re: The Wheel of Time -- Season 2 coming in September -- Wise Ones Thread (Book Spoilers)

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Yeah, this sort of show is not my wife's thing at all...

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my wife will normally nerd out and/or humor me on fantasy shows.

she wouldn't do GoT with me till season 7, and that was only because she kept seeing Khaleesi girl power montage videos on facebook and asked if she was a major character. i said yes and she agreed to binge. so we knocked out 6 seasons in a few weeks.

she then did locke and key, carnival row, and shadow and bone, which are a lot more tame, but she really enjoyed them. witcher was a bit harder because i didn't know the source material that well myself and the pacing/timelines were confusing for us both. she bailed after the second episode (Geralt and the Elves and Yennifer's back story.)

I kept going and figured out the timeline, explained, and convinced her to finish it and she loved the last couple of episodes.

so i'm hopeful here, but i feel like i might have to take 10 minutes mansplain Lews Therin, Breaking of the World, the Dark One, Aes Sedai, Dragon Reborn, False Dragons, etc. to keep her interested.

I did not explain Dune to her and she lost interest and fell asleep in the theater before we even saw a sandworm.