Wheel of Time - if you want a faithful adaptaion, then you are intolerant, appaling, disturbing, disgusting etc.
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'Egwene's cheeks turning pink'
'[Egwene's] face went as white as snow'
'to hide her [Egwene's] crimson face'
'For some reason, Elisa's [Egwene's sister] face turned bright red. Very bright red.'
'Her [Egwene's] face was still red, yet already it looked… Not until she was sure that her face was no longer red. There seemed a strong resemblance between her bottom and a blazing fireplace right at that moment. Yet looking into the mirror, she saw an unruffled face. Red-cheeked, but calm.'
'Now, except for her [Egwene's] big dark eyes, she could almost have passed as an Aiel woman, and not only for her tanned face and hands.'
'Elayne knew her cheeks were red', 'reddened her [Elayne's] cheeks', 'Elayne's face went crimson'
'if Elayne blushed like a sunset, Nynaeve blushed for two'
'Nynaeve said in a stiff voice. The red still colored her face.'
'Spots of color blooming in Nynaeve’s cheeks told him he had hit the mark squarely.'
'Nynaeve’s deep brown eyes stared through her. Her knuckles were white on a thick braid as dark as Birgitte’s was golden, and her face had gone beyond pale to a faint green.'
'Nynaeve's face went white.'
'Slowly Nynaeve’s face turned purple'
'Nynaeve’s face flashed pure scarlet'
'Nynaeve's face had gone white'
'Nynaeve's face was a white mask of determination'
'Nynaeve's face paled for a moment'
'Nynaeve's face went white'
'That insufferable smile slid greasily off Nynaeve's face, replaced by bright spots of color in her cheeks.'
'Nynaeve went pale'
'Faile red-cheeked', 'face went bright red'
'Berelain's face went white and red'
'Perrin blushed very red'
'Mat and Perrin, with their faces white'
'Mat's face paled', 'Mat's face reddened'
'Startled, he [Perrin] stared at her, then at his own bare chest. It was a mass of color, the newer, purple blotches overlaying older ones faded into shades of brown and yellow. The purple splotches faded to brown, and the brown and yellow paled, some disappearing altogether.'
'She said he [Perrin] looked like death on a winter morning' 'The gray-haired Cairhienin and the young Mayener [who is white] wore faces like death' [death was white in the paintings etc]
'Cenn's face went red as a beet'
'Siuan half-raised a hand to her throat; a tiny line of red on the fair skin marked where his blade had rested.'
'The redness spread to cover nearly Siuan’s whole face; with her fair skin, it made her look like a sunset.'
'A pinkness in her [Siuan's] cheeks gave her away, though.'
(Elayne blushed like a sunset, Nynaeve blushed for two; Nynaeve’s face as it reddened to shame two sunsets. Maybe three; Ten sunsets would not have done for Mat's face; Fiery sunsets paled beside Aviendha’s face; Reanne blushed a sunset [Reanne swayed, white-faced])
'Nynaeve saw faces as pale as that of any Andorman [main characters are from Andor] and as dark as that of any of the Sea Folk.'
'Swallowing, she [Aviendha] turned back more swiftly than she had turned away. She thought her cheeks must be greener than Nynaeve’s had been.'
'This far north in Altara, they were fair rather than olive-complected, and some even had blue eyes, but all stumbled along in a daze.'
Pedron Niall: 'A gray-eyed youth with reddish hair. He looked tall, but it was hard to say for certain. Aside from the hair and the eyes, he could have been set down in any town without exciting comment.'
Edorion who is described as pink-cheeked and plump (Mat's pov, Rand's pov), then he still pink-cheeked but not quite so plump as he had been (Rand's pov), then he became harder and sun-dark since coming north (Mat's pov), and according to Tuon Edorion is a dark, lean man.
porcelain in WOT: white, green, blue, yellow, red, golden, silver (+ glazed)
'Berelain spoke with a porcelain-faced'
"A sister has to trust her Warder's judgment sometimes," Nynaeve said coolly, drawing on her gloves. Her [Nynaeve's] face belonged on a porcelain doll for all the emotion it displayed.
Her [Lelaine - The most ashen faces belonged to the three who had dared sit in a rebel Hall for the now-dissolved Blue. / Lelaine’s face paled with fury. / Lelaine’s face paled differently.] face might have been cast in porcelain.
'She [Tuon] looked like a doll made of black porcelain' [Mat's POV] 'Tuon looked up at him through her eyelashes, a black porcelain doll' [Mat's POV]
On the other hand: The only way they could ever do a "faithful" rendition would be a twenty minute GOT-like intro that previews the stitching of every dress that will be worn in the current episode.
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Why do we need an adaptation at all? People cannot read anymore? (Many don't, I know.) Even without the rewriting, cramming 10-15 (or more) chapters into 55-60 minutes is insane. It's like cutting down Fellowship from 178 minutes to 90 minutes or less, and what will happen to the even thicker books? WOT is unfilmable, and that's it.
Agreed, but that's pretty much true of all (decent) books, and quadruplely so in the current clown world. Some books are simple enough they can make the transition. Even LOTR, which was lightning in a bottle never-going-to-happen-again-couldn't-even-get-the-Hobbit-right had a large number of inconsistencies, and we are damn lucky the xena-warrior-Arwen leaked and fan backlash killed in in production.
Had it been current year, they would have called the fan backlash misogynist and hatefull and proceeded to cast half the elves as black and make all the Dwarves gay, while replacing Frodo with Arwen as the main character.
But even what we did get is never going to happen again for any property on earth. GOT almost had it, because the books are so light fantasy as to be practically non-fantasy, and 80% dialogue 20% sex was so braindead easy to translate to the screen it worked up until they got ahead of the author, because only an idiot would start a series based on an unfinished work.
Someone with dollar signs for eyes keeps thinking they are going to replicate those two successes without understanding anything about what actually made them work. Sticking pretty damn close to the source material come hell or high water is what made them successful, until they didn't and it all came crashing down.
Agree.
(The Dirty Dozen is rare exception too, and Tarantino comes to my mind, who said that TDD would be unfilmable today because the lack of masculinity in today's actors.)
(I don't watch barely anything from the last two decades, the movie industry died around LOTR, and tv series = soap operas are just a waste of time.)