Robert Jordan’s fantasy epic The Wheel of Time coming to TV
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They've done Perrin dirty in this retelling, I think.
His story in The Shadow Rising is excellent. But he needed to be in The Two Rivers at the start of this season. And he should have had an episode dedicated to that story (ala the Rhuidean episode). They're skipping over his key character development far too quickly in the show.
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With books of this length and depth, there’s always going to be shortcuts and skim overs and condensings. It’s just not possible to create a screenplay that covers every single angle. I think the writers are doing a decent job of an impossible task
Annoyingly, at least that I can find, they don't seem to have released the variation of music used sometimes in the show which from what I can tell seems to mix Aviendha and Moiraine's (or Aes Sedai) themes, has repeated chanting of "Danila vakar", sometimes used adapted to fit other themes.
I was arguing this very thing in another group. A clown was trying to tell me the show was on point . According to him Rand, Mat and Perron were not the main characters in the books so the show was accurately covering everything in the source materal.
I agree the books is a cumulation of all the main characters as each had their part to play to build the entire story but to say Rand and the others wasnt integral is a huge disservice. He then told me he had been reading the books from the 90s like that meant to mean something. I suggested to him to revisit the litrature again because out of all that time he obviously hasnt understood it.
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The lead female characters, and Egwene especially, had extremely powerful and meaningful character arcs substantially different but no less important than the male characters. In Season 2 they had Egwene girl boss the finale utterly at odds to the nature of her character development in the books and now that. Why? F-aboutery for the sake of it.
To be fair they've had to do quite a bit of stuff like this to combine characters, places and so on just so they don't have to spend like 3 additional seasons just to develop characters that overlap with other characters and have an overall fairly minor even if impactful part to play and so on.
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They done the dirty on Mat as well. Shouldnt he be with
Rand for Rhuidean ? How else will he
awaken without cutting a deal? He already speaking old tongue and has memeories??
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The follow on from that plot line for Mat is without a doubt one of the most rewarding and enjoyable in the book series. In fact all the other plot lines pale in comparison for that book.
The whole formation of the Band and the Coulaidin stuff is just brilliant. Especially the bit with Lan tricking Matt into revealing his new depths. I love how Matt can't escape his new destiny and has been given an accidental life changing gift. Such a satisfying read
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100% i love Mat, he my absolute favourite character in the entire series. I just hope the show does him justice and exactly as you said. So far some really dubious choices casted for certain characters ie Aviendha, Sevanna and siuan to name a few.
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What is the problem with Aviendha? - aside from some meddling with her love interests which I think the book approach wouldn't really work for a TV series without just needlessly adding complications and I suspect they are setting it up for her motivations for certain actions later on, though I don't see the need for the way they've taken it in the TV series. That aside she seems like a good portrayal to me and where they've merged her with other characters seems reasonable for the realities of a TV show.
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This season has been fantastic so far, can’t wait for Thursday.
For me she always been described as
Red, auburn haired, fair skin complexion beauty with freckles and all. I just never envisioned her to be the actor that portrayed her with dreads and all.
Also i might be mistaken but do all clan chiefs
Have the Dragon markings after coming out of Rhuidean? Like we saw with Rhuarc in the show. Thought Rand was the only that had it and he had it on both arms?
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She seems to be intended as a composite of several different Aiel characters including Gaul in the show with aspects drawn from them rather than just a 1:1 interpretation of Aviendha.
Most come out with it on one arm (there are some caveats), only the Car'a'carn has it on both.
Though I'm not sure how true to the books that is off the top of my head.
Though I'm not sure how true to the books that is off the top of my head.
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