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  1. Toral Delvar

    I can't do the TV show, does it make me a bad wheel of time fan?

    I also wondered if I could do the flame and the void. I think an actual flame is beyond me, but if I concentrate really hard, I can just about manage an orange blob.
  2. Toral Delvar

    I can't do the TV show, does it make me a bad wheel of time fan?

    I have wondered how women with aphantasia would learn to channel. When asked to picture a flower in their mind and visualise it opening up, this isn’t something they can literally do.
  3. Toral Delvar

    I can't do the TV show, does it make me a bad wheel of time fan?

    Yeah, I think I just assumed "mind's eye" was a metaphor, and for years, didn't realise that people could close their eyes and still "see" things, or "summon" images of people or places, in a similar way to how I can with sounds or music. Apparently, some people don't have an inner monologue, so...
  4. Toral Delvar

    I can't do the TV show, does it make me a bad wheel of time fan?

    Moiraine is short and pale in the books, as are all Cairhienin. That I think has been dropped, which is actually a change I like. The "the people in this country somehow all ended up with specific ethnic features" never made sense - either based on the 3500 years, and several countries since the...
  5. Toral Delvar

    I can't do the TV show, does it make me a bad wheel of time fan?

    That's interesting. I've speculated that the reason I don't like descriptions (Tolkien spending 20 pages describing a tree and then five more describing mountain, Jordan spending a page describing a dress) is that they don't really do anything for me - it doesn't "paint a picture in my mind"...
  6. Toral Delvar

    I can't do the TV show, does it make me a bad wheel of time fan?

    One of the advantages of not seeing pictures when I read - illustrations or live action adaptions don't clash with what is in my mind
  7. Toral Delvar

    I can't do the TV show, does it make me a bad wheel of time fan?

    Ha! I made that comparison on a Facebook comment Sword of truth changes didn’t bother me, as I was indifferent to the books.
  8. Toral Delvar

    I can't do the TV show, does it make me a bad wheel of time fan?

    The only reason I am watching is because my wife is making me. I was initially excited, but after seeing what they have done, and the excuses for why they think it necessary, I have no interest at all in the show.
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