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Kind of? The deviations from the books were a little less out-of-nowhere:

Rand interacting with Logaine to learn about his power? Sure, that’s an interesting idea.

Moiraine being stilled/grappling with that? Sure, why not — Rosamund Pike is good.

The Egwene-as-damane stuff was fine too. And I like that they mostly abandoned her love triangle nonsense with Rand/Perrin from S1.

The main thing I’m annoyed by — aside from the generally not-great writing — is kind of illustrated in the memes: by the end of TGH Rand has defeated a blade master and killed Ishamael on his own using what he’s learned from Lan, despite not knowing how to channel. Show Rand (and Egwene) kind of already can channel pretty well when it suits the plot, so his progress as a character isn’t satisfying.

Bonus meme:

Very nice — thanks!

What book is this? Does it have more of these types of guides throughout?

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I’ve also done 0 research, but I assume the name refers to the opening lines of a pretty famous poem, which is using “ye” to address a group of people; basically the poem is saying “go get some while you’re young and hot”

Thank you!

Looks outstanding! Do you have a recipe??

First panel beautifully encapsulates Troi’s character

Nope — those are actual names of places/people/events in an actual book series.

I would recommend reading the first 12 books of The Wheel of Time to fully appreciate this particular meme.

If you pretend the song is in g-minor (which has a B-flat) those chords make a lot more sense: Eb becomes the bVI chord (super common in minor-key songs), and Bb becomes the bIII (also pretty common — what’s known as the relative major of g-minor). The Eb also serves the function of IV / bIII here — basically it just acts like a pivot between the original g key and its relative major (Bb); note that Eb is the bVI chord in the key of g minor, but also the IV chord in the key of Bb. D7 would be the V chord in G major or minor, so it doesn’t sound especially out of place like the others do, and leads the progression nicely back to G.

The reason the middle two chords sound especially interesting here is that the song is not in g minor — instead of having that flatted third in the chord (i.e. Bb) it has the major third (B natural), which creates a neat half-step dissonance when played next to chords that do have it flatted (like Eb and Bb). G minor has its own chords separate from those of G major due to how a g minor scale is constructed; borrowing from a key’s parallel major/minor can yield some really interesting chord progressions/sounds (such as the ones you’ve found here).

My theory is a bit rusty, so hopefully that all is accurate and makes sense!

I’ve had good experiences with warmoth and stewmac — neither is particularly cheap, but they’ve got good parts. Ive also just bought hardware outright from Fender’s site tbh