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

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They’re going to get into this

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It really feels like a lot of people want them to have crammed all the backstory, lore, motivations etc from a 14 book 12,000 page series into 3 hours... which is impossible.

Also, our memory and understanding of the 'completed' characters at the end of the story does not equal what they should be at the beginning. Just because Perrin and Matt's initial motivations are different doesn't mean they won't have a satisfying arc and development in the end.

It feels like some people just wanted a narrator to read the book to them on television, I don't get it at all.

I'd be willing to bet that Perrin is still going to be an emotionally conflicted, super strong wolfman berserker who will be fiercely protective of his friends / family.

Matt will still have issues with the dagger, get healed, go on other adventures, travel through twisted doorways, meet exotic people from across the sea, etc.

To say that because their initial motivations are different that the whole story is ruined is a bit overdramatic.

They still all went to Shadar Logoth, they still got separated due to Mashadar, they are in their original book pairings (Matt, Rand, Thom - Perrin, Egewene - Moraine, Lan, Nynaeve etc) and still headed to Tar Valon. To say that they've changed the overall main arc of the story is just false (at this point).