I tried to convince a season 1 hater that The Wheel of Time TV show season 2 was worth giving another chance. Her thoughts were pretty interesting…

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[Elgee]

Good on you! Must say I agree with her on most points 🙂

[BookMattBetterThanShow]

Well done, really liked most of her points. I force myself to finish season one, just because I loved the book so much. I thought season two was better, still lots of issue. Just hope that season3 improves from season 2 as season 2 did from season 1

[HeavyHalfMoonBlade]

Her point though about aging the characters is wrong. In the book, they act like children, especially Mat, but they are twenty. The show ages their behaviour, not their actual age appreciably. So criticizing the show for making them act too childish for their age is getting it completely the wrong way round.

 

Also they fall into the trap of not appreciating the book as it was written. To anyone coming to the story when all the books are published, just from knowing the titles it is clear that story is about the Dragon Reborn. This was not clear when tEotW was released. That is teased out through the book. I'd say that is why they chose to go with who is the Dragon, as that replaces the tension of why are the trollocs after Rand? Seeing as it is written nearly entirely from Rand's perspective it is obvious he was the main character, we just did not know in what story yet. I often think that is why so many people think the book is boring at first as the whole tension spinning mechanic is completely lost if you have ever heard anything about the series. I think it is telling that so many people say here, I hated the first books and only continued because the rest of the books were sitting on the bookshelf. I might have mentioned that one or twice before, not sure.

[books of Robert Jordan]

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I tried to convince a season 1 hater that The Wheel of Time TV show season 2 was worth giving another chance

 

I have no idea why would anybody do that, but I will share a little bit of information that can reveal a lot: after this year's Emmy Awards even the most rabid defenders of the Amazon show (where they ban you for the slightest criticism of the show) acknowledged that the show is not good.

 

This response, and I have to repeat it: from the most rabid fans of the Amazon show, speaks volumes.

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7 hours ago, books of Robert Jordan said:

 

I have no idea why would anybody do that, but I will share a little bit of information that can reveal a lot: after this year's Emmy Awards even the most rabid defenders of the Amazon show (where they ban you for the slightest criticism of the show) acknowledged that the show is not good.

 

This response, and I have to repeat it: from the most rabid fans of the Amazon show, speaks volumes.

Gonna need some source on this claim.

 

Are you talking about this years Emmy's?  the ones in Sept?  While I do believe WoT has totally snubbed by not getting a nomination in costuming I don't believe I have seen any of this discourse of "rabid fans" saying the show is not good.

[Sabio]

Not that it's a huge deal but Rand was 19 at the start of the series.  But they hit on my biggest gripe of the series, a lot of wasted time on stuff, that add nothing or just repeats itself.  If she thought season 1 episode 4 was bad then she needs to skip the last episode of season 2, what they did to the dagger was cringe worthy.

Edited July 29 by Sabio