Wheel of Time Full Trailer is out *No Spoilers Please*

[TheSword]

Yes it was the strong reaction

My hope was that you’d do the decent thing and take the 2 minutes to edit your post with spoiler tags. It was originally intended as a tongue in cheek prod.

But then when you laughed at my comment and didn’t change your post I realized that you didn’t care that people might read what you said and it spoil the story for them.

Hence my humor malfunction. Sorry if I came on strong. I just think it’s a douche move. Particularly to ignore it when it’s pointed out.

 

[Parmandur]

In the final analysis of the series, the top POV characters are:

1. Rand al'Thor - 20.9%
2. Perrin Aybara - 12.3%
3. Egwene al;Vere - 12.1%
4. Matrim Cauthon - 11.1%
5. Elayne Trakand (who I actually didn't notice in this trailer) - 8.1%
6. Nyneave al'Meara - 6.2%

Then the percentage sinks like a rock to Moiraine Damodred & Min Farshaw getting 2% of the page count each. And a lot of these POV chapters have multiple participants, which changes the tenor for a visual, external medium.

 

[Garthanos]

My hope was that you’d do the decent thing and take the 2 minutes to edit your post with spoiler tags. It was originally intended as a tongue in cheek prod.

But then when you laughed at my comment and didn’t change your post I realized that you didn’t care that people might read what you said and it spoil the story for them.

Hence my humor malfunction. Sorry if I came on strong. I just think it’s a douche move. Particularly to ignore it when it’s pointed out.

Cat is out of the bag but if you think going back and editing will help its pretty trivial

 

[Parmandur]

The trailer looks cool, I’ll definitely give it a watch!

I read the first 3 books in the series (15 years ago) but recognise nothing in the trailer lol. Where’s Rand?

He's the redhead, he's all over the trailer.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Maybe it’s just me and people don’t have an issue with it. In the other forums/discord’s I post you’d be crucified for sharing that kind of info though.

And I avoid discussing media in those places because I don't believe that people should avoid discussing media in public spaces becuase our culture has developed novelty fetish that leads people to getting legitimately angry at others because they mentioned a plot development from a book published years ago.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

The Mydraal really made me jump, very cool depiction.

Who the "main character" of the Wheel of Time is super complicated, though I won't go into detail to avoid spoilers: sure, Rand is pretty darn central to the whole enterprise, but Egwene, Mat, Nyneave, Lan, and Perrin are all extremely important and have a lot happen to them over just the initial two books. A TV show doesn't have a narrative viewpoint like the book does, and even the most Rand-centric books aren't all Rand, all the time: for this season, 79% of the word count for the first book, but down to 53% of the word count for the second book. And the non-Rand characters are still important in the material originally seen through his eyes.

Oh I agree, although I definitely believe that for the first book (and mostly for the 2nd and 3rd) he's absolutely the main character that almost all the story revolves around. Beyond that it really fractures, and the author then essentially writes books entirely for specific characters (I can't remember the name, but there's one that's essentially Perrin hunting for his wife the whole book).

That said, if they shifted it so that Egwene got more of a focus, that would probably be better. Always found her more interesting than Rand, especially since she dumps him (which I still find so funny)!

 

[Garthanos]

The trailer looks cool, I’ll definitely give it a watch!

I read the first 3 books in the series (15 years ago) but recognise nothing in the trailer lol. Where’s Rand?

They deemphasized arguably the central character from the better part of the series though it does move around from character to character.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

My preference is not to get plot elements in a trailer to be honest. If there’s one thing that gets on my goat (other than untagged spoilers) is when trailers give too much away… which come to think of it, is kind of like a spoiler.

Totally agree with the other comments though.

I mean, I don't want all the plot details! But there should be a general gist for what the story/conflict should be in a trailer. People typically don't like jumping into a new tv show completely blind to what the plot will be.

 

[Puddles]

He's the redhead, he's all over the trailer.

Thanks.

They deemphasized arguably the central character from the better part of the series though it does move around from character to character.

Ah, I had presumed something like that happened. I guess only reading the first 3 books gave me a skewered perspective as I very much remember him being the main character.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

In the final analysis of the series, the top POV characters are:

1. Rand al'Thor - 20.9%
2. Perrin Aybara - 12.3%
3. Egwene al;Vere - 12.1%
4. Matrim Cauthon - 11.1%
5. Elayne Trakand (who I actually didn't notice in this trailer) - 8.1%
6. Nyneave al'Meara - 6.2%

Then the percentage sinks like a rock to Moiraine Damodred & Min Farshaw getting 2% of the page count each. And a lot of these POV chapters have multiple participants, which changes the tenor for a visual, external medium.

What is the breakdown of POV in the first book? I don't remember much, though I don't think Nynaeve gets a POV until like book 4 or something.