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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8799701" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>Someone sad-faced my assessment of Wheel of Time, but I stand by it. </p><p></p><p>That show is the worst adaptation I've seen since Shannara, and frankly I enjoyed Shannara more, since it just went ahead and made the show it's own thing, instead of trying to pretend it was being faithful. </p><p></p><p>WoT has made my wife and I wary of adaptations at all. I dread the notion that the Chronicles of Prydain might get a live action adaptation, after watching the first episode of WoT, and reading what they've done since then, even though they're very different studios. </p><p></p><p>And this, after doing so well on casting. </p><p></p><p>I started to have worries when they changed the look of iconic things in ways that felt very 90's superhero movie, by which I mean some suit said the equivalent of "don't put them in yellow and blue tights, it will look stupid and no one will take it seriously". Lans sword becomes a katana for no reason. There are recreations of the swords from the series that match Jordan's description, and they look great, someone justj thought katanas are the apex of "cool sword".</p><p></p><p>Then it came out that they pushed the showrunner to go darker and darker, for an adaptation of a story of hope that even in it's darkest chapters wasn't unambiguously dark. </p><p></p><p>Andj then they made Perrin married to a minor character from the books that he mentioned having a thing for as a kid, in passing, when he and his actual wife were back in the Two Rivers, and had him kill her to jumpstart his internal struggle...and then still used the event that started that story arc in the books like 1 or 2 episodes later! </p><p></p><p>Nah. </p><p></p><p>Let the CW wannabe waste of time "adaptation" fade into a bad memory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8799701, member: 6704184"] Someone sad-faced my assessment of Wheel of Time, but I stand by it. That show is the worst adaptation I've seen since Shannara, and frankly I enjoyed Shannara more, since it just went ahead and made the show it's own thing, instead of trying to pretend it was being faithful. WoT has made my wife and I wary of adaptations at all. I dread the notion that the Chronicles of Prydain might get a live action adaptation, after watching the first episode of WoT, and reading what they've done since then, even though they're very different studios. And this, after doing so well on casting. I started to have worries when they changed the look of iconic things in ways that felt very 90's superhero movie, by which I mean some suit said the equivalent of "don't put them in yellow and blue tights, it will look stupid and no one will take it seriously". Lans sword becomes a katana for no reason. There are recreations of the swords from the series that match Jordan's description, and they look great, someone justj thought katanas are the apex of "cool sword". Then it came out that they pushed the showrunner to go darker and darker, for an adaptation of a story of hope that even in it's darkest chapters wasn't unambiguously dark. Andj then they made Perrin married to a minor character from the books that he mentioned having a thing for as a kid, in passing, when he and his actual wife were back in the Two Rivers, and had him kill her to jumpstart his internal struggle...and then still used the event that started that story arc in the books like 1 or 2 episodes later! Nah. Let the CW wannabe waste of time "adaptation" fade into a bad memory. [/QUOTE]
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