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

Everywhere. The main characters are pretty much on identical paths to where they are going to end up. They made Mat's home life suck to give him more reason to be who he is as opposed to his annoying character in the first couple books. Perrin was given the wife backstory to help non readers understand his push/pull with violence that happens entirely inside his head in the books. Would not work on screen. Rand and Egwene are pretty much home runs as far as book to screen adaptations.

It feels like some book readers had the story set a certain way in their head and expected a scene for scene reproduction which was never realistic.

There are plenty of legitimate critiques, but complaining about changes overwhelming the story and altering characters, there's just no supporting evidence for any of that.