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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 5070216" data-attributes="member: 41321">Oh, that was in the original books.  It's what made my sister and I stop reading them.  We got sick of reading elements that felt yanked out of WoT.  It got so bad we actually checked the copyright dates on the books to see which came first (WoT did come first, by the way).I'm guessing they're not going this way in the TV show, considering what happened in this episode, but in the books I seem to recall that Richard developed a type of wizard power that hadn't been seen in centuries and was apt to drive him mad.  Sound familiar?  (EDIT: Oh, and IIRC he also developed the ability to hear and smell people to the point where he could identify individuals in the dark by their smell.)Also in the books the mord sith (who are really good at controlling magic users, remember) used a leash and collar when they were training Richard.  Naw, that doesn't sound like anything from WoT.They even had a character in the books (albeit a fairly minor one, IIRC) who had a cloak made of patches.  Some of the other things I could forgive as being common to fantasy novels or somewhat obvious, but a cloak made of patches?  Too much of a coincidence for me.The TV series has actually changed a lot of the elements from the books that had made it seem kinda awkward, and they've actually taken a lot of the WoT-like elements out or changed them as far as I've seen, which is making me warm up to it more than I did the books.  I tend to find the show corny at times (I laugh at some of the "dramatic" fight scenes), but I've just got a soft spot for it.  Ever since that first night when I was randomly flipping channels and saw a woman in white standing in front of a supernatural wall and being referred to as a "Confessor" I knew I was going to have to watch this show.  Even if it was not my favorite book series as a young adult it was something I had enjoyed at one time and it made me feel good to know it had made it to the screen (though I was a little miffed that it got screen time before WoT <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />).</blockquote>

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