It just has an anachronistic feel overall to me. Some of the sets just don’t do it for me.
They aren't medieval. This is post-apocalyptic. The equivalent time frame that they've gotten back to is basically 18th century without gunpowder (other than fireworks), with such things as clocks and printed books being common. Think of them more of a prosperous US frontier town than a medieval peasant village.
In the first episode there's a landscape that I would swear looks like decaying and overgrown towers froma large, modern city.
Does that thread just spoilers for the current show, or are there book spoilers as well?There's a spoilers thread here if you'd like to discuss things like this.
Wheel of Time Discussion - Spoilers(with book spoilers)
I did find the trollocks cant swim thing to be a bit eyeroll worthy. That's from the book, and it makes sense in context.
Huh. I clearly wasn't paying attention during the opening exposition. Missed that fact completely!
They may have skipped that bit: that's pretty deep dive stuff in the books: the Age of Legends that ended 3000 years before this story was preceded by a nuclear war in "our world." many thousands of years prior.
Definitely don't recall anything about that.
The books only hint at it here and there as Easter eggs, but Jordan liked those old "Appendix N" post-apocalyptic fantasy stories.
There was, as another poster noted, a shot of overgrown skyscrapers near the start of the first episode. There's also an animated short on Amazon X-Ray that mentions just how advanced the Time of Legends was (for those that don't know, if you click on X-Ray during an episode, each episode has like a 3 - 5 minute animated short associated with each episode: Episode 1 had the Breaking of the World, Episode 2 had the Fall of Manetheren, and Episode 3 has one on Warders).
