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their alternate universe version of WoT should still have internal coherence and some attention to the bigger picture, and we're not seeing much of either.
their alternate universe version of WoT should still have internal coherence and some attention to the bigger picture, and we're not seeing much of either.
And they're way too inconsistent. They underserve too much of the world-building and often name-drop stuff expecting readers to be excited over it, both of which demand greater fidelity to the source material if you expect people to lean on their book knowledge or turn to other resources. I absolutely believe any work should stand on its own, which in turn means not being bound by the rules of other works, but you have to make the rules you are using clear so we understand the stakes. I'm not convinced the writers know what the rules of their story are.
For instance with the Bayle Domon scene - I don't mind in the least that they dropped the idea of the Illian accent
They dropped a "do" in there, which is why I mentioned it. It seemed like they were trying and failing to get the dialect right. and I can't say I noticed the throwaway reference to a racehorse. But as you say, that negotiation was just stupid. If he was going to drop the price of the poem as a gesture since anyway the serious money would be for the cuendillar piece, obviously it should have been a package deal for both in which 'oh, I'll only take the poem then' wouldn't have been an option. Or at a minimum, would have been an option only if Moiraine used her Aes Sedai status to intimidate him into accepting it against his will, making it essentially robbery (and we'll assume for the sake of argument that in this alternate universe, Aes Sedai like Adeleas and 'Verin' do permit their stilled ex-colleagues to keep acting like they're still Aes Sedai...).
Which has ramifications for the Wondergirls if they try to fake it. I don't think they grasped what Moiraine was doing, all they cared about was her 'winning'. That's an ongoing problem in contemporary genre fiction, that they never think about what comes next or the implications of what they did.
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
Season 2 Episode 1
- 02/09/2023 01:38:32 AM
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Yeah, agree with pretty much all of this.
- 02/09/2023 10:53:45 AM
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Re: Yeah, agree with pretty much all of this.
- 02/09/2023 05:02:26 PM
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I came to terms with this being a completely different story, but.....
- 03/09/2023 09:30:58 PM
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