Money laundering? I do not get the super expensive 8 episode BS with a 2-3 year cadence. It is stupid when people are watching unproduced YouTube garbage. It is a complete unforced error. If the writing and actors are good, then people will watch no matter the production values. They are spending money in the wrong spots. Give me the older 22 episode season any day of the week. The short seasons only make sense for tight, mini-series style story arcs.

It's not a bad theory but, if true, shows the writers did not understand the Age. The Dark One has been touching the world since the Bore. Ishmael was loose for 3000 years. The world had steadily decayed for the entire period from the Age of Legends, to the Ten Nations, Artur Hawkwing, to present. It was Rand, as the Dragon Reborn, that changed the decline. So, the world was steeped in growing darkness until the Lord of the Morning returned.

I think there is a fair argument that if WoT show has remained closer to the books and not turned off a huge segment of fans, then it may have endured. I have seen numerous threads now blaming the "book snobs" for the cancellation. It was cancelled due to lack of audience. There is no good argument that people should watch something they dislike just to keep it going.

Funny, the prologue is what sold me on the series. The Emond's Field start can be slow until you get to the Trolloc raid. The prologue remains one of my favorite scenes in fantasy.

Not at all. It does not have to be exposition. Heck, they could have shown a flashback to the Eye being created as the world broke around them and tasking the last of the Green Men to guard it. That would have been great TV.

It is perfectly explained in the books. The Eye is the pool of Saidin and it was created because of prophecy that it would be needed. The entire Eye was set aside after the taint to be ready and waiting for the reborn Dragon. They talk about the Green Man multiple times in Eye. Morraine even tells the reader that she has been there and that need has always played a part in those who have found the Eye. Regardless, the Eye was going to be found by Rand, regardless, because he is the Dragon and it is meant for him. Morraine does not say it around the boys because she does not want them to know that one of them is the Dragon Reborn. A quick aside to Lan in the TV show could have established that point to the audience. The books explain it well. As for how Rand knows how to use it. It is because Lews Therin knew how to use it. The overwhelming source of pure Saidin was used at a subconscious level. Rand could not consciously control it but he was not. As for the forsaken, they felt Saidin, they were drawn to it and the seals were weakening. Rand arriving at the Eye was a beacon. All of this could have been easily handled in the show. It was not difficult. The writers just did there own thing.

The Logain and Warder episodes could have been cut entirely to make room for more stuff that actually happened. There was so much wasted space in S1.

WE do not know the distances involved here. They were picked up by Jawas and sold. We have no on-screen time or distance reference. If the pods were programed to seek out inhabited zones, then there are not that many cities or regions on Tatooine.

I am really sorry for those who enjoyed the show. I kept coming to Dragonmount to read the discussions to see if I should give it another try. I really wanted it to work. It seemed that S3 was an improvement but still clove to most of what drove me away from it. I doubt there will be another opportunity for it in the future. A lot of the fiction contemporary to WoT is disappearing from modern shelves...

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.