Pretty sure it wasn’t going to happen. Seemed to me that Rand was going to ultimately end up with Egwene, Min was going to end up with Mat and Elayne and Avi were just going to end up with each other. I seriously think there was going to be a scene where Mat would basically say to Min, “The hell with the bloody Eelfin and the hell with Daughter of the nine bloody moons, I love you.”

The he thing that made me really enjoy Peter Jackson’s LOTR was that despite the departures from the books the story was told in the same tone as the novels and so it still felt like LOTR Same went for Game of Thrones, the books had a darker tone and thus so did the show so it felt like the same world and the same story. WOT by contrast just does not have the same tone as the books. It feels like they are trying to tell the story of WOT in the tone of GOT and it just feels off, despite some familiar characters and scenes it just doesn’t feel like the same story.