HoidByOwnPetard

Big movie studios ruin everything, so I'm going to give my opinions with a smaller studio (read: more of a budget) in mind who would give the Dragonsteel crew more control. Kel - Stephen Amell: He's 40, fit, and blonde. He played a killer with his heart in the right place in the first season of Arrow. But can he be inspiring and funny like Kel? Maybe with a better director than the CW could afford. Vin - Amber Midthunder (from Legion). Has already played a decent badass with vulnerabilities. TLR - I'm going to let budget slide a little here because TLR probably needs to be on set a fraction of the time of the leads. I mean I'd really like to see Bruce Campbell in this, but he's too old (obviously not chronologically) and might make the movie seem to zany (he plays a good serious role but the audience expectation might be a problem). There are similar problems with my other choices: Robert Carlysle, Gary Oldman, Javier Bardem. If we gender swapped (no reason not to, really): Michelle Forbes. Saze - Rodrigo Santoro as Xerxes from 300 is pretty much how I picture Sazed. But I doubt that guy looks like that anymore. 300 came out when I was in college, so the dude's at least 12 years older now.

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Well, sure, if you're going to play by time's rules.

Madame Gao! She was, quite possibly, the only good part of Iron Fist. She's also from the same made-up country/pocket dimension as Iron Fist (Kun Lun or some variation of spelling). If Falchion is wrong and Gavilar is Gavinor's biological dad, it would be a great way to influence Gavinor in the second half.

Whoa, wait. What's KLTF? Is there something I haven't read?

I threw in Edgedancer, Dawnshard, and The to change up the lyrics a little. I probably should have had another T at the end. Oh well.

Knowledge of Wit kind of has that older Sanderson title gag like Shadows for Silence etc. where it's confusing to the uninitiated but makes sense when you understand not all the words are used the way you expect. And for the Cephaladin shippers, it could be Kaladin's Orgasmic Wit. I do agree with the person upthread who pointed out that every title is an in-universe book. My actual guess with that in mind is Koravellium Something Something.

I'm not sure if this is a meme, exactly. Is any picture with poorly superimposed words a meme? Does that mean all Geocities websites from the 90s were memes?

I'm about 300 pages from being entirely up to speed with every book, novella, and graphic novel. This is odd because my favorite is Alloy of Law but my least favorite is Bands of Mourning. Favorite character is either Marasi, Jasnah, or The Lopen, but I'll ship MeLaan and Wayne anywhere in the contiguous US. Flat rate.

Oh, I don't think we'll ever uncover the true formula to what makes true talent. Practice and care are big things but there are plenty of writers who care about their craft and have thousands of hours of writing under their belt but still don't have the Sanderson magic. I absolutely agree with you. There may be some one-offs from other authors that I enjoy as much (the first Hitchhiker's Guide, Cloud Atlas, Chasm City, Invisible Monsters, half a dozen Crichton novels from the 80s and 90s) but those are peaks in a landscape of hills. The sheer volume of Brandon's consistently fantastic work is astounding. I even enjoyed White Sand! There are probably different shards in our universe and he nabbed Creativity. Makes about as much sense as anything else.

I'm a professor and writer who researches, among other things, writing. I was introduced to Sanderson and China Mieville around the same time after presenting some research on science fiction authors (it was not super interesting; it focused on investigating the distribution of words per sentence but didn't reveal much aside from a fun way to rewrite your own work). After initially resisting the fantasy, I gave in. I'm glad I did! I'm now caught up with almost everything (halfway through Rhythm of War) and I'm going back through it all looking for connections and hints to the larger Cosmere. Looking forward to seeing what everyone's found!