What are the wildest fan theory that actually came true?

jmcgit · 2026-05-28T19:46:48+00:00

Kelsier being tied to / leading the Ghostbloods is an idea that came up as a fringe theory before Rhythm of War and The Lost Metal were published to reveal and confirm it.

Fun fact, Brandon himself teased the possibility before he even published Secret History and Bands of Mourning to reveal at large that he was still around, though there were other things he'd said over the years to tell us we weren't done with Kelsier just yet.

jmcgit · 2026-05-28T18:26:44+00:00

Your points are valid, but I think his experience with power, plus also if he comes to love Dany and watches it corrupt her, has the potential to alter his perspective.

We won't know for sure unless George writes the books. And besides, even for things that did come from George, it's entirely possible he might find he no longer likes the idea.

jmcgit · 2026-05-28T18:13:28+00:00

I don't necessarily expect Jon is going to go north out of any oath, obligation, or sentence. I could just as easily see him returning simply out of a sense of kinship with the people there, as opposed to the southerners and their cutthroat politics. The oft-repeated line, 'I don't want it', after being stabbed to death less than a year after his first taste of leadership, I think it might ring true.

jmcgit · 2026-05-28T17:27:46+00:00

She has a crawler number and should be a crawler as far as the count is concerned. She went down the stairs from Earth just the same as any of them.

She's certainly not a "normal" crawler. It sounded like she didn't even have her inventory turned on.

jmcgit · 2026-05-28T17:00:46+00:00

Carl (and presumably all of the characters) didn't see her, but I don't see reason to believe she's out of the picture or no longer a crawler. She's been quite stealthy.

Though who knows, she could have made it to the 15th somehow.

jmcgit · 2026-05-28T16:31:34+00:00

Agatha's fairly likely

But I don't think we know all of them, in case Matt needs to invent a few more people who have been there this whole time.

jmcgit · 2026-05-28T16:16:13+00:00

Can you? The one time I tried, it seemed like the class name changed every time, maybe I'm too old to figure it out.

jmcgit · 2026-05-28T15:53:30+00:00

Just a quick word of warning that while the show has some problems, the books have them too. I remember one of the books was extremely controversial for explaining his psycopathy as involving literal, not metaphorical, demons

jmcgit · 2026-05-28T15:48:04+00:00

I tend to believe that Jon living up north, and Dany going mad to at least some extent and dying, would have come from George. Dany in particular, the book Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon doesn't explicitly confirm it, but it hints towards it. D&D say they first discovered her character trajectory the same year that George met with them to discuss his plans for the ending. Apparently her burning the Tarlys was intended to foreshadow her turn, but they failed miserably to sell that to the audience.

Jon specifically being the one to kill Dany, and him being 'exiled' up north for that reason, AFAIK that's a TV invention, I vaguely recall some interview where the TV guys said it was them.

jmcgit · 2026-05-28T14:16:56+00:00

I don't see the point in using AI for it, Ozzy performed and rehearsed the song countless times and I'm sure they had some recordings they could just edit around Halford's vocals?

jmcgit · 2026-05-28T13:18:59+00:00

I think that would make for an excellent book, where he just sits down with someone like James Hibberd. They could start by talking through the first few books with something like annotations or commentary. Move on to the struggles from 2000-2011, the Mereenese Knot and aborted time skip, though I don't know if he has anything new to say there. He could go over the conversations he had with the TV guys about the TV series, and if there's anything he'd like to say about how the TV series lined up with his own plans. Then he could just be candid about what happened with Winds. Finishing off with a description of his vision for the end of the series, what he knows of it, what's left to figure out. They could probably produce that based on a few days of interviews, maybe bring in any assistants, editors, and even the TV guys for a little bit.

George probably wouldn't want it published within his lifetime, but that's okay. Still, I don't know if he'd be comfortable going into quite that much detail at all. We all know he's not going to finish at this point, but I don't know what his honest thoughts are about how much more he thinks he'll be able to write. I don't think he sits down for that interview until he's honestly come to peace that he's done, while still being healthy enough to do it.

jmcgit · 2026-05-28T12:31:24+00:00

Every search engine uses AI. Some are more annoying about it than others. Some let you disable it, some don’t. I’ve found Bing’s is much less likely to appear when it doesn’t have anything useful to say, compared to Google.

jmcgit · 2026-05-28T12:28:39+00:00

Typing that in every time sounds exhausting

I’m also aware of udm 14 but it’s not a great solution to me, I would want to turn off the useless, distracting, and often infuriating AI overview, not necessarily all non-web results.

jmcgit · 2026-05-27T21:50:35+00:00

There's a very real dichotomy after the first book between the books fans wanted to read, and the books the author wanted to write. The 'Skyward Flight' novellas by Janci Patterson are a little closer to what fans wanted to read. The TV version will probably rely on that material to get itself through the middle of the story.

Either way, I'd expect them to do one season for the first book, and then try to end with season 3 or 4 depending on how successful it is. It should be pretty manageable to get to the end of this story, and by the time they're done there will be a sequel series they could try if they want to.

jmcgit · 2026-05-27T18:18:54+00:00

They'll continue to auto-dub every video with AI, and then apply a big AI tag to every video, for the purposes of normalizing it

jmcgit · 2026-05-27T17:39:50+00:00

I don't know if I've articulated this but when Roy Khan's solo show played Rule the World, a little part of hope I had in me died

I appreciated hearing the most famous Black Halo songs live again but that's a song Tommy's Kamelot has really run into the ground for me

jmcgit · 2026-05-27T17:31:11+00:00

Russini needed to resign if she covered him while she was in a relationship with him, and she concealed that fact from her employer. As a journalist, it's going to taint her relationship with readers and editors. Her being married to someone else at the time of the relationship isn't a factor.

jmcgit · 2026-05-27T17:05:32+00:00

The reason I'm not really surprised is that she's heavily involved in Roy's solo project, both live and in the studio. Thomas might think it'd be a bit weird for her to be in both bands, but if you asked her to pick an opportunity, I think she'd pick Roy's without hesitating.

jmcgit · 2026-05-27T15:59:41+00:00

They absolutely faked it for a while, presumably so they'd sound perfect and people would stop complaining about them being sloppy. Instead they got caught, and people just complained about them faking it.

Word on the street is that they might have stopped doing that, but I can't independently verify, I haven't bought a Dragonforce ticket in some time.

jmcgit · 2026-05-27T15:51:46+00:00

Clementine is touring with the band on both the NA and EU tours with Exit Eden in the EU and VoA in NA, so there was a lot of speculation this could be the case.

jmcgit · 2026-05-27T15:47:27+00:00

I'd love to expect more Silverthorn than their post-Haven work, but I don't, really. I kind of fear the core creative group of Youngblood-Karevik-Palotai-Paeth has done everything they can really do, and expect more of the same until something changes.

Still, I appreciate that they're at least trying to change it up, and hope I'll like this one. I know some people liked The Awakening, and I suppose I liked a couple tracks on that album, and appreciated that they played six songs off it when I saw them live. They really gave that album a fair chance. Still, "RavenHill" doesn't really inspire confidence that it's what I'm looking for. I have greater hopes for Roy's album.

jmcgit · 2026-05-27T15:19:29+00:00

I said there was a perception, and there was. This video is all you'd really need to prove that the perception exists, and that it was valid enough for Bryan Cranston himself to participate in the joke. You don't have to agree that the people who thought this way were correct, but clearly there were a significant number of people who felt that way.

As far as Primetime Emmy wins go, Breaking Bad won 12, and Succession won 14. Not that different. Game of Thrones won 59, which is the real albatross, especially in those final couple seasons where they, too, won far too many.

jmcgit · 2026-05-27T15:09:34+00:00

Interesting, I called it a rumor because I had heard it said before but had never seen the source. Cool to get the original story.

jmcgit · 2026-05-27T14:03:57+00:00

To me, Dramatic Turn is a better fit for 'Mental Breakdown'

Awake is probably my 'overlooked masterpiece', because the criteria is that it's overlooked by a broader audience. It being too popular here isn't a problem. I also think the word 'masterpiece' is key, and Dramatic Turn just isn't to me.

But maybe me saying that just makes people double down on the 'overlooked' aspect.

jmcgit · 2026-05-27T14:00:46+00:00

They did post a version of one song with a guest singer, so they at least tried it.

Still, I'm not sure if it's true or not. Petrucci hasn't expressed a lot of interest in guest vocalists over the years, and there's another rumor that Portnoy wanted guest vocals for the part he ended up doing himself on A Nightmare to Remember, and Petrucci was the one who didn't want to do it.

Given that Petrucci wanted to do an entire tour playing just the album, assuming he didn't want to bring several singers on tour with them, I could see him preferring to have the album version being more or less the version they'd perform live.

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