Does anyone else think that this might not be the DO at all, but rather the results of the massive fight between Rand and Rahvin? I mean, after all they went swinging through the palace tossing balefire left and right as well as all kinds of other uses of the power. Sure a major part took place in the palace’s dream plane, including the conclusion, but that conclusion was a bolt of balefire so massive it brought people back to life that had been killed about a half hour or more ago by the target! Is it possible that this fight damaged the pattern of the palace somehow and that eventually resulted in corridors changing? Just a thought.

On 4/20/2022 at 10:39 AM, DojoToad said:

I don't think adding characters will fragment the show - the writers will take care of that.

 

I enjoyed the massive amount of characters in the books.  Wasn't always easy but was enjoyable.

I’m not certain the writers will take care of that. We’ve only gotten eight episodes thus far and the writing seemed a bit scatterbrained to say the least. I also love the massive detail and number of characters from the books but the books are detailed, precise, and lengthy, AND there’s 14 of them. The show has only cherry-picked bits from the first 3 books and they still don’t always seem to know what they want to concentrate on. Oh, and the biggest difference being that the writing of the books was actually good; the show’s writing, with a few exceptions, is mediocre. Naturally this is just my opinion and I’d like to point out that I actually enjoyed the show, just not as a visual presentation of the books, but it’s own, separate thing.

Probably would have been an altogether different show. Though maybe if they’d simply spent more time on the casting in the first place it also would have turned out differently, and likely better as well. Some of their cast choices have just been downright baffling.