I think that they should make a series told from the PoV of the System Lords about their noble quest to eliminate the threat to their utopia posed by a technologically inferior people from a back-water planet.  The benevolent Apophis would make for a wonderful series lead.  Some blasphemers may attempt to sully his name but, we all know that he is as wise as he is loving.

I'm rather hoping that these episodes are later revealed to be nothing more than visions, induced by the taint, within some poor doomed man's mind, that are subsequently replaced by accurate representations of Jordan's works.

At this point though;  the only characters I would be interested in seeing are the Forsaken, the Snakes and the Foxes.  Oh, and even though he was not an accurate representation of the written character;  Padan Fain/Ordeith was always good for a sardonic laugh in the books.

Taking Logain's description of R (when he saw him on the walls in Cam and started laughing) and applying it to Nyn was terrible.

It's been a while since I read the books but, did the girls not learn how to detonate bands of earth after they were nicked by the Seanchan?

2 hours ago, Thana said:

Same here. I began my journey with this masterpiece when I was living abroad as an exchange student in the early 1990’s. I understand that there will be some changes and that there will be things that are left out but all this and just 4 episodes in? I hope that they fire Rafe Judkins and never let him work on an adaptation ever again. What did they spend the $10M an episode on? They should have spent some on a better cast or some acting lessons. They need to fire everyone and do a complete reboot. 

I agree.  Sadly though, this is probably going to die similarly to Shannara and the Dark Tower because they strayed too far from the source material.  They should have stuck to the story.  Jordan's books are superior to Martin's and we all know how well received GoT was (except for the ending anyway).

The Seanchan spoke with a Southern accent.  I thought that was an interesting touch--especially since their ancestors conquered a strange version of North America and they had slaves.  Every country that Rand encountered was a derivative of a European country--Asian too since Cairhein was the remnant of a Rus-Sino enclave.

It would have been brilliant if Jordan had hidden a Kilgore Trout character somewhere.  

3 hours ago, Sir_Charrid said:

I really don't get the issue people have with the characters not understanding the Lore, the prophesies have been around for 3000 years, in that time they will have been mis translated, mis told and mis understood. The truth of them does not have to equal peoples understanding of them. People thinking the Dragon will be a women does not mean it can be true, this is something the characters will learn through the series, and in learning those who have not read the books will also learn. This is a great example of the Show don't Tell rule of storytelling, The Writers will show in time that the Dragon has to be a man, (the reveal when the 2 forsaken are resurrected in opposite gender bodies will be one big indication of that late on) which is a better well of delivering that information rather then turning Morraine into Exposition women. 

Because it ignores Jordan's narrative.  The AS and "scholars" were well aware of the lore surrounding the heroes that were bound to the wheel and knew that all of the iterations that were "spun out" were very similar to their previous iterations.  Ignoring a major theme of the story in order to include two women as possible incarnations of the DR was just foolish--reinforcing it further by giving Logain's description of Rand to Nyn is simply absurd.  They are clipping from Rand's story arc and it makes no sense to me--especially considering that Nyn becomes a very powerful character that's central to the narrative several books later.  The lot of it comes off as being born from poor writing and an attempt to placate the impatience of those that did not read the books.  The D&I is there, they just need to wait for it.

I was also worried that the showrunners did this purposefully in order to cast whomever they wish for the heroes of the horn sans regards for Jordan's vision.

Yeah, I went ahead and watched the 4th episode.  Among other things (the battle and the hand axes were almost enough);  Logain thinking that Nyn is the DR just drove the spear into the Trolloc's heart for me.

I stumbled across this show on Amazon (well, the large banners helped a bit) and I was excited at first, but then I watched the first three episodes.  Giant Moraine is something that I can ignore due to it being a somewhat trivial change, but there are other issues that are difficult to ignore.

Why did they choose to ignore Jordan's purposefully crafted world (with geographically separated races and cultures)?  He was a student of history and meticulosly crafted what quickly becomes a very diverse world.  It's a very strong component of the foundation upon which his narrative was built.

Why are there 4 possible candidates for the DR (5 if you listen to the DF tavern wench)?

Why are the AS suddenly ignorant of the lore associated with the heroes bound to the wheel (and the fact that they always are "respun" into almost identical versions of themselves)?  In the books, they all knew that the DR had to be a man.

Why is Mat now a degenerate son of a degenerate drunken gambler that abandoned his family?

If you all like the show;  then I'm happy for you.  However, does it bother anyone else that they gave this the Shannara treatment (which was worse than the Dark Tower film) instead of the efforts that went into GoT?

The dance magic deserves a scathing review of its own.