I agree!!! What’s the difference between wearing a shift and wearing a dress? Surely if there is a clothing requirement it’s that you either can or can’t wear clothes, not that you have to wear less clothes??? In the process of maybe trying to avoid falling into any areas of male gaze by having her keep her clothes on, having her strip down to her shift makes it worse than if she had just stayed fully clothed.
this puts into words my feelings about the scene. like i get why they didn’t want her to be naked, but it didn’t come off as strongly. plus it’s not like the nudity would have been sexual in nature or anything
@@r1ddhima Totally agree, though i think it is wider than just writing; the production side of the show consistently is a little off to me. Like the decision you mentioned of Nynaeve just wearing a shift: that doesn't show up in a script, but its a directing decision. Sets don't feel lived in, the lighting is too fictionalized, boring cinematography. Everything is just a little subpar, and nothing is good enough, in my view, to make up for that lack. It's a bummer
Honestly there's something strangely Christian puritanical-coded about having Nyn wear a white shift for her "rebirth" ceremony. Is it just me? For an MA rated show, the show seems to lack some edge, especially in these canon moments.
There are countless little decisions like this that they have had to make that all have consequences both minor and sometimes not so minor. Personally I can live with the ones like this for a tv show, they don't really alter the story much for someone who has not read the books, but having characters just jumping all over the map with no visual cue to show the passage of time to account for the travel is just lazy writing or adapting in this case. Its even less forgivable as there should be a plot device that opens up to make the jumping around make sense later in the series, they only needed to be smart the first few seasons. That and the lack of decent content for Lan are my only real niggles for the second season, the rest has been really good imo.
For me the getting naked never made sense. At least as far as I remember the reasons for it, keeping men out🤷🏽♂️ And just as I feel comfortable wearing shorts outside I would not feel comfortable wearing boxer shorts/underwear outside. I see a whole lot different from wearing an undergarment in “public” than your normal clothes. I understood why they made the change and it worked in the world of the story. Well at least for Nye. Some of the women from cultures were they are basically nude it wouldn’t matter, but neither would being nude so…
Honestly I don't mind this change. Maybe when I read this scene in the bks, I wasn't that attached to the ritual element of tests. I understand your feelings especially if it is ritual part that fascinated you. Her being clothed or not made no difference to me. Also what if Zoe Robbins is not comfortable with being unclothed?? I think that should be respected as well. And this moment is one of my favorites from the show. That last test..
Great point! As I said in the video, if they had just had Nynaeve go into the arcs fully clothed, that would have been totally fine. But instead they do an in-between by having her take off her dress.
I also didn’t like this change. It’s not like they even had to show the nudity. It’s easy to cut around that tastefully. Also, why make her go to her shift then? She’s still clothes *if* you’re making this change, might as well just leave her in her dress. Same difference.
I think leaving the Novice dress behind is decent symbolism in itself. Receiving the ring and Accepted dress after the trial is a good transition to her new status in the tower. I also think the blood shows better on the shift than on skin. Finally, there are likely nudity clauses in the lead actor contracts. I guess that’s more an explanation of why I wasn’t bothered by it. Not invalidating any of your points though.
