I love hearing what people are into and love the rare moments when queer storylines are so visceral and true to life that you can tell queer people were behind them. Even better when they're not relegated to subtext, though I'll take a visceral and real subtext plot over cheap tokenism any day.

What was the storyline? How did it fit into the overarching narrative of the piece? What did you like about it? Is there anything you'd change?

  • CrookedSerpent [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    The wheel of time book series is populated by exclusively queer people who NEVER do gay shit, also season 1 of the show is way better than the EotW, which is by far the worst book in the series (anyone who says EotW is their fave WoT book is a reactionaty 98% of the time)

    • Eris235 [undecided]
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      3 years ago

      Interesting. Its actually been like a decade since I last read the books, but my partner is reading through the series now, after watching the show so far, and she GREATLY preferred book 1 to season 1 so far (she only just finished EotW). Not that she doesn't also have some problems with RJ's weird misogyny, but I thought it was funny that she actually liked the show less than I have been, despite watching about half of it before reading any of it. Generally she said the pacing of the book, and the worldbuilding, hooked her way more in writing than on screen, which I can see, since episode 1 and 2 I think have been the weakest so far.