We know that the show is parts of book 1 some of book 2 and something from book 3.  Season 2 is part of book 1 at least. And we know Elayne is season 2. So no Camelyn. Based on the episode titles looks like it will move very fast.  I am not expecting to see Beltine, Winternight at Rands, etc.  I am guessing based on the convo between Perrin and Rand that Egwene went underwent some sort of testing to see if she could be an AS.

Bases on a 2 min clip I’m now expecting “major beats”. 

• Moraine Comes to EF
• Trollics Attack
• They All Leave and end up in Shadar Logath
• From their they end up either in Tar Valon or The Eye

In some ways it reminds me of the adaption of Bourne.  The first movie was like every other chapter a different bad guy and the ending of the book was a different movie.  I like the Bourne series, maybe it was because it was so incredibly different  from the books that’s I could enjoy it as it’s own thing

I'm going to have a watch party of fans, superfans (like myself), and non-fans (never heard of WoT) ... And I'll be really curious to hear their feedback & post it. 

As a superfan, I have had the greatest emotional rollercoaster for sure...From so hyped to it's going to suck to it might be ok to the trailer being dropped and then super, super hyped to then this ... Where I am back to - it's going to suck (they've changed everything and it feels all wrong & not like my beloved books at all). I completely agree with Elgee's critique - it's so NOT Lan or Moiraine or the WineSpring Inn. 

But the positive comments are basically saying, "Well, it's for TV/new audiences. They got to show that Aes Sedai are feared and Lan is a confident bad-ass." 

Ok, fair enough. But there are a bunch of more WoT'ish ways to do that...

Have Padan bring news from the outside and everybody gasp at the mention of Aes Sedai.

Nevertheless, I'm sure I'll come back to equilibrium & still mostly withhold judgement until I see the first three episodes with my watch party! 

Since we fans can’t change a darn thing about this production for the visually blessed,  be at peace with the story telling, for with time, legend fades to myth, right?

GSH

This looks amazing. I'm really excited about it and am sorry so many of you are incapable of just having fun with it. It cannot and should not be exactly like the books. It cannot because that is... impossible. It should not because that would be boring. The books are amazing. And this show can be too. Even if they didn't consult you about the way you thought Moraine should enter a room or whatever. 

Just enjoy things. 

On 10/9/2021 at 5:50 PM, StoryArcher said:

The village of Emond's Field, isolated for hundreds of years, so forgotten by the larger world that they haven't even seen a tax collector in generations is somehow made up of a very evenly distributed, very distinct global population, including a European, sub-Saharan African, Indian, Hispanic, Asian and so on... the books present so many opportunities for inclusion and diversity as these country bumpkins are introduced to a larger world and many different and distinct cultures... but instead we have this heavy-handed diversity box-checking right out the gate that actually beggars suspension of disbelief.

I'm with your other critiques, but think you're off base here. The world was literally broken 3,000 years ago, a dramatic cataclysm that destroyed cities, nations, even the fundamental geography of the world. Everyone and everywhere was disrupted. Entire peoples wiped out, others set to wander, others scattered. It took hundreds of years for civilization to rebuild. 

AND Randland is our world about 4,000 - 5,000 years in the future, and you already see multiculturalism in large swaths of our current world. 

The idea of races being geographically separated doesn't fit with what we know about this world.