11-21-2021, 07:33 PM
I LOVE the opening credits. I hope they do the Aes Sedai/Ajah image as a print. It’s a nice detail that the style of artwork matches the animation of the Origins shorts. I also like that the loom could weave different relevant images for different seasons.
Rosamund Pike mentioned in an interview that some AS rings don’t have stones, so they must still get them as Accepted (which solves the question of how the girls will impersonate AS). One of the Origin animations also mentions being “raised to the shawl” which I thought was interesting, since we haven’t seen the shawls. Perhaps it’s still part of the raising ceremony even if they don’t wear them much.
RE all the hate. Well, haters gonna hate, and I think every fandom has that unfortunate subset of vocal idiots. I try not to read any of it. WoT won’t live or die on the opinions of disgruntled book readers or review sites, it’ll be down to it managing to charm non-book readers, and it’ll have to do that on its own merits. I think it’s well made enough to stand a chance of doing that.
Non-book readers don’t care about the possibility of the Dragon being born female, or that Perrin wasn’t married, or that Abel Cauthon was a respectable horse trader. They just want to be entertained.
My husband watched ep 1 with me tonight. He’s not a reader of any description, nor a particular fan of fantasy, and the only thing he knows about WoT is that I am a fan. He enjoyed GoT but not The Witcher (which I made him watch far enough to appreciate the toss a coin song, and he *still* never finished season 1). He gets bored easily. So far he likes what he’s seen, especially Winternight (although he keeps calling the trollocs “goblins”). I can tell the point he gets invested in a show because he comments on the characters. Incidentally, he thought when Lan asked Moiraine if she knew which of the kids it was and she said she didn’t that she was lying (he doesn’t know about the oaths yet). I asked him who he thought the Dragon was then, and he said it was “obviously” Egwene. Which I thought you guys would appreciate lol.
Rosamund Pike mentioned in an interview that some AS rings don’t have stones, so they must still get them as Accepted (which solves the question of how the girls will impersonate AS). One of the Origin animations also mentions being “raised to the shawl” which I thought was interesting, since we haven’t seen the shawls. Perhaps it’s still part of the raising ceremony even if they don’t wear them much.
RE all the hate. Well, haters gonna hate, and I think every fandom has that unfortunate subset of vocal idiots. I try not to read any of it. WoT won’t live or die on the opinions of disgruntled book readers or review sites, it’ll be down to it managing to charm non-book readers, and it’ll have to do that on its own merits. I think it’s well made enough to stand a chance of doing that.
Non-book readers don’t care about the possibility of the Dragon being born female, or that Perrin wasn’t married, or that Abel Cauthon was a respectable horse trader. They just want to be entertained.
My husband watched ep 1 with me tonight. He’s not a reader of any description, nor a particular fan of fantasy, and the only thing he knows about WoT is that I am a fan. He enjoyed GoT but not The Witcher (which I made him watch far enough to appreciate the toss a coin song, and he *still* never finished season 1). He gets bored easily. So far he likes what he’s seen, especially Winternight (although he keeps calling the trollocs “goblins”). I can tell the point he gets invested in a show because he comments on the characters. Incidentally, he thought when Lan asked Moiraine if she knew which of the kids it was and she said she didn’t that she was lying (he doesn’t know about the oaths yet). I asked him who he thought the Dragon was then, and he said it was “obviously” Egwene. Which I thought you guys would appreciate lol.
![[Image: thal-banner-scaled.jpg]](http://thefirstage.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/thal-banner-scaled.jpg)