Everything posted by HeavyHalfMoonBlade
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Days
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The biggest problem is the tone, just doesn’t feel like The Wheel of Time
You see what I mean about it being difficult to debate? The men are 20 (or near enough) at the beginning of the story, not 17. They are adults, not children, not kids, except in the laziest meaning of the word. And yes the characters mature - but does the Two Rivers? You tied the Two Rivers to being the Shire and the EF5 being hobbits. How do you mature out of that? And it has nothing to do with the tone of the books, taking that they come from a rural backwater with puritanical attitudes to nudity and premarital sex is hardly the tone of the books, it is a minor detail - as you point out they mature past much of it. It is in no way an argument that the traditions in the Two Rivers are any better than that of the Borderlands or Mayene for example. They are just meant to be rural and ill-educated in the ways of the world outside the Two Rivers which I think is a normal feature of the Hero's Journey which is also included in the show. There is no moral tale there.
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The biggest problem is the tone, just doesn’t feel like The Wheel of Time
It is rather difficult to debate the tone of the books with someone that thinks the unique flavour of WoT is that it starts exactly like LoTR. The kids don't grow up - they are already adults. How does the whole Two Rivers grow up with them? Jordan steered the story away from the Two Rivers is the Shire into the real WoT story line and tone. I think things like no casual sex means more to you than it does to the story.
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This is How You Remind Me - Nickelback
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So does this mean we didn't do the water trial as well as this one as we didn't get a passive ability from it and just whacked the constructs out of existence, or is it just a different trial? Probably no answer to that one,lol. I vote talk to the dude, always pays to be polite. Hopefully.
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Water barrier maybe? Or talk to the Sentinel...
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The BotRH's Music Game Take IV
Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues
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Why does it go talking about traps again? Are they there if we don't look for them? Does a tree make noise if it falls over when there is no one to hear it? This game makes one ask the deep questions of life.
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Round Yeah it was so good. And really creepy. Some of the puzzles were hardcore. The sequel 11th Hour was pretty good too - had some pretty scary FMV bits which until that point I didn't think was possible.
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Charge
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I'll vote to try and befriend them,showing the control the Guardian dude was talking about. So we aren't just all about wetly dripping rage.
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7th
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Loot me!
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🎶 These boots were made for walking... 🎶🎵
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Spikes
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Scrambled
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Scotch
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Though we haven't really seen any options that have had negative consequences so far, I'm loath to start firing off spells in celebration.
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California Girls - The Beach Boys
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2. As in not look for what I guess is endgame once we have mastered all the elements but head back to the beginning to choose another element. Marking the vision so we can go there later. That is how I understand it anyway Ninja'd. Ok, it said next path, not endgame... I dunno.
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I think I would go for the sacred grove again.
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Lol, make love, not war, man.
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Lovely
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Pocket
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How different is too different?
Yeah I have read quotes from Jordan saying he was surprised by the backlash and that it did not work as he intended, but I'm not sure how significant it was for me. I think more for me it things like the Cleansing being such huge events in-world, yet having no actual effect on the narrarive. The men would no longer go mad, but it did not actually change anything that was happening. There was a lot backtracking in the story - too many things that should have been pay-off was actually just red herrings. Too many things were relying on dramatic irony where we knew but the characters didn't and the list of things they didn't know seemed to keep increasing rather than occasionally releasing the frustration. And Faile and the Shaido of course. But that in and of itself wasn't such an issue, it was more part of a more indefiniable malaise.