Make him weaker? Please? Did they mess up by not using him in Tarwins Gap? Did they absolutely not make Falme - one of the top endings in the books- what it should be? To say it makes him weaker? And i mean- I don’t make it personal in my critic- so no, it didn’t make Rand ‘weaker’. I literally just reread the first five books- would you really like to debate weakness with me? Please go sound off and cry harder somewhere else. I have no tears for you and thinking Rand was weak in this. Misplayed? I think so. Underutilized? Probably. But weaker? Please note: Actually thought Stradowski did really well with Rand. Misplayed is of the texture of production

this mostly summarizes my feeling. It is the kind of thing that needed to really hit the ground running, and it didn’t really achieve a consistent evenness in all aspects until season 3. Two aspects of the show that worked well for me whenever they came up were when they leaned into the horror aspects and I actually thought any time they used comedy it matched quite well to the books. three aspects that didn’t work for me was the pacing, the Game Thrones effect, and the failure to hit many of the ‘!!!’ moments from the books. If i blame Rafe for antthing it’s not being managing the budget to make sure they delivered on some power moments like Falme or the Eye. The producers probably hamstrung the show by wanting to get into all the politicking instead or leaning into the horror. The pacing probably related to a clash between writers and producers. A sad day to be a WoT fan. Anyone petty or belligerent enough to think otherwise or throw blame on some ‘woke’ agenda generated by a single person rather than the unseen hand of producers who likely don’t read books at all just feels looks cynical. high point; Rhuidean low point: Agmars ummm we’ll call it charge- to change into his armor or something. I will always lol and smh at that one Agelmar

The title is self explanatory. I've posted this before... however--- It's basically two books from WoT. After reading it you'll not only see how great RJ was at subversion- at stealing scenes, you'll see a whole amazing the Amber influence struck through almost every fantasy piece today. Grimdark? The 1st 5 are practically grimdark. Trust me on this- if you haven't read Amber save your WoT reread and get to it. You'll like everything more despite the stark contrast of narration.