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I think knowing the source material is a big detriment to watching this show. I thought EP4 was dross, just all wrong, everything all over the place.
So far so good is my opinion. I really didn’t like episode one but things are galloping along now and I’m very much enjoying it.
Yes, I’ve read the books too and given how dire the middle seven are, it’s no bad thing that the TV series is mixing things up a bit.
Logains "Army" just out for a LARP in the woods, that entire scene just looked like someones YouTube video, with their budget how can they not do better?
That's what I thought. At the begining in the show they say how a single Aes Sedai can change the tide of a battle, yet they had a few Aes Sedai and warders in what looked like a minor skirmish and most of them died. Utterly pathetic tbh. I'm not sure I've got much more in me to watch the rest. I've waited years for a TV adaptation but I never thought it would be like this.
And what's with mopey dopey Perrin? Honestly, all he ever seems to do is speak like he's been sedated, and spend his time staring blankly into the distance. He was one of my favourite characters in the books. In the show he's utterly meaningless.
That's what I thought. At the begining in the show they say how a single Aes Sedai can change the tide of a battle, yet they had a few Aes Sedai and warders in what looked like a minor skirmish and most of them died. Utterly pathetic tbh. I'm not sure I've got much more in me to watch the rest. I've waited years for a TV adaptation but I never thought it would be like this.
And what's with mopey dopey Perrin? Honestly, all he ever seems to do is speak like he's been sedated, and spend his time staring blankly into the distance. He was one of my favourite characters in the books. In the show he's utterly meaningless.
I need to know what non-book readers think of this because I’m tending to agree with @chroniclard.
I’ve picked this up again and I just can’t take it seriously.
Everything looks so clean and unused.
In my first viewing I was watching it and I literally couldn’t suspend my disbelief to enjoy the story. Costumes and fake magic or fights etc are all part and parcel of this genre, but TWOT makes no effort to appear lived in. When I watch it I don’t see the characters, I see actors in costumes. I don’t see a village, I see a set.
Contrast this with something like GOT, LOTR, or TWD even, and they all make efforts to make the world look as if it is being lived in. All decent shows do. It looks like the clothes and props have been used and not just been put on after being dry cleaned. I can believe that the story I am seeing could be real, I can suspend my disbelief because I know that realistically, in the situations shown there would be muck and grime and creases and tears in clothing.
When the world and the props and the clothes look like they are being used by the characters, then it is much easier to sit back and immerse myself and fully enjoy (or not) the story.
I cannot do this with TWOT because I just don’t believe what I am seeing. It looks fake and so everything that comes after, the performances, the story, is all tainted by that fakeness being front and centre in nearly every scene.
That’s why this doesn’t work for me.
And I cannot understand how this wasn’t addressed.
I should also say that I cannot pinpoint one specific thing that makes me feel this way. It is more a combination of all the issues.
As an aside (because this isn’t the reason I can’t enjoy the show), all these issues end up making this show look like there wasn’t any money spent on it. It just looks low budget. This is absolutely not the case, so I cannot fathom how it has been made to look this way and no one thought to question it.
I do feel like it would have been better if they had made it more gritty looking, right now it looks a little too clean and bright.