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The design of this candle holding angel might need a little thought...

Having one of those periods where I can't seem to get into any proper gaming time or mood. I poke at something for five minutes then quit. Five minutes at something else and faze out. A scatter of this, a scatter of that, just not really clicking into anything.

Well, maybe not so much funny as...

I have to say, Witcher amused me with how the guy in the harbour critiquing Jaskier's song are all the major complaints fans had about season 1. A nice little touch to the whole thing.

The Behind the Scenes in regards to costume design for WoT I found quite interesting. They've laid out the map, the various influences that Jordan mixed together for those countries, tied them into the fashion choices, and tried to keep them consistent. I mean, they've even planned out all the countries that haven't been directly mentioned yet, in part due to how the Sitters in the hall would have elements of their outfits from the cultures they grew up in.

To be fair, Jordan consistently said he really disliked people associated WoT with "Medieval" settings. To his mind it was always "The Renaissance if gunpowder hadn't been around earlier."

I'm kind of stepping back and viewing it more as the story as it would be a turn of the wheel later, not the specific turning of the books. But it's interesting how the majority of the fans keep keep discussing how episodes 4, 5, 6, 7 are their favourites so far. Looks like the early three were too much setup and people adjusting to the differences due to adaption.

Episode 7 of WoT was pretty damn good. A great cold open showing the Blood Snow. Apart from the inherent awkwardness of the Mat issue - You have to give them some inherent wriggle room over that. The show got paused for Covid lockdown during the finale of episode 6, when they came back to episode 7 the actor playing Mat being out and having completely shut down all his social media suggests something cropped up seriously. So they had to re-jigger things to work the story around that before a new actor replaces him in season 2. The main thing I had issue with was the bizareely CW style "love triangle" discussion, but eh, that might have been stress fallout post Machin Shin. Still, when you combine the cold open of Blood Snow with the Rand flashbacks, Tam's fever during Winternight, and that other.. perspective shots of things that have happened previously, rather well done.

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