Amen. It’s a weird anti-institutionalism just for the sake of being anti-institutionalists.

With where the discourse is right now, I suppose this might get people replying with TLJ quotes about killing the past or whatever, but I’m not really interested in seeing people try to cram moral and political complication into IP with such a cartoonishly reductive mythology as Star Wars.

Remember when Order 66 killed all the Jedi and then they went back and then the rest of the media went back and started revealing all the Jedi that were just over *there* the whole time and thus weren’t killed.

Star Wars never advocates against the Jedi rule of attachment. Star Wars also never really advocates being emotionless (that belief that it does is a common misreading). Star Wars says that Jedi should be aware of their emotions, use their feelings and to be mindful of where their feelings are coming from— which then,…

There’s something condescending watching a show or movie where the makers evidently thought it was critical that you heard, in the most simplistic, least subtle way possible, some obvious message.

“You have to nip it in the bud immediately. Those guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after a while they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

OT, but seeing as how Frank Herbert is such a huge influence on the Warhammer universe...

It’s a shame the writers injected contemporary gender politics into a show based on a book 100% about contemporary gender politics?

As others have said, you could tell the whole core story in a significantly shorter space. The last several books were mostly focused on wrapping up storylines for characters introduced later into the series anyway.

The first two bring warmth and humor to two characters who were made out as ciphers in the books,

The book series itself could’ve jettisoned several volumes without affecting the storyline. Add in the trimming of several tertiary plotlines, dropping a couple dozens of the nigh-identical Aes Sedai characters, condensing the overall military and political action and you could comfortably get down to half as many…

I really like what I’ve heard from the show-runners for this project. They seem to get it.

Adaptation is not appropriation.

The subtext of “pillow friends” among the Aes Sedai suggests it’s more than just the misandrist ones who “experiment” during their younger years: it’s more or less stated that some extremely important positively-portrayed characters were part of this practice, too. That said, when the only LGBTQ+ representation is “wom…

Well said Rob. You demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the series, acknowledge its flaws (of which there are many), but also acknowledge its greatness despite said flaws.

Pretty sure he’s been cast. TBH he becomes a bigger part later in the series. And his role is a bit of a surprise in the first book, so I don’t blame them for not putting him in there too much.

It is and it isn’t.

Please don’t let this be dumpster fire. Please don’t let this be a dumpster fire. Please don’t let this be a dumpster fire.

Has anybody noticed Padan Fain in any of these trailers? He’s sort of a big character, and I hope he didn’t get left out of the storyline.

He added that Notorious Studios has a “flatter structure,” made up of people who wrote code, made art, and designed pieces of games rather than serving as leads or directors.