TV Series The Wheel of Time

rfjeff9 said:
I like the Whitecloaks, too - well done. Kinda like the Spanish Inquisition if they were based in Salem, Massachusett.
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I always envisioned them like the Klan
 
Episode 2 was better, no significant deviations of note. There ARE some of course because why stick to the story? But nothing that overly pisses me off. Maybe a little boring.

Why no Thom Merrilin?

EDIT: Ah here he is in episode 3, finally showing up. I don't understand why they didn't stick to story in this case. :noidea:
 
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rfjeff9 said:
Can’t.

The main one here is black
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Just seemed like a lot of similarities between the groups when I read the stories, so that was how i always envisioned the Whitecloaks in my mind. Of course, Inquisition works, too
 
Episode 3: :facepalm::headscratch::gaah::bored::lm:

At this point I am ambivalent. Overall the story is moving in the correct direction in that the 3 split up parties are all headed east separately. The encounters of Moiraine's party and Rand/Mat/Thom have been redone for whatever reason.

The show should have an addendum that it is based on The Wheel of Time, not ACTUALLY The Wheel of Time.

Any other time I would be OK with some creative license but I can't see the need here. Why change things that need not be changed?
 
rfjeff9 said:
This thread is for the show since it is under Movies &TV. Someone can make one in the book section if they like.
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I meant a show thread for those who read the books and a show thread for those who haven't.

If you guys are going to whine about them straying from the source literature and posting spoiler things all the time, it might be better to separate the two.
 
Watched the first episode last night. Pretty good.

Yeah, they took a lot of detours from the books but you know what? That's okay with me, because Jordan often took way too long to get to the point.
 
Hu War Yu said:
Watched the first episode last night. Pretty good.

Yeah, they took a lot of detours from the books but you know what? That's okay with me, because Jordan often took way too long to get to the point.
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If I learned anything from Game of Thrones it's that it is very necessary because Martin did the same in his books. You need to cut stuff out.
 
Hu War Yu said:
Watched the first episode last night. Pretty good.

Yeah, they took a lot of detours from the books but you know what? That's okay with me, because Jordan often took way too long to get to the point.
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The go arounds are OK in hindsight, and I understand the need, trying to condense 14 large books into a show. It’s the extra things added in unnecessarily that irk me. I will deal with it somehow, I wouldn’t want ill to have to go make a separate thread :eyebrows:

At least we don’t have to get a description of each aes sedai dresses and jewelry or braid pulling every page.
 
Frankly, I was disappointed in the hot tub scene
 
rfjeff9 said:
If she was green Ajah maybe there would have been something.

DAMN YOU ROBERT JORDAN!!!!!!
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I mean, at least give us a shot of Moiraine's back side, instead of Lan's

Was also a little surprised at how they portrayed Rand and Egwene's relationship. I guess the way they did it makes for better television.

Trollocs: awesome. The Fade: haven't seen enough yet but I like how menacing they presented it in the first episode. Wasn't sure I liked the way they cast Lan but he was pretty good.

My only nagging question:

How are they going to bring Nynaeve back? She looked like a goner
 
They explain Nynaeve in the next episode.
 
BusSport said:
Amazon Studios is doing an upcoming TV series adaptation of The Wheel of Time, the epic fantasy series by Robert Jordan (and finished by Brandon Sanderson after Robert Jordan's death).

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Wow! I read the first 9 of those books when I was a kid. They're each like 800 to 1,000 pages. I never had time to finish them when I got into adulthood.

The only non-cartoon (South Park, etc) TV Show I've watched in the last 20 years or so is Arrested Development, but I don't think I can pass this one up. Been waiting for someone to make this into a series since I was a kid. Checked out the first few episodes, and they did a surprisingly good job with it so far.

This series is a slow, slow burn. It doesn't really get good until page 216 of the first book when a character named Min says some stuff. But it was a very elaborate, well-written series. Robert Jordan was great (RIP).
 
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Hu War Yu said:
Was also a little surprised at how they portrayed Rand and Egwene's relationship. I guess the way they did it makes for better television.
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They're taking quite a bit of artistic license with the series, but you can't expect 'em to follow like 20,000 pages of books exactly.
 
rfjeff9 said:
Egwene was supposed to be attractive. That didn’t happen.
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I also thought she was blonde, but it was 20 years ago, so maybe I'm remembering wrong.
 
Re: Aiel (I think it was book 3 they were introduced; it was decades ago).

WTF is with the decision to make the Aiel gingers? They’re desert people; the Aiel Waste is basically Death Valley. Gingers’ faces would melt off. I was expecting them to be black or Native American or something. Really weird adaptation.
 
ill said:
I meant a show thread for those who read the books and a show thread for those who haven't.

If you guys are going to whine about them straying from the source literature and posting spoiler things all the time, it might be better to separate the two.
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That’s what spoiler text is for.
 
Aiel are blond and red in the books with blue eyes. Think sun bleached hair of beach people. I dont remember the skin tone.
 
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