Wheel of Time thread

It was definitely Clancey's style but i think for R6 he padded pages.

Heaven help you if you forgot what a sword form looked like. You had to go all the way back to the book's glossary which can kill the mood. I'll be honest Crossroads of Twilight took me a year because i lost the will to read multiple times and sometimes it was on the same page. 

I thought the first chapter of Steven Erikson's Midnight Tides was bad (Took me one week, but everything after was a rollercoaster ride) until i remembered Crossroads.

So you didn't read Knife of Dreams until later on?  I actually thought it was one of the stronger books - maybe even the best since The Fires of Heaven.

I'd never heard of Sanderson, prior to him being tapped to finish the books.  He did a good job, in what can charitably have been described as an impossible situation, but the difference in style was very obvious.

  Nothing wrong with a spoiler tag pyramid every once in a while.


I....can't remember.  I don't think I had an account.  If I did, I certainly wasn't very active.  I mainly just lurked there - and occasionally at theoryland.com - for the nerd-outs and the fact that Jason from Dragonmount seemed to have a degree of 'insider access' (as evidenced by Jordan having a blog there).


And all the sniffing.

Undoubtedly the right call, as well, despite some jarring moments. A poor imitation wouldn't have served anyone well.

It will be interesting to see how they deal with the balance of POV in the series going forward.

I listened to the audio books about a year ago and the disparity in the amount read by Michael Kramer vs Kate Reading really underlined who the major protagonists were in EotW.

With 5 prospects for the role of Dragon, does the balance of POVs continue to be more egalitarian?

I also wonder how much signing Rosamund Pike as headline actor early on has affected the narrative. Moraine appears to be one of, if not the prime protagonist in the first episode rather than the mysterious, vaguely threatening character from the book.

I still haven’t managed to get past the first episode, so a lot of these speculations may have already been cleared up…

Oh boy... Hate to be debbie-downer because I do love WoT and was hopeful for the show but... That was bad. Like, real bad.

I guess the score seemed really good? And the myrddraal looked pretty cool? Other than that... just... woof.

Yeah I only watched the first episode. Had to force myself to watch that much. Felt like a crappy, cheesy, b-movie level adaptation, only with a monster budget for top-notch production value and computer effects and everything so it looked really nice and shiny even though it was just low-quality crap. Just really disappointing. Made me die inside a little bit, it was so bad.

I was always skeptical (but still naively hopeful) about an adaptation- seems like a really hard series to successfully adapt, so much of the important stuff in the books is going to be really hard to visually represent on screen (channeling and weaves and strength in the force and everything), and like someone else said upthread its just a completely different type of fantasy than, say, Game of Thrones, and one that isn't as well-suited for TV or film. 

But I felt like it was still possible that it COULD be done well, they just had to nail the writing and the tone and the casting. But they most definitely did NOT nail it, at least not in the first episode. Basically the exact opposite of nailing it.

Sounds like you’re having pretty much the same issues with Ep1 as I had.

How much do you think is down to the differences between story/sets/actors in the book and series being a distraction, and how much the programme just not being up to snuff for you?

I know I’ve got some major issues with the former, and wonder whether they are colouring my overall opinion of the show.

I guess I'll have to force myself to watch a couple more episodes just to feel like I gave it a fair shot (I'm seeing a lot of people saying it got much better in the 2nd and 3rd episodes), but... woof. That first episode was NOT a good start. 

As a person who never even heard of a book before I think the Chosen One is:

Here is a review by a reader and a non-reader. They both enjoyed it, though some of their comments mirrored the ones here.

Yeah, I thought that was an odd impression to get, but Amanda tends toward sarcasm in most of her videos, so I don't think she meant it literally.