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Technically getting rawed is about table top RPGs.

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Maybe. Depends on if we get Pips or not. Then Nyneave and Matt gonna have to switch rides.

Wheel of Time Characters and the Cars They'd Drive

Written by someone who knows extremely little about cars

Rand: The poor boy buys like a standard issue sedan and then a bunch of weirdos start following him around and telling him that the car is "special." Moiraine spray paints dragon decals on his car one night while he's sleeping. People keep trying to slash his tires but he always catches them just in time. You know how it goes

Perrin: Pickup truck with normal sized wheels. Great for helping people move! Also great for running people over. Duality of man etc etc. There's always a dog in the back sticking its head out the window, but Perrin does not know this dog or where it came from

Nynaeve: She buys a used car that looks like it's falling apart and everyone tells her that she overpaid. Four months in, they realize that the last owner did a bunch of Fast and Furious style modifications and Nynaeve could probably outrace God

Mat: Bike. This SHOULD NOT WORK but somehow he's still on time to everything. This baffles everyone, including him

Egwene: Something VERY practical with great gas mileage, like a honda civic. That's the only practical car I know because it's what my dad told me to buy.

Elayne: Lexus. Mat makes fun of her for driving a luxury car and she's like "????? it's not like it's a Cadillac?"

Liandrin: A Cadillac

Moiraine: A jeep, but the nicest most upgraded version. Unless there's a car that's better for off-roading, in which case she drives that instead

Lan: A cool classic car. A car that can drift (maybe all cars can drift but Lan's definitely can). He thinks that Nynaeve's car is The Coolest for some reason

Lanfear: A horse! Just kidding. She drives a silver range rover because an article I googled said that range rovers are the king of the road.

Bonus:

Asmodean: the car type Does Not Matter all that matters is that he has a vanity license plate

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New spinoff series idea

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Brando doesn't get to have Mat literally steal the dagger back and stab someone with it and then come after the writers for having mat "weaponize his darkness" (by cleverly not touching it)

Brando doesn’t get to kill Egwene and make Cadsuane Amyrlin and then come after someone for not having coherent themes 🤡

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Poor Ingtar. :(

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I lost most of my interest in what he had to say after he claimed that Egwene shouldn't have been able to save herself in that situation, since the theme of the season is friends coming together to defeat the odds. Ignoring the fact that egwene doesn't need that lesson at this point in time. She knows that. She had repeatedly said how much she needs Nyneave. It just brought to home all the complaints i'd seen here about Sanderson's treatment of women characters in the books. I finally had to turn it off entirely when he was like "Where did perrin get a shield??!?"

Brandon Sanderson’s comments on the finale without watching Wheel of Time season 2– Yikes.

I had a feeling he wouldn’t like it, he’s been critical on the show, some were reasonable but he made some comments before that I didn’t agree with.

But coming in to criticize a season finale built on the back of what season 2 built.

Oof. And the thing is, he’s a book writer for the last parts of the series so what he says does have weight and some fans will run with what he said. And I am not looking forward to that fandom.

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“Why did Ishamael’s body disappear but Lanfear got resurrected?”

Well you see Lanfear got stabbed by a normal No Magical Powers sword. Ishamael on the other hand got stabbed by a sword imbued with Magical Powers which you can infer from the entire blade length disappearing and also the Magical Powers Man who did the stabbing.

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Stalking goats

Anyone else keep one or two posters who are always debbie downers on the things you like, just so you can use them as bait to block people who reblog or like their poorly (if at all) thought out complaints? Or am I the weirdo?

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WoT Show s1 callback I was not expecting

Hey everyone remember waaaay back in 1.4 when Else Grinwell gave Mat a Birgitte doll clearly in a way to imply that Birgitte would protect Mat? And what did we just see on screen in 2.8?????

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May I present: An argument for why my WoTshow friends may enjoy watching Babylon 5

As we settle in to wait 2 years for more content, a tale as old as time, I realize that some of you may not have seen Babylon 5. And I also realized recently that there is a surprising amount of overlap between the two of them. So, here are my arguments as to why you should give Babylon 5 (Known henceforth as B5 in perpetuity) a shot if you've not watched it before, or maybe tried a long time ago and bounced maybe try it again. Presented in no particular order. World Building: I hear you like worldbuilding. Boy HOWDY does B5 have world building. Everything is built up from the get go. There will be important plot relevant events happening in the final season that directly are caused or effected by events in the first season. And at no point does it feel like "Hey, I hear you like thing. Remember thing? Here's thing!" Everything feels like a natural extension of something that came before. And given that it was made in a time when everything was made for syndication, this is a very tough line to balance, but they manage. Things are pretty real for a sci-fi show: Things don't always just get wrapped up in a nice clean package. Wars may end but they have consequences. Both personal and geopolitical. Iconic Duos: We've all seen the joke about "Name a more iconic duo than the wondergirls and TBI", but I kinda always say "Londo and G'kar" in my head. I don't say it out loud cause I don't want to ruin a good joke, but still. This series has a lot of quite powerful relationships between people that run the gamut of tropes and a few extra sprinkled in.

Stage Show: In many ways the tv show plays out and feels a lot more like a stage production. Considering a lot of the actors also did a lot of stage work, this makes sense. Sci-fi as an art choice and not a crutch: Star Trek has the whole hopeful future sci-fi thing going for it, where the point of the setting is to remove the characters from us, so they can examine cultures relevant to the viewer at a removed step. Star Wars uses it's sci-fi setting as a way to make it Totally And Meaningfully Distinct From Dirty Fantasy Movies, and almost seems embarrassed by it's sci-fi parts sometimes. B5 rides the line between them. There is very little techno-babble in the show. But the aliens feel really alien in a way that almost every other sci-fi property misses. And while, yes you could easily make it a fantasy age of sail story by making remarkably few changes, it still works as it's own thing. Still tackles real life: There are things that are so relevant today that people are still referencing the show to events that happen now. It's a very strange dichotomy where the show looks so 90s, in it's set design and it's CGI, it just screams "Dated tv show". But the content itself is timeless. Anyway I hope you find the show as compelling as I still do, or at the very least it fills some time while we wait for S3 of WoT show. Also to anyone who read this from the B5 tag, you should watch WoT for a lot of the same reasons I just listed. :D Edit Edit: WotShow = The Wheel of Time on amazon Prime.

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my boy Mat

Shoutout to Mat for taking a moment in running for his life to point out that Rand has shit hair now.

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I'm so not prepared for what is coming next.

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Found in the wild

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