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

After watching the first three, I'd say it's pretty average so far overall.

The first episode kinda sucked, too rushed and choppy as hell. The entire Perrin being married and her dying thing is ridiculous, and a dumb addition. And they've barely focused on it with Perrin, almost like he just lost some random friend, and isn't that distraught at all. Randomly making Abell Cauthon an a-hole cheater and his wife a lush for no particular reason is dumb too. It looks like the show is going to have the showrunner is going to make changes just for the sake of changes issues. The fact that Sanderson tried to talk Rafe out of these dumb changes and he still then anyway makes me question his ability to run the show at all.

On the plus side the trollocs look good, the channeling looks decent, and it seems well cast for the most part. Thom Merrilin is very well cast, and Matt has been quite good (which makes it all the worse that he's been replaced for season two).

The second and third episodes were much better than the first, so hopefully it improves going forward.