Well they've successfully boxed out the little guy so your options are less than limited. Tell your sons and daughters that your family is going to grow their own food and are forbidden from watching netflix with their friends, that have anything they want dropped off on their door step while your children work like peasants. They will turn against you faster than you can say "nickelodeon is run by pedophiles". You'll be the conservative lunatic they laugh about with their friends while they're dying their hair pink and wearing a bone in their nose. Everyone said don't comply with masks, even when they would throw you out of the store for not wearing one, but then you have to order from home from Amazon or instacart which is run by the same swamp creatures..... just tell your kids to starve I guess.
TL;DR: Amazon is a monopoly as people do not want to risk dealing with mail order fraud and credit card theft when finding alternatives/trying to order direct.
As for the other things regarding media you mentioned, the reason people refuse to resort to piracy as an alternative is because malware.
That wife doesn't even exist in the books. They specifically created her just to kill her off in the very first episode. My, what feminists these writers are!
Anyone else notice that the more woke these companies get the more they screw up? I stopped using Amazon because I pictured a bunch of dudes learning pronouns instead of shipping my damn package on time. It happened like three times. They are to big to give a shit though.
I never used Amazon at all until this year because I started my own company and I sort of have to use it or I can't break even. I also hate quickbooks 🙄 imagine every company in the world paying the "quickbooks" tax just to operate. Just so we can pay more taxes at the end of the year. I'm glad my money is being put to use feeding fat incompetent joggers on welfare while I keep delaying having a family of my own until I can afford it.
r/WoT? Yeah I got banned for complaining about it, and I didn't check, but my comments were probably deleted. One surmises the only people left are the cucks that like this crap.
The obvious hints from the episodes thus far are that the Dragon Reborn is Nynaeve. That could be misdirection, for people who don't already know the story, but would you really put it past them? They already just heavily implied that Nynaeve is stronger in the One Power than Logain, which is contrary to the books.
That flat out contradicts even just the base design of the One Power.
Men are singularly more powerful than women by something like half a dozen addition ranks. Even the strongest potential woman will never be as strong as some men who while strong aren't considered anywhere near equal to the strongest at times because it appears to turn into an exponential measuring system half the time.
The Dragon and 2 others are at the top spot in terms of power. Logain is in the 2nd spot. The strongest woman by relatively comparison is down at rank 6. Everyone between Logain and the strongest woman, bar one, is one of the Chosen who were the most powerful channelers during the Age of Legends along with Lews Therin. One of the top spots doesn't even really belong there because it's never shown he has that kind of power.
The trade off with the differences in raw strength is that men cannot form circles with other men and function as a unit but women can with other women. Men can join circles women have formed and lead them but again this requires the women to create the circle first then have the man/men later join. A circle can be as small as 2. The largest potential circle is 72 I think and is of equal men and women as there cannot be more men than women in a circle.
Nynaeve isn't even the strongest women outside of the Chosen, 3 others are more powerful than her!
Did the books narrate the fight against Logain? I can't remember. The whole thing seemed kind of BS. I kind of get the whole "fighting with contrails" thing as a television visual, but Nynaeve going super sayan and healing everybody at once doesn't mirror anything I remember from the books.
The first time Logain is met he's already in chains being taken through Caemlyn to the White Tower to be stilled. He's Shielded by however many Aes Sedai and nobody actually gets a close look at him because of the crowd watching the False Dragon being that large. Rand tries to get a better look by climbing up a wall and ends up scaling the castle grounds and falling into them where he meets Elayne, Gawyn, and Galad.
Nobody interacts with Logain until the White Tower has already had the Schism and he goes with some of them to Salidar. He's not in the books enough at the point the show is to warrant a proper casting by many standards!
Nynaeve isn't anywhere near trained enough to even heal properly so that scene is entirely fluff to make the character look good. Which she needs really because she's one of the most insufferable cunts in the whole thing.
Ok it wasn't witnessed by any characters or took place before the story starts.
Wiki says
As a False Dragon, he was captured in a great battle near Lugard, trying to move his army from Ghealdan to Tear. Aes Sedai died in the battle defeating him.[1]
I guess that's what they dramatized in a bogus way. Well no he starts out in chains but escapes. They just made it up I guess
I started going to a local library thrift shop that sells old donated books and recirculates them back into the public. I bought like 7 James A. Michener books, bunch of old craft and sewing and gardening books, and now I'm reading "the mammoth book of endurance and adventure" all diary entries from famous explorers
I'm reading Shackleton's account of his South pole expedition at the moment and it's great. Why the fuck would I pay for a sensationalized magazine of steaming crap at the checkout line when I could buy a used classic for less ($2) at the local thrift store? I'm glad to bring a book everywhere I go to have something to look at besides a cell phone like every other limp dick in a waiting room. Also magazines on a coffee table in a doctors office are fucking disgusting and get sneezed on all day. I won't touch them.
It kills me because the one thing I thought would be difficult, showing weaving, they did a good job with. There was no reason to go all woke as the world Jordan made was incredibly diverse. I hate how the Woke Left ruin everything!!!
I’m honestly shocked that screenrant would write that. But it’s true. Otherwise don’t adapt it at all if they are Gonna crap all over the source material
Me too.
They use the title as a lure, but they totally rewrite it.
But it looks like the ratings are abysmal, and while Amazon tried to praise the ratings, they were so vaguely about them that it must be a catastrophe.
This shift in age and violence is a naked attempt to appeal to Game of Thrones viewers, but for those who love the books, it goes rather too far.
Unexpectedly based.
The positive buzz simply isn't there, which threatens to prevent Wheel of Time ever reaching its wider potential audience
And it would be doing everyone a favor keeping them away from this dumpsterfire.
Meanwhile, the changes in Wheel of Time seem to be building. Wheel of Time episode 3 sets up radical changes to Egwene and the prophecy of the Dragon Reborn, which - if followed through - means the TV series will diverge completely from Jordan's own story.
WRITE YOUR OWN FUCKING STORY IF YOU CHANGE THINGS THIS MUCH!
With that, the already irritated fandom is likely to get even more frustrated, damaging the show's reputation even further.
And deservedly so at this point. Fuck the cunts that have been shitting all over this in attempts to grab the next GoT while also fielding their own agendas.
Season 2 may be guaranteed, but the longer future of Amazon's Wheel of Time seems in doubt right now.
I really enjoyed the books (read them earlier this year) but when I heard a show was being done I didn’t have much hope considering the times we live in.
I don't understand them: WoT, Foundation, Brave New World etc, everything is fleshed out in the books, you don't have to do anything special just very carefully cut a few bits. Or teach the people to read.
Sadly after watching the first episode, my son and I had to conclude we couldn't support this abomination by watching it. I've read the entire series three times, and my son twice. This could have been so good and Amazon had to crap all over it. I hope it fails hugely.
Yes. The ancient symbol of the Aes Sedai is a circle split in two ala Yin-Yang. The upwards pointing white half of the Flame of Tar-Valon and symbolises female channelers and Saidar. The downwards pointing black half is "The Dragon's tooth" and while it is meant to represent men and Saidin in the books it's used to brand someone as evil in the same vein hanging a dress on someone's locker would be done in high school back in the 90s of there were rumours they were gay.
The One Power is both Saidin and Saidar. They are both each others equal and opposite. When used together they are nigh unstoppable yet while divided they are diminished and incomplete. Two of the most important acts in the entire series happen because both work together to accomplish something that alone neither would have even the slightest hope of coming close to achieving.
And yet it seems the chucklefucks in charge are angling for there to be no divide which makes the entire point of there being a difference irrelevant. It also throws away the concept why male channelers are dangerous because Saidin is Tainted by the literal devil. If there is only The One Power and no distinct components then there's no reason why it only drives men insane.
That’s what I loved about the books. With all the “strong woman” narratives out there today this series could have have been a breath of fresh air by having men and women working together and complementing each other with their powers.
without the men to keep them in check, the women become monsters
Pretty much. Even going back to the Age of Legends when Lews Therin wanted to attack Shayol Gul with both men and women the women refused and it fucked up the plan. The plan which later gets shown to have been the correct one all along.
One of the Reds tries leading the White Tower after staging a coup against a previously elected Blue and proceeds to fuck up so badly she almost ends the world. That isn't hyperbole. She tries to capture Rand later under false diplomatic pretenses that results in the deaths and stilling of several Aes Sedai when he gets rescued. She repeatedly refers to her visions as some kind of sacrosanct plan despite the fact she's not even that good at Foretelling in the first place. She resorts to abuse and blackmail when trying to flex her power because she has nothing else going for her. And in the end she gets kidnapped while asleep because she didn't even realise she'd been attacked in the first place.
The whole Vileness is a separate issue. Reds repeatedly stilling men and then leaving out in the open at the "mercy" of their neighbors and the elements. This is why Tom hates Aes Sedai, they did this to his nephew. Turns out the whole thing was orchestrated by the evil Black Ajah because they were trying to kill the Dragon reborn because they knew he would be reborn, so the militant misandrist group of the Aes Sedai get easily tricked into doing the work of literal Satan [Shia'tan] worshippers because the things they were "tricked" into doing were that closely aligned with their basic policies in the first place.
Every female ruler fucks up because they think they know best and it gets repeatedly shown they're being manipulated by an advisor who is either a Darkfriend or an actual Chosen in at least 3 cases, but because their ego is being fed the morons go ahead with it.
I've had prime for a loooong time, because they were the best means of getting the books I read when they came out, and it was cheaper than paying for all the shipping.
I actually think they don't care each show is just a way to push propaganda. They don't care if it bombs they know that someone somewhere will watch it.
That's been my assumption for years now for a lot of media. Either the loss of profit and viewership is just always acceptable for the agenda, or they're being incentivized behind the scenes (not Amazon though - they clearly don't need help).
Wouldn't have surprised me to find out the producers had finally got around to reading the source material and were horrified to learn that Matt as a white male ends up marrying a literal Nubian princess [Empress] later on. IR good, but only when it's BMWF!
Well they've successfully boxed out the little guy so your options are less than limited. Tell your sons and daughters that your family is going to grow their own food and are forbidden from watching netflix with their friends, that have anything they want dropped off on their door step while your children work like peasants. They will turn against you faster than you can say "nickelodeon is run by pedophiles". You'll be the conservative lunatic they laugh about with their friends while they're dying their hair pink and wearing a bone in their nose. Everyone said don't comply with masks, even when they would throw you out of the store for not wearing one, but then you have to order from home from Amazon or instacart which is run by the same swamp creatures..... just tell your kids to starve I guess.
TL;DR: Amazon is a monopoly as people do not want to risk dealing with mail order fraud and credit card theft when finding alternatives/trying to order direct.
As for the other things regarding media you mentioned, the reason people refuse to resort to piracy as an alternative is because malware.
This. With this Covid shit they’ve taken away the mom & pop alternatives. I guess just make it yourself then?
The problem with that is that people struggle to find things on store shelves, and mail order is still the best way to buy high end things.
When I heard the showrunner go on and on about lgbt representation and representation in general I knew it would be garbage. Glad I read the books
That wife doesn't even exist in the books. They specifically created her just to kill her off in the very first episode. My, what feminists these writers are!
They should try representing good characters and interesting stories.
Anyone else notice that the more woke these companies get the more they screw up? I stopped using Amazon because I pictured a bunch of dudes learning pronouns instead of shipping my damn package on time. It happened like three times. They are to big to give a shit though.
I never used Amazon at all until this year because I started my own company and I sort of have to use it or I can't break even. I also hate quickbooks 🙄 imagine every company in the world paying the "quickbooks" tax just to operate. Just so we can pay more taxes at the end of the year. I'm glad my money is being put to use feeding fat incompetent joggers on welfare while I keep delaying having a family of my own until I can afford it.
It's been totally rewritten by a woke group of writers who actually dislike the source material.
So it's A Song of Ice And Fire all over again.
It's safe to assume that a huge portion of that is made up of bots and wumao.
The others are just retarded redditors only caring about "muh hekkin' LGBTPWTFBBQ representerinoooo!!!"
r/WoT? Yeah I got banned for complaining about it, and I didn't check, but my comments were probably deleted. One surmises the only people left are the cucks that like this crap.
/whitecloaks
The obvious hints from the episodes thus far are that the Dragon Reborn is Nynaeve. That could be misdirection, for people who don't already know the story, but would you really put it past them? They already just heavily implied that Nynaeve is stronger in the One Power than Logain, which is contrary to the books.
That flat out contradicts even just the base design of the One Power.
Men are singularly more powerful than women by something like half a dozen addition ranks. Even the strongest potential woman will never be as strong as some men who while strong aren't considered anywhere near equal to the strongest at times because it appears to turn into an exponential measuring system half the time.
For those who actually care about what the rankings were: https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/One_Power#Scales_of_Power
The Dragon and 2 others are at the top spot in terms of power. Logain is in the 2nd spot. The strongest woman by relatively comparison is down at rank 6. Everyone between Logain and the strongest woman, bar one, is one of the Chosen who were the most powerful channelers during the Age of Legends along with Lews Therin. One of the top spots doesn't even really belong there because it's never shown he has that kind of power.
The trade off with the differences in raw strength is that men cannot form circles with other men and function as a unit but women can with other women. Men can join circles women have formed and lead them but again this requires the women to create the circle first then have the man/men later join. A circle can be as small as 2. The largest potential circle is 72 I think and is of equal men and women as there cannot be more men than women in a circle.
Nynaeve isn't even the strongest women outside of the Chosen, 3 others are more powerful than her!
Did the books narrate the fight against Logain? I can't remember. The whole thing seemed kind of BS. I kind of get the whole "fighting with contrails" thing as a television visual, but Nynaeve going super sayan and healing everybody at once doesn't mirror anything I remember from the books.
There is no fight against Logain.
The first time Logain is met he's already in chains being taken through Caemlyn to the White Tower to be stilled. He's Shielded by however many Aes Sedai and nobody actually gets a close look at him because of the crowd watching the False Dragon being that large. Rand tries to get a better look by climbing up a wall and ends up scaling the castle grounds and falling into them where he meets Elayne, Gawyn, and Galad.
Nobody interacts with Logain until the White Tower has already had the Schism and he goes with some of them to Salidar. He's not in the books enough at the point the show is to warrant a proper casting by many standards!
Nynaeve isn't anywhere near trained enough to even heal properly so that scene is entirely fluff to make the character look good. Which she needs really because she's one of the most insufferable cunts in the whole thing.
Ok it wasn't witnessed by any characters or took place before the story starts.
Wiki says
I guess that's what they dramatized in a bogus way. Well no he starts out in chains but escapes. They just made it up I guess
Yeah that isn't in the books. So the whole thing was just to showcase Nynaeve even though she's unsufferable.
Pretty much sums up the whole show.
I started going to a local library thrift shop that sells old donated books and recirculates them back into the public. I bought like 7 James A. Michener books, bunch of old craft and sewing and gardening books, and now I'm reading "the mammoth book of endurance and adventure" all diary entries from famous explorers I'm reading Shackleton's account of his South pole expedition at the moment and it's great. Why the fuck would I pay for a sensationalized magazine of steaming crap at the checkout line when I could buy a used classic for less ($2) at the local thrift store? I'm glad to bring a book everywhere I go to have something to look at besides a cell phone like every other limp dick in a waiting room. Also magazines on a coffee table in a doctors office are fucking disgusting and get sneezed on all day. I won't touch them.
I could tell from the preview that it was woke trash. Rosamund Pike's face alone embodies uppity feminist nonsense.
Just irritates me. Why not just adapt the modern woke books that “win” the Hugo and the Nebulas. Stop desecrating older books
Yeah kind of like the other guy said/didn't say, it's subversion.
Because they know their garbage doesn't sell, so they want to camouflage it inside of a successful series.
It kills me because the one thing I thought would be difficult, showing weaving, they did a good job with. There was no reason to go all woke as the world Jordan made was incredibly diverse. I hate how the Woke Left ruin everything!!!
Wheel Of Time's Backlash Is A Major Risk To Future Seasons
https://screenrant.com/wheel-time-show-backlash-controversy-books-seasons-risk/
I’m honestly shocked that screenrant would write that. But it’s true. Otherwise don’t adapt it at all if they are Gonna crap all over the source material
Me too. They use the title as a lure, but they totally rewrite it. But it looks like the ratings are abysmal, and while Amazon tried to praise the ratings, they were so vaguely about them that it must be a catastrophe.
Unexpectedly based.
And it would be doing everyone a favor keeping them away from this dumpsterfire.
WRITE YOUR OWN FUCKING STORY IF YOU CHANGE THINGS THIS MUCH!
And deservedly so at this point. Fuck the cunts that have been shitting all over this in attempts to grab the next GoT while also fielding their own agendas.
Good. Go woke, get broke.
I watched the first 4 episodes. They were successful in making me want to read the books. I'm not really interested in finishing the series.
There are zero similarities between Jordan's books and the tv series.
I really enjoyed the books (read them earlier this year) but when I heard a show was being done I didn’t have much hope considering the times we live in.
I don't understand them: WoT, Foundation, Brave New World etc, everything is fleshed out in the books, you don't have to do anything special just very carefully cut a few bits. Or teach the people to read.
Sadly after watching the first episode, my son and I had to conclude we couldn't support this abomination by watching it. I've read the entire series three times, and my son twice. This could have been so good and Amazon had to crap all over it. I hope it fails hugely.
I'm so pissed these idiots got Lost Ark
do people even watch this garbage? is doing wheel?
They don't care because they don't need your money since they already got em through government subsidies.
Yes. The ancient symbol of the Aes Sedai is a circle split in two ala Yin-Yang. The upwards pointing white half of the Flame of Tar-Valon and symbolises female channelers and Saidar. The downwards pointing black half is "The Dragon's tooth" and while it is meant to represent men and Saidin in the books it's used to brand someone as evil in the same vein hanging a dress on someone's locker would be done in high school back in the 90s of there were rumours they were gay.
The One Power is both Saidin and Saidar. They are both each others equal and opposite. When used together they are nigh unstoppable yet while divided they are diminished and incomplete. Two of the most important acts in the entire series happen because both work together to accomplish something that alone neither would have even the slightest hope of coming close to achieving.
And yet it seems the chucklefucks in charge are angling for there to be no divide which makes the entire point of there being a difference irrelevant. It also throws away the concept why male channelers are dangerous because Saidin is Tainted by the literal devil. If there is only The One Power and no distinct components then there's no reason why it only drives men insane.
That’s what I loved about the books. With all the “strong woman” narratives out there today this series could have have been a breath of fresh air by having men and women working together and complementing each other with their powers.
Pretty much. Even going back to the Age of Legends when Lews Therin wanted to attack Shayol Gul with both men and women the women refused and it fucked up the plan. The plan which later gets shown to have been the correct one all along.
One of the Reds tries leading the White Tower after staging a coup against a previously elected Blue and proceeds to fuck up so badly she almost ends the world. That isn't hyperbole. She tries to capture Rand later under false diplomatic pretenses that results in the deaths and stilling of several Aes Sedai when he gets rescued. She repeatedly refers to her visions as some kind of sacrosanct plan despite the fact she's not even that good at Foretelling in the first place. She resorts to abuse and blackmail when trying to flex her power because she has nothing else going for her. And in the end she gets kidnapped while asleep because she didn't even realise she'd been attacked in the first place.
The whole Vileness is a separate issue. Reds repeatedly stilling men and then leaving out in the open at the "mercy" of their neighbors and the elements. This is why Tom hates Aes Sedai, they did this to his nephew. Turns out the whole thing was orchestrated by the evil Black Ajah because they were trying to kill the Dragon reborn because they knew he would be reborn, so the militant misandrist group of the Aes Sedai get easily tricked into doing the work of literal Satan [Shia'tan] worshippers because the things they were "tricked" into doing were that closely aligned with their basic policies in the first place.
Every female ruler fucks up because they think they know best and it gets repeatedly shown they're being manipulated by an advisor who is either a Darkfriend or an actual Chosen in at least 3 cases, but because their ego is being fed the morons go ahead with it.
I've had prime for a loooong time, because they were the best means of getting the books I read when they came out, and it was cheaper than paying for all the shipping.
That's been my assumption for years now for a lot of media. Either the loss of profit and viewership is just always acceptable for the agenda, or they're being incentivized behind the scenes (not Amazon though - they clearly don't need help).
Wouldn't have surprised me to find out the producers had finally got around to reading the source material and were horrified to learn that Matt as a white male ends up marrying a literal Nubian princess [Empress] later on. IR good, but only when it's BMWF!