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The Wheel of Time (2021)

echobobbunn 4 points 15 days ago.

I started to watch S3E1 because of one or 2 comments that the whole production had changed track, and that it was getting back on course. After watching an earth shattering event depicted in the opening 10 or so minutes THAT NOT ONCE NOT EVER TOOK PLACE IN THE ACTUAL BOOKS, I laughed at myself for being so foolish as to think they might actually try to correct themselves and get back to even the barest of faithfulness to the source material. If you come to this series a fan of the books do yourself a favor and leave it be.

On the bright side, this series set the bar so low that if it is ever rebooted in the future, the next attempt might look like Emmy (or Oscar) material in comparison. The source material is fantastic, this portrayal of it is abysmal.

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ibjonnyc 1 points 14 days ago.

I’m a fan of the books which is the reason I started watching it. They said a while back that Robert Jordan’s series would be too difficult to put on film back in the day. There are 15 books they are trying to compress into a series of merely 8 episodes a season, so I didn’t expect them to strictly adhere to the storyline. I am enjoying it for what it is and not what it could or should be.

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