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Spiritweaver1

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  1. Well having finished S2 and having started a rewrite I will proffer my comments as they bubble up through the haze that my mind is becoming. First and foremost I am very much looking forward to S3. I feel so much better than I did after S1 when I wasn't sure I was going to bother. In my view this isn't exactly an adaptation or a based on but a reasonably successful middle ground. I love the books and being a fast reader and retired in Seattle I can power through the series in a couple of months. As I have said, mostly during S1, the heavy rewrite and condensed story time makes it easy to leave apparent plot holes or unexplained things many of which have been pointed out before. I do hate the magic resurrections such as Lanfear's. Jordan handled this much better with the new body approach. Another one that grates me is Min being wrong on the vision of Matt stabbing Rand with the Dagger. Unlike her symbolic visions that was very specific. How is she going to get her credibility back? Also Rafe seems to like the fake out to rile up us book lovers. It isn't just deaths. A possible one is that with Ishy's memory implant and his blowing the horn there is apparently no need for the Finnfolk. Yet we don't know for sure that he has all his battle skills and perhaps we will see him make the bargains. I sure hope so. For those who think Logan is going to teach Rand forget it. We will be seeing Asmodean or one of the other male Forsaken do that bit. It is dramatically much more interesting to have to clasp the snake to your breast and deal with all that entails. Speaking of teaching Rand the way he dispatched Turok made much more sense than pretending he can defeat someone with a blade. Combining characters like Uno and Gaidal Cain and Hurin and Elyas make sense we likely will see more of that. It works for me so far. I felt the dragon was a bit over the top. I much preferred the way Jordan played it in the book. Eggs was a little too strong for a decent plot line. It would have been better to have Moraine link with her and Elayne and hold defensive weaves or have Nynaeve as part of the effort. After having her be super girl on several occasions she is regressing into incompetence. Really? Finally the way things are going after this effort is complete we can hope for a more faithful AI generated effort. It could be as long as it needs to be and as long as somebody is supervising to cut some sloggy bits it could be awesome. I really would like to see Randland brought to life. However until that day this show will fill the gap nicely.
  2. Well I thought I would drop in and share a few thoughts. Season two is clearly much better than season one from a writing and production standpoint. I still fail to understand why the team feels they need to redo everything. I don't have too much of a problem with it except they are leaving money on the table in terms of some of the dialog and character development. It does leave room for somebody to come in later with a more faithful adaptation which I would like to see. I am not a fan of the shows propensity to bring people back from the dead. At least in the books they had to get a new body. I think the timeline will be interesting as it is beginning to look like Falme will be the climax of season 2 which sort of leaves us at the end of The Great Hunt which means we have only gotten through two books in our two seasons. I find it interesting that the show seems to be more mysterious about the motives of some of the characters rather than in the book. Yet they felt it necessary to show Ishy at Suroth's side right from the get go rather than revealing her as a dark friend much later. Some of my favorites such as Matt haven't be developed much yet and I certainly hope that starts to happen. As noted elsewhere in this thread the production teams seems to be spending all its character development time on the women. Hopefully they will remember that one of the main points of Jordan's world is that men and women have to work together to be successful. I am not yet convinced Logain will be teaching Rand as that seems more misdirection. It would make the most sense from a dramatic standpoint to have another male forsaken show up maneuvered by Lanfear to teach him all the books. . You would only have to have him in the show for season 3. Well all in all the show seems to be finding its footing and is certainly entertaining enough. I still have problems with some of the random deviations from the books that don't really need to be there but as has been previously noted the team is taking a very loose approach to the source material. They are creating something and if it isn't Jordan's world it may still be an interesting alternative world.
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