SHIT, I took too long reading my books and THE GREAT HUNT returned itself ... seriously considering buying it on Libro.fm bc the library has an eleven week wait 🙃🙃🙃
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oh geez I have to work soon, but HURIN!!!
okay, look, Hurin is VERY IMPORTANT to the argument I've been building up over the last week or so about The Strangeness Of The World, so I'm not going to shortchange my man. I'm going to stop now, and I'll post about Hurin tomorrow
everyone following along with my reread, I appreciate you 💜 these books mean a lot to me and I LOVE the TV show, and I love sharing my thoughts and hearing yours too
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Rand said, "I didn't just come here. Egwene invited me into the women's apartments."
Nynaeve lowered her knitting and gave him an amused smile. "the Light help me, Rand, you are becoming more Shienaran every day. invited into the women's apartments, indeed." she sniffed.
not saying that Rand is trans, but I AM saying that Nynaeve is saying "trans rights" here
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book two: THE GREAT HUNT by Robert Jordan
far from pretending to be dead and shacking up with a Cairhienen innkeeper, Rand is still in Shienar with the other Emond's Fielders and Moiraine and Lan
we open on Rand and Lan doing sword training, and a wind that pins Rand in place up on the wall
this is totes a thing one can do with the One Power, but at this time there's no one near enough to have done it
Lan says "strange things happen this close to the Blight", which Rand takes to mean that he isn't taking this rogue wind seriously
he also says "with the Amyrlin Seat coming here, you would be better off being a week gone from this place", which Rand takes to mean that he's in serious trouble and that the Amyrlin Seat will gentle him, or worse
we also learn that Moiraine has been ignoring him
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I'm nearing the end of THE EYE OF THE WORLD and I'm trying to order my thoughts ... a lot of what I'm thinking touches on later stuff
but Rand "kills" "the Dark One" and Moraine STILL doesn't tell him he's the Dragon, as compared to in the TV show, where it's practically the first thing out of her mouth
like Moiraine [TV] is GOSSIPY compared to Moraine [book], and some of that has to be just the way modern TV shows are structured, like, she has to make it textual bc we don't have half a book of worldbuilding
but idk, bc they still could have had her keep it a secret from Rand, and frankly it makes her seem kind of ... incoherent
like, why does she work with Lanfear in season 2? they have to do this thing where he finds out she sent Logain to Cairhien so that he stops trusting her bc she was too trustworthy in season 1??? I guess???
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they really changed Machin Shin in the TV show, holy shit
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"a beggar¹." the innkeeper² grunted. "half mad, I hear. even so, he could take the Queen's Bounty at the Palace, even with things as hard as they are. on High Days, the Queen³ gives it out with her own hands, and there's never anyone turned away for any reason. no one needs to beg in Caemlyn."
so, first of all, BASED. however, it keeps going:
"even a man under warrant can't be arrested while he's taking the Queen's Bounty."
THAT'S RIGHT, Y'ALL ... someone WANTED for a CRIME can walk into the PALACE and take WELFARE from the QUEEN'S OWN HAND and then LEAVE AGAIN and NO ONE can arrest them!!!
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¹ Padan Fain! (though of course we don't know this yet)
² Basel Gil! good friend of Thom Merrilin and my favorite innkeeper
³ and it's always the Queen, bc Andor is always ruled by a woman
more changes that I don't mind/that make sense:
in the books, we follow Mat and Rand from Whitebridge¹ to Caemlyn, and see their journey in farm chores, juggling/flute playing in inns for room and board, and Darkfriends trying to kill them (with a sprinkling of Rand reacting to using the One Power)
it definitely makes sense to elide all of that into doing chores at one inn and one Darkfriend trying to kill them and one instance of channeling (but no reactions), but I didn't realize until I read the book that the inn and the Darkfriend were inventions of the TV show ...
like I guess it makes sense not to do the Four Kings in Shadow story, if you're also introducing Thom Merrilin (and additionally doing the Aiel in a cage thing), bc that story was already kinda involved
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¹ which is where Thom Merrilin tells them to run as a Fade is bearing down on him
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now for some changes #WheelOfTimeOnPrime made from the #WheelOfTime books that I DON'T like:
a) Moiraine: "No Aes Sedai can stand in the presence of a woman who can channel, or who is close to her change, and not feel it."
b) Moraine to Egwene: "Child, only a very few can learn to touch the True Source and use the One Power. Some of those can learn to a greater degree, some to a lesser. You are one of the bare handful for whom there is no need to learn. At least, touching the Source will come to you whether you want it or not. Without the teaching you can receive in Tar Valon, though, you will never learn to channel it fully, and you may not survive."
c) Mordeth, of Shadar Logoth
a & b are related and in fact come from the same conversation, but these changes have far-reaching consequences, not least of which is the weird way they decided to make suldam and damane work
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of all the changes #WheelOfTimeOnPrime made from the #WheelOfTime books, the one I most appreciate is Rand and Egwene's relationship, and to a lesser extent, the emotional intelligence of the Emond's Fielders
in the books, it's understood that Rand and Egwene would probably have gotten married, if he wasn't the Dragon and she couldn't channel, but the way it's written, they both feel very young when the books start, and they aren't actually dating/courting, and that plus the fact that the first book is almost entirely from Rand's perspective, always made their relationship feel one-sided to me
early on, he realizes that she's been accepted as woman, and thus of marriageable age, by the women of the village, and he says something like "just bc we're of age doesn't mean we have to get married right away" and she says "or at all" like the idea of marrying Rand doesn't mean anything to her one way or another
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What was the point of all that what Rand did to get to Logain, even fetching a Ghealdan wine, then it ended up with nothing - and for an entire episode to boot? Just to prove Logain's mad? Or will Rand really help him escape and get lessons. 🤔
Would be an awful waste of scenes for all that build up if it really ends up with nothing learned from Logain. 🙄😅
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