Trailer looks great
but I'm still disappointed that the polygamy plot point will be excluded for this production. It was a major part of the novels.
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MovieChat Forums > The Wheel of Time (2021) Discussion > Trailer looks great
Is this a woke book series? Because the trailer looks woke as fuck.
I am not impressed by the trailer. Even beyond the wokery, it looks kind of cheap and too much like that Shannara Chronicles series that was on MTV.
Isn't it time for your dose of Ivermectin?
shareI wouldn’t call the books woke, no. The trailer makes it look like a feminist’s wet dream but it’s not.
Regardless, the trailer looked like trash. But all trailers are trash these days. They shouldn’t have shown so much of the powers, looks dumb.
Yeah, if anything I would say the books are almost anti-feminist. The Aes Sedai are basically totalitarian meanies. Rand has three sexual partners, each of whom is just begging for a place in his bed and is delighted to share him with the others. Nynaeve is taken down a peg or three by Llan. There was a lot. Even so, I enjoyed the books until they lost focus and went on and on and on and on and on and on....
shareIt’s definitely one of those ironic instances where some deranged feminists latch onto what they think are “badass” female characters, when in reality those characters exhibit the same narcissistic, hyper sensitive, overbearing, and controlling tendencies that they are somehow unable to see in themselves.
The Aes Sedai were fascists.
They were, weren't they? Nothing pro-woman about the books at all, as far as I could tell. They were written for adolescent boys and young men. Should be interesting to see how the tv adaptation handles it but I gave up on the series when Jordan passed away. That is, I read the last book, the one that Brandon Sanderson put together (with much more writerly discipline than Jordan, but let's not get sidetracked), but I had lost interest in the series by that time. There were so many characters and their plotlines would get picked up and dropped and it just ended up feeling like padding. Did we ever find out whether Verin Sedai was good or bad?
shareHave you read Mistborn trilogy by Sanderson?
shareYes. I liked it. I found out about him because of his ghostwriting the last couple books of Wheel of Time, and he did those so nicely I thought I should check out his other stuff. You could tell that it wasn't Jordan because the way Sanderson finished WoT was much more streamlined than Jordan. Less complex, that's for sure, and I felt sad we are never going to find out the ends of some of the smaller threads in WoT. And some of the big moments in the last book, you could tell they would have FELT a lot bigger if they had been written in Jordan's style (especially two or three of the top moments that I won't mention here so as to avoid spoiling those who haven't read the books, but I bet you know what they are). But he actually got the series finished, which was great.
I only read the first Mistborn Trilogy. It seemed very focused on the internal logic of the world's magic. That's not my favorite thing about fantasy books but I appreciated that he did that and I think it's a respectable place for writers to spend their time*. If anything the books were too short and could have had a little more description!
Then I started Way of Kings, which I liked, but I only got to book two and then I had kids and that was it for reading long series for me :)
Brandon Sanderson also led me to Patrick Rothfuss, who is also great, but when is he going to publish The Doors of Stone???!?!?
*Whereas long descriptions of women's clothing appeals to neither men nor women. I mean, it was nice of Jordan to write something he thought women might like, but it was a misfire; women find it boring.
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