5 minutes ago, KakitaOCU said:

49:49.  Air starts warping when he slams the door.  Again when he breaks it, whole camera shifts and wobbles.  It doesn't show the weaves but it definitely shows sign of channeling.

mmm, I have just rewatched it...I cannot honestly catch this detail but, overall, is not important.

Few seconds earlier the D(an)arkfriend told Rand that it was impossible for him to open the door.

So, when this happens, it seems obvious that something supernatural has happened also for the non-reader.

2 minutes ago, Elder_Haman said:

She is already all these things in the show. By this point in the books she was just the angry lady who hit people with sticks.

Oh, I hardly disagree. Book-Nyn from book 1 is a fantastic multi-faceted character.

And, if you establish the first season as the mistery contest of "who the Dragon is", and for doing this, you are avoiding to characterize the one that will end up being actually the DR, I fear the situation might backlash, because it will make angry the non-readers that they are trying so desperately to please.

24 minutes ago, DaddyFinn said:

What's that scene? I thought they were human soldiers

Well, I was pointing to the fact that Logain rescue army behaved more or less like trollocs.

To be clear: as much as I dislike the show, I would be happy that people enjoying it might have the chance to have their full 8 seasons.

What I wanted to point out is that I fear this will not happen not because is subjetively/objectively bad but because it is failing in its grand purpose, which is not giving the fans of the book a faithful adaptation to be discussed on-line, but it is establishing the series as a pop-culture phenomenon, a feat that has been fully accomplished by GoT and, in other genres, by Squid Game very recently. In this context, WoT does not come even close and for a series with such a high budget this is a big problem. 

Well, I am not a Guardian fan but having spent 4 year of my life in UK, I took the habit of reading it.

However, while I do not share some of the thoughts in their review (which I expected to be more positive considering their general political views), I frankly cannot disagree with the title " Jeff Bezos’s Game of Thrones is destined to be forgotten". 

I have lurked this site for years, being a long-time fan of the series, which is indeed my favourite one.

So hello everyone from Italy.

I have thought really carefully about my opinion on this show, which I hoped to be as good as possible, being well aware that 1:1 adaptation was not possible (and not desirable either).

Unfortunately, this show

a) fails to portray the WoT universe on both the micro (plot, scenes, dialog etc) and the macro (character motivations/feelings, locations, general spirit of the world) level.

b) it performs a) with poor acting (with few exceptions), fake-looking scenery, and some very awkard/cringe moments ("but mah son!", ghealdean king running in battle among a bunch of ill-clothed cgi-less trollocs, etc.), all of this making you question where the 10 milion per episode really go.

I don't want to go in detail, because basically each episode simply delivers a) with b).

However, there is one thing that is bothering me, going beyond the failures of this show as an adaptation and as a being a decent show itself. Why they chose as main theme of the show the """mystery""" of who the Dragon reborn is? It feels so, so cheap in all the possible ways. And it is not going to pay in the long time when the DR will be revealed (unless they choose to go "all in" and change the DR, which i would actually prefer because that would be the less hypocritical choice and it's what they really would like to do)
 

Finally, from a perspective of the show itself, it is currently failing in what was the goal of the producers, i.e rival GoT. Of course, this occurs because it is worse from any possible angle. In my little bubble of the world, I remember I was working at Uni in Switzerland when GoT dropped. After a few episodes, everybody in my research group was talking about it, from the chinese phd student to the US senior post-doc.  By the end of the season, cafeterias were organizing screenings and got my mum calling me to ask if it was worth seeing. I have to say that none of this is happening for this series, which unfortunately, as The Guardian pointed out, will be soon forgotten.

At least, the books will remain.

Sorry for the long post and have a nice day