Aulrick Vendour
Gaidin
Well, this show certainly had its ups and down, with the finale being the biggest “down” for me until now.
I think what bothered me most about the show as a whole is not specific changes from the books to character arcs or whatever. I don’t care if Perrin had a wife.
It's the general changes in details.
Calling Ishamael the Father of Lies instead of the Betrayer of Hope? Healing dead people? No in-world slurs except for a single “blood and ashes” from Rand?
I also HATE this strange focus on “the five of them.” Seriously. Egwene I could understand - she has a huge part to play in the White Tower and such. But Nyneave? Her biggest parts were literally to link with Rand for him to do all his shit.
And speaking of Rand, they completely down played the Dragon Reborn! Seriously, the whole series is about him in the books! Everything that happens revolves around him. Every book starts with parts of a prophecy about the dragon reborn. The Dragon’s death both opens and ends the series… What the hell were they thinking?!
This show needs to come back into focus REALLY fast.
I’m the last person to invokes PC culture as a bad thing (seems mostly positive to me most of the time), but this insistence on putting more emphasis on women in the show, thus derailing the MAIN PLOT of the book series, is infuriating. I’m sorry, it just is.
If you want to do a show like that, pick another book, or do original works. This was just bad.
Don’t get me wrong - there were plenty of things I liked as well. The Dragon Procession was very good, the Ways, even the Two Rivers in episode one, and of course Shader Logoth, the Whitecloaks, the Tuatha’an with their Way of the Leaf, the Fades.
This show did a lot of things right.
The problem is, the things it did right are smaller and easier to get right from the books, while the things it did wrong were huge plot issues.
I think what bothered me most about the show as a whole is not specific changes from the books to character arcs or whatever. I don’t care if Perrin had a wife.
It's the general changes in details.
Calling Ishamael the Father of Lies instead of the Betrayer of Hope? Healing dead people? No in-world slurs except for a single “blood and ashes” from Rand?
I also HATE this strange focus on “the five of them.” Seriously. Egwene I could understand - she has a huge part to play in the White Tower and such. But Nyneave? Her biggest parts were literally to link with Rand for him to do all his shit.
And speaking of Rand, they completely down played the Dragon Reborn! Seriously, the whole series is about him in the books! Everything that happens revolves around him. Every book starts with parts of a prophecy about the dragon reborn. The Dragon’s death both opens and ends the series… What the hell were they thinking?!
This show needs to come back into focus REALLY fast.
I’m the last person to invokes PC culture as a bad thing (seems mostly positive to me most of the time), but this insistence on putting more emphasis on women in the show, thus derailing the MAIN PLOT of the book series, is infuriating. I’m sorry, it just is.
If you want to do a show like that, pick another book, or do original works. This was just bad.
Don’t get me wrong - there were plenty of things I liked as well. The Dragon Procession was very good, the Ways, even the Two Rivers in episode one, and of course Shader Logoth, the Whitecloaks, the Tuatha’an with their Way of the Leaf, the Fades.
This show did a lot of things right.
The problem is, the things it did right are smaller and easier to get right from the books, while the things it did wrong were huge plot issues.