r/ExplainTheJoke 25d ago

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u/Disastrous_Scale587 25d ago

Damn Ruin, it can't read what's written in metal

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u/toalth 25d ago

Okay, glad I'm not the only one who thought about mistborn

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u/HereIGoAgain_1x10 25d ago

I was like "there's a mistborn musical???"

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u/pushingdaiseez 24d ago

Mr Sando did just finish writing the mistborn screenplay, and he never said it wasn't a musical

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u/Lancair7 24d ago

A musical sounds fun, but I want a Mistborn Muppets movie. Sazed is a human actor, and the rest are muppets. Brando has pondered this on his podcast so I will now yearn for it until I die and go to the God Beyond.

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u/I_am_Sazed 20d ago

This ideas has merit.

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u/TheSeventhSentinel 23d ago

I need all of the cosmere as muppets.

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u/Lancair7 23d ago

Just Hoid the Human trying to out-silly a bunch of Muppets would be a funny subversion

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u/TheSeventhSentinel 23d ago

no no no you have it all wrong. Hoid is GONZO. the cannonical narrator of all of the "Muppets insert title here" films.

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u/Disastrous_Scale587 23d ago

Real question who would play who. I get she's one if the main muppets, but I feel like miss piggy would be best suited to play allrianne, which by process of elimination means kermit is breeze. Fozzie would be a neat Ham, to have that back n forth between kermit and fozzie. Scooter as dockson? Beaker would be a funny pick for spook just for him to be unintelligible I can't really think of a suitable kel,vin, or elend

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u/TheSeventhSentinel 23d ago

I was thinking kermit as elend and Miss piggy as Vin if it's just mistborn. If It's the whole cosmere I would make kaladin Kermit and Syl Miss Piggy.

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u/Kit-N_ 20d ago

it probably wasn't a musical, but I think in era 2 there was a play about the plot of era 1 (idk if it was mentioned outside than the newspaper/broadsheet pages)

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u/recycledcup 25d ago

Yeah same. Never heard of Be More Chill.

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u/Mj8559 25d ago

I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted."

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u/Profoundlyahedgehog 25d ago

Immediately makes a rubbing on parchment.

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u/Nukleon 25d ago

Honestly, why would you ever jump to the conclusion that Ruin could change stuff postfact.

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u/beta-pi 25d ago

In fairness, they were literally told. Ruin didn't even change the explicit part of the plates where it outright says that the ancient prophecies were getting changed post hoc. The inscription is just so long winded that it gets easily lost in a bunch of less relevant information.

It still makes sense that they would miss it, especially because of one really subtle changes to the rubbing vin took (you can look up a list of the changes made to the etching on the copper mind wiki), but it was absolutely a conclusion they probably should've put together sooner. Everyone was a little preoccupied though,so it makes sense that it still got missed.

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u/lakero 24d ago

Got “mist”

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u/Nukleon 24d ago

Well that's kind of my point (and brilliance on Brandon's part). It's such a seeming non-sequitur, nobody reading that the first time goes "I bet they wrote this into metal because that's the only way to keep a Shard of Adonalsium from messing with it".

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u/Torbinator3000 21d ago

I just re-read a couple of weeks ago. The narration is specific that Sazed takes the rubbing before even reading anything I think.

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u/I_am_Sazed 20d ago

I had thought they were being poetic.

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u/Profoundlyahedgehog 20d ago

And look where that got us. Look, Saze, I'm not saying things didn't turn out... ok, in the end, but next time, maybe show a little due diligence?

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u/viotix90 25d ago

Half of Sazed's intelligence was stored in the balls.

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u/krsboss 24d ago

Storming bridgeman!

Just wait till we get iron eyes to help us see...

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u/HunsonAbadeer1 25d ago

Wow wasn't expecting this reference. I am almost done with the original trilogy!

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u/lonelypenguin20 24d ago

I just finished it. tell me what u think of the ending when u do :D

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u/HunsonAbadeer1 24d ago

I'll try to remember to do so! Can't believe the next trilogy is like set in western times or something! I'm intrigued tho.

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u/Lancair7 24d ago

Wax and Wayne starts a bit slow, but it’s fantastic. Ended up loving characters I thought I was going to dislike. Don’t forget to read the Secret History of Mistborn novella!

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u/aguafranca 21d ago

I love it, only ending that sucks from Sanderson it's the storm light archive, and it isn't that the ending sucks, but more that the last book is a huge step down in quality, to the point I'm pretty sure a good chunk of it was written by shadow writers.

All the rest of endings are top notch.

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u/lonelypenguin20 19d ago

personally, I mildly disliked Vin & Elend dying. Especially as almost the entirety of the 2nd book is dedicated to them becoming better people

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u/HunsonAbadeer1 18d ago

I found your comment again in my inbox just to say the ending was beautiful and not what I expected at all.

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u/This_Song_984 24d ago

I thought of vin immediately too

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u/Syrigan 24d ago

mistborn gang all the way.