Sorry this came out Friday rather than yesterday. Marvin had some ISP related issues when we planned to record Monday, so we ended up just recording it yesterday. Thank you all for watching this miniseries of ours! We hope you enjoyed it. -Eric
Did Sanderson say specifically say the whole book would be 10 days? I assumed part of it would be those 10 days an last portion would be setting up the back half of the books.
He did not specifically say it would be ten days. I do believe most of the book will be ten days, but there will likely be a final portion setting up the back half, like you said. That's my personal opinion though, not a fact :) -Eric
Hi, Asexual here. I think I can shed some light on the Jasnah/Hoid relationship. A lot of aces aren’t opposed to sex, it’s a spectrum just like anything else. Some aces (like me) are sex repulsed, but others are sex indifferent, (not opposed to sex but they don’t crave it/feel sexually attracted to people.) and finally there’s sex favorable aces, who enjoy sex but don’t feel sexual attraction. (Again, there’s a lot of subsets within these categories, but that’s the basic) I read Jasnah as sex indifferent, so she is willing to have sex but doesn’t feel a strong need for it. Hopefully this helps people understand better :)
Hannah Herndon Greetings, Asexual! Thank you for taking a moment to clarify, as there are near as many variants of human sexuality as there are humans. It’s important to remember this as we spin through the void, and treat each other with respect and kindness. However, I could only image the frustration involved in navigating a world where Smashing Whats-Its is such a primary focus. Stay groovy, and always remember you have an “ace in he hole” joke that so many people can’t use. 👍🏼😎
Thank you for explaining what I was trying to say in this, much better than I did! In editing, I really didn't feel that I explained myself well, but this matched what I had read on the subject. Hopefully I didn't make too big a fool of myself on the show :) -Eric
@@17thShard hey no worries 👍 I’m pretty new to the community myself, having only figured out I’m ace last year, so the terms and stuff are fresh on my mind from research. (Looking back I’ve been ace my whole life, but I didn’t know the term for it until recently 😂)
I was actually surprised y’all had some issues with Jasnah and her “choices”. Today’s society is way too obsessed with gender roles and I found her viewpoint to be more on par of an older, intellectual type. There are many people who have decided intellectual stimulation is far more attractive than traditional gender roles or beauty. I, am a heterosexual male, in my older age would much prefer trading of knowledge than standard relationships. In my case, that would still come from a female but it would not necessarily be sexual in nature as a primary. After all, we spend a hell of a lot less time being physical then mental as you start getting long in the decades of life. Lastly, while we can all appreciate Bransans inclusion and respect of various lifestyles, these characters are HIS and he can do whatever he wants to them regardless of the internets opinion. Thanks for your input an content. Danielle, your facial expressions always make it obvious you have a point to make hehe
Oh snap... I definitely did not make the connection that the gang Adolin fought in shadesmar were presumably trying to capture honorspren for those creepy experiments or whatever Dalinar and his group stumbled into. I was still wondering wtf was going on with that Tukari gang in shadesmar... (I guess I assumed they had a grudge specifically with Notum) so thanks for bringing those two threads together! It's super obvious in hindsight! 😅
Ishar is my favourite Herald! And seeing him in this book was the only really interesting thing that happened with the result of the war effort. The consequences of Ishars power, the mystery of his experiments, the unfathomability of his madness! That is what I read Brandon for (also giving me some Dragon/Forsaken Vibes)
I really enjoy this series, on occasion the shardcast can suffer from having too many chefs in the kitchen. You guys bat off each other really well so I appreciate the effort!
When you mentioned that Mr T was in one room, but his story was still interesting, it reminded me of The Emperor’s Soul. That was also an interesting story about a person stuck in one room.
Some Adolin talk: When I got about three quarters of the way through the book I was picturing Adolin in the court: After saying the edgedancer oath of remembering those who have been forgotten, he would just awaken all the deadeyes or something and then the spren are convinced to help the radiants, that would have been cool 🤔
I'm annoyed people assume Jasnah must be Aromantic on top of asexual. It was clear through the writing that Jasnah is not at all opposed to a romantic partnership with someone as her equal, she's not opposed to romantic connection. And there's a line in the book that corroborates that she does like Wit possibly in a romantic way. She says she enjoys deep emotional and mental connection with people, she wants to invest her time and affection to someone and I think that comes across in the writing. Just because she doesn't have an interest in sleeping with Hoid, doesn't mean she doesn't want companionship. Also I am fairly certain Jasnah has something akin to spectrum or Aspergers (hello, I am spectrum). She's reeeeallly bad at picking up on people's emotions and bad at expressing her own. She social mirrors really well as most women on the spectrum do. But yeah I think that lead people to believe she's both asexual and Aromantic.
I think peoples complaining about a characters sexuality not being a certain way is quite childish. Brandon can write his characters how he wants. I’d have liked a gay jasnah but I have no complaints that it went another way.
You made me come up with a theory for the back-five : one of the book will be about Jasnah and we will learn what she did in the front-five in her flashbacks. Like, in particular, her travel in Shadesmar, her swearing oaths, getting shardblade then shardplate... I would be quite a journey in one book, I think !
Yeah, I could see Jasnah being book 6, lift book 7, renarin book 8, ash book 9, and Taln book 10. It saddes me greatly that I'm gonna have to wait like 20 years to get Taln :(
Yoooo!!!! What if Dalinar ascends to Honor, AND is a vassal for Odium because he is bound by his Oath, His Honor! Odium has another shard bound to do his bidding!
Hoid tells Shallan that Thaidakar and having her tell Jasnah would have been awkward. Having it happen off screen might give people the impression that Jasnah could have known in Oathbringer. Awkward plot timeline thing, but it makes sense
Ishar was a standout favorite part of the book for me, his demeanor, his skill, it was all great. I have high hopes for Ishar next book, good or bad I don't know, but he's gonna be great! Work Fel and Paleo into the regular rotation Chaos, they deserve it!
A Rosharan would say that Shallan is bonded to *three* spren, because they'd call the Seon a "spren". (I'm assuming she'll bond it now.) Meanwhile Lift has both a spren and an aviar bond, just for variety. You could shorten Rhythm by just removing the cool-but-not-really-part-of-the-book Zahel chapter entirely, along with half of Kaladin's fight scenes. Note that if Dalinar becomes Fused *he will have to possess the body of a willing human to return from Braize*.
Dawnshard spoiler: When Rysn was telling Vstim about the sleepless in ROW, I assumed that she was doing their bidding. They specified in the deal they made in aimia that they would instruct her to divulge information of their choosing
Dalinar didn't have much in RoW, but every chapter we got was really good. Dalinar meeting Ishar and Dalinar seeing Kaladin in the storm were two of my favorite moments in the book. Dalinar can accept oaths now?!
My only question during the book as someone who hadn't read Dawnshard was about Cord having Shardplate. I thought I had completely missed a book or something and was so confused lol.
My guess is Ishar was trying to bind the sprens together into some form of super spren that would grant him access to all ten surges. He is also deluded to thinking that he is honor's champion and I think Honor left some kind of weapon for his champion and Ishar is trying to find it. The Shin know all about it and we will know in book 5. I also think this is connected to the "the man with nine shadows" thingy which in my opinion is about Honor's champion who Odium is trying to corrupt....
Hey Marvin!!! U didnt like the Thaidakar name drop from Hoid to Jasnah, while I think it was pretty important, because, First, Inworld, teh importance of Thaidakar is not known to any of the SA characters other thatn Hoid. If Jasnah would have known it from Shallan, she could never understand the immensity of the problem they face. Second, while that is a page break for us, the talk continues between Jasnah and Hoid and a single word signifies Hoid telling her about cosmere stuff. Think of all that he might already have told her. What better way to tell her about cosmere and let us know as reader the same stuff in just a word?? Third, Hoid tells her about Scadrial but starts it off from THAIDAKAR. This shows how seriously he takes Thaidakar and wants Jasnah to understand it too that from a whole planet, this is the person that she shouyld really be worried about. Its pretty intimate stuff which would definitely satisfy Jasnah intellectually and also make her a closer to Hoid. So, all in all, a few words laid with these meanings... I guess, it was done right. Shallan telling it would not have had the same threat level. As for this information not paying off right in this book, I felt, Hoid telling Jasnah about Thaidakar was in itself the payoff of this relationship. As they go on as couple, Jasnah will appreciate more and more how unique intellectually Hoid is, but this will always be one of their cornerstone. Because, information satisfies Jasnah. Anyway, thats my take. Cheers!!
I think the reason Tavangian didn't confide in Dalinar is because he doesn't rate him as a leader. Their fundamental difference in opinion in terms of doing what is necessary means he can't really turn to Dalinar, he doesn't trust his judgement. He has to be in charge of the plan.
Awesome video! I can't wait to start uploading my series on Stormlight Archive (gotta get through some other cosmere books first)! How do you do the podcasts? Is it on Skype, or Zoom? I'm thinking of doing podcasts as well and I thought why not ask my favourite cosmere podcasters? ^_^ I've kinda been binging you guys for a while and I gotta say, absolute top notch stuff! :)
We use Discord. I think Zoom would work sufficiently as well. I sometimes use that if there are guests who don't know how to use Discord. We're all on Discord anyway so it's very efficient in that way. Discord recently (I'm not sure how recently, but it wasn't this way when we first switched to Discord) made it so you can full screen the video call and you can still right click and adjust people's volume levels, which will be nice when I change the overlays. The problem with Discord is that it, in my opinion, is not particularly kind to poorer internet connections. This is why we have sometimes have robot David and robot Grace on the main Shardcast. Do not use Skype. The biggest issue with it is that it adds background noise to the call. They are doing that so you know you are still connected, but it sounds AWFUL on a recording. Ever since they turned to a Windows 10 app it has just sucked. We used Skype originally, and to be honest, it IS better for people with worse connections. The mobile appy nature of it made it hard to make proper overlays so I just tossed that piece of garbage and we switched to Discord. Zoom is fine. Being able to share a link for a meeting is nice. I have a paid account from my college, since I'm a teacher. I think its quality is slightly worse than Discord, but it depends on internet quality. Note that for group calls, free Zoom accounts have a 40 minute limit, so it's a bit a buzzkill in that respect, though that is not an issue for me since I already have a paid account. If you use Zoom, use the Gallery view. The other view sucks. Overall I would say Discord is generally the winner. It's free and works nicely. It has a lot of settings you can play with. For recording, I use OBS and I screencapture the other monitor with the video call going. I use a lot of audio filters on it, because compression is great. I still haven't gotten my audio quite correct though, if I'm being perfectly honest. I edit with Adobe Premiere. There are plenty of other ways to do this. If you're doing an audio-only podcast (like we did in 2017) you can have everyone record their audio separately and you can mix them together. That's technically better than my strategy because everyone is in their own track, so you can mute them when there's dumb background stuff. With the video call and OBS strategy, everyone who is not me is all on a single audio track. This is why my audio sounds a bit different; mine is directly captured and isn't compressed through the internet. But for video calls, it's VERY important to have the audio and video synced, so though it isn't ideal to have all the desktop audio in a single track, it works fine. Good audio is the most important thing for podcasts! Get a USB dynamic microphone. Don't get a Blue Yeti; those blow, in my opinion. As long as you can get the dynamic mic close to your face it'll sound great. Almost all of us here use the Audio Technica 2100, but any dynamic USB microphone is probably good. Anywho, that's kind of a long response. If you catch me on a stream (we'll be doing more of those this year) I'm sure you can get me to blab for a long, long time on this stuff, and honestly I still feel like I don't really know anything about all this. -Eric
There's a little value in the adin interlude cause it gives us some insight into how the cultural impact of the appearance of radiants has percolated through the general population
Crack theory. Dalinar sort of merges with the Stormfather and becomes the new rider of storms. Like we have some bits of fore-shadowing for this in RoW imo.
I think my biggest criticism of RoW is it just felt... small. I mean everything that happened was meaningful, but for as good as Brandon is at world building, it just felt almost claustrophobic to have this whole huge book and almost everything of note just happens in Urithiru. Maybe part of that was listening to part 1 before hand, which all happened outside of Urithiru. But the Shadesmar stuff just felt like retreading stuff we've seen before, then they were taken into custody and stuck inside the fortress for the rest of that act. I like Navani, and I like Kaladin, but I was just getting sick of both of them by the time I got to the climax. Don't get me wrong, I still liked the book, but this is the first time that one of Brandon's worlds has felt small to me.
I think imprisonment was a pretty strong theme in the book. Kaladin, Navani, and Adolin, but also Taln and Ash, Notum, Taravangian .... Not to your taste, but I think Brandon wanted you to feel trapped.
I'm definitely looking forward to widespread battles in Book Five. They gotta be coming; I'm sure of it! (Though I LOVED the Shadesmar sequence in this book, personally.) -Eric
I'm gonna pop up real quick as an Ace, married person. I'd say I'm biromantic. To me, it makes sense. As someone who doesn't care about sex, why would gender matter? Asexual=/=aromatic. Asexual=/=antisexual. I have zero sex drive. Sex isn't a big deal. It feels good (I have nerve endings; not every ace does.). But I don't have need for it or desire for it. I'm married to a "normal" sexual person. Both of us have to compromise for it to work. It would be me putting my sexuality on him to ask him to forgo it totally, too, which people always forget when talking about it this. There's an emotional aspect to sex, too, which as an asexual, biromantic, I do enjoy. And as you said, I love bringing the person I love pleasure. I have always identified with Jasnah. My husband laughed about this reveal, because he always thought I was like her, too.
This is me washing philosophical, so totally feel free to ignore it. Most people seem to make mistake of thinking asexual means antisexual. I get, "Wait. But you're married. You have a kid?" All the time. Sexuality, for a lot of ace (it is, as stated my someone else, a spectrum and I am by no means representative, though this is coming from research I've done in to it, too), is separate from a drive to have a family and relationship. We have seen that, to Jasnah, family is incredibly important. I am not reducing her to that drive, but it could play in to it. (I don't think it's a major thing, to be clear, but it is worth noting that the two aren't inherently tired together). They desire to share your life with someone exists outside of sex and the world is set up to encourage romantic entanglements as that, though if course it's not the only way. But as romance and romantic love aren't defined by sex, that drive can (and often does) exist for ace individuals just as strongly, just without the sexual component. I would be surprised if she's a bit demi (either romantic or sexual). (Meaning attraction doesn't exist until a relationship does or that attraction won't happen until someone is a known entity). Iam interested to see where he takes it. While I found her aceness and even his description of it believable (at first her being unsure of the relationship didn't seem Jasnah-ish, but if there's bad history there for her, it makes sense, and in a quasi medievalish society, aceness isn't gonna be recognized, but her general thoughts on her aceness were realistic to me, if that makes sense?), I did find the idea of Hoid in a relationship strange. But especially now that she's queen so holding herself to an even higher, more separated standard than she was previously, that desire for closeness to someone and someone to confide in is probably even stronger. Here the real waxing philosophicak but that doesn't matter at all: I do wonder if part of the reason most people (that I have encountered as an English speaker) equate ace and anti is that we don't have a neutral mixer of language. We technically do: "I don't want/like x." is technically neutral, but the connotation is an active dislike or negative desire, meaning that there's no way to discuss asexuality without somewhat implying antisexuality.
I feel like if Wit was a women and interested in a relationship with Jasnah she would be fine with it as it is his intelligence and knowledge that attracted her in the first place not Wit's gender.
Sorry this came out Friday rather than yesterday. Marvin had some ISP related issues when we planned to record Monday, so we ended up just recording it yesterday. Thank you all for watching this miniseries of ours! We hope you enjoyed it. -Eric
Did Sanderson say specifically say the whole book would be 10 days? I assumed part of it would be those 10 days an last portion would be setting up the back half of the books.
Thank you so much! It's been great listening to your opinions and discussions, cheered me up lots of times :)
He did not specifically say it would be ten days. I do believe most of the book will be ten days, but there will likely be a final portion setting up the back half, like you said. That's my personal opinion though, not a fact :) -Eric
@@17thShard thanks Eric.
Personally, I am feeling that parts one will be the first 8, part two will be the last two. And the last three parts will be fall out
Hi, Asexual here. I think I can shed some light on the Jasnah/Hoid relationship. A lot of aces aren’t opposed to sex, it’s a spectrum just like anything else. Some aces (like me) are sex repulsed, but others are sex indifferent, (not opposed to sex but they don’t crave it/feel sexually attracted to people.) and finally there’s sex favorable aces, who enjoy sex but don’t feel sexual attraction. (Again, there’s a lot of subsets within these categories, but that’s the basic)
I read Jasnah as sex indifferent, so she is willing to have sex but doesn’t feel a strong need for it.
Hopefully this helps people understand better :)
Hannah Herndon Greetings, Asexual! Thank you for taking a moment to clarify, as there are near as many variants of human sexuality as there are humans. It’s important to remember this as we spin through the void, and treat each other with respect and kindness. However, I could only image the frustration involved in navigating a world where Smashing Whats-Its is such a primary focus. Stay groovy, and always remember you have an “ace in he hole” joke that so many people can’t use. 👍🏼😎
@@destro6971 haha thanks for the encouragement 👍
Thank you for explaining what I was trying to say in this, much better than I did! In editing, I really didn't feel that I explained myself well, but this matched what I had read on the subject. Hopefully I didn't make too big a fool of myself on the show :) -Eric
@@17thShard hey no worries 👍
I’m pretty new to the community myself, having only figured out I’m ace last year, so the terms and stuff are fresh on my mind from research. (Looking back I’ve been ace my whole life, but I didn’t know the term for it until recently 😂)
Just commented something similar, as a married, ace person.
I'm gonna miss this!
Ditto. Yall did great! Thanks
Eric: Gimme more of that herald stuff.
Brandon: Nope
Hey, in the back five, we are going to get it, and it is going to be AWESOME! -Eric
I was actually surprised y’all had some issues with Jasnah and her “choices”. Today’s society is way too obsessed with gender roles and I found her viewpoint to be more on par of an older, intellectual type.
There are many people who have decided intellectual stimulation is far more attractive than traditional gender roles or beauty. I, am a heterosexual male, in my older age would much prefer trading of knowledge than standard relationships.
In my case, that would still come from a female but it would not necessarily be sexual in nature as a primary. After all, we spend a hell of a lot less time being physical then mental as you start getting long in the decades of life.
Lastly, while we can all appreciate Bransans inclusion and respect of various lifestyles, these characters are HIS and he can do whatever he wants to them regardless of the internets opinion.
Thanks for your input an content. Danielle, your facial expressions always make it obvious you have a point to make hehe
Oh snap... I definitely did not make the connection that the gang Adolin fought in shadesmar were presumably trying to capture honorspren for those creepy experiments or whatever Dalinar and his group stumbled into. I was still wondering wtf was going on with that Tukari gang in shadesmar... (I guess I assumed they had a grudge specifically with Notum) so thanks for bringing those two threads together! It's super obvious in hindsight! 😅
Great series, loved all the details and discussions you guys have. Kept us going especially pre release and after.
Ishar is my favourite Herald! And seeing him in this book was the only really interesting thing that happened with the result of the war effort. The consequences of Ishars power, the mystery of his experiments, the unfathomability of his madness! That is what I read Brandon for (also giving me some Dragon/Forsaken Vibes)
Great job guys! I Hope to see more reviews from you in the future.
I really enjoy this series, on occasion the shardcast can suffer from having too many chefs in the kitchen. You guys bat off each other really well so I appreciate the effort!
When you mentioned that Mr T was in one room, but his story was still interesting, it reminded me of The Emperor’s Soul. That was also an interesting story about a person stuck in one room.
Some Adolin talk:
When I got about three quarters of the way through the book I was picturing Adolin in the court:
After saying the edgedancer oath of remembering those who have been forgotten, he would just awaken all the deadeyes or something and then the spren are convinced to help the radiants, that would have been cool 🤔
I'm annoyed people assume Jasnah must be Aromantic on top of asexual. It was clear through the writing that Jasnah is not at all opposed to a romantic partnership with someone as her equal, she's not opposed to romantic connection. And there's a line in the book that corroborates that she does like Wit possibly in a romantic way. She says she enjoys deep emotional and mental connection with people, she wants to invest her time and affection to someone and I think that comes across in the writing.
Just because she doesn't have an interest in sleeping with Hoid, doesn't mean she doesn't want companionship.
Also I am fairly certain Jasnah has something akin to spectrum or Aspergers (hello, I am spectrum).
She's reeeeallly bad at picking up on people's emotions and bad at expressing her own. She social mirrors really well as most women on the spectrum do. But yeah I think that lead people to believe she's both asexual and Aromantic.
Taravangian would be terrifying in Among us after his 10,000 IQ plays in RoW
I think peoples complaining about a characters sexuality not being a certain way is quite childish. Brandon can write his characters how he wants. I’d have liked a gay jasnah but I have no complaints that it went another way.
You made me come up with a theory for the back-five : one of the book will be about Jasnah and we will learn what she did in the front-five in her flashbacks. Like, in particular, her travel in Shadesmar, her swearing oaths, getting shardblade then shardplate... I would be quite a journey in one book, I think !
Yeah, I could see Jasnah being book 6, lift book 7, renarin book 8, ash book 9, and Taln book 10. It saddes me greatly that I'm gonna have to wait like 20 years to get Taln :(
Just wanted to say, I've watched all of these, and I really, really enjoyed the Previews and Reviews. Thanks for the content.
I'm really glad you enjoyed it! -Eric
Yoooo!!!! What if Dalinar ascends to Honor, AND is a vassal for Odium because he is bound by his Oath, His Honor! Odium has another shard bound to do his bidding!
Awesome stuff, see you guys in 2 years when we get the Rhythm of reviews for book 5
Amaram is connected to Gavilar, so we'll see more of him I hope...
Hoid tells Shallan that Thaidakar and having her tell Jasnah would have been awkward. Having it happen off screen might give people the impression that Jasnah could have known in Oathbringer.
Awkward plot timeline thing, but it makes sense
Jasnah strikes me as an extremely pragmatic person, who likes her wars one at a time. She is likelier to make peace with the Ghostbloods now.
Ishar was a standout favorite part of the book for me, his demeanor, his skill, it was all great. I have high hopes for Ishar next book, good or bad I don't know, but he's gonna be great! Work Fel and Paleo into the regular rotation Chaos, they deserve it!
A Rosharan would say that Shallan is bonded to *three* spren, because they'd call the Seon a "spren". (I'm assuming she'll bond it now.) Meanwhile Lift has both a spren and an aviar bond, just for variety.
You could shorten Rhythm by just removing the cool-but-not-really-part-of-the-book Zahel chapter entirely, along with half of Kaladin's fight scenes.
Note that if Dalinar becomes Fused *he will have to possess the body of a willing human to return from Braize*.
Jasnah is a special and unique person
Shallan is two special and unique people
Dawnshard spoiler:
When Rysn was telling Vstim about the sleepless in ROW, I assumed that she was doing their bidding. They specified in the deal they made in aimia that they would instruct her to divulge information of their choosing
Dalinar didn't have much in RoW, but every chapter we got was really good. Dalinar meeting Ishar and Dalinar seeing Kaladin in the storm were two of my favorite moments in the book. Dalinar can accept oaths now?!
My only question during the book as someone who hadn't read Dawnshard was about Cord having Shardplate. I thought I had completely missed a book or something and was so confused lol.
My guess is Ishar was trying to bind the sprens together into some form of super spren that would grant him access to all ten surges. He is also deluded to thinking that he is honor's champion and I think Honor left some kind of weapon for his champion and Ishar is trying to find it. The Shin know all about it and we will know in book 5.
I also think this is connected to the "the man with nine shadows" thingy which in my opinion is about Honor's champion who Odium is trying to corrupt....
Hey Marvin!!!
U didnt like the Thaidakar name drop from Hoid to Jasnah, while I think it was pretty important, because,
First, Inworld, teh importance of Thaidakar is not known to any of the SA characters other thatn Hoid. If Jasnah would have known it from Shallan, she could never understand the immensity of the problem they face.
Second, while that is a page break for us, the talk continues between Jasnah and Hoid and a single word signifies Hoid telling her about cosmere stuff. Think of all that he might already have told her. What better way to tell her about cosmere and let us know as reader the same stuff in just a word??
Third, Hoid tells her about Scadrial but starts it off from THAIDAKAR. This shows how seriously he takes Thaidakar and wants Jasnah to understand it too that from a whole planet, this is the person that she shouyld really be worried about. Its pretty intimate stuff which would definitely satisfy Jasnah intellectually and also make her a closer to Hoid.
So, all in all, a few words laid with these meanings... I guess, it was done right. Shallan telling it would not have had the same threat level.
As for this information not paying off right in this book, I felt, Hoid telling Jasnah about Thaidakar was in itself the payoff of this relationship. As they go on as couple, Jasnah will appreciate more and more how unique intellectually Hoid is, but this will always be one of their cornerstone. Because, information satisfies Jasnah.
Anyway, thats my take.
Cheers!!
Fun prediction (1:13:05), as Wind and Truth IS organized by day!
I think the reason Tavangian didn't confide in Dalinar is because he doesn't rate him as a leader. Their fundamental difference in opinion in terms of doing what is necessary means he can't really turn to Dalinar, he doesn't trust his judgement. He has to be in charge of the plan.
Awesome video! I can't wait to start uploading my series on Stormlight Archive (gotta get through some other cosmere books first)!
How do you do the podcasts? Is it on Skype, or Zoom? I'm thinking of doing podcasts as well and I thought why not ask my favourite cosmere podcasters? ^_^
I've kinda been binging you guys for a while and I gotta say, absolute top notch stuff! :)
We use Discord. I think Zoom would work sufficiently as well. I sometimes use that if there are guests who don't know how to use Discord. We're all on Discord anyway so it's very efficient in that way. Discord recently (I'm not sure how recently, but it wasn't this way when we first switched to Discord) made it so you can full screen the video call and you can still right click and adjust people's volume levels, which will be nice when I change the overlays. The problem with Discord is that it, in my opinion, is not particularly kind to poorer internet connections. This is why we have sometimes have robot David and robot Grace on the main Shardcast.
Do not use Skype. The biggest issue with it is that it adds background noise to the call. They are doing that so you know you are still connected, but it sounds AWFUL on a recording. Ever since they turned to a Windows 10 app it has just sucked. We used Skype originally, and to be honest, it IS better for people with worse connections. The mobile appy nature of it made it hard to make proper overlays so I just tossed that piece of garbage and we switched to Discord.
Zoom is fine. Being able to share a link for a meeting is nice. I have a paid account from my college, since I'm a teacher. I think its quality is slightly worse than Discord, but it depends on internet quality. Note that for group calls, free Zoom accounts have a 40 minute limit, so it's a bit a buzzkill in that respect, though that is not an issue for me since I already have a paid account. If you use Zoom, use the Gallery view. The other view sucks.
Overall I would say Discord is generally the winner. It's free and works nicely. It has a lot of settings you can play with.
For recording, I use OBS and I screencapture the other monitor with the video call going. I use a lot of audio filters on it, because compression is great. I still haven't gotten my audio quite correct though, if I'm being perfectly honest. I edit with Adobe Premiere. There are plenty of other ways to do this. If you're doing an audio-only podcast (like we did in 2017) you can have everyone record their audio separately and you can mix them together. That's technically better than my strategy because everyone is in their own track, so you can mute them when there's dumb background stuff. With the video call and OBS strategy, everyone who is not me is all on a single audio track. This is why my audio sounds a bit different; mine is directly captured and isn't compressed through the internet. But for video calls, it's VERY important to have the audio and video synced, so though it isn't ideal to have all the desktop audio in a single track, it works fine.
Good audio is the most important thing for podcasts! Get a USB dynamic microphone. Don't get a Blue Yeti; those blow, in my opinion. As long as you can get the dynamic mic close to your face it'll sound great. Almost all of us here use the Audio Technica 2100, but any dynamic USB microphone is probably good.
Anywho, that's kind of a long response. If you catch me on a stream (we'll be doing more of those this year) I'm sure you can get me to blab for a long, long time on this stuff, and honestly I still feel like I don't really know anything about all this. -Eric
@@17thShard oh wow thanks for all the awesome advice!
Syl had the best interlude
There's a little value in the adin interlude cause it gives us some insight into how the cultural impact of the appearance of radiants has percolated through the general population
Yeah, it had some value. I just thought something else could have done more. -Eric
@@17thShard agreed could've been better haha
Crack theory. Dalinar sort of merges with the Stormfather and becomes the new rider of storms. Like we have some bits of fore-shadowing for this in RoW imo.
I think my biggest criticism of RoW is it just felt... small. I mean everything that happened was meaningful, but for as good as Brandon is at world building, it just felt almost claustrophobic to have this whole huge book and almost everything of note just happens in Urithiru. Maybe part of that was listening to part 1 before hand, which all happened outside of Urithiru. But the Shadesmar stuff just felt like retreading stuff we've seen before, then they were taken into custody and stuck inside the fortress for the rest of that act.
I like Navani, and I like Kaladin, but I was just getting sick of both of them by the time I got to the climax.
Don't get me wrong, I still liked the book, but this is the first time that one of Brandon's worlds has felt small to me.
I think imprisonment was a pretty strong theme in the book. Kaladin, Navani, and Adolin, but also Taln and Ash, Notum, Taravangian ....
Not to your taste, but I think Brandon wanted you to feel trapped.
I'm definitely looking forward to widespread battles in Book Five. They gotta be coming; I'm sure of it! (Though I LOVED the Shadesmar sequence in this book, personally.) -Eric
I missed the interludes.
I'm gonna pop up real quick as an Ace, married person. I'd say I'm biromantic. To me, it makes sense. As someone who doesn't care about sex, why would gender matter?
Asexual=/=aromatic.
Asexual=/=antisexual.
I have zero sex drive.
Sex isn't a big deal. It feels good (I have nerve endings; not every ace does.). But I don't have need for it or desire for it.
I'm married to a "normal" sexual person. Both of us have to compromise for it to work. It would be me putting my sexuality on him to ask him to forgo it totally, too, which people always forget when talking about it this. There's an emotional aspect to sex, too, which as an asexual, biromantic, I do enjoy. And as you said, I love bringing the person I love pleasure.
I have always identified with Jasnah. My husband laughed about this reveal, because he always thought I was like her, too.
Thank you for sharing; I think that makes a lot of sense. I am very glad Jasnah's sexuality worked well for you! -Eric
This is me washing philosophical, so totally feel free to ignore it.
Most people seem to make mistake of thinking asexual means antisexual. I get, "Wait. But you're married. You have a kid?" All the time.
Sexuality, for a lot of ace (it is, as stated my someone else, a spectrum and I am by no means representative, though this is coming from research I've done in to it, too), is separate from a drive to have a family and relationship. We have seen that, to Jasnah, family is incredibly important. I am not reducing her to that drive, but it could play in to it. (I don't think it's a major thing, to be clear, but it is worth noting that the two aren't inherently tired together). They desire to share your life with someone exists outside of sex and the world is set up to encourage romantic entanglements as that, though if course it's not the only way. But as romance and romantic love aren't defined by sex, that drive can (and often does) exist for ace individuals just as strongly, just without the sexual component. I would be surprised if she's a bit demi (either romantic or sexual). (Meaning attraction doesn't exist until a relationship does or that attraction won't happen until someone is a known entity). Iam interested to see where he takes it. While I found her aceness and even his description of it believable (at first her being unsure of the relationship didn't seem Jasnah-ish, but if there's bad history there for her, it makes sense, and in a quasi medievalish society, aceness isn't gonna be recognized, but her general thoughts on her aceness were realistic to me, if that makes sense?), I did find the idea of Hoid in a relationship strange. But especially now that she's queen so holding herself to an even higher, more separated standard than she was previously, that desire for closeness to someone and someone to confide in is probably even stronger.
Here the real waxing philosophicak but that doesn't matter at all: I do wonder if part of the reason most people (that I have encountered as an English speaker) equate ace and anti is that we don't have a neutral mixer of language. We technically do: "I don't want/like x." is technically neutral, but the connotation is an active dislike or negative desire, meaning that there's no way to discuss asexuality without somewhat implying antisexuality.
Can a sleepless become a Radiant?
There's a WOB on that supports Sleepless being capable of Radiance.
Eric: "I can't keep Rock's kids straight, except Cord"
Me: can't keep Cord straight either since I ship her with Rysn :P
@@yomanyo327 Wait what? I thought Rysn was a couple years older but not much? Like three or four years?
I feel like if Wit was a women and interested in a relationship with Jasnah she would be fine with it as it is his intelligence and knowledge that attracted her in the first place not Wit's gender.
Yooo guys is! Does Marvin happen to be German?
He is! -Eric
@@17thShard so cool another German here 👌🏿