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After all this time, you still can't handle the quoting system? Legolas Send a noteboard - 27/11/2021 09:21:42 PM

View original postThe Perrin's wife arc is absolutely terrible, but I've found Nynaeve to be fine. They've done a good job keeping the core of the character the same but made her less abrasive because I don't think that's going to work as well on screen. It works fine for me.

Nynaeve's character was fine - her storyline was moronic. Whether it's the getting abducted by a Trolloc who just pulls her by her braid, or the way she then escapes from him unscathed, or her suddenly having Lan at swordpoint, or Lan tying her to a tree... In episode 4, it gets a lot better of course, but pity they needed to have so much nonsense before that.
View original postHardly. You just don't see Egwene only through Rand's PoV, on the show. So it's harder to just buy his biased views as the ground truth..Egwene does genuinely have good reason to trust Moiraine more than Rand, in the books. We just don't get her PoV in the first book, so we have to fill in the blanks, which readers without sufficient brain power take to mean she has no reasons. Same with a lot of other stuff, where the show has to change nothing at all to make her "more" sympathetic. All it takes is some critical reading skills.

They're going out of their way to show Egwene as a sympathetic friend - to Rand, to Perrin, to Nynaeve. Fair point about lacking her PoV in the first book, but then it's not so much in the first book that readers dislike her, but later on, I guess mainly from book 4 or 5 onwards.

Whatever critical reading skills one may or may not have, it's pretty clear that Egwene ends up being a very ambitious and rather self-centered person, who isn't much bothered about having to hurt or manipulate her friends as long as it serves her purpose. I do think that there are two main points to be made in her defense there, the first being her traumas from the Seanchan captivity (which, rumour has it, might be dropped from the series entirely) and the second the blatantly sexist way in which such naked ambition is tolerated in male leaders much more than in female ones. So considering all the discussion about just how 'woke' this series is, it would be interesting to see just how they depict Egwene in those later stages - perhaps I'm wrong and they would actually dare to keep her largely unchanged in those respects.

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Respectable Choice - 22/11/2021 01:39:37 AM 228 Views
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Too bad! - 22/11/2021 02:59:24 PM 177 Views
A reasonable decision. - 22/11/2021 02:15:23 AM 295 Views
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Great read, thanks so much for posting! - 26/11/2021 05:54:06 PM 207 Views
Glad to hear it. - 26/11/2021 07:10:34 AM 252 Views
Good, those changes seem completely unnecessary and pointless. *NM* - 26/11/2021 05:43:39 PM 121 Views
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Eh, I think you give them too much slack. - 22/11/2021 02:33:04 PM 209 Views
It's possible I'll agree with that after having seen more episodes... - 22/11/2021 03:04:54 PM 209 Views
That's a big "if'. - 22/11/2021 03:31:11 PM 199 Views
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My work here is done! *NM* - 22/11/2021 04:01:43 PM 119 Views
Yes, it is a big 'if'. I guess I'm an optimist? - 22/11/2021 04:17:41 PM 202 Views
Agreed on - - 22/11/2021 05:27:28 PM 210 Views
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I liked the maps too! - 22/11/2021 09:36:09 PM 198 Views
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Via X-Ray --> Bonus Content *NM* - 23/11/2021 02:29:59 PM 110 Views
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Re: I covered a lot of this in my reply to Joe above. - 22/11/2021 05:24:38 PM 189 Views
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Re: Oh has she? Must've changed her mind since the earlier interview, then... and read quickly. - 26/11/2021 10:44:58 PM 193 Views
Let’s see if I got this right… - 27/11/2021 12:58:52 AM 177 Views
That about sums it up, yeah! *NM* - 27/11/2021 03:38:18 PM 98 Views
After all this time, you still can't handle the quoting system? - 27/11/2021 09:21:42 PM 161 Views
And they screwed that up so far! GOT..... - 23/11/2021 01:19:19 AM 172 Views
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For my favorite well read pooch - 22/11/2021 05:03:55 PM 247 Views
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the opening bothered me a little as well. - 22/11/2021 07:25:20 PM 205 Views
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Fair enough - 24/11/2021 09:02:50 AM 189 Views
I interpreted it differently - 23/11/2021 06:23:56 PM 207 Views
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With regards to the pacing - 24/11/2021 07:29:36 AM 170 Views

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