At the C2E2 Brandon Sanderson panel. He had a few things to say re WoT show. He mentions that he tried with Perrin in the show and that Rafe and co were willing to go with his idea to have Perrin injure Master Luhhan but the Amazon execs shot it down. Brandon basically says not to get mad at the writers and that the show has really good writers and are trying their best and that a lot of factors are at play (strongly hinting that the higher up execs are the problem)
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wip: bloody awful fishwife 🤍
pov: your wife is indeed a bloody awful fishwife because she keeps talking and giggling when all you want is silence to catch something for dinner. but you can‘t really be mad. at least she‘s your bloody awful fishwife.
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"Nothing was decided here."
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Y’all I’m still not over Egwene’s ta’veren moment on the tower. She needed a way to get free and the tower gets hit and knocks out the sul’dam. She needed help and everyone felt her pull on the pattern and showed up on the tower. I love that egwene is Ta’veren in the show, I love that choice SO MUCH!!!!!! And they did her arc so fucking well this season!!!!!!
AND the change to fucking kill Renna 20 million/10 #EgweneIsAlwaysRight
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More knocking it out of the park: in 2.07 the flashback when Rosamund Pike plays Moiraine as completely different than we’ve ever gotten to see her so far and yet it feels wholly in character and immediately your heart breaks like “Oh, this is who she really is, I’ve spent the last two seasons with just a fragment of her, this serious, semi-miserable duty-bound shroud she’s been forced to wear over the rest of who she is”.
and then the double gut punch of the end of that scene, Sophie Okonedo and Pike just staring at each other completely devastated but both so honor bound they’re immediately accepting the loss of all their joint dreams for this new reality/ this new calling, and the worst part is that willingness to accept the loss in the face of duty is part of what they love about each other. They’re both just like “Oh. So this is what it will be. Oh” and your heart breaks even further oh that scene killed me
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Me seeing the lesbian Gandalf, wizard president and BDSM Forsaken together in their over-40s Mexican standoff.
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ok but i actually am obsessed with the visual language of channeling used in the show. i like how they've draw attention to the use of hand motions since season one, which is making use of the medium quite neatly. not only are the respective channeling styles highly individual, but you can see the various schools of learning — how moiraine and other modern day aes sedai channel compared to ishamael's and lanfear's much sparser hand and finger motions.
egwene, following her trauma with the whitecloaks, favors not using her hands, but she has physical tells; notably, throwing back her shoulders, but she still involves her arms at points in falme, which i took to suggest her needing her hands when she's more tired out. she used her arms, too, when trying to channel at the arches in the tower (more complex weaves, presumably). it doesn't come naturally, she's forcing herself to learn using a harder method, and she still falls back on the easier one at times.
i'd need to revisit nynaeve's scenes, but what we see there is that the power is frequently exploding out of her through the force of her emotion. as i recall, from what we've seen she actually doesn't involve her hands so much, which would make sense for her naturally hovering near a higher power level.
and rand, of course, has perhaps the most muted body language of all — he didn't really need to move at all to channel at the eye of the world or when killing that one fade, and to kill turak and the other seanchan he just lifts his chin and flicks his shoulders back slightly.
it's a cool way of showing us a lot about the respective channelers' training and power levels through use of visual storytelling.
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