3 hours ago, Phaedrusnailfile said:

I hate to say it, as I have high hopes that the series will be allowed to tell it's story warts and all, but I think the whole who is the dragon red herring will be the shows undoing.   It set up a no win situation from the beginning- either Rand is not the DR and the books fans don't like the series or he is and all of those who have hoped for one of the others to be the DR for whatever reason are alienated by the reveal.  

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Well. I can only say that I watch this with someone who has not read the books and he is quite happy trying to guess (even if he leans heavily to the most obvious choice). So I dont think it matters handling the red herrings: they are there for the characters who themselves do not know. And if that entertains non-readers who are clueless: Yay! And for us who already know, we can just expect and anticipate. What would be the fun in having all the characters already know their own fate?

Did they try hard to superimpose the WoT characters on LotR characters? Because that is what it looked like to me, tbh. Not that that is a bad thing: WoT lead people to read LotR and LoTR fans must have had a look at WoT books in return.

Still keeping an open mind and the words from my guy (who never read the books) were 'looks nice'.

I do understand that the story telling and pacing of the story will need to be adapted to tv and that the little things that feel odd to some readers are just needed to do that. I will see if I watch it past episode 3.

28 minutes ago, DaddyFinn said:

Where do you find so many tall people who can also act?

In The Netherlands.