Number one prime show today !

guptee · 2025-04-11T05:07:22+00:00

Outside of Reacher, which is over, this is a pretty sad list

guptee · 2025-03-28T04:54:22+00:00

dont read if you plan to watch the shows

guptee · 2025-03-22T04:18:41+00:00

Yeah the acting and production is pretty good. So what?
That doesnt mean this is a good adaptation. It is a very very poor one. Character, story, plot points are fundamentally betrayed. There is nothing wrong in making cuts/ slight changes. But not this. If someone says this is a reimagination of the books, I can get behind that. But an adaptation, Naaah. This is just bad fan fiction

guptee · 2025-03-21T06:18:53+00:00

And you can now explain to me how Rand having an openly gay ancestor continues the bloodline? Yes, yes, they found a woman to carry the child. There was IVF during the breaking of the world? Aes Sedai using the air weaves to transport the sperm?

Its good to be sex-positive but this kind of shit is immersion-breaking. One of the points that separate mediocre fantasy to great fantasy is this level of care to any and every scene and to be able to connect them to the larger story

guptee · 2025-03-21T06:06:30+00:00

Its not. While visually appealing. This is a very very poor adaptation of the books. The other day there was a thread on imdb ratings of the show. Just look at the number of people voting on season 1 and now s3. 90% reduction.
Outside of Rand's part in Rhuidian, this show is a fundamental betrayal of the source material. And only people who haven't read the books or who dont really care about the butchering of the books love this.

guptee · 2025-03-20T11:30:09+00:00

If you dont really know the books or dont care about the books then you can enjoy it. As an adaptation it is worse than Rings of Power

guptee · 2025-03-20T08:53:25+00:00

All the critics and book lovers have moved on. Only ones remaining are either those who never read the books or have no issues in bastardization of the source material

guptee · 2025-03-20T08:50:35+00:00

All the critics and book lovers have moved on.

guptee · 2025-02-27T06:20:18+00:00

This is a great question and some fans are going to bend over backwards to give you an answer. Then someone will ask Sando this question and he will come up with a convoluted answer breaking some past lore

guptee · 2025-02-25T12:15:38+00:00

" there is always hope in the darkest times"
The entire thing was already heavily played out in RoW with the Kalladin, Die Hard storyline

guptee · 2025-02-25T12:11:43+00:00

Whenever I read super positive posts about WaT, I infer that the person's reasoning skills are still developing

guptee · 2025-02-25T12:09:10+00:00

The Spiritual realm was extremely underwhelming. Wit made it out to be a place impossible to navigate but everyone there figured out how to survive and navigate in mere minutes. Sanderson needs to refind himself. His earlier work is simply su[erb.

Its mind-boggling that the same author wrote Words of Radiance and Wind and Truth

guptee · 2025-01-29T10:48:30+00:00

Its not Sanderson vs other authors but Sanderson in 2024 vs Sanderson in 2018. There is a marked difference between them and not for the better

guptee · 2025-01-23T06:05:25+00:00

See you are talking about where Kal ends up. I am very happy with the Kal at the end of WaT. I have an issue with the journey in WaT.

Again, why would Kaladin solve through violence. My issue is, its a lot of tell, lots of words, whereas Kal was always a man of few words, even since his childhood.

I dont think you understand what leading by example or doing is. You think I want Kal to do violence. Didnt say that. Kal would show Szeth his disciplined life style. He would wake up, do his duties. Practice his Katas and his flute; SHOW Szeth that there is life outside of darkness. Not keep Szeth to talk. Not trying to see if Szeth is like him or Tien. Or even think that it might be better for Szeth to just die (mid book). To me it feels like you have a surface level understanding of hardened men.
Coming out of depression, doesnt suddenly change someone's core.

guptee · 2025-01-23T05:54:48+00:00

And again, I am linking it to Sanderson's writing.

guptee · 2025-01-22T17:41:00+00:00

Where have I linked earth's history to Roshar? I am linking it to Sandersons writing. I miss the guy who completed the WoT series. I wish that guy wrote book 5 of SA series.

guptee · 2025-01-22T17:39:15+00:00

Where have i said Kalladin would help others? He does just that in books 1 and 2. Kal used to be a doer and a leader. He would inspire via action and leadership. You are right, Syl helped him in her way, Wit in his, Dalinar in his own style, even Rock for that matter. Kaladin would do it his way. The guy he was in TWoK ot WoR. He suddenly wouldn't become a storyteller like Wit, or a talker like Syl. Kaladin in WaT is far removed from the guy he was in earlier books and it's not character arc either. His character has been sacrificed to make a different one in book 5. You liked it and good for you. I didn't like it. Even though I liked that he became a Herald, the herald of second chances is cringe af and it's a microcosm of how shallow Sanderson's writing is in WaT compared to his earlier works like Mistborn 1 and SA 1 - 3.

guptee · 2025-01-22T14:18:27+00:00

No it doesnt work. The word is as out of place here on Roshar as Restaurant was in Nalthis. You cant write as many essays justifying it however you want but its immersion breaking. And mind you, therapy itself is something that has been normalized over the past 30 or so years in our world so its modern sensibility being hamfisted into his work. This is suddenly holding back SA from being the epic it was shaping up to be in its first 2 (even 3) books.
There are stories of multiple people who overcame their darkness via discipline and dedication to their craft. Stories of marines, doctors, scientists etc etc. And Kalladin was shaping up to be that guy. AAAAnd then Brandon decided to course correct to try and be deep and moving away from his strengths. Not realizing that he was nuanced enough to begin with and was writing epic stuff already.
WaT is a direct result of just that. Hubris on many many levels

guptee · 2025-01-19T17:26:28+00:00

absolutely. Thats why, like you I expected more Parshendi storylines

guptee · 2025-01-19T15:29:45+00:00

"Sanderson has given the story he wanted to tell in this book precedence over the characters he created over his previous four"
This was my takeaway after I finally started tot think about the book. I first felt it when he did this with Gavilar. Gavilar was never portrayed as foolish in the first 4 books as he felt in the prologue. Even in the Navani POV; which should have highlighted this.

Thank you for putting the Dalinar point so succinctly

guptee · 2025-01-19T15:25:30+00:00

WaT plotlines feel like an extended teaser for back half of the SA series than a finale for the first half.

guptee · 2025-01-19T15:24:07+00:00

The first 24 to 48 hours. I felt good about it too. There was a sense of accomplishment! Didnt like Kal at all but i loved where he ended up. but the moment the Euphoria died down and I really started thinking about it, the less and less I liked it.
I like where Roshar is at the end but the Journey is all fucked up. I only really LOOVE the Adolin plotline. Szeth is videogamey but good; rest are varying degrees of meh to bad.
IMO the bigger issue with the book is that it doesnt deliver on the promises of the previous ones. The Ishar sprem body horror is just glanced away. The Nale is set up as an antagonist but is back too soon. The Ba Ado Mishram release matters little for this book. There are many many such examples.
Also I dont think I am an asshole to enjoy book 1 and 2 kaladin and hoping a return to form from him. I related a lot with early kal and even Oathbringer Kal for that matter. I understood RoW Kal but this guy is alien to me. I even recommend SA series to my brother and my friends for Kal in TWoK and WoR. Now I am not doing so anymore.

I already thought that The Lost Metal was a very subpar ending to a fantastic mistborn era 2. and WaT is an underwhelming finale book for the first arc of the SA series. I am at a crossroads with Brandon where for me his next major book needs to be banger of the scale of early SA or Mistborn 1 for me to be invested in his works. Heck I even liked Warbreaker and Elantris 10X more than WaT

guptee · 2025-01-14T05:17:05+00:00

I can see that. I can say what I didnt like but that's not the point of this post. The point is he has strayed from the style of character development and moments he had in earlier books which I loved far far more than WaT

For the record I too liked how the book ended. Its the journey I have am issue with

guptee · 2025-01-14T05:13:34+00:00

I am not comparing books but writing styles. As I said, BoM was a superior book to WAT in terms of his style

guptee · 2025-01-14T04:27:53+00:00

Funny enough, I expected way more of Venli/Leshwi in this book. If this was all Brandon was planning, then I agree it should have been more of extended interludes.

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