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The Wheel of Time (2021)
How is this a Wheel of Time adaptation?
Alright! I truly tried to give this show a chance, WoT is my favourite fantasy book series ever. I am giving this review with the hopes that show runners will course correct for the second season. This is not in any way recognisable to the books, the only thing that identifies characters as being from the books is their names.
1) Rand - The main character has no character arc or development in the entire season
2) The Dragon Reborn is always prophesied to be a male, changing it was dumb and unnecessary, the red herring plot line was basic and didn't serve to hook the audience with a mystery element as much as the show runners hoped it would. You've sacrificed investment with the main characters for a dumb guess whodunit plot
3) Siuan and Stepin - WTF does a supporting and minor character like Siuan get a cold open dedicated to her when there was no time for you to adapt the incredible prologue or focus on developing your villains?
4) Nynave and Egwene - I am a woman but making Mary Sue's out of great strong and female characters in the books serves no purpose except to make the show writers look like they were trying to finish a kindergarteners version of a women empowerment essay. Characters have to earn their moments.
5) Mat - Your character isn't Matrim Cauthon, not by a landslide
6) Perrin - Why do you have him in the show at all if he's going to be relegated to being a person than runs around like a headless chicken?
7) If you wanted to adapt a story that didn't have males as central characters you should have chosen a more suitable story like Mistborn, not the WoT.
8) LTT is not the dragon reborn, he's the DRAGON, if you can't get that much out of reading the books wtf are you writing the show?
9) The cold open of episode 8 is not at all reflective of the war of power and the desperation of LTT, the show makes is sound as if there was no war and LTT decided on a whim to go and attack the dark one for no reason but to satisfy his own pride, this is such a false and wrongful portrayal of LTT that I have to think the show-runners and the writers have it in for male members of the world.
10) Lan and Nyneave's relationship is rushed and the dialogue insert from the books feel out of place and un-earned.
I can go on and on and on but you've butchered the books and the incredible world and story of Robert Jordan. No respect for the source material, and we know what happens to shows that don't respect the source material all too well. I'm sad to see the WoT adapted in this manner.