I don't need to do that to myself twice

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[–]FlippyKing 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

As bad as A-WoT is, a beardless Dwarf in LoTR has to be a bigger crime against the source material. It's like Stacey Abrams not wearing a mask in front of a bunch of kids forced to wear them. It's almost like amazon is Priming us to be acclimated to the great reset new dystopia.

[–]jet199[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The thing is a good director/producer could make it work. In the theatre they are constantly re-imaging works and it can be good or bad. The difference is in the performance and direction.

I know from WoT that Amazon wont deliver on that front. The direction was so loose it was like being softly slapped in the face with a deflated balloon when it should have been high drama.

If you compare Rosamund Pike's performance to literally any other character it is terrible. That is because an actress who has worked on big Hollywood films knows they have to turn up on set with all their character and performance ready to go with or without direction. A big budget director like Steven Spielberg or George Lukas will literally just tell actors to act better when they ask for notes so these actors get their own coaches and team to help them. But Amazon isn't paying for more than a couple of those self-sufficient actors and then isn't getting good actor's directors (or action directors either) so that's why they end up with a crap product no matter what they throw at the art side of the production.

[–]FlippyKing 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

100%. A good director may or may not give specific notes, but will probably make sure the cast is in a position to give the performance needed for the director's vision (even if that means doing a thousand takes to get a genuinely exhausted or frustrated take). Amazon's WoT sucked for so many reasons, but taking major tangents from the source material for no real good reason when they needed to establish so many other things in a first season is just sad.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

A-WoT isn't bad, except for the obvious racial slant of the casting. Egwene was supposed to be a beauty, and now she's a below-average dark skinned girl with a big nose and a large mole on it sticking out.

But other than the obvious darkification, I like it. Even though most of the actors are barely more than amateurs.

[–]FlippyKing 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Fair enough, and I hope you like season two and the rest. But, does Moraine really have "a tell" that somehow Nynaeve figured out back in the beginning of her trek to follow them and some how she'd be able to tell it to Lan?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've read the books twice, and frankly my memory isn't what it used to be... I don't recall that particular tidbit.

[–]CarbonDioxideHead 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Amazon's LOTR looks more like High School Musical than medieval fantasy. They swapped out the rough looking soldiers in big suits of armor for these namby pamby guys who look like they could be in a commercial for moisturiser.

Compare the trailer for the new LOTR and the trailer for The Fellowship of the Ring, nearly 20 years and $300,000,000 apart and fellowship still blows it away.

Might pirate it but don't imagine I'll get past the first 20 minutes of the first episode.

Tolkien rolling in his grave.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

It happened again! "Wheel of time" right after reading an insane account of someone experiencing an incomprehensible "wheel" of time and alternate realities after a fatal car crash. I swear every single time I think about something it starts appearing everywhere!

Make of it what you will, I'm pretty skeptical of this one and it sounds like a common drug trip, although it's also similar to the wheel Ezekiel experienced: https://www.nderf.org/Experiences/1wilson_fde.html

[–]jet199[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Yeah, the fact in the end their was no accident makes it sound like a creative writing exercise.

Such things can still be revealing though.

As you say, I've had a DMT experience were I could see infinite versions of myself like a hall of mirrors. And his description of the different lives sound a lot like my experience of falling into short dreams while waking up.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah, the fact in the end their was no accident makes it sound like a creative writing exercise.

Dying in something like a car crash and being perfectly fine the next second is an oddly common story. However if this person was on drugs it's more likely to have been a hallucination. Although iirc dying brains also produce similar drugs which are throught to be responsible for the visions in NDEs.

As you say, I've had a DMT experience were I could see infinite versions of myself like a hall of mirrors.

I feel like those could be real. They remind me a lot of the screens the architect has in his office of different possible outcomes, and we know they have the ability to manipulate the process and alter peoples' minds as well. The fact that people always get hit with knowing it's all a simulation and see some kind of wheel or gear spinning that is reality itself is really crazy. Ezekiel the prophet saw it too, most likely without any drugs.

[–]jet199[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

What does it mean that in every reality I was pissed off?

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Maybe you're one of the Trumans the archons pick on.

[–]jet199[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I guess at least if your life is entertainment for something else they have to make it interesting.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well I think I just remembered seeing this same wheel myself. I was reminiscing on the days before I was born, because I somehow haven't forgotten them, and wondered how I got there. Then I remembered that something had "dropped me off" there, and I remember looking up and watching it take off and disappear into space above me, despite the fact that there was no room for it in the tiny chamber I was in. It reminded me of some kind of UFO at first because it was circular and covered with tons of tiny lights around the rims, but then I realized this thing was wheel shaped.

Water wheel captures the sense of it but the exterior was more like the wheel of fortune, with those metal sticks instead of paddles, but they were instead multi-colored lights, and there were a lot of them. And the closer you got the more there seemed to be. It looked like as many stars as the eye can see packed into a circle outline. The best way I can describe being on it is that, if it were the wheel of fortune, I was the thing that points to the prize, clicking through and being inside of all the lit sticks until stopping.

It's a very strange object, and I get the feeling that if it were to stop working everything would stop existing. The obvious conclusion is that this is the core of the matrix program. I was not terrified of it like that person said, a little freaked out but I felt more frustrated because I was sick of this (I had definitely seen it before) but something in charge made it clear that I wasn't allowed to get off. But now I know better than to listen to those archons. And I also know that I cannot truly owe them anything, because all debts have been paid by the cross.

Outside of the wheel, I'm pretty sure, was absolutely nothing at all that can be discerned by the senses, vast emptiness, only the astronomical-sized wheel spinning. The presence of God who is everyone's father being ever-present. Oh yeah, Jesus was sent by "the father," what a coincidence.

I'm not sure what to make of it. I'm not even sure that this "wheel" even actually existed or if it was just my mind and senses trying to comprehend whatever it was. But if I ever find myself on it (or perhaps better described as a part of it) again, I'm leaving regardless of what "they" tell me.

I'm pretty sure I still remembered it when I was born, and I think I thought about it ocassionally during my crib days, but I forgot it fairly soon, probably before I was a year old.