I wanted to start a thread for the Origins animated shorts.

 

Thoughts? Opinions? 

 

How do they represent the books compared to the show itself?

 

Does it make you enjoy the show more?

Origins are definitely book friendly!

Spoiler

Which adds to my theory the Aes Sedai in the show are vastly more ignorant about history then in the books!

 

2 minutes ago, SinisterDeath said:

Origins are definitely book friendly!

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Which adds to my theory the Aes Sedai in the show are vastly more ignorant about history then in the books!

 

It's clearly because I have not shown up yet.

 

I mean Cadsuane, not me.

 

Though curious you never see Cadsuane and I in the same room. Coincidences? ?

I was looking forward to these but having watched them I didn't really enjoy them. The animation is OK but they are just... boring... and I found the voiceover in the third one difficult to understand or pay attention to.

How'd you access these? Are they website only? When I go to bonus content in my X-Ray on my television, it only shows the maps, stills, and behind the scenes photos. No origins.

29 minutes ago, AdamA said:

How'd you access these? Are they website only? When I go to bonus content in my X-Ray on my television, it only shows the maps, stills, and behind the scenes photos. No origins.

PC, laptop, mobile app, maybe console. You need a "Firestick" controller/device to access the origins on TV

Okay, it shows up in my web browser when I go to the Prime website. That's disappointing that it doesn't work in the Android Prime Video app, which is how I get Prime Video on my television. I'm not gonna hook up a Firestick when I already have a native app in my main television OS.

1 hour ago, AdamA said:

Okay, it shows up in my web browser when I go to the Prime website. That's disappointing that it doesn't work in the Android Prime Video app, which is how I get Prime Video on my television. I'm not gonna hook up a Firestick when I already have a native app in my main television OS.

It works on my Android prime video app.

I click ep 3 pause, x-ray and them click "bonus" in x-ray.

 

Well, that's interesting. Is that on a mobile device? Does Android TV seriously nerf its apps relative to the regular ones? I have everything else in the X-Ray pane you're seeing, but not the Origins. Mine is also organized different, vertically separated panes instead of horizontally.

21 minutes ago, AdamA said:

Well, that's interesting. Is that on a mobile device? Does Android TV seriously nerf its apps relative to the regular ones? I have everything else in the X-Ray pane you're seeing, but not the Origins. Mine is also organized different, vertically separated panes instead of horizontally.

Oh, I apparently didn't read that you have "Android TV".
This was on my Android phone.

My understanding is that Amazon in their infinite wisdom decided to make it only work on firestick TV's.

I can't see it either through my fire cube.  Very disappointing.

they were crap.

they were not dubbed in other languages nor were there even subtitles, and the voiceover was so low compared to the background music, a lot of it was unintelligible. finally, the titles were not displayed on my brother's television, and they were in random order.

 

they could have been a good idea, but horribly implemented.

 

but perhaps someone will upload them on youtube in better quality, it could be an improvement

Edited November 20, 20213 yr by king of nowhere

4 hours ago, AdamA said:

Okay, it shows up in my web browser when I go to the Prime website. That's disappointing that it doesn't work in the Android Prime Video app, which is how I get Prime Video on my television. I'm not gonna hook up a Firestick when I already have a native app in my main television OS.

 

It also could be the age of the tv running the native app.

 

The tv in my home gym for example. Wont show them. The one in my bedroom will but they are unnamed. The one in my living room (the big 4k monstrosity) Has them listed correctly, in order, no issues.

 

Those rooms are listed also in AGE of the tv lol. Oldest being the gym one. All are samsung too - so it isnt brand difference.

Loved these stories so far, very on tone for the books in my opinion.  Wish something like this had happened when Moiraine explained the story of Manetheren.  Pike's delivery was wonderful but cutting back and forth between people on horseback for literal minutes is just not exciting and an animated backstory in this vein could've worked well for me, personally.

I enjoyed them, but the audio quality was very poor. 

The Manetheren one was great, but I didn't like the other two. The Breaking was a huge disappointment. No mention of the creation of Dragonmount, the rending of the landscape, and apparently Lews just killed everyone with a sword.

Edited November 20, 20213 yr by TheMountain

On 11/19/2021 at 2:29 PM, DaddyFinn said:

PC, laptop, mobile app, maybe console. You need a "Firestick" controller/device to access the origins on TV

 

It doesnt work on console unfortunately (or at least none of mine ?)

I was thoroughly unimpressed and I really hope they are not replacements for scenes in the series. If there is no Mat quarterstaff fight with the two, I will be devastated.

Edited November 21, 20213 yr by flinn

So I've watched the first one and have only one question. Why not insert this instead of Morein's nonsense about imbalance, arrogation etc in the beginning of the show. The show instantly would become a little better without any additional expense.

So far 4 of the 5 Origin videos have now been posted.    I like all of them - but of the 4 so far, the one that I felt was the "weakest" in that it captivated me the least / added the least to my knowledge as the 3rd one - The Greatest Warder.   Not that I thought it was bad - just the weakest of them all.

 

Felt Saidin, Saidar, Stone tied in with The Dragon Reborn episode was perfect.

On 11/22/2021 at 8:14 AM, Александр Чудинов said:

So I've watched the first one and have only one question. Why not insert this instead of Morein's nonsense about imbalance, arrogation etc in the beginning of the show. The show instantly would become a little better without any additional expense.

 

Probably so they could drive more people into the interactive features. I do think it would have been neat to have them show up in series but that may have felt kinda weird. I dunno. I might try it on a re-watch. Basically when they are gonna say something maybe manually switch to origins. and cut back. See how it works.

Just in case anyone was not aware - they have made a change and all the animated shorts (WOT Origins) as well as the behind the scenes shorts are now available as episodes (0).    The most recent short is my favorite yet (Ogier based). 

I really love the origin stories.

The style of the animation seems perfect for the WoT.

They are much better than the actual series.

PLEASE PLEASE make the WoT in this style and do the story as is!

I wonder how much they cost to make???

I am guessing that Rafe Judkins had very little input to these origin stories.

 

Edited December 10, 20213 yr by Maximillion

I just discovered the origins, I like them.  Seems mostly to give a quick education, but I have enjoyed them so far.

 

Anyone know how many will be made?  Would be nice if they made one about the Forsaken and what led to the Aiel invading.

Edited December 16, 20213 yr by Sabio

10 minutes ago, Sabio said:

I just discovered the origins, I like them.  Seems mostly to give a quick education, but I have enjoyed them so far.

 

Anyone know how many will be made?  Would be nice if they made one about the Forsaken and what led to the Aiel invading.

So far there has been 1 for each episode.  So presumably 8 for season 1.