• i knew it was going to be not great after they gave Perrin a wife just to kill her off and make her a My Wife’s Dead guy

      he had a wife in the books! she didn’t die! she was like a fuckin, borderland warrior princess!

      • XiaCobolt [she/her]
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        628 days ago

        That’s what put me off ever watching. Perrin’s whole deal was being careful and methodical, given his enormous size and strength. To accidentally hurt someone he loved in the heat of the moment is antithetical to his character.

        • WizardOfLoneliness [they/them, comrade/them]
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          Yeah you get it, this is why i said only nerds should be allowed to adapt the stuff they like

          Also imo it’s extra fucked to get rid of Faile, who was cool, to invent a wife just to fridge her for perrin for no reason

          • barrbaric [he/him]
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            228 days ago

            Faile does come into the story later, and given they cut out Tear to go to the wastes, maybe she would have shown up in a hypothetical S4.

            • plinky [he/him]
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              228 days ago

              she did show up in season 3 tho, fine performance too

              spoiler

              immediately hated her

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            28 days ago

            Now that I think about it, I wonder why I empathised so much with the big strong bearded guy worried about hurting others, who was hopelessly devoted to a confident and beautiful wife who was playfully mean to him.

            trans-hatch

      • Foundation really fucking pissed me off because I really liked the book series, psychohistory is literally Dialectical Materialism as predictive math, the whole fucking thing, at least up until the Mule and all the psychic bullshit, is rooted in materialism pushing societal changes

        and then the show comes out and it turns out the showrunner just wanted to do their own fucking thing! like, they wanted to do their own original fucking IP, but woops, got saddled with Asimov’s work, and just decided to do it wearing that thing’s skin

        fuck them fucking christ, fuck

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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    1128 days ago

    Chalk one more up in the “you spent all that money on the IP, so why did you not bother actually adapting it?” column of failed adaptations. At least we got one fantastic episode of Rhuidean out of it in between all the CW-tier romantasy between a C-tier Aes Sedai and her literal-NPC-face-meme-guy warder as they inexplicably get more screentime than the main characters.

  • XiaCobolt [she/her]
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    1128 days ago

    Sometimes I am amazed that there was a WoT adaption and I never bothered to even hate watch, given how fundamental to my teen identity those books were.

    • XiaCobolt [she/her]
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      1028 days ago

      I wanted the dragon reborn tattoos when I got older because I was also cool and tormented!

      Honestly those would still fuck hard…