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- fantasy@lemmy.ml
Just putting this here for those who might miss it.
I saw season 1 and it was…okay? I gather that Wheel of Time diehards were upset about plot deviations. I never read the books so that didn’t matter much to me. IMO the world setting seemed janky - it was as though Robert Jordan couldn’t build an original world to save his life and borrowed bits and pieces of different Earth cultures and threw them in a blender. I could pass on the next season but I have too many people around me who will want to watch it so I feel somewhat compelled to.
What did you think of season 1? Will you be watching season 2?
Season 1 left a really weird taste in my mouth. I don’t mind deviations from the books but I don’t understand why they made them when it just makes for a worse story with less likeable characters and tons of inconsistencies or plot holes. It really felt like it was the show writers trying to tell their own, much worse and badly written, fanfic story instead of R. Jordan’s, and that’s not why I watched the show at all. It doesn’t help that it felt like they don’t even understand the source material, like for example completely missing how saidin and saidar “work” and “feel”, or how novices have impressive AoE heals without any practice at all.
It’s the same criticism I had about Witcher and that one went off the rails even worse in later seasons so I really have low hopes for WoT.
edit: OP’s link is not for the official trailer