Jun 3
Re-reading The Shadow Rising for the first time after finishing the books and the show's cancellation to find myself stuck in an endless loop of:
I have missed Jordan's writing, so much;
The foreshadowing! The foreshadowing!
Dear Light, did I forget just how annoying this character was?
#Rosamund Pike's narration is so good it's criminal#yes enough time has passed that I can listen to her reading of TSR without experiencing burning anger#remember when I wanted to wait for s3 to listen bc I wanted to savour the adaptation#MDR my friends#ramblings#I could write paragraphs about how I think they fumbled the bag from the beginning#failing to identify the Tower Coup as THE turning point of books and thus adapting it half-heartedly was fatal#anyway I'll forever remember studying Gavroche's death in high school and one guy thought it was satire#all the class was confused#this is essentially how Rafe dead the Tower Coup to me#hoping this re-read will re-ignite my love for one of the greatest moments in the series#people can bite me#the Coup is bloody amazing
