I am glad you and others are enjoying the show. My main point is that from everything I read here, I would continue to dislike and be frustrated by the show. I love Wheel of Time and these writers version of the story is not my cup of tea. I have been told by a few folks here and in other places that I should watch it because how else will more WoT stuff get made. I probably would have suffered through it 20 years ago. I mean, I watched the entirety of the Battlestar Galactica remake hoping it would get better. I just feel like we should have gotten something far better and I cannot settle for something I would not enjoy. If folks love it, then I am happy for them, but I will not be surprised if it gets canceled.

Inconsistent writing, the death of Loial and Siuan, introduction of the writers own characters and plotlines versus the source material. These are the reasons I quit and they remain in full force. It does not matter if the quality improved when the very elements that caused me to dislike the show remain. I was ready to accept changes for the TV format but WoT TV is not just changes to fit it into a TV format. It is a wholesale re-interpretation.

This thread is interesting and I am glad I gave up on the show. I have read enough to see that the writing and direction has not really improved.

This has to be the best casting decision for entire show. I largely did not like many of their decisions but she would kill as Elaida.

It is a large exaggeration and was directed personally to the poster in the form of "people like you." No one is making entire channels to hate on the show. The poster came here to discuss it with other fans of the material. It is fine for people to like the show. I heavily dislike it but I state often that I am happy that some folks like the show. I do not tell folks who like the show to be quiet or that they are flushing their lives down the drain.

"The time ppl like u waste ranting & making entire YT channels to hate on a show is just flushing ur lives down the drain."

Feel free to personally attack the poster. At least people who criticize care about the material enough to engage. It is far worse when apathy strikes a brand. Life is too short to be told you have to accept whatever they give you and like it or just switch it off an be quiet.

I am sure they will write a metric load of content that never appeared in the books and focus on side characters etc. They have plenty of runtime to hit some major areas but you can see from seasons 1 and 2 that they will add a lot of their vision and filler.

They cannot recover at this point.

Thank you! Modern TV series where you go a year between seasons is awful. We used to get 22 eipides or 800-900 minutes of content with 3-4 months between seasons. We are now lucky to get HALF that amount of content and have to wait 1-2 years between seasons. Production values do not compensate.

The core main characters in book 1: Rand, Mat, Perrin, Egwene, Nynaeve, Morraine, Lan. The core supporting characters in book 1: Thom, Loial You can also make an argument that the following characters were critical to introduce in book 1: Min, Tam, Elaida, Bayle, Elayne, Galad, Gawin. Meeting Rand was one of the core reasons Elaida performed the tower coup. Instead, were got a lot of characters that did not matter for season 1 like Liandrin and Logain, and even Siun. People argue that introducing Elayne in season 1 to have her wait around. Well, what about Logain. He does not become important until the coup and escape to Salidar while Elayne, Bayle, and Thom all had major roles in book 2. They added a load of trash that never happened into season 1 while ignoring core characters and core supporting characters.

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