Thanks for the review. Being a massive WoT fan since the EoTW came out in 1990, it's hard for me to say anything positive about this series. It's not that it's complete garbage, but it's the fact that they took such a phenomenal fantasy series and then strayed so far from the source material that it barely resembles - it actually doesn't - the same world. You simply cannot deny that they purposefully - and for no good reason - made changes that they simply did not need to do. They had a magical blueprint in Game of Thrones for how to adapt a book series to a TV series successfully and ignored it. It's a simple blueprint, really:
1. Cast the TV show characters to look very close to their book descriptions. You can make some minor exceptions, but otherwise, stick to the book. By doing this, you keep your fan base in the story. The WoT series tried so hard for woke diversity that the casting makes no sense in the world that Robert Jordan built. You watch the series and are constantly taken out of the story because the characters look nothing like they are described in the book.
2. Follow the incredibly successful script that already existed in the books. Once again, you can make some minor changes to adapt to TV, but otherwise, why stray very far? The books were obviously a success on a geometric scale. The fans loved them. They waited 30+ years to see the story, the scenes, the interactions om the screen. Please those fans and do just that. FOLLOW THE BOOKS. Game of Thrones did this until they ran out of books. And guess what happened after that? We all know what we thought of the last couple of seasons of Game of Thrones.
3. Per #2, maintain the same relationships that were in the books. They worked. Moiraine and Siuane are now lesbians? What about her and Thom's eventual relationship? I guess it could still happen.. but it lessens the likelihood and significance of it. It also takes away from Moiraine's singular focus on finding the Dragon Reborn and stopping the Dark One. It's just goofy and obviously done for Woke Points. It deviates from the established story for no good reason, as does most of the changes.
4. The ending. So.. so.. so.. bad. That is all I will say here. Anyone who is a fan of the books will just hate it. Because it should be hated. It was that bad.
I won't go into anymore detail other than to say that I have to add this. I was always a huge fan of Min in the books. And when I saw her character and story in the TV series, I was blown away at how bad they missed the mark. It epitomizes what is wrong with the show in dozens of other places. Besides wiping the whole Baerlon storyline from the show - which had some of the coolest parts of EotW in it - they also miscast her (as they did 90% of the cast) as she looks nothing like her book description. She's also almost 10 years older than the guy playing Rand in the show. In the books, she is 5-6 years older. 10 years is a huge age difference and you can see it on the screen. They also could have shown her visions from her perspective in a really cool way with some decent CGI. They didn't. And, of course, they changed most of her visions in the show.
In the end, it's just bizarre what they did. And the biggest fail is that now that they have made this turd of a show, us fans will probably never get a real screen adaptation of this epic story that does it justice. It's all such a shame.
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Review of "The Eye of the World"
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Thanks for the review. Being a massive WoT fan since the EoTW came out in 1990, it's hard for me to say anything positive about this series. It's not that it's complete garbage, but it's the fact that they took such a phenomenal fantasy series and then strayed so far from the source material that it barely resembles - it actually doesn't - the same world. You simply cannot deny that they purposefully - and for no good reason - made changes that they simply did not need to do. They had a magical blueprint in Game of Thrones for how to adapt a book series to a TV series successfully and ignored it. It's a simple blueprint, really:
1. Cast the TV show characters to look very close to their book descriptions. You can make some minor exceptions, but otherwise, stick to the book. By doing this, you keep your fan base in the story. The WoT series tried so hard for woke diversity that the casting makes no sense in the world that Robert Jordan built. You watch the series and are constantly taken out of the story because the characters look nothing like they are described in the book.
2. Follow the incredibly successful script that already existed in the books. Once again, you can make some minor changes to adapt to TV, but otherwise, why stray very far? The books were obviously a success on a geometric scale. The fans loved them. They waited 30+ years to see the story, the scenes, the interactions om the screen. Please those fans and do just that. FOLLOW THE BOOKS. Game of Thrones did this until they ran out of books. And guess what happened after that? We all know what we thought of the last couple of seasons of Game of Thrones.
3. Per #2, maintain the same relationships that were in the books. They worked. Moiraine and Siuane are now lesbians? What about her and Thom's eventual relationship? I guess it could still happen.. but it lessens the likelihood and significance of it. It also takes away from Moiraine's singular focus on finding the Dragon Reborn and stopping the Dark One. It's just goofy and obviously done for Woke Points. It deviates from the established story for no good reason, as does most of the changes.
4. The ending. So.. so.. so.. bad. That is all I will say here. Anyone who is a fan of the books will just hate it. Because it should be hated. It was that bad.
I won't go into anymore detail other than to say that I have to add this. I was always a huge fan of Min in the books. And when I saw her character and story in the TV series, I was blown away at how bad they missed the mark. It epitomizes what is wrong with the show in dozens of other places. Besides wiping the whole Baerlon storyline from the show - which had some of the coolest parts of EotW in it - they also miscast her (as they did 90% of the cast) as she looks nothing like her book description. She's also almost 10 years older than the guy playing Rand in the show. In the books, she is 5-6 years older. 10 years is a huge age difference and you can see it on the screen. They also could have shown her visions from her perspective in a really cool way with some decent CGI. They didn't. And, of course, they changed most of her visions in the show.
In the end, it's just bizarre what they did. And the biggest fail is that now that they have made this turd of a show, us fans will probably never get a real screen adaptation of this epic story that does it justice. It's all such a shame.