Ok so I’ve done this before and I just need to re-mention that WoW adding the Wheel Of Time to its pantheon of “mythologies we’re going to add to the melting pot” is just amazing!
I’m sure there are lovecraftian and norse mythology purists that didn’t like when their faves got assimilated into WoW, but I am NOT THIS WAY with the Wheel Of Time! I’m so happy!
Today there was a first look on social media (I can’t link, I’m sure someone will) at a front and back cover sort of view of Christie Golden’s next WoW novel that will be a prequel to Midnight, and THERE HE IS! Our tatted up Car’a’carn of light and shadow, with his multicultural warrior society parents and his prophetic front and center recognition!
Between the “Walk in the light” Arathi Empire from across the sea who have two quests literally named after WoT books, who will absolutely be a villain down the line, and Arathor having a lot of Randisms already baked into him, let’s EFFING GOOOO!!
Yes. I keep seeing references here and there. Read all the books and still like the show. I just interpret the show as one the many turns of the wheel.
Yet one shall be born to face the Shadow,
born once more as he was born before,
and shall be born again, time without end
The show requires a lot of chanting “it’s an adaptation, they can’t fit it all on TV” while squinting to see the story that it’s kind of responsible for telling if it wants to cash in on the decades of love. I personally think they accomplish this, but it’s a contentious issue with extremes both reasonable and less so on both sides of the debate.
That’s fair, and I do have a tendency to be a “bad nerd” with adaptations. I will likely rewatch S1 in a month or so when the book is less fresh in my head.
I have not started S2 yet of the show though I was a bit put out seeing Matt’s story be cut down a bit in the spooky city. However I understand the reasoning due to format.
For what it’s worth, Season 3 is worth the climb, but there were a LOT of issues with them losing the original Mat actor that wrecked the end of S1 and changed the course of S2. S3 is when they get out from under all of that.
That said, like with games, if it takes “X amount of time to get to the good stuff,” people have a right to say “then it’s not good.”
Season one was a cluster-f due to covid and one of the main character leads quitting the show mid-way through the season. the actor they replaced him with in season 2 is really…a much better version of the character though.
season 2 was a good improvement, and they absolutely cooked in Season 3.
IMO as of now, the primary issue with the Wheel of Time show, is that it simply does not have enough time to properly build anything out, and the entire plot just moves super fast.
8 episodes a season is just too short for this Series. they need at least 10 episodes but ideally 12.
God, yes. S3E8 especially I felt crammed way too much in! Like, I understood it all, but I really felt my decades of book knowledge were being heavily leaned on. That said, I have seen “show only” reviews and reactors that retain everything and speak like experts, but it’s universally understood that the show moves too fast, and the superfans chant a little more nervously “it’s an adaptation, they can’t fit it all! It’s an adaptation, they can’t fit it all!” while rocking back and forth.
I have a personal pet peeve with the “different turning of the wheel” talk as it gives a little too much carte blanche to go off a recognized path, but I generally enjoy the show.
That show is cooked. If you hanged in there and even enjoyed it, more power to you. I think it was trash and stopped watching after I finished the first season.
The show is enjoyable but not for anyone seeking a purist representation of the books.
In the earlier seasons there were slight deviations but they have now fully branched to a new story where it might be loosely based on the Wheel of Time but is its own story. Hopefully it will retain enough content of the books that I will still recognize it by the time it concludes.
I plodded through quite a few number of books in the series, missed the last though. I wanted to know how the story went but got very frustrated with Rand’s sermonizing…over and over. ugh.
I’m not sure a similarity in likeness from back-cover art really qualifies as “WoW adding Wheel of Time to its pantheon.” I could be wrong but this just seems like ultra-fanboi confirmation bias.
By itself, probably not, but literally two subsequent quests in Hallowfall, which is extremely “WoT-and-Warhammer-coded” were named after WoT books. If you follow Wheel of Time at all the writing has been on the wall for some time with the Arathi, who are part seanchan, part children of the light. “Chosen one guy with winding dragon arm tattoos” is just another point on an already existing line.
