Plan on Just Enjoying the Show as It Is

[Borderlander]

21 minutes ago, DojoToad said:

Trying to make the effort to enjoy the show myself - just not making myself believe it yet...

 

Old age - enjoying different things than when I was young.  Can't translate that acceptance to the show, but I have not given up.

 

I hear ya.

 

I told my wife it is like finally getting to ride on a roller coaster I have been waiting to try for years, but there is a gadget on the handlebars that keeps shooting me in the eyes with pepper spray while the ride is going. I am enjoying the wind in my hair and the big loop-de-loops, but it is impossible to ignore the pepper spray in my eyeballs no matter how hard I try. 

 

Will keep at it, though. Lots of beautiful artistry to appreciate in this adaptation even if I vehemently disagree with several major changes.

[DojoToad]

13 minutes ago, Borderlander said:

 

I hear ya.

 

I told my wife it is like finally getting to ride on a roller coaster I have been waiting to try for years, but there is a gadget on the handlebars that keeps shooting me in the eyes with pepper spray while the ride is going. I am enjoying the wind in my hair and the big loop-de-loops, but it is impossible to ignore the pepper spray in my eyeballs no matter how hard I try. 

 

Will keep at it, though. Lots of beautiful artistry to appreciate in this adaptation even if I vehemently disagree with several major changes.

That roller coaster analogy is actually spot on.

 

There is stuff to enjoy in the show for sure - even some of the changes - just don't know if it is worth getting maced.

[Elder_Haman]

39 minutes ago, DojoToad said:

There is stuff to enjoy in the show for sure - even some of the changes

I mean this respectfully - just try liking it for what it is instead of worrying about what it isn't.  

[DojoToad]

49 minutes ago, Elder_Haman said:

I mean this respectfully - just try liking it for what it is instead of worrying about what it isn't.  

No problem.

 

Many of my complaints are about changes to the books (less so additions and deletions).  But the complaint isn't because the show is different than the books but that I think the changes are worse than the books - and unnecessary for the adaptation (with all my vast knowledge of what it takes to make a TV show ?).

 

Example - loved changes for Mat's parents.  Ninja Nynaeve in the sacred pool - hated.

 

And I have more on the plus and minus side, unfortunately more to the minus.  So trying to like it for what it is doesn't work for me.  Like the 1980's movie Dune - vastly inferior to 2021 version in my opinion, and painful to watch in some aspects.  Why should I watch something I don't enjoy - just to enjoy it for what it is?

 

But I'm much more heavily invested in WoT which is why I'll give it one or two more episodes.  After that, I'll be good to go or retreat to my books - which I still enjoy.