It's kind of like Lanfear created a nightmare world and trapped us all in it. This series has definitely been created by Darkfriends.

Did any of you people running this fan site have anything to do with this? Did you encourage them or give them any sort of bad guidance? I mean if you did, all of your "fan" credibility is totally shot.

I cannot believe how strikingly horrid this series has started off to be. It sucks on so many level I can't keep composed. NO I don't need this show to "show me" Who what how and when the books characters, grow develop rise and fall. That is the point of creating a whole world where all the characters are from, interact, fall and rise. I for sure don't need weak poorly written adaptation being explained as necessary and more "modern world view" All that the books are would be, is a monumental undertaking for TV. And that is what this is TV badly arranged story arc, omissions of integral parts of each character, added sex, some cool CG and flash other crap and poof Amazon has ruined it all in it's quest to make the next game of thrones.  

So much anticipation for such a let down.

Where's the agelessness look. Hardly even saw Padin fain. 

Reminded me of the NBC show Sword of Truth. Very low budget.

If this is the way the show is going, I think I'll stick to the books.

My imagination is much better.

10 hours ago, AenAllAin said:

It's kind of like Lanfear created a nightmare world and trapped us all in it. This series has definitely been created by Darkfriends.

 

Did any of you people running this fan site have anything to do with this? Did you encourage them or give them any sort of bad guidance? I mean if you did, all of your "fan" credibility is totally shot.

Agreed. Very low budget.

10 hours ago, AenAllAin said:

It's kind of like Lanfear created a nightmare world and trapped us all in it. This series has definitely been created by Darkfriends.

 

Did any of you people running this fan site have anything to do with this? Did you encourage them or give them any sort of bad guidance? I mean if you did, all of your "fan" credibility is totally shot.

Had a good time with it.

Overall I’m looking forward to more episodes. Good to finally see something on TV after decades of failed attempts, and waiting.

I quite enjoyed the first 3 episodes! yes the TV version is never going to be as amazing as the books after all my imagination is anyway far richer than any budget Amazon could cough up right? 

That being said the diversity of the cast fills me with peace! ( being a woman of colour myself!) 

a great adaptation, and it gets better at every reviewing.

there's a few questionable choices, but it's impossible to undertake a job so big and get everything spotless. the books were far from spotless themselves.

if only people could get past the fact that it's not exactly like the books...

On 11/24/2021 at 1:15 AM, Tugbraid said:

I quite enjoyed the first 3 episodes! yes the TV version is never going to be as amazing as the books after all my imagination is anyway far richer than any budget Amazon could cough up right? 

That being said the diversity of the cast fills me with peace! ( being a woman of colour myself!) 

I don't think diversity is the issue anyone has with this (or at least not most people). They made Matt a petty thief, his dad a lechter, and his mom an alcoholic. Egwene and Rand are already getting it on as a backstory. I've never seen a version of the Aes Sedai ring quite that "discrete"; I mean, they would need a mirror of mists weave for that thing to ever go unnoticed! And when Lan gets into the bath with Moraine (which didn't actually happen till they reached the borderlands where it was the custom), how did she warm up the water? To me it looks like she just farted into the tub. Oh! And the first scene with the Red Ajah, why was that guy squealing? Was it because they were going to give him a bath? (lol) ...or was something more sinister supposed to be going on? Who knows...

The negative reviews are understandable from those who thought the TV series was actually going to closely follow the books.

I never figured the TV series could actually come close to reproducing what took R Jordan and B Sanderson 23yrs and 4.4 million words to create. 

I choose to sit back and enjoy whatever Rafe & his (s)WoT team have planned for us to watch, regardless of whether the work carbon-copies the books.

You can bet The Dark One wants this story told in any form possible to reach a wider audience. Seriously...Lanfear and her Darkfriend's don't sabotage their own chances to please Shai'tan!  

On 11/22/2021 at 7:50 PM, denlev said:

Where's the agelessness look.

That's true, but how exactly do you make someone look agless on TV?  Although I don't know much about filming, it may actually be really easy, but I don't feel like it's too important.  I think that the change to the rings irked me more.

On 11/22/2021 at 7:50 PM, denlev said:

Agreed. Very low budget.

 

The budget for each episode was around $10 million.  That doesn't seem very low to me.  Although I don't know how much is usually spent on episodes for TV Series.

On 11/25/2021 at 5:19 PM, AenAllAin said:

how did she warm up the water?

She's an Aes Sedai... she used the one power.

I liked the show overall.  There were a lot of changes, but the show is never going to be the same as the book.  They can't possibly do that.  It has to be condensed into a shorter time, and also, there is way to much inner thoughts of the characters that they just can't show on the screen.  I was expecting it to be awful, if I'm being honest.  I couldn't think how it could possibly live up to the books.  I don't know that it does, but it is still really good and I think that that is because it doesn't try to imitate the story exactly, because if it did it would get so many things wrong.   There are people who are saying it's trash because it's a completely different story, but it's not completely different.  It was never ment to be a  carbon copy of the books.  They would never  be able to do that.  It is just an adaptation.