All the Things You Loved about S1

[DreadLord31]

What were the things you liked best about S1?!

[DojoToad]

Logain getting a spotlight.

 

Mat being a rascal.

 

Cold open on the Blood Snow

[DreadLord31]

• Dark Thom. "There's no one more dangerous than a man who knows the past." 🔥
• The costuming. Most of the Trollocs, the Fades, Lan & Moiraine. Beautiful. Horrifying. Perfecto. 
• Loial's character. Spot on. 
• The Lan/Nynaeve ship settling sail ...and immediately sinking. 
• The Aes Sedai politicking. Liandrin & the Reds man-hating vs. the Blue scheming was really high-lighted. 
• I agree with the Logain comment - liked getting more of him earlier. 
• Dragonmount birth/Ep7 cold open. 
• Fal Dara's design
• Isha'mael. Actor did a great job. I liked changing the end of the EotW. 
• Rosamund Pike's Moiraine. 
• Really all of the casting/acting was good for what they were given.

[DigificWriter]

• Siuanraine
• Moiraine being made the lead POV character
• The widening of the 'Dragon Reborn' candidate pool 
• Liandrin
• The introduction of gateway ter'angreal
• Thom being less garish and stereotypical
• The TR5 (Two Rivers 5) all being important in some fashion, not just Rand
• The stinger introduction of the Seanchan

Edited June 14, 2023 by DigificWriter

[DaddyFinn]

Pretty much everything except

- Moiraine's exile vows

- Egwene healing Nynaeve with no visible effort

- Only 8 episodes

- Covid issues

 

 

[Lightfriendsocialmistress]

First of all, it’s existence. I was and still am ecstatic that someone had the desire and wherewithal to tackle the massive undertaking of adapting it to the screen. 
 

overall casting (for the most part, a few of the casting choices were not hitting me right, most notably Min) whether the actors were closely resembling what I pictured or not at all what I pictured, I was pretty impressed 

 

seeing logain and the blood snow on screen 

 

shadar logoth was literally identical to how i imagined it 

 

the portrayal of machin chin affecting each character in a specific way 

 

the visual representation of the weaves of the OP and the difference when logain channels 

 

locations overall from EF to shadar logoth to tar valon to the ways, even the tinkers and white cloaks who didn’t have a specific location were represented quite well IMO

 

yikes I better stop here but despite some disappointments I have a lot to love about it 

 

 

 

Edited June 18, 2023 by Lightfriendsocialmistress

[Guire]

On 6/13/2023 at 8:15 PM, DigificWriter said:

• Siuanraine
• Moiraine being made the lead POV character
• The widening of the 'Dragon Reborn' candidate pool 
• Liandrin
• The introduction of gateway ter'angreal
• Thom being less garish and stereotypical
• The TR5 (Two Rivers 5) all being important in some fashion, not just Rand
• The stinger introduction of the Seanchan

Wow.  Your faves are almost exactly my least favorite aspects. That's impressive.

[DigificWriter]

6 hours ago, Guire said:

Wow.  Your faves are almost exactly my least favorite aspects. That's impressive.

 

I don't have the issue of expectations because I didn't really like the books and am strictly here for the adaptation as presented, and all of the things I cited as positive make logical sense in terms of widening the appeal of the property beyond just fans of the source material.