weapons and fighting don't work like number calculators. Mat with his Ashandarei is better than people who can't fight as well as he can with their weapon, but he's worse than people who are better with their respective weapons, assuming a perfectly fair field of battle, which is improbable to begin with.
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It's a fantasy adventure, of course! I kind of miss the epic fantasy worlds I grew up reading about, and Sanderson sadly has been a miss for me. I just don't love his writing, and he is the big name people continually recommend me now. If had had to describe my own work, it is rather reconstructive of the elements that seem to have fallen out of vogue, everyone is a big fan of very cynical works since Game of Thrones as far as I have seen. I do have a bit of an anti-theist bent to it, though. It's very rough, but I am having fun with it.