re: Wheel of Time TV, Full Trailer Oct 27, show premieres Nov 19

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ow is it even remotely looking like that?

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I'd assume based on the "teen idol" look of a lot of the main characters head-shots. They do give off an MTV / Shannarah vibe, but as I said, that is largely how a lot of them are written.

Ya, the WoT world does not have any lack of attractive people.

I want to see who they cast as Thom, Lan, Rhuarc and some of the other Aiel.

Also Padan Fain as he will probably be the primary antagonist in the first season or so.

They are looking for a stand in for a character

what does that mean?

Sounds like a great job.

Daniel Wu is 6'0 - I liked him in "into the badlands" but I always imagined Lan as bigger

Daniel Henney has been cast as Lan.

He’s an Asian American actor best known from Criminal Minds. Long filmography.

I like it.

Thom is a pretty glaring omission. He's there from the beginning. He doesn't have a whole lot to do in the first two books but is pretty essential in a lot of ways and increasingly becomes a major character.

Elayne, while only in one scene in book 1, from Book 2 on becomes a main character and major POV character of the series.

Min is obviously important as well.

A lot of people are pretty concerned that Thom and Min could be seeing the cutting room floor, or reworked into appearing later.

Today is day 1 of filming according to multiple crew members. They are claiming an 180 day shoot, which would be almost 9 months of filming.

Carnival Row was an 108 day shoot for 8 episodes.

that was after the table read last week. Today is the first official day of filming.

Hopefully some more cast members leak out

I'm not too worried about the size or characters not fitting their description in that way, I'd alwasy envisioned Lan as some hulking monster, but I'm not sure if he was written that way or not. Perrin is one of my least favorite of the main characters so that may play a role, he may look weird swinging giant hammers and axes.

I get them trying to diversify the main cast in today's climate. I know the story has diversified cultures as a whole, but if you only see the main group for the most part in season 1, it could get panned for being just white people, etc. and not generate the following it needs to move forward.

I am concerned about some of the story lines and who they choose to highlight and all. The potential of cutting out Thom / Min is hopefully not true. Based on some of what I've read, I could see Min getting cut as they are uncomfortable with the whole "sharing" Rand thing - which admittedly is kind of a strange thing but is integral to three of the main characters and their motivations throughout.

I hope they don't cut her and you could easily counteract the "sharing" thing by showing two men sharing a woman or however they want to do it in the Aeil. Much rather see them edit / adjust it that way than the other way. Without a doubt though, the series will be altered a little bit in tone for 2019.

Hopefully it will be for the better, the characters were almost all portrayed as extremely, frustratingly stubborn, especially early on in the series. I know that is a "two rivers trait", but would be fine if it isn't highlighted as much in the show. After reading some comments I just hope it doesn't go too far in transforming it into a "women's fantasy series" as I've seen some quotes portray. They seemed to walk back on that so hopefully it turns out as a quality adaptation that stays true to the heart of the story.