Blah blah. Just don’t watch the show and stop carping about it. It’s boring reading “ZOMG!! This series is sooooo bAaaaDvthat I watched ALL of it!!! It’s CRAP! WHY are you people watching it?!? Noobs!”
Robert Jordan’s fantasy epic The Wheel of Time coming to TV
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I’ll watch what I want to watch and comment however I want. In fact I asked people in this very thread if season 2 was any good because I wasn’t going to watch it after 1 and it was recommended. But OMGZzzz the comments they’re upsetting me soo much. We’ll done…
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Amen to that. After season 1 I treat this show as filler when I'm travelling for work. Season 2 was an improvement but they dropped the ball with the ending by undermining Rand and Egwene's development arc from the books. Oh and the total charlie foxtrot of the Moraine/Lan plot, that was utter drivel.
That is exactly it, doesn't tend to matter which series it is. You will always get people who will not like it, unless it's a carbon copy of the book. I always treat them as a re-imaging of the story lines. This way I tend to enjoy the shows way more then the die hard fans when discussing shows.
I think that's fair. I think if you watch the show then read the books (or don't) thats a better order.
I couldn't let go of the books in my head. It's not like I have a detailed memory of the books. They were patchy and too long. But the show is very different in fundamental ways. Like up is down.
The trailer for season 3 looks better.
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I've been catching up on this, I wasn't overly keen on the first season but was told it picks up in S2 and S3 apparently starts strong.
Finding it a bit meh but I'll power through, shame about Matt's actor being replaced as I much preferred the guy who played him in S1, in fact he was the absolute highlight of the entire season imo.
Finding it a bit meh but I'll power through, shame about Matt's actor being replaced as I much preferred the guy who played him in S1, in fact he was the absolute highlight of the entire season imo.
I've just finished the second episode.
Production quality is just... wow. They've clearly taken heed of the criticisms of previous seasons. It's not perfect, but considering that they're supposedly working with 1/5th of the budget of Rings of Power, they're doing a very good job here.
The writing still seems hit & miss. And for me the first two episodes felt clumsy in places. But the main purpose of these episodes seems to have been to finish/skip/postpone the remaining content from the third WoT book, so that might explain some of the issues.
Matt is so much truer to his book character this season. And I love what they've done with Gaebril compared to his book counterpart. I'm not sold on Galad & Gawyn though. And Egwene and Nynaeve continue to be quite irritating.
The main takeaway is that, so far at least, this is still more of a retelling than an adaptation. It's inspired by Robert Jordan's books, rather than adapting them directly. I think it's a good fantasy show in its own right & one of the better ones from recent years. But it's difficult not to feel irritated by the sweeping changes if you're familiar with the source material. On the other hand, changes were inevitable given the scale and scope of the books. And there are rumours about plans for ending the show at season 4 or 5, as well as the original planned 8.
Production quality is just... wow. They've clearly taken heed of the criticisms of previous seasons. It's not perfect, but considering that they're supposedly working with 1/5th of the budget of Rings of Power, they're doing a very good job here.
The writing still seems hit & miss. And for me the first two episodes felt clumsy in places. But the main purpose of these episodes seems to have been to finish/skip/postpone the remaining content from the third WoT book, so that might explain some of the issues.
Matt is so much truer to his book character this season. And I love what they've done with Gaebril compared to his book counterpart. I'm not sold on Galad & Gawyn though. And Egwene and Nynaeve continue to be quite irritating.
The main takeaway is that, so far at least, this is still more of a retelling than an adaptation. It's inspired by Robert Jordan's books, rather than adapting them directly. I think it's a good fantasy show in its own right & one of the better ones from recent years. But it's difficult not to feel irritated by the sweeping changes if you're familiar with the source material. On the other hand, changes were inevitable given the scale and scope of the books. And there are rumours about plans for ending the show at season 4 or 5, as well as the original planned 8.
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Separate it from the books and the only real irritation for me, aside from 1-2 actors, is the amount of time they stand around talking about going somewhere or doing something.
There seems to be a different director for every episode of season 1.
I've just watched it over a couple of nights (third time I've seen it) and it still kept me hooked from beginning to end. Although there's way too much blubbing. Now let's see if season 2 is better second time around...