Anyone else counting the days until it airs on November 19, 2021? As a fan of the books for almost 20 years this needs to be good to make them justice.
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They are just categorizations of objects that allow the user to draw more of the One Power: ter'angreal more common and less powerful, angreal a step above, and sa'angreal to more rare and super powerful items.Never read the books, but I had a colleague back in 2000 who had and wrote three software deployment tools called Ter'Angreal, Sa'Angreal and Angreal. They were GUIs for Microsoft SMS - Ter'angreal allowed you to install a single package on a PC, Sa'Angreal let you group multiple packages into a build sequence and Angreal would deploy a build.
+1000000Never read these books, but it looks potentially good. So I look forward to being able to view it. So many sci-fi or fantasy anthologies are better served as episodic series than movies. With the fracture in streaming services maybe well funded series will replace movies as the prime entertainment medium.
In musical terms, I guess movies are like 45 rpm singles and series are like full LP albums. The age of album oriented movies is upon us. Long may it live. Streaming has done just the reverse to music.
My reaction to the first episode was these people are too clean. Disconcerting somehow.Well, so far, after 3 episodes, it hasn't worked for me.
The acting isn't good, maybe not the actors' fault as the dialogue is either meaningless or a forced info dump. Hard to interact with a straight face.
On multiple occasions, in a situation when some obvious action has to be taken, character A goes "I won't do that/go there". Character B replies "you have no choice". Character A then promptly agrees.
The clothes and style... oh my! They are somewhere between an art school yearly dress party and a very low-budget production. On the plus side, characters who are on the run, have just fought, or have been abducted and plunged into a gory pool are as clean as Ken and Barbie asap. They do seem to travel with full luggage (as they reappear wearing different clothes) and a personal hairdresser. The real magic here is the stain repellant self ironing clothing. I want some! None of the grit of GoT.
Special effects: spells: decent. Trollocs and fade suck big time. It is as if someone had decided to come up with a cocktail of the scariest of the scary clichés and randomly assembled them. They just end up being ridiculous. Scenery CGI: would have been acceptable ten years ago, maybe twenty in a big-budget movie such as LOTR. The problem with UHD is that if you have a relatively tight budget, backgrounds end up being as painterly as those in 1970ies movies. You'd swear they hung painted landscape drapes behind some places.
Story-telling: obviously the biggest hurdle they had to face in the book to screen adaptation - I can accept all the changes.
I agree. I found it so bad I couldn't finish the first episode.Well, so far, after 3 episodes, it hasn't worked for me.
The acting isn't good, maybe not the actors' fault as the dialogue is either meaningless or a forced info dump. Hard to interact with a straight face.
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