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The Wheel of Time recap from the AV Club online. This recap/review/opinion piece captures a fair amount of what I've been thinking and adds more to the mix. It's a good examination of the most recent episode. I'll watch episode seven again. But that will be after I watch the newest episode (2) of The Expanse, which promises to be just as good as the previous seasons; a show to watch if you like great Science Fiction.

Teri Hatcher.

Is this an omnibus or just your everyday ordinary catbus?

I understand, Carlos. The glossary at the end of the books was at times helpful to me. Perhaps the writers and director(s?) will include some of the missing characters in a different sequence and in diverse ways as the series moves along.

I did enjoy episode seven though it's very disjointing for me. Well, everything has been. But there is so much missing and the gaps will be hard to fill for those who remember the books well. I mean things are heavily condensed. Here's The Eye of the World Wiki. This gives us a synopsis of the first book as a reminder. There are characters that I had forgotten but now remember as being important and recurring characters, as they are scattered throughout the books.

Broccolini is not a bricolage, though you might think so. Why not? Because broccolini is a hybrid. Now, if you threw a few other things into the mix then you'd have a broccoli bricolage. How exciting!

Benjamin Lazar Davis's new album In Between Lives. I've listened to this a few times and I think it's good - the whole thing.

It was odd, not only because I feel the same way, but it was on Amazon last night and I watched it, too. Even The Expanse was available to watch last night. I avoided watching that right away; I'm not eager to begin the end of a great series.

I just preordered the movie in steelbook case with all the bells and whistles from Best Buy. I had a 10% off coupon that was expiring soon, and I was going to buy the movie anyway. I've watched the movie more than once, as I've said, but the picture and the sound quality on disc is always better than that of streaming. The last time I watched Dune on HBO Max the film quality glitched off and on all the way through, so annoying.

Tu quoque or not to quoque, that is the question Is it better in the minds of the populace to ad hominem or to not hominem at all or should we sling facts at the tide of our woes and by words of wisdom slay them

I watched this movie last night (for the second time). Even though I remembered parts of the movie from the first watch of it I stuck around and finished it because... well, it's a decent movie and Josha Stradowski is pleasant to look at, and I wouldn't kick Majd Mardo out of bed either.

Damn, I can’t get that picture out of my head. I guess that comes with the territory when you have your pic as your avatar. Of course, your expression is pure imagination!

Now that you mention it, I seem to recall that Rand did this (agonize and worry) with all the women that were drawn to him through the endless books. Just another one of those things you must roll your eyes at, even if metaphorically done.

I've watched all five available episodes and my fears have been somewhat eased for the series. My least favorite character is Matt at this point, which is contrary to my liking him well in the books. It might be the actor, I'm not sure, but he did end up being replaced for season two, although the reason for his leaving is left to speculation as there is no official reason given for the departure. I can see @Myr point about the misandry in the series. More importantly, this very female centric story telling is going on in seemingly all storylines -- men are too often portrayed as the big bad wolf and woman are the heroes in about everything you can watch these days. It's tiresome! I can remember when the storytelling seemed more evenhanded before the nonviolent Me-Too pogrom began, some men were bad, and some were good and some women were good, and some were bad. The bad characters usually got the ending they deserved, whatever their sex -- most of the time. Bonnie and Clyde: Both bad, both dead just how it should be. I did often overlook things in the books that a good friend detested. Nynaeve's braid events being one of them @Headstall, an occasional "not again" in my head got me through them. Rand al Thor's character is so far neither here nor there for me persona-wise. And while I get the @Daddydavek bear reference concerning Perrin... That's man-wolf not bear-man, though both are furry so there’s that. Of all the characters, I think Perrin is the saddest and deserving of pity.

I was going to write something clever here but it sounded better in my head!

Who's that ghost knocking on my door? Why, it's none other than Tears for Fears and with new music from a forthcoming release in January 2022. Yea!!!

I slapped some shtick into my, ahem, poem-ed Thanksgiving greeting in my status update. Does that count?!

I went back and read the beginning of the first book. If this series had begun with that, it would have snatched the viewer and set a better beginning for the series, I think. Finishing up episode three tonight.

You should read them. Brandon Sanderson brought back the interest of reading that I found in the first few books of the series, which was lacking in much of Robert Jordan's writing in the last several books in the series.

At the top of the New England Independent Bookseller Association's Local Bestsellers list in paperback fiction: Dune - Frank Herbert, Ace

@Zombie That's one way of doing, yes.

Dean Stockwell who played Dr. Wellington Yueh in Dune has passed away at the age of 85 years old. He was a child actor from way back in Erroll Flyn movies and he was in a whole slew of additional movies and several television series over his years as an actor.

I fully expect that seeing Dune for the first time in a theater would leave a person with good feelings about their experience. I have watched the movie three times now on a Sony XBR 55" 4K HDR tv with full array local dimming (no Dolby Vision), on HBO Max through my Apple TV+. It looks great even on this size television. It also allows, I should say forces, me to pay closer attention to what's going on rather than the big overall look of the movie because the actors become more front and center, you pay close attention. I find that it's lacking in basic information that was not only compelling in the book but needed to give a better picture of events. The Boston Globe gave Dune a 2.0 Star review, the Washington Post had two reviewers, and both gave the movie 3 Stars. My contention is that Dune is a 2.0 Star movie as it stands. Social media figures believe that part two of the movie will enlighten viewers of things that were glossed over in part one. That is dreaming because Dune and specifically the Paul Atriedes character is nothing if not forward thinking (dreaming?) and what was missing will not somehow miraculously show up. At the end of the day my feeling is that without the fullness of seeing Dune part-two, any review may be described as jumping the worm.

A wraith is bad enough but if you put a ring on it ...

This is another one of those words that I like. But I never understood obstreperous to include being aggressively snoopy.