A scene with Moiraine and Lan on the road would add little, imo, and deflate some of the tension from their entrance in the Winespring scene. The audience is obviously supposed to think that the stranger walking into the Inn is the black cloaked rider, if just for a moment (although I guess I am assuming that there will be a black cloaked rider)

At the least we will get to one of the "endings", if Season 2 is to include the Dragon Reborn

For some reason I always assumed that a show or movie would never make it past that point. I hope I'm wrong!

19 minutes ago, TheMountain said:

As much as I'm a book purist and hate changes, I will deal with some pretty big ones and try to enjoy the show anyways. That being said:

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If they make Egwene a possible Dragon Reborn, I'm gonna flip. To me, you might as well spit on RJ's grave then. That would be such a massively unfaithful change.

 

22 minutes ago, swollymammoth said:

I wouldn't say 100%. 65% unrecognizable sounds about right to me. It's just a shame that the showrunners decided to make everything as generic as possible for no apparent reason at all besides the fact that they didn't have enough talent to come up with anything better. 

 

THIS I FORETELL! This show is going to be like the Star Wars prequels. Everyone's gonna go nuts because they want to like it so bad. Initial reviews will be great. People on this forum are gonna splooge about how great it is, but as time goes on it will become more and more difficult to apologize for the show's shortcomings. By the time Egwene is revealed to be the Dragon Reborn in Season 2, everyone will finally have to admit that it's not what they'd always wanted from a WoT TV show after all. 

Bro, the prequels got mixed reviews and were shit on by the internet for a decade and a half. Now they are seen as flawed, but with redeeming qualities.

Leave Star Wars outta this!

I feel better about the show after seeing the Winespring clip tbh. I think the main cast will do a good job with the material they're given, and that will make up for a lot of aesthetic changes that would otherwise trigger me severely

Ever walk into a small town bar at the ass end of nowhere at 1am as a stranger? Yeah, it's going to feel a little awkward

Somebody on reddit claimed a couple of weeks ago to have seen the series. Also somebody on the cesspool 4chan claimed the same thing

They all said different things

It's kind of amateurish looking imo. The first one with Moiraine and the waygate is much more evocative

When they reach the blight, they add a laugh track to Egwene's comment of "this is the best weather we've seen all year!"

I don't get why they would need to create ANY characters. The Wheel of Time doesn't have enough already?

Surely there's some other Two Rivers lass they could have made be his wife (if they were going that route)

Hopefully Donal Finn is in season 2 from the start and they don't swap out the character in the middle of the season, like they did in Rome with Octavian

Great lakes folk definitely have some shared accent. My wife is from Rochester NY but sometimes sounds like a Michiganer.

I think the Two Rivers characters should all sound like Yinzers (aka Pittsburghers...aka three rivers people!)

15 hours ago, SinisterDeath said:

I personally never liked the Taimandred theory.

 

The good news with a TV series, they could do all the stuff Demanded was up to on screen.

 

 

In the books, the offscreen approach was a smack to the head.  Had they included that story line, the books would have been soo much longer... Yet, it would also feel weird to incorporate it, without a character we know, going there.

 

But I guess Rand was given that plot hook with the silk worm guy, but his arrogance over "silk trees" lost him that leed.

Taimandred wasn't a theory. It was a fact as of the release of Lord of Chaos, at least. 

https://twitter.com/Terez27/status/1289115504687427584/photo/2

https://www.theoryland.com/forums/discussion/8767

Not only that, but

HERID
FREAKIN
FEL

I think that Taimandred should absolutely be a thing!

Gillian Anderson as Morgase

I started listening to EOTW in the car, it's been a few years since my last reading. It's so relaxing to listen to - Michael Kramer's voice is like a warm blanket

26 minutes ago, king of nowhere said:

they will be naive if they grew up in their isolated village without contact with the outside, never having traveled farther than half a day's walk.

they are going to be naive and ignorant about the world at large, whether they're 18 or 81

Half a day's walk?

Bro...they've been as far as the sand hills and the foot of the Mountains of Mist. Have some respect

Apparently Rafe has plans for 8 seasons https://screenrant.com/wheel-time-show-8-seasons-planned-amazon/

I think they will condense a lot of the travel scenes in The Great Hunt and The Dragon Reborn for season 2. It will be tough to do it all in one season, imo, especially with the fantastic climactic sequences in each book