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Gertrude

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  1. I had a neighborhood friend whose father was Iranian. My friend's name was Beijan. They moved away in the late 70s and my mom told me later that Beijan now went by David, his middle name. So did his brother and sister. When they moved, they decided it would be easier to just change names to avoid negative sentiments. As a kid, I thought that was one of the saddest things I'd ever heard. Still do.
  2. Honestly, I kinda tuned out most of what was going on in TAR by the end. To me it seemed like there was too much possible and that when anything is possible, none of it actually matters. I didn't think Egwene just making mesaana an idiot was satisfying. I couldn't even tell you exactly what went down with Perrin and Leanfear and the above summary vaguely sounds familiar. Tar was good in the middle, then it got ridiculous IMO. I'd be fine with Lanfear actually dying, but she probably won't.
  3. I know Lanfear didn't die. However, the visual storytelling between the two is very different. Lanfear takes a (usually) mortal wound, then fuckery and the True Power coalesces into her to heal her. With Ishy, he's dust without even an attempt to save him. If it was that Moiraine didn't do enough damage, but Rand did, I might have expected to see a failed attempt to hold Ishy together. Those two deaths were just so different, it seems to me that they have different rules.
  4. Well, yeah. Sanderson also said he fought to get the Horn in, and Sarah said it was always part of the plan. I know Sanderson has a shit ton more insight into the world that we do, but he's just a guy who's a peripheral part of the process. and has his own views.
  5. The reason I singled out that Lanfear was specifically mentioned is that Ishy's death didn't follow the same pattern. If Ishy also has immortal life in the same vein as Lanfear, then I'd expect his body to regenerate, not disintegrate. That's the specific gift I was talking about. The fact that any of them can be brought back by the Dark One is immortal life is some ways, but separate in my mind from how they are presenting Lanfear. Vain Lanfear would want to have an immortal life in this fabulous body, but if Ishy was offered that, do we really think he would accept? :p
  6. Didn't Ishy tell Fain that the Dark One had given Lanfear the gift of immortal life? That indicated to me that she might be special in that way (which honestly, I kinda don't like, but considering her fate with the doors and Sandersons' reveal about her, it kinda fits. maybe). @fionwe1987 Yeah, I get that just mixing and matching can go too far, but how do thy bring Ishy back now without it feeling like a cop out? I think transmigration just doesn't make sense for the show - why off him if you're just going to bring him back but with a less charismatic actor (because Fares Fares was KILLING it). If you have that particular card, why not just use it over and over - and really, didn't Jordan already kind of over use it? It was one of my least favorite concepts presented in the books. Like I said, I am just coming to accept that Ishy is gone from the show. If he isn't, then I am at a loss for how they depicted his demise. Dust seems final - no body. If it's an illusion, it's a god-damned good one as Rand would have felt the resistance when he stabbed him. His final words felt genuine. I think it would just feel cheap to bring him back at this point. I could come around if it's written well, but I'm not expecting it.
  7. OK - so leadership is the main one and then the connection to the True Power. I do think those can be written in some other ways if they decide to. I'm just trying to figure out if it's Ishy that needs to do these things, or if these are just things that need to be done.
  8. Someone please remind me - what is Morindin's importance to the plot? Is it important to keep him for the show? Morindin is where we get the philosophy Ishy was serving us, right? My knowledg eof the back half of the books is much more foggy than the beginning, but what exactly does he do that another Forsaken couldn't? (and let's forget about the very end of the series for a second.) I hate losing Fares Fares, but we need the Forsaken to die, right? And I think the transmigration thing is probably not a thing they want to do on tv, right? I'm coming around to accepting that we will only ever get 2 seasons of Fares Fares portraying a glorious Ishy, and I'm sad about that. But also, I think it's kind of a good sign.
  9. Sanderson also seemed convinced that Moiraine was stilled at the end of S1 too. That is something I never considered because it would be too much of a deviation IMO.
  10. Rafe said the reason they cut it was because they hadn't built up enough of a relationship and it didn't have the emotional impact it should. So yeah, that's about right.
  11. If you're talking about Sanderson's comment, he clarified that he hadn't yet read the S3 scripts and doesn't actually know. If that actually does become a thing, I will join you in mocking it.
  12. I can understand that people seeing the changes made would think even bigger changes could be made, but to speculate that Rand turns Dark and Egwene is the replacement Dragon - well, that does not seem as reasonable to me as it does to you. At that point, the story is not just taking a different path, but fundamentally changed. Then I saw this reply: And that just seems like a petty comment because you're mad. I don't even know how to respond to something like this, and it's not fun, so I won't.
  13. I often see people making predictions that vary from the books so wildly that I think they can't be in good faith (not this comment specifically, just in general). So real question here - do you actually think he would just do his own thing and not try to honor the book material? I get that there have been big changes, but they are not as big as people sometimes make them out to be and it tracks with the books pretty well, just not in the exact details IMO.
  14. It is not a competition. What you're saying - obviously the Palestinians are worse - Is basically calling them animals. Language reasonable people have been condemning. People are people and we are all equally capable of being absolute pieces of shit.
  15. Same, but I don't think that was actually in the books. It's also not what Sanderson was arguing :p He did mention that Rand is a fast learner, so perhaps that where Lews comes in, but Lan is one of the BEST fighters in the world, so the training is adequate. Yeah, no.
  16. Here is a response by Sanderson on a reddit thread:
  17. It did with the way they wrote his arc. I think we could have gotten there a different way if they cut the blowing of the Horn here. All he needed to do was step up and be a hero and have others acknowledge it. My fear is that a part of Mat that I greatly enjoyed will not be present going forward. I would love it if his memories fade with the Heroes and just a few scattered fragments remain until he meets the Finn. I'm no Bloody Hero. I would hate to lose that just because Mat gets his moment here, like this.
  18. The problem is that I think he IS a true fan and can't separate theo show and the book - which have to be very different animals for many reasons. He mentioned that he was disappointed to not get the sky battle, which was one of his favorite moments from the books. He also argued that Rand beating a blademaster (Turok) in the books was totally earned because Lan trained him for a few months. That's when I realized we don't view the books in the same light at all. Another thing he mentioned that I've been mulling over is that in the first drafts the show didn't have the Heroes of the Horn appearing. He said he fought hard for it. One of his main critiques was that the finale wasn't built up enough to have earned a lot of the moments, and yet he pushed to include a storyline beat that they hadn't built up through the rest of the season. I wonder how early those drafts were (like pre-covid and Barney leaving?) or what exactly he expected? To re-write a good chunk of the season to build up the horn? I had some serious doubts that they would include the Horn initially because it is - let's face it - a rather cheesy fantasy moment. Like the Battle in the Sky over Falme. I think you can see where my tastes lie in a fantasy book. :p When I say don't include the Horn, I mean here. I think you could have introduced Birgitte and the concept of the Heroes in TAR and then have the horn blown at the end.
  19. I didn't have a problem with Sanderson having the critiques he had, but he was overly aggressive and didn't let the others actually react. He was talking aobut how he disliked something as it was happening. Not cool. He can have whatever opinion he wants, that's fine. I don't disagree with all of them even, but what happened here was not fun to watch. I also started wondering about his comment about Mat's make-shift ashandari being the one he uses for the whole show. He was bitching about that quite a bit and I was like - oh. S3 is filming and he consults on the scripts so should I be worried? No. He confirmed that he doesn't know, so I thought him dooming over that was uncalled for as well. It does raise the question of how much consulting he's doing?
  20. Oh - I agree about Mat. I was talking more about Rand and Egwene holding their nose. Mat has a personal relationship that he values more than his morals. Sorry, can't love a person who is gleefully a slaver if you actually believe that slavery is immoral in your core. He made his choice. I feel like perhaps we're supposed to maybe think that Mat was trapped into the marriage and now that Tuon is pregnant Mat is dispensable and has to sit straight around her to keep his head? However, that is not at all what we get from him regarding her, so no. I assume you're talking about Aviendha's visions with the fighting back? Mainly I just mean fighting them ideologically rather than physically. A long term project to be sure, but I'm mainly thinking they can find a way to work with them while the world is at stake, and then worry about fixing the mess from where they now stand (because they are still standing). Avi's the only one who knows that vision though, right? And she thinks she may have altered that vision?
  21. Honestly, when facing the end of the world, I don't think moral high ground matters. I am not bothered that they allied with the Seanchan. I don't like it, but I get it - the enemy of my enemy blah blah. There is time to fight back once the Dark One and his forces are dealt with.
  22. Tuon is a sul'dam and she is able to easily shake it off and justify why it didn't matter. Like I said, I think it's very likely this would have been one of the outrigger novels and there could be some sort of resolution there. Since we will never get them, the way the books just brushed it off didn't sit well with me. And why the hell did RJ call them outriggers? This is the only time I ever heard this term used this way. Just word RJ liked?
  23. My issue with that whole situation is not that they formed an alliance. It's two things, really. One, just disappointment that the ticking time bomb secret of the sul'dam didn't amount to anything. The other is that Mat - a character I love - is totally fine being the toy of Tuon, the Queen of an evil empire. Sure, he says he doesn't approve, but he still loves his little Empress and that killed the last bit of joy I had in him. (Sanderson's writing of Mat being another nail in the coffin - no blame to Sanderson, it just is what it is.) The only way I can salvage Mat in my mind is by reminding myself that there was likely an outrigger novel planned that would deal with this question (hopefully).
  24. I was never reading the books for the brilliant writing. Jordan was a decent writer, but nothing special IMO. Sanderson is fine. I don't prefer the simplistic style, I think Sanderson refers to it as 'window pane' or something. He doesn't like the writing to get in the way of the story. Simplistic is not the same as bad, it's just not my preference. I started reading WoT at a time when Jordan's style was pretty standard and it didn't bother me, which is about all I can say about it. It was always about the story - which is why I stuck it out through the slog and beyond. And Lan IS an incredibly boring character. I know a lot of people are very attached to him and he resonates with them. That's cool, but he was always just a sidekick and afterthought in my mind. The only interesting thing about him was his ride through the Borderlands, and that was mainly because Nyneave set him up. Lan did need to be fleshed out and made into a character we could get to know and care about. We mostly see him through the eyes of people he's not close to, so of course he's not going to open up in teh books. We almost never see him and Moiraine or him and Nyneave alone together. Lan was the ultimate blank slate with a few adornments draped over him like like 'stoic' and 'bad ass'. That worked for a lot of people, but I was not a fan.
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