Klara in the hidden land's status

Klara in the hidden land

Content warning TV adaptations of two infamously long-running stories

I'm sad that the Wheel of Time adaptation was canceled, because that show was in a unique position for me of not having to be good to be fun.

Like, Wheel of Time nostalgia wasn't for a carefully crafted piece of beautiful storytelling; it was a ridiculous unending slog that we'd all suffered through and laughed about.

So I guess what I'm saying is, maybe give this thing a chance, fellow former readers of Homestuck: https://gizmodo.com/helluva-boss-team-breaches-tumblr-containment-with-homestuck-animated-series-2000641158

Leia replied to Klara in the hidden land's status

Content warning TV adaptations of two infamously long-running stories

@klara@wandering.shop I tried to read the first book and after where it seemed it should end for like the third time, but I was only 53% through, I gave up. Homestuck I got to one of the indeterminable hunks of Act 6 and gave up. Think it'll go hyper-unhinged Andor condensation style and try and do both parts of Act 5 in two episodes? :P

Leia replied to Klara in the hidden land's status

@klara@wandering.shop True on that.

The weirdly gendered magic system did nothing for me either. Fits the 90's, but now? Nah. Too much out there that's more brief and queer.

@klara@wandering.shop True on that.

The weirdly gendered magic system did nothing for me either. Fits the 90's, but now? Nah. Too much out there that's more brief and queer.

Klara in the hidden land replied to Leia's status

@Tourma Ugh, yeah, everything about gender in those books is a mess.

That was actually something the show fixed up quite a bit! Not that I didn't still have quibbles, but it de-gendered some aspects of how the supernatural stuff worked, dropped the weird interest in who various younger characters' first sexual partners will be, and generally didn't keep echoing the same "relations between men and women sure are always like this" themes that the books kept up until Robert Jordan died.

@Tourma Ugh, yeah, everything about gender in those books is a mess.

That was actually something the show fixed up quite a bit! Not that I didn't still have quibbles, but it de-gendered some aspects of how the supernatural stuff worked, dropped the weird interest in who various younger characters' first sexual partners will be, and generally didn't keep echoing the same "relations between men and women sure are always like this" themes that the books kept up until Robert Jordan died.