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[Yoink]

Just had a pretty great chat with myself in the bathroom mirror.   

[Fniff]

Just had a pretty great chat with myself in the bathroom mirror.   

Oh great, how's he doing?

[Yoink]

Well, he was telling me about his life's general downwards spiral since high school, but he laughed hysterically whilst doing so, so I guess he's okay!?
He's such a joker, that fellow. I just wish I'd thought to ask him about his favourite pizza toppings.

[Fniff]

Sounds a mite better than my meeting with myself. Bastard spent the whole time screaming at me, couldn't get a word in edgeways.

[Yoink]

When that happens you should probably try hitting the hard reset button, usually located in the middle of the forehead. Or on the buttcheeks.

[Levi]

I get to eat Nachos, drink and watch Deadpool tonight.  It will be a good night. 

[Egan_BW]

Well, he was telling me about his life's general downwards spiral since high school, but he laughed hysterically whilst doing so, so I guess he's okay!?
He's such a joker, that fellow. I just wish I'd thought to ask him about his favourite pizza toppings.

I was under the impression that that monster didn't like olives or something, most absurd.

[Orange Wizard]

HE WASN'T A TERRIBLE PERSON

It's always nice to meet people who terrible, huh

[Spehss _]

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-wheel-of-time-is-going-to-be-a-tv-series-after-all-1773693457

My first reaction is to immediately expect a Wheel of Time tv series to be ruined and made like some kind of Game of Thrones rip-off. Wow I'm a cynical bastard.

[Helgoland]

Will be participating in a wake'n'bake tomorrow, apparently. Fun times~

[Tawa]

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-wheel-of-time-is-going-to-be-a-tv-series-after-all-1773693457

My first reaction is to immediately expect a Wheel of Time tv series to be ruined and made like some kind of Game of Thrones rip-off. Wow I'm a cynical bastard.

You're not alone, at the very least. Not to mention that dead people can't exactly breathe down your neck about straying from the original vision of the work :v

Spoiler: mini-rant (click to show/hide)

I wanted to like that series, but it just got so dull around the sixth or seventh book. What the hell was Jordan's writing strategy there? Like, it was five chapters of the cookie-cutter female characters whose out-the-arse sexism got old by the third book engaged in boring wizard politics, always with at least a paragraph about what they're wearing. Then that's followed by like one or two chapters of one of the actually-developed male characters, who even then had a nasty tendency to just shoot the breeze with two-dimensional side characters instead of doing interesting things. Then this whole deal is repeated five or six times until the book is so thick you could use it as body armor.

Seriously, the Wikipedia summary of the sixth book's plot exclusively describes the events of the last five or six chapters of the book, because nothing noteworthy had happened before that.

Does it get better?

[Amperzand]

Uh, it gets active towards the end, I guess. Somewhat.

[Arcvasti]

Wheel of Time definitely dragged more then a bit in the middle. Crossroads of fucking Twilight was the worst, but the series vastly improves after that.

[Rose]

I like that I accidentally skipped a book when reading, and didn't notice until one or two books later.

[ChairmanPoo]

Flying back home today

Re: wheel of time: Sanderson did not do a bad job with the final books, but his portrayal of Ishamael disappointed me.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 to be blunt: I expected something more philosophical and more ellaborate than plain teen nihilism. In the previous books I always assumed he was shooting for some sort of dark buddhahood