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  On 6/16/2025 at 7:28 PM, Cipher said:

Actually when I read EOTW I didn’t read critically and didn’t realize Rand was the DR—in my novice high fantasy reading.  I knew he was the protagonist, but figured he and the Dragon were different people.  I need to read it again and see how blind I was. I would like to listen to Rosamund Pike’s reading.

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I've only listened to her read the prologue, but she does a great job of it. I'm not really one for audiobooks at all, but clearly she put in a ton of work for her performance. Which was likely a part of her being an Executive Producer for the show, who definitely worked closely with the show's writing team at many points.

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  On 7/4/2025 at 3:18 PM, Maximillion said:

I would have started the show with Tam and Rand making their way to town.

Just leave out the prologue and it's all there in the books in terms of unfolding the story.

 

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The issue with that for me is that if you look at how the book unfolded there is little explanation on the taint and the state of Saidan without the prologue. Brief mentions from Fain and a little around Camelyn with Logain do not adequately cover it IMO.

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  On 6/13/2025 at 5:36 AM, Sabio said:

That is the big problem, 10 minutes of a 1-hour show setting up just what's going on?

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Well, they wasted at least 10 minutes of fluff other things.  The women's circle throwing Egwene off a cliff, Matt's family interactions, Perrin's wife, The whole scene in the inn.  

 

The prologue was epic and mysterious.  All of what I described above were filler that didn't advance the plot, or really much of anything.  

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RJ chose the Prologue to be the prologue for a reason. It is an awesome intro to the series and immediately sets up the concepts of reincarnation and the taint/madness associated with the male Saidin (not to mention traveling and a few other goodies) which are both essential to the series. It would have worked equally well in the TV series. The show's decision to depart from this, coupled with "we don't know if it is a boy or a girl," coupled with the "who is the dragon" non-mystery pretty much doomed the show from the start.

 

EOTW was far and away the easiest book to adapt to screen - all they had to do was stick to the story - and they botched it horribly.

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