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.

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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