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[UngeheuerLich]

I didn't mind the mystery element, and making all 5 Edmond's Fielders into Ta'aviern just made sense. However, the story is basically unfilmable, listening again to the series on audio book now and that's pretty clear. Anything short of a really, really drawn out anime style cartoon juat won't work.

For me the show worked. As a seperate story that is inspired by the actual book. Transfering a book to the TV it is clear that you need to die at least one death. I like the interpretation of the TV show and would like to see how the story goes on.

 

[Parmandur]

For me the show worked. As a seperate story that is inspired by the actual book. Transfering a book to the TV it is clear that you need to die at least one death. I like the interpretation of the TV show and would like to see how the story goes on.

Yeah, that was how I went in, keeping an open mind. Helped me appreciate the beauty of Rings of Power, but Wheel of Time was a dud for me, and I have no interest in seeing the train wreck they make of Great Hunt and Dragon Reborn. It was nice to be inspired to read the books again, but that was all the good the show did for me.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Yeah, that was how I went in, keeping an open mind. Helped me appreciate the beauty of Rings of Power, but Wheel of Time was a dud for me, and I have no interest in seeing the train wreck they make of Great Hunt and Dragon Reborn. It was nice to be inspired to read the books again, but that was all the good the show did for me.

I am sorry for you that you could not enjoy it.

 

[Random Task]

I failed to start Wheel of Time several times. I think I got a couple hundred pages in once, and I thought the show was really quite good.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Wheel of time was overall actually good.

They scrapped and seemed to melt different characters and story archs together... And honestly that is a bold but good way of porting a story from (too) many books to a TV show.

Nah, it was one of the worse adaptations I’ve seen.

Yeah, that was how I went in, keeping an open mind. Helped me appreciate the beauty of Rings of Power, but Wheel of Time was a dud for me, and I have no interest in seeing the train wreck they make of Great Hunt and Dragon Reborn. It was nice to be inspired to read the books again, but that was all the good the show did for me.

Yeah I still never went past the Trolloc attack in episode 1.

Like we went in knowing stuff would be different. And I could have enjoyed it with Perrin being married and losing her in the attack. It’s not remotely needed and IMO adds literally nothing of worth to the show, but fine whatever. But the moment he kills her, we were done. You can’t salvage that sort of thing.

And then reading reviews and episode summaries, to find out that Egwene kills the whitecloaks…okay so we didn’t take out the scene that serves as the point where Perrins fear of his own violence starts to build…we just moved it to another character and had him murder the wife he didn’t have in the books instead. So, nothing accomplished. Great.

Not to mention that Matt is a different person for absolutely no reason, changing the swords to katanas when we know exactly what Jordan imagined and people have made them and they’re cool and distinctive is just laughably stupid, the changes to Thom are just head-scratchers unless we assume really especially out of touch executives interfering, and the whole show felt like the weaker CW shows.

But even if the rest had been perfect, I wouldn’t give them any of my “engagement” because of what they did with Perrin.

 

[Parmandur]

Nah, it was one of the worse adaptations I’ve seen.

Yeah I still never went past the Trolloc attack in episode 1.

Like we went in knowing stuff would be different. And I could have enjoyed it with Perrin being married and losing her in the attack. It’s not remotely needed and IMO adds literally nothing of worth to the show, but fine whatever. But the moment he kills her, we were done. You can’t salvage that sort of thing.

And then reading reviews and episode summaries, to find out that Egwene kills the whitecloaks…okay so we didn’t take out the scene that serves as the point where Perrins fear of his own violence starts to build…we just moved it to another character and had him murder the wife he didn’t have in the books instead. So, nothing accomplished. Great.

Not to mention that Matt is a different person for absolutely no reason, changing the swords to katanas when we know exactly what Jordan imagined and people have made them and they’re cool and distinctive is just laughably stupid, the changes to Thom are just head-scratchers unless we assume really especially out of touch executives interfering, and the whole show felt like the weaker CW shows.

But even if the rest had been perfect, I wouldn’t give them any of my “engagement” because of what they did with Perrin.

Hey now, CW stuff is often of much higher quality.

But, yeah, I watched the whole thing. They were on the one hand smart enough to know they had to remix the story to fit the first book in just 8 hours, but on the other just kept hitting themselves in the face with rakes like a drunk Wyl E. Coyote.

 

[Parmandur]

Dragonlance, on the other hand, I can see being faithfully enough adapted into a pretty fun show: a wee but less complex and meaty subject matter.

 

[bedir than]

And then reading reviews and episode summaries, to find out that Egwene kills the whitecloaks

I've watched the series a couple times and this doesn't happen.
So many of the Wheel of Time reviews are by the anti-woke crowd who insist that having people of color is what ruined the series -- and they'll lie about everything else in order to spread their hate.

 

[Parmandur]

I've watched the series a couple times and this doesn't happen.
So many of the Wheel of Time reviews are by the anti-woke crowd who insist that having people of color is what ruined the series -- and they'll lie about everything else in order to spread their hate.

The diverse casting was a good decision, and the costume design and art direction are fabulous. Other than that, not much there there.

 

[Oofta]

After reading all this I may have to go back and watch the wheel of time series again...I thought it was enjoyable in its own way.

On the other hand while I did start reading the books eons ago. I gave up because story just never seemed to go anywhere. I think I stopped reading after approximately 3,000,000 pages or so. In other words somewhere around book 6.