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@rucket said in The Wheel of Time:

@wizz This is and is not a spoiler I guess, it's a weird thing but putting it in tags anyway. Not a book spoiler:

***Mat***

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Covid broke up filming between Episodes 6 and 7/8. Mat's actor did not return to the set when filming resumed, so Ep6 is the last episode with Mat in it, until S2. At least that's based on everything I've read.

Yeah, the departure was mentioned earlier in the thread even, but man I didn't realize it was so sudden, like mid-filming for this season. That's wild. I just wonder what they'll do with the character.

@rucket said in The Wheel of Time:

yeah, that shit was dope.

Just to be super clear I loved it. Surprised me in the best way.

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EPISODE 6: WHAT THE WHAT

@arkandel
Moiraine has already specifically said to Alanna that men's weaves are invisible to them in Ep. 4.

Kinda seemed like the king of Ghealdan reacted to Logain's weaves, I thought, which was kind of odd? But maybe he just felt them.

5 was actually my least favorite so far, just because the editting struck me as very sloppy. The tension of the Perrin and Egwene encounter with the COL kept getting gutted by the slow pacing of the Tar Valon funeral, especially when the wolves arrive; I really thought they should have kept it as one uninterrupted scene. (Also, the music was...I dunno, goofy? Overwrought? It was just Not It for me.) Nynaeve teleporting around was pretty disorienting for me, I thought they needed some establishing shot of her searching the streets or something before arriving at Rand and Mat's inn.

Loial...eh. I thought they should've maybe employed a little camera trickery to make him bigger, maybe? Ogier are supposed to be huge, right? But as a character, he is pretty spot on.

@rucket said in The Wheel of Time:

I don't think Logain saw ta'veren,

In the books, he does. He has a similar Talent to Siuan, and spotted Rand from far away really early on in the series.

Again, I don't think that's the actual explanation they will have in the show, but I thought it would be a fun nod to the fans if it was.

I also think actually making Egwene and Nynaeve ta'veren would be a cool change, because loads of crazy stuff happens around them in the books, they just don't ever manifest the overt weirdness of it like Rand and Mat. They're more like Perrin.

@arkandel said in The Wheel of Time:

for instance Logain knew how strong Nynaeve was when she channeled (in the books a man can know if a woman channels but that's it) yet he was captured in the first place by Aes Sedai who infiltrated his camp and Shielded him before he was able to defend himself.

This is super unlikely to be the actual explanation, but my headcanon went instantly to the books, where Logain in fact has a Talent to see ta'veren. The first time he sees Rand in Caemlyn? He's "shining like the sun."

Personally, I always figured Egwene and Nynaeve were also ta'veren, though I don't think this was ever explicitly stated in the series? So that part made a lot of sense to me.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

And how they will handle training in the One Power in general or audience exposition to its many, many, many, many, many intricancies.

WoT's magic system is still one of my favorites in fantasy, and I think it translates particularly well to a visual depiction. They have already done well with that imo, so as long as they don't try to dumb it down or stumble hard this actually isn't one of my concerns personally!

I am not entirely sure about how I feel so far about Wheel of Time.

The opening scenes of the pilot were a little jarring to me, but the more I sat with it the more I kinda-sorta appreciated the presentation, like, "here are some of the major aspects of the story that might be most objectionable, turn it off now if you just find this dumb/gross" re: the whole theme of women having the Power and hunting down men, and some women reveling in that.

I was also waaaay put off by the introduction of the CGI and practical effects for the Darkspawn, they seem surprisingly dated, but as the show went on they sort of grew on me -- and the weaving and channeling was just cool and a lot like how I pictured it.

I'm officially hooked as of the third episode, I really appreciate the casting choices and I find the characters as engaging as I did when I picked up the book, even with the dramatic changes they've already made, but I am still feeling really cautious. Large parts of the books simply haven't aged well, to put it mildly, and I am not entirely sure what they are going to do with the central twist --

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-- and just hope they don't waste it with a lame reveal, but am not sure what that would entail.

I am really curious to know everyone else's takes so far?

Sigs kinda make it better, at least on phones!

@wizz Its okay. For the first DAY I didn't get the line either. Then it just APPEARED and the format changed and I went 'ohhhhhhhhh, so THAT is the line...'

I have no idea what line y'all are even talking about and now I keep second-guessing myself as to whether the lines I am looking at have been there the whole time or not.

@ganymede said in Forum wonk:

Does anyone care if we start up again on something more modern?

My initial reaction to possibly losing the board history was a little distraught, but the more I thought about it today the more I concur that it really doesn't matter all that much.

The purpose of the board is a safe venting space, not some sort of weird drama archive, right?

And if an upgrade means less of a headache for y'all, all the better.

@ominous said in Oh, Humanity:

@wizz

Why did the woman do that? Was there a reason or was it the standard reason one encounters when dealing with many homeless individuals - some moon logic that only the homeless individual can make sense of?

I'm assuming she was having some sort of mental health crisis, or she was on something, or both, I dunno. I certainly never got an explanation, but I kind of prefer it that way.

Man, I don't wanna spam this thread, but I do have some odd stories after like a decade in the service industry. The last one I'll share for now is the Tale of Mistaken Identity.

Back in college, I worked at a Walgreens that had (for reasons I'm sure made sense to them) a pretty consistent population of homeless people in the parking lot. For the most part they were easy going and didn't bother anybody, so management didn't do much about them, and it was just a Thing about working there.

I had a coworker who had a really dry sense of humor that I got along with really well, and we always liked to make up ridiculous scenarios, so when he came in one day and said the police were looking for me, I thought he was joking. But nope, two officers came back and brought me outside.

Another important background detail was that my sister and I were going to the same college, which was a day's drive from our hometown, and in the winter if she was going back to visit we'd swap cars since mine was a little sturdier. Hers had lots of little pink decorations and flowers and things in it that indicated a woman owned it, I guess, and we'd swapped before that day so I had driven it to work.

Anyway, outside, the cops had custody of an old homeless woman, and at the sight of me she just flew into a screaming rage. "You filth! You philanderer! You fucking brown-eyed Huguenot!" (Being the weirdest thing I had ever been called, I looked it up afterwards, and apparently Huguenots were 16th century French Protestants. THE MORE U KNOW)

The cops asked if I knew her, which I did not. I'd never even seen her in the parking lot before. They led me over to my sister's car, where the lady had climbed up on the engine hood and, according to witnesses, used her wedding ring to carve "BITCH" into the metal in huuuuuuuge letters.

There wasn't much the cops could do other than hold the lady for a day, which I wasn't interested in. I just kind of felt bad for her, so they let her go, and I got to have a very strange phone call with my sister, who thought I was joking. (Of course.)

The funniest part of the story I guess is that my sister is like, a living and breathing saint. She's one of the sweetest people I know. But since we were both poor-ass students, she kinda just let the damage go for a while and drove around with BITCH carved into the hood of her car, to the bafflement of everyone who knew her.

The Tale of the Teleporting Creepy Gernan Lady.

So I actually worked at two consecutive K-Mart electronic departments in two different states, the first in Virginia and then in Utah.

One day in Virginia, this elderly woman came in to the department looking for something, and stayed to make me incredibly uncomfortable by flirting with me. I am sure she was just having a laugh and teasing, but I remember being really unsettled because it lasted FOREVER and she had this cataract in one eye and a strong German accent and I don't know, the combo wigged me out for some reason. One phrase she kept using over and over again was, "boy, you're a sweet Spring chicken, eh?" And then she'd wink and cluck her tongue.

Anyway, this wouldn't have even made my top twenty Weird Shit moments in my life, except that within a few months for Reasons, I moved out to Utah and started working at the K-Mart there.

The second week after I began, I shit you not, the same fucking lady came in. And she absolutely remembered me, because she began flirting and repeating the same phrase. "Boy, you're a sweet Spring chicken, eh?" Wink, klk-klk. Didn't say a thing about having met me before.

I fucking thought I was hallucinating, so I just stared at her and said nothing, and after a minute she left. Would have been appropriate for her to cackle like a witch and disappear in a cloud of smoke or something but like, she just gave me a little frown and walked away without another word.

Utah is a popular destination spot in the winter, we get a lot of international tourism, and the store was near a major highway, so this German lady on holiday stopping for supplies or whatever made sense in retrospect, but...man. I have never had an ASTRONOMICAL coincidence like that before or since.

One of my own personal favorite tales is Shameful Shitter Lady.

I was working in the electronics department of a K-Mart (which, o god, perhaps should tell you everything already, it is/was a Cursed Chain) and had a family who came in once a week like clockwork to work out their domestic issues in front of our DVD bargain bin.

I don't really know what the deal was with them, I tried to stay as far outside their orbit as possible, but I am not kidding. Mom, Dad, and Teenage Daughter would come in mid-argument and just stress out for a good thirty minutes or so, and then wander to another department.

That was mildly weird, but the moment I still think about to this day was when Mom came in alone, in such a blind panic that I thought someone was actually chasing her. She ran up to me and I braced myself for trouble, but she just breathlessly asked me where the bathrooms were. A bit flabbergasted -- she'd had to have gone past the cashiers at the front registers and the customer service desk to the far end of the store specifically to ask me -- I pointed out that it was in the opposite corner of the store.

I had never actually seen a fully grown woman run the way she did in the direction I pointed, so I just stared after her for a long moment until my manager called for assistance maybe five minutes later, and asked me to bring a mop to the customer service desk. DUN DUN DUNNN

anyway she had left a trail of little poops, all down the aisle, to the women's clothing department. Totally not where I had told her the bathrooms were, but what took the cake was the FUCKING ENORMOUS pile of shit she'd left us on the carpet. Under a pile of clothes she'd pulled off the rack to cover it up in shame, like she was a fucking cat without a litterbox or something.

Nobody could find her, so I could only assume she had dropped her load and just...left.

We literally never saw that family again.

I love these new kittens we got to death, don't get me wrong.
But the little sister both wants to be held and also doesn't like being held for long, and somehow, SOMEHOW, every single time she starts flailing to get down, she hooks one of her little claws directly into my nipple. Every. Time.

And for that split second of infinite pain I want to HURL HER INTO THE SUN. And then I set her down and she's like "mew" and I am like, oh my god you are my world please sweet creature I just want to rub your little face.

Worst part of single parenting: getting sick at the same time as your kiddo.

It's just game over, man. Everything takes so much more effort and requires so much more attention, and before you know it there goes an entire week spent mostly exhausted, frustrated, and behind in nearly everything. I hate it so much.