Jump to content

David Selig

Members
  • Posts

    11,192
  • Joined

  • Last visited

6 Followers

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

David Selig's Achievements

Council Member

Council Member (8/8)

  1. This is putting it very mildly, the sexism in these books is really blatant. And I haven't even read the third which is apparently the worst in this aspect. There is a significant subplot in the second book where One of the main characters in Book 1 was married but we never even learned the name of his wife even though he spent significant time at home while she was there. As for the scientific plausibility of this book, it's always been funny to me when people claimed it's hard science fiction when the whole plot is based on blatantly violating the laws of nature. But that didn't bother me much. What bothered me was the really absurd premise of the plot of the first book where many scientists started committed suicide due to thier physics experiments showing weird and inconsitent results which disproved many of the established theories in the field of physics.
  2. Because most of the time he wasn't and he was shown to be pretty generous with money on quite a few occassions throughout the series. But the show pretty often ignored established characterisation for the sake of making a joke so there was a handful of scenes where he was cheap to get a laugh from the audience.
  3. I had mostly given up on the show but gave Season 4 a chance, partly because I was curious to see how much of my country's capital would be recognisible there (I had heard that the scenes which are supposed to be in Moscow were shot in Sofia). And it's very obvious, in Margo's first scenes this season they showed some of the most recognizable location of Sofia which was pretty funny to me. They also used the infamous Ikarus 260 bus when she tried to get to the Star City, which was a staple of public transport in Bulgaria (and the rest of the Soviet bloc) for decades and you could still see some on the roads of Bulgarian cities until several years ago. I guess even with cheap energy the Soviets were still unwilling to modernise public transport too much. Margo walking around at a Sofia location known as the Largo in Episode 1 was also funny to me. I don't know if this was an intentional joke by the showrunners. Anyway, I agree that the show is a bit better than in the previous seasons, but not that great overall. Miles' plotline is especially irritating to me, there is no way in hell this reckless dumbass would have been so successful at such a business. And the fact that the 72 year old Ed was still one of the top pilots at the start of the season and was given the most important jobs was just destroying my suspension of disbelief, good thing this seems to be over for now.
  4. I found Tactician mode easier than I expected on my second playthrough when I knew what I was doing and which spells and skills are the best. IMO healing is pretty weak in this game, it's almost always better to focus on dealing maximum damage and crowd control the enemy than on healing. Once I started focusing on the most powerful disabling spells (like "Hold Person") and on dealing damage instead of trying to heal my team the combat became much easier. Parties without any healers in them are completely viable unlike many other RPGs.
  5. Spirit Guardians works great on Tactician too in that battle.
  6. Hold Person and Hold Monster are extremely strong. With a properly built caster and decent equipment they have almost 100% chance of paralyzing almost any enemy and most enemies can't get out of this condition until the end of the battle. And paralyzed enemeies take autocrits from melee attacks and attacks against them can't miss, so they die very quickly. Spirit Guardians is incredible against mobs, especially undead, and strong against almost everyone else. Counterspell is a must have, completely turns around so many fights, especially in Act 3.
  7. Pretty low, the showrunner stated when asked about this that he's "more interested in polyamory than polygamy". Though this was a long time ago, when season 1 was still in the planning stage, so maybe the plans have changed. Anyway, after rewatching the Avenger Assemble portion of the last episode where the EF5+Elayne gathered together, I realized there is not a single time in the books where this happen - the 6 of them being together "onscreen". Perrin and Elayne don't appear in a scene together until Book 13. Hopefully things will be different in the show and we'll see all of them together more often.
  8. Sanderson didn't write a single word of the books the show is currently adapted. He is not a screenwriter either. So his opinion doesn't carry any more weight than that of any other fan of the series to me. And it's not like he's some sort of expert on the lore, his WoT books are full of continuity errors despite him having two assistants whose main job was to prevent this, as well as Harriet for his editor. Someone on Reddit said yesterday that after Harriet Sanderson knows best what Jordan would have wanted in a TV adaptation which was a downright absurd claim to me. Sanderson never met or talked to Jordan.
  9. An obvious historical analogy is World War II, where Britain and USA allied with Stalin's USSR (only several years after the Great Purge in which Stalin had about 700,000 person executed and less than a decade after the Holodomor) to stop Hitler. Churchill in particular was a staunch opponent of the Bolshevik regime since its creation but he had to be practical.
  10. As bad as they are, the Seanchan are better than the Shadow and Rand and company were fighting for the fate of the world, so couldn't afford to refuse any possible allies.
  11. Some fans online wanted Sanderson to be a screenwriter in the show but I've always thought this was absurd. He would be a horrendous screenwriter, his dialogue is without exaggeration the worst I've read in a professionally published author. And he'd be especially bad for a show with only 8 episodes per season because he has used tow rite only doorstoppers full of bloat. It's hard to take your posts seriously when you say stuff like this one.
  12. I have a pretty low opinion of Judkins' abilities as a writer, but this is a really flawed comparison. Sanderson was specifically hired to write his WoT volumes as close to Jordan's vision and volumes as possible because he wasn't adapting the work in another medium, he was continuing it. Judkins is making an adaptation and his main objective is to make a successful TV show based on The Wheel of Time book series, not to stick as close as possible to the books. And I doubt Judkins is trying to depict Lan as the same character as he is in the books and falling badly, he (or his Amazon bosses) probably thought Book Lan is a a pretty boring character who needed major changes to be interesting to the tv audience.
  13. I very much agree. We get a million repetitive tedious fighting scenes which didn't matter in the grand picture yet we didn't get a Siuan and Moiraine reunion. Or a meeting between Egwene and Cadsuane. Or a Lini and Elayne reunion (so much comedy potential wasted). Or even a reunion between the ta'veren trio. Egwene and Gawyn got married offscreen and no other character reacted to it, not even Elayne. IIRC Elayne and Egwene didn't even talk to each other once after Merrilor and all we got from the potential of interesting friction between them after Elayne was made the Supreme commander of the forces of the Light was a decision by Silviana and Egwene to start calling "Elayne Sedai" instead by her "civil title". And there some really embarassing continuity errors by Sanderson and Team Jordan, like Mat and Min acting like old buddies even though they have never interacted before in the series.
  14. The Companion's entries for them state they were born shortly before the Last Battle, so they can't be Elayne's twins. Even so, Elayne has nothing to worry about the succession in Andor, her kids will be a boy and a girl, as per Min's viewing, just what Elayne wants and is most useful in the Andoran system. Aviendha got drunk enough to forget that part of Min's viewing about Elayne's children, but not the rest.
  15. The only time they are mentioned in the series is when Mat recalls the Falme events during his meeting with Birgiite in Ebou Dar. And their description is very spare, only that Shivan wears a black mask and her sister wears a red one.
×
×
  • Create New...