re: Wheel of Time - Season 1 - ABSOLUTELY NO BOOK READERS AT ALL

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Reading between the lines the ogre has access to the gardens and was able to sneak people out through there. There was the first time when he brought Nynaeve to Rand and then presumably a 2nd time when Moraine asked for his help.

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That's a very good line of reasoning. If only they had thought to include that in the show so people didn't have to infer a Point B just for it to make sense on how the characters got from Point A to Point C.

This show is hot garbage but I keep watching.

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Halfway through episode 3 and it's losing me

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Go to episode 4 and see if that grabs you. That seemed to be a good step forward and felt like the tedious set up parts were out of the way.

I do agree that 4-6 were significant step ups.

7 and 8 were filmed long after the others due to Covid shutdown, so it'll be interesting to see if there's another jump in quality since they had almost a year to dissect the other episodes.

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ogre

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Ogier

/nerdery

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8 episodes is not enough. They needed 4 more episodes to tell the tale of 2 books.

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wait... we're almost 2 books in? I'd have guessed maybe 3-4 chapters

So, watching the current episode...

These people are annoying

Intro- Wonder Woman kills all those evil men, even though she's pregnant and apparently starting labor.

They all enter the portal, and Matt turns and walks away. So of course, our drama queen kids accuse Moiraine of... something. Nevermind they all watched him turn around, it's somehow her fault.

Don't use the One Power (proceeds to use the One Power).

Random actor welcomes Ninja-dude to the new city, with awkwardly bad delivery... it's ok, we don't see him again.

Sits around talking about Moiraine like 7th graders, then "Shh, here she is".
Oh boy, emo-drama jealousy about Moley. Rand needs some Midol.

Wisdom chick finally gets laid with Ninja; maybe now she'll lose that huge chip on her shoulder.

Moley is the only one of the kids who seems capable of rational thought.

Okay, big reveal as to who is the Dragon Reborn,
-flashback to Wonder Woman... apparently she didn't kill ALL the men. And one of the few she doesn't, decides to take and raise her baby instead of killing her in revenge for her killing all his friends.

Off they go through a CGI thicket. Which, if you look just a little at it, seems to be just tiled onto the screen. Looks like 3 branches, then repeats like a clone brush. I've seen similar graphics on DOS video games (looks like AD&D).

When does this start becoming competently made? I'm really trying to hang in there, but starting to find myself laughing at it.

I'm finding myself dreading what Amazon is going to do with the upcoming Tolkien series. And I'm not even talking about it being "woke", I'm just hoping it's going to be competently edited and produced.

Like I said, I'm really, REALLY giving this show the benefit of the doubt, hoping things will click into gear.

It's supposedly a good story, and- let's be honest here- there ain't a lot of new series going right now. Especially if you consider something on a premium/pay service.

But I noticed, even Amazon's own ratings has this at 3.5 stars out of 5. That's taking into account however many book-readers there are out there who are happy with just anything, and probably a similar group who are happy to see any premium fantasy show. Or happy to see any new show on Prime. All of which basically confirms what we've been saying- this is mediocre, and clearly NOT the 'must-see event' series people hoped it would be.

The screenwriters are awful, no other way to put it. We constantly see the kids chafing and suspicious towards Moiraine, but there's been literally no reason for that (might be in the books, but it isn't in the show). Once she saves them in Ep 1, I've seen NO reason to fight her. She saves the village, she heals their wounded, she's shielding them from political fallout, she healed/exorcised Matt, she's basically done no wrong. And yet they bitch about her in every scene.
Sure, she's possibly bringing them (all but one) to their death, but in an attempt to save their entire universe; and she's told them that. And the only reason she endangers any of them has been that she wasn't able to figure out which one was the Dragon Reborn. Well, now we know, and the others are left safe.

If there's something in the books that justify their suspicions, the show is completely missing that. It makes the characters unlikeable bitches.

The editing is piss-poor, too. Show seems to have no rhythm, is herky jerky. I mentioned Lan's welcome into the new city... they focus in tight on some old guy, who makes just a cringey "welcome back, you great bloody bastard" comment. Like that's supposed to mean something... we never see the old guy again. And he's apparently the only white dude in the city, the rest are Asian. If we see that guy more and he's involved in telling Lan's background or something, it makes more sense. As it is, it came across almost like the town drunk wandered up to him.

Other editing gripes... does this show have a theme/musical score? There was a moment when we get some music with chanting, I haven't heard that before. It's like each episode has their own sound mix.

I brought up the poor CGI for the blight thicket, it's noticeable. Most games do a better job with stuff like that.

All of which just distract, when you definitely need immersion to buy into the story.

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black queen

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YASSSS *twitter clap emoji*