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Ars Technica has a series-recap-thing going on for "The Wheel of Time" series on Amazon: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/11/two-book-readers-recap-the-first-three-episodes-of-amazons-the-wheel-of-time/
In the event that you dislike people ruining great books for stupid political agendas, perhaps you should steer clear of this review of Amazon's TV Series.
These recaps won't cover every element of every episode, but they will contain major spoilers for the show and the book series. If you want to stay unspoiled and haven't read the books, these recaps aren't for you.
#1 The way magic works in the Wheel of Time (WoT) is crucial to the plot of the entire series. This is ignored entirely in the first three episodes. Which makes me think, they're going to be doing even more stupid things.
#2 Being inclusive and trying to say, but the girls should also be included as possible main plot "Dragon Reborn" hype is stupid. Egwene goes from village girl to badass quite well on her own in the books, thank you very much.
#3 Lan in the first few episodes sucks. In the books, he can take a few dozen trollocs on his own. Whereas in the first few episodes, Moiraine is barely able to take down a nice grouped up bunch? That is stupid beyond words. (We will gloss over the deliberate destruction of the town's property, because apparently it's easier to throw bricks.)
#4 Mat is a thief and his parents are evil, essentially. His Mom is a drunk, apparently driven to it by his Dad who is shown as unfaithful and essentially a deadbeat.
#5 There is a lot of sexing going on. This is a long ways away from Perrin and his lady falling down the stairs on top of each other and being embarassed.
#6 Where is Elyas?
This is no faithful adaptation from the books. In the event that you happened to like "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", but were put off by "The Silver Chair", because they turned Peter into a whiny brat... you will be even more put off by the random stupid changes they made in this book. Rand wasn't always a brooding semi-sociopath and Mat is a lot more honorable than portrayed by these first few episodes.
[...] Probably the most annoying things to me are the twisting of characters and plot to make them more "woke". Like, if they'd added a scene in Lord of the Rings where someone asks, if Frodo and Samwise are gay. You know, because they are traveling together, so you must be gay. What kind of stupid?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 26 2021, @10:47PM (4 children)
Funny thing, incel's most vuable allies are liberals. Support for universal healthcare that would cover mental health issues? Luberal policies. Universal education to help people get job skills? Liberal policies. Support for coping with toxic masculinity that drives some men into despair? Liberals by and large.
There are decent conservatives that don't buy into the nasty rightwing shit so it isn't purely a political divide. Also radical feminists do espouse a ton of misandry that is comolicated by the rampant misogyny in society, but generally if you aren't oushing misogyny even they can be allies.
Men having a miserable time in society would do well to branch out and consider that their conceptions of who is an enemy could be drastically mistaken. In fact, many times rightwing groups lean into the shitshow to better control the suckers they can convince to commit their violence for them.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 27 2021, @02:22AM (1 child)
72 virgins for blowing up some libs tho. Tough choice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 27 2021, @05:32PM
Only you care about your sibling religious feud. Christians and Muslims can go fuck themselves with all the hate and violence they've caused over the last few millenia.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday November 27 2021, @08:06PM (1 child)
The FBI is playing their own long game when they encourage violence.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @01:36AM
You can't blame the big bad gubmint when your own leaders are calling for murderous violence. Besides, you KKK types have plenty of moles in law enforcement agencies. Check out project Chisel, you rightwing terrorists are already in the crosshairs even with your inside fascists.