I think most of the time when a novelist moves into writing for comics, they don’t respect the fact that it’s a new and different skill they have to learn. I don’t know if I’d say writing for comics is harder than writing prose, but it is certainly also hard, and in different ways. The language of panel flow and page…

It’s worth mentioning that the conversation in the Hall makes it clear that the show has changed the Blue’s remit to being the spymasters. It’s a good change, because when the show debuted I tested myself on whether I could still remember all 7 Ajahs. The only one that stumped me was Blue, because all I could think…

...and then she became The Phoenix.

And 650 years is the time it took for Bubonic Plague to go from “has a very good chance to kill you unless treated” to “oh, wait, it’s still that virulent.”

I don’t feel like you understood my post at all.

Skipping over all the many, very good, reasons not to want to watch this at all which have been iterated in the other comments, but also: isn’t what the subjects of the docuseries have been up to since last season LITERALLY WHAT THE SECOND SEASON IS ABOUT?

It was 90% likely to be staged until

Reminds me they announced a sequel to Free Guy, a movie where the villain is pursuing a cheap cash-grab sequel to an existing IP over genuine creativity.

Boats.

Gun-kicking God in the tits.

From insta: “Ruby Rose they/she”

Hulu, like other streamers, does not release traditional ratings data. That means FX had little to no data on which to evaluate the series, including how it performed in its entirety over a certain timeframe, etc.

The category is Comedy Album, not Comedy Song Album. The award goes almost exclusively to stand-up comedy sets.

I think it’s less a co-opting and more ending up in the same place two ways. As meaning “rapidly reversing position” is just a figurative usage of literally turning on your heel. In the wrestling sense, you start with “face” from babyface, and “heel” as a bad guy, then narratively you have a face-heel turn and a…

Heel turn, as a description of motion or metaphorically, say “he turned heel and ran away” is quite old, sure. But “heel,” as a contemptable person, only goes back to 1914, and the oldest cited usage of heel-turn I could find was 2000. My suspicion is that it goes back to at least the mid-80s in wrestling context, but…

“Face” and “Heel” have been used in wrestling slang for at least half a century, and the specific phrase “heel turn” in this usage has been around for at least 20 years. Probably considerably longer, but slang etymology tends not to be all that rigorously documented.

In the early days, I used to joke that I’d finish high school before the series was done. Then that I’d probably be done with college. By the time book 10 came out and half the book takes place on the same day as the ending scene from book 9, it was clear he’d never actually finish. If he’d lived another 10 years, the…

Yeah, Two Rivers folk are dark of hair and eye. As I mentioned elsewhere, skin tone doesn’t get much specific callout. Rand’s taller than average, with red hair and grey eyes, all traits of the Aiel. And at one point a character specifically pulls back his sleeve to comment on his skin color, suggesting that Rand’s…

The books actually talk remarkably little about skin tone, but what little does get mentioned describes the Two Rivers folks as having darker complexion. They’re probably not intended to be black (the Sea Folk are much darker) but probably Mediterranean-looking. Rand is specifically called out a few times for not…

I heard moy-RAIN from both of them, but playing it back a few times now, it might be mwa. The emphasis on the second syllable is wrong, but end of the day it REALLY doesn’t matter. Despite having glossaries at the end of every book, plenty of readers still have their own preferred way of pronouncing everything. And…