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  1. Just now, Mdhorn said:

    More importantly, Ewers is absolutely fine. He's firing on all cylinders.  Had a chance for more, but he didn't turn the ball over and no bad throws. 

    For real.  Dude is playing lights out except for that one off target deep ball.  

  2. Ray Stevenson is so goddamn good in this that it makes me irrationally angry again about how he wasn't cast in GoT as Victarion.

    The whole knight aesthetic with the way he fights with the lightsaber was *chefs kiss*.  Really enjoying the Shin gal and her look, too.  Whomever is in control of the costumes is knocking it out of the park.

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  3. 2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I'm conflicted about WoT. It's very hard to film - I don't know if it's a matter of reducing it to a book per season or should they have done a couple of seasons for at least the first book. I think Rosamund Pike and Daniel Henney were solid casting, and some of the others...meh, but I also know that we will see new characters/settings swapped in.

    The costumes/sets/lighting/color grading kind of took me out of the series in the first season.

    Yeah, they kinda just put the hammer down on the gas in the first season.  While also finding time to ADD stuff that absolutely didn't need to be added.

    It would have helped immensely if they'd spent more than one episode in Emond's Field.  Nevermind that what we got in the show looked nothing like Emond's Field, we didn't really get too much set-up.  We didn't get to see how these characters are all really country bumpkins in the grand scheme of things with severely conservative views on things like sex before marriage, outsiders, etc.  Moiraine and Lan are just there and then the next the you know, Trolloc attack and we're off down the road.

    And yes, the cinematography was awful.  It looked more like a soap opera or some shit.  They've fixed a bunch of that though, thankfully.  

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  4. As a huge WoT nerd, fucking christ this show.

    The first season was hot garbage from start to finish.  It's like they took the framework of the WoT books and then just did whatever they wanted, but way worse than the books.  Obviously you have to cut shit, the books are huge and have 1800 named characters.  But the show is taking main characters and completely changing them from the books outside of their name.  Skipping major plot points.  Outright breaking the established rules of the WoT universe for no discernable reason.  Just all around stupidity.

    After watching these first three episodes, they've done a better job making the show look better instead of being something that should show up on the Sy-Fy channel.  The pacing, acting, and writing is better.  The show is still completely off the rails as far as the books go.  I guess if you want to watch and enjoy this show you need to have never read the books or just accept it's a completely different thing. 

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    Like, Ishamael is working with the Seanchan now?  Liandran is actually a good person and cares about people? Nynaeve is training with the Warders with swords?  Rand is FUCKING LANFEAR?!  Fucks sake, dude. 

    "Um, Elayne, Aviendha, and Min?  Just so you gals know, you're getting sloppy seconds.  Egwene?  Fuck, I forgot about that.  Yeah, that's awkward, but I'm not talking about Egwene.  Oh, no one that matters.  Just the most powerful female Forsaken.  Think her real name is Lanfear.  Stop!  Stop hitting me!  She's fucking hot, ok?!  Dem titties, though!  Moiraine, help!"

     

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  5. 16 minutes ago, Zeus said:

    Yes but the big 12 is below the Sun Belt and Mountain West now. 

    Also Colorado is going to run the big 12 next year. 

    Turns out Deion is a genius.

    He decided he wanted to upgrade and went to a team that would be ending up in the worst P5 conference.  

    Dude is going to live in the CFP.

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