So far, it looks to me like the show is intending to separate out the central heroic figures from the Dragon. Egwene, for example, so far seems like the “Harry Potter” to Moiraine’s “Dumbledore”, in that she is emerging as the group’s leader in part because she has the moral core necessary to lead them to face off…

If you believe Amazon (and their behavior), it must be doing at least pretty well with non-book readers.

So the basic structure of the Wheel of Time book series is pretty much like that in the sense it alternates between times when the central characters are isolated/travelling, and when they are embedded in a bigger conflict with a lot more characters involved.

So that is definitely a deliberate choice for the adaption, as the scene in this episode with Moiraine expressing her own doubts and confusion about the Dragon aptly illustrates. In this version of the story, the last Dragon was so long ago that any written or oral records from that time are not reliable, and so the…

My guess is the TV show essentially changing the main, versus supporting, characters of the story to include, or maybe just be, Moiraine, Egwene, and Nynaeve isn’t temporary.

It is definitely a dodge, but I think it is helpful to remember the 1990s was a transitional period in terms of how prominent social institutions were dealing with these issues, and specifically one in which Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (“DADT”) became official U.S. military policy. And it was a hypocritical policy in just…

You seem to have written a different adaption in your head that you would prefer to see. Of course that is your right, but I think there is a virtue in not thinking there is only one way to adapt a book, and that deviations from the adaption that you would do are necessarily worse as opposed to just different.

Well, we will have to see how that is handled when it happens. Right now you are imagining a sudden, crude, and unsatisfying transition from Rand The Least Special to Rand The Dragon Reborn. But the show hasn’t made that transition yet, and maybe it will be executed in a more satisfying manner than you are imagining.

The 1/2 Hour News Hour.

So since the LOTR movies were a huge hit, I don’t really see there being a good case that only anti-fantasy like GOT can work with wider audiences. I think LOTR and GOT could both be hits despite GOT essentially being a critique of LOTR because both were actually good.  The Harry Potter movies also made a ton of…

So apparently it started reasonably strong and then had a large drop off in viewership.

If all that was objectively outstanding, then why did it feel so subjectively fake to me? Like I was always seeing them as costumes and sets and props, and not just getting lost in show.

I was fully prepared to treat it as its own thing, I just didn’t like it that much.

I could only get through the show by skipping forward through all the scenes with Vicious/Julia (unless Spike was also in the scene).  I do not feel I missed anything important.

All my favorite superhero content this year was TV shows. I’d probably take Hit Monkey over any of the movies.

Stole SEASONS as Lyanna Mormont!

Obviously he expected his movie to solve the media problem, right before it solved the climate problem.

I don’t see that as being accurate of Craig’s Bond, and I am not sure it really applies since Roger Moore’s run. And in fact that Alan Moore line is from 1986, so right before Dalton started.

No Time to Die was the third-highest grossing movie of 2021, and the top two were both China-specific movies.

That implies an independent existence to this character beyond whatever Eon Productions decides to do with the character. And that makes no sense to me in this case, because the character is fictional, and has long since moved on from the original Fleming character as well.