I still don't see how it's legal for an accredited university to have rules prohibiting sexual activity of their students
Want to be a religious school? That's fine, but you won't be accredited to teach any Gen Ed classes. Have your catholic pastor school, or your rabbinical school, that's fine. But you won't be making those into general education colleges.
We still exist! More activity is good!
Very much an improvement IMO, and I am someone who liked season 1.
Overall I'm very happy with these episodes. I think it's an improvement over season one, and I'm someone who liked season one.
Episode 1:
While I loved the dark friend social in the books, it's a scene that really only works in a book. The visuals of film would ruin all of the fun hints in the book chapter. I think they did a good job adapting it to be nice and teasing without being too forthcoming with information.
I liked how they incorporated part of book 3 here with Moiraine having lots of visitors bringing her news. I also think having her and Moiraine and Lan have a season of repairing and strengthening their relationship will make it much more impactful ||when she dies.||
I liked all of what we got in the tower. Making Nynaeve have a little time as a novice is a great idea IMO, it gives them time to establish the problems she is having. And Egwene is doing great here, nothing to complain about.
Verin is perfect. New mat is great.
The scene at the end with the fades was AMAZING. I love how they leaned into fades being able to teleport in shadows.
Episode 2:
Selene is fantastically cast. She nails every scene she is in, and they are doing GREAT work at foreshadowing who she really is. And having Rand scheming his way into Loganes room is a really great plot for him.
I LOVE that they are making liandrin more human. Giving her time to win the audience over does a LOT of lifting. First, it makes the reds not seem like such giant assholes. I feel like in the books up until book 8 or 9 EVERY red we meet is just not a good person, and isn't likeable. I like it that they are making Liandrin so much more interesting than just "that scary teacher who kidnaps the girls."It will make her betrayal so much more impactful. Giving her a son adds a lot of dept. I know book liandrin would never have had a child, but this was a really good change I think. It really helps to drive home how OLD these women are, and
Mat and Min is a FANTASTIC pairing. More on them in episode 3.
ELAYNE IS PERFECT. Everything about the scenes with her is REALLY Elayne. She's emotionally intelligent, but clueless about the world, and she doesn't always realize when it's appropriate to speak up to people. But when she gets other people in trouble through her own stupidity she protects them, even to her detriment.
And the SEANCHAN. That palanquin is 100% extra in the most Seanchan way.
Episode 3: Fs in the chat for my Boi uno. Gutted we won't get him later... But I kinda get it. Minor characters dying off is part of this series, and he really isn't too important going forward. Using a minor character we've been seeing a lot of to show the brutality of the Seanchan is a good decision IMO.
And the accent is there! They aren't emphasizing it too much, but they clearly went with the mild southern drawl the Seanchan have. I love the hunger games announcer lady vibes I got off of Suroths speaker. The anesthetic they went with for the Seanchan is really good, I love that they are leaning into the creepy factor for them.
Rand and Loganes is a fantastic pairing. I love how we see how Loganes madness comes out, and makes him believing he is the dragon a prlart of his madness. I'm really interested to see where they go with the character.
Mat and Min are another great pairing. We didn't get much of them in the books and I'm excited to see them interact more. I LOVE that Liandrin is sending Min and Mat off somewhere... I'm guess west, to Falme. It's a nice detail that helps get us on the path to everyone being in the right place.
And of course the elephant in the room here is Nynaeve. The accepted test was great. Most of the dialogue before it was ripped right out of the books, and the rest itself worked surprisingly well on screen. I wasn't sure that it would going in. I loved both the fake outs, I think they both worked well. It gave Egwene some time to grow, and gave Elayne some time to show her emotional maturity. She was raised to deal with stuff like this, and it shows.
I'm excited to see more!
Nope, not available her ein the states.
If premium cost $5per month I'd pay for it, u use YouTube all the time
No way in hell it's worth $15 a month though, their pricing is completely brwindead
I genuinely think that advertising should be illegal at this point. It's a ridiculous concept.
The racism is so blatant. Idk how this isn't a civil rights lawsuit already, the whole situation is utterly ridiculous.
Sim Park
Idk if anyone else ever even heard of it, it was a late 90s Sim game where you built a wildlife park.
I agree 100%. I set up a home server after reddit fell, and unfortunately I've been having to use reddit to ask a lot of my questions. The communities for the stuff I need to ask here on Lemmy just don't exist, and on reddit they do, and you'll get responses pretty quickly.
For any kind of programming questions reddit has been far better than lemmy simply because it is significantly more populated.
Yeah this is a definition of "theft" that doesn't really work at all with the commonly used one.
Like, if you download a torrent, it was uploaded by someone else, willingly. If they bought a DVD and handed it to a friend, that friend wouldn't be stealing the DVD. But now, if they upload the file to the internet for other people to watch, this class is calling that theft.
Its the kind of "theft" that leaves no victims. The alleged "victim" isn't the person from whom the content was downloaded, no, it's the third party who originally sold that person the product in the first place.
The whole concept isn't logically consistent, but the corporations wrote the laws and get to decide how they are enforced and what they mean so it doesn't matter that the law makes no sense and is punishing people for "crimes" that are, at their very core, victimless.
If they don't want to have rules that our society finds acceptable they don't have any right to just exist. This isn't a person were talking about they are an education institution. A school cannot by definition have a religion because it isn't a person. I don't particularly care if the people wo made the school are themselves religious; that should not give them the right to use their new founded institution to enforce those beliefs on other people. If you want to teach people I think you should be held to certain standards, and one of those standards is that you shouldn't restrict the freedom of your students.
Having sexual morality rules is absolutely restricting their freedom. People have a right to privacy that such rules inherently violate.