The show has a completely different tone and pacing from the books. The books are much closer to LotR (particularly the first one which is basically just alt. Fellowship) and spend a lot of time with the characters traveling and getting to know each other and the lore of the world. There’s plenty of bickering, but the characters all like each other and get along decently. The show opted to cut most of the parts where you learn what’s going on to instead focus on manufactured drama.
They also just changed things in really confusing ways like making Mat’s parents deadbeats, among other things. Some of the plot restructuring makes sense given how much stuff there is to adapt. I don’t think anyone reasonable can expect any book adaptation to keep 100% faithful unless it’s getting crazy funding as a TV series. That said they just really took a knife to things.
Idk, as someone who loves the books despite their issues I wasn’t particularly enamoured with the show. Some people liked it though.
If the world seemed interesting I’d recommend the audiobooks. Love Michael Kramer and Kate Reading.
Not Perrin having and killing his wife?
Not a total cut of Gaul?
Not Aviendha and Elayne for… some reason?
Not Perrin straight up actually killing geofram bornehald?
Not moraine killing the shit out of seanchan at falme definitely breaking the 3 oaths?
I only watched the first season (big fan of the books as a kid). Imo, it is not worth your time. They took out what makes WoT special and produced some extremely generic, bland fantasy.
As someone who read the books, the highlight of the show is S3E4 where they (more or less) faithfully recreated one of the best sequences in fantasy on screen, and it was incredible.
Everything around it was soap opera romantasy. 90% of the characters had any meaningful personalities sanded off, entire arcs from the plot were tossed out the window in favor of glorified fan fiction, and as you noted the final product was just a mess in terms of trying to follow along even for people who didn’t care about faithfulness of the adaptation. I won’t mourn it being gone; maybe we’ll get a decent animated adaptation in 10 years.
As someone who never read the books, I found the TV show cluttered. Part of that was watching it non-binge style I’m sure.
Should I give this another try? Even though there won’t be an “ending…”
The show has a completely different tone and pacing from the books. The books are much closer to LotR (particularly the first one which is basically just alt. Fellowship) and spend a lot of time with the characters traveling and getting to know each other and the lore of the world. There’s plenty of bickering, but the characters all like each other and get along decently. The show opted to cut most of the parts where you learn what’s going on to instead focus on manufactured drama.
They also just changed things in really confusing ways like making Mat’s parents deadbeats, among other things. Some of the plot restructuring makes sense given how much stuff there is to adapt. I don’t think anyone reasonable can expect any book adaptation to keep 100% faithful unless it’s getting crazy funding as a TV series. That said they just really took a knife to things.
Idk, as someone who loves the books despite their issues I wasn’t particularly enamoured with the show. Some people liked it though.
If the world seemed interesting I’d recommend the audiobooks. Love Michael Kramer and Kate Reading.
Making Mat’s parents deadbeats was just crazy to me.
THAT’S your line?
Not Perrin having and killing his wife? Not a total cut of Gaul? Not Aviendha and Elayne for… some reason? Not Perrin straight up actually killing geofram bornehald? Not moraine killing the shit out of seanchan at falme definitely breaking the 3 oaths?
Etc etc.
It was the wild West.
Heh. I forgot about Perrin killing his wife. Also fucking bonkers. I only watched season one, which was a train wreck.
Watch the season 2 finale, just the finale. you’ll love it.
Oh god. Okay. I’ll do it. For the lolz
I only watched the first season (big fan of the books as a kid). Imo, it is not worth your time. They took out what makes WoT special and produced some extremely generic, bland fantasy.
Not nearly enough tugging of braids :d
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As someone who read the books, the highlight of the show is S3E4 where they (more or less) faithfully recreated one of the best sequences in fantasy on screen, and it was incredible.
Everything around it was soap opera romantasy. 90% of the characters had any meaningful personalities sanded off, entire arcs from the plot were tossed out the window in favor of glorified fan fiction, and as you noted the final product was just a mess in terms of trying to follow along even for people who didn’t care about faithfulness of the adaptation. I won’t mourn it being gone; maybe we’ll get a decent animated adaptation in 10 years.
Yeah I started it a couple times but kept losing track of the goal/stakes in the story. Really wanted to like it.