Just watched the first episode and I gotta say, everything is wrong.
The Dragon cannot be female, because of saidin.
Perrin never had a wife.
Where the heck is Tom? And Bella? It's because of her that Moiraine is sure Rand is the Dragon.
That first scene, was that supposed to be Logain? He isn't pathetic.
Rand and Egwene never get together
Enormous lack of WoT lore
This are just from what I remember from the top of my mind. I never expected anything since the announcement, yet they still disappoint me.
I can't believe Brandon Sanderson approved any of this
Edit: Moiraine doesn't even mention she's searching for the Dragon Reborn until much later.
Tam doesn't get instantly better and he never even see Rand and the others leave.
Moiraine doesn't make the speech about the people of the Two Rivers being of the Old Blood.
So much stuff is wrong and just on episode 1.
the version on Audible is only 4 hours long! I have the paperback as well and compared the two and the audiobook routinely skips several paragraphs at a time! I can't imagine why they would have done this! Or, at the very least, why audible would only have the abridged version available.
Does anyone know if an unabridged audio version even exists, and where I could find it?
(naturally I could just read the paperback that I already own if all else fails, but I have a rather long daily commute and would like the listen..)
I'm reading Robert Graves' The Greek Myths. I am aware that his analysis has been met with criticism but I am finding his perspective unique. In the section on Jason, he mentions that since the myth of the Argonauts was written there has been conflict in how to reconcile the fact that they travel to the East (Colchis) but upon their return encounter beings and geography of the West (Sirens, Libya, etc.) and that to explain this, many have gone to extremes with very liberal theories as to how the Argo ends up near Italy.
Graves however says that the oldest Minyan version of the tale almost certainly had their destination and the court of Aeetes in the Adriatic, near the River Po. Homer, for instance, mentions the Argonauts, but never Colchis, and that it was only much later versions that specified a geographic location of the fleece (added to this that Colchis as a political entity only appears in records from the 8th century BC) and made that destination in what would have been the most extreme Eastern part of the world from a Greek perspective.
My question, finally, is: does anyone have knowledge of any scholarship or academic validation regarding this theory, that the oldest version of Jason's journey were to the coast of Italy?
I recently came across a post about Long the had examples of newspaper articles discussing the Collingwood attacks from 95, im wondering if at the time of Muir's attacks any journalists thought it was exceptional.
From “Claudius the God” by Robert Graves, sequel to “I, Claudius”
>It pleased my vanity to have my head on the coins, but this was a pleasure which prominent citizens had enjoyed under the Republic too, so I must not be blamed for that. Portraits on coins, however, are always disappointing because they are executed in profile. Nobody is familiar with his own profile, and it comes as a shock, when one sees it in a portrait, that one really looks like that to people standing beside one. For one’s full face, because of the familiarity that mirrors give it, a certain toleration and even affection is felt; but I must say that when I first saw the model of the gold piece that the mint-masters were striking for me I grew angry and asked whether it was intended to be a caricature. My little head with its worried face perched on my long neck, and the Adam’s apple standing out almost like a second chin, shocked me. But Messalina said: ‘No, my dear, that’s really what you look like. In fact, it is rather flattering than otherwise.’
>’Can you really love a man like that?’ I asked.
>She swore that there was no face so dear to her in the world. So I tried to get accustomed to the coin.”
I find you can't really go wrong with Robert Graves, but this one is still on my shelf to be read.
Do we have any fans on this sub, by chance?
