re: Wheel of Time - Season 1 - Amazon - NOW A BOOK READERS THREAD

Some other things that have bothered me that I'm curious about yalls opinion.

I don't understand why they didn't give Perrin his axe and Matt his bow. The axe was a pretty nice weapon and Matt was actually decent with the bow. It makes both of their characters seem weaker. Instead they give Rand the sword and the bow. He looks kind of dumb carrying around both especially in a quiver that carries his entire bow. That thing is massive.

I've grew up in and still am in a very big archery family. My dad is a big bow hunter and used to strictly traditional hunt and has even killed elk with a recurve bow. My oldest brother was the founder of Diamond archery and now manufactures Bow Tech bows and Raven crossbows. My other brother owned a retail archery store and I worked there and really enjoy bow hunting.

I say all that to say this... I don't understand why shows, and this goes for most shows, don't do any research on how to actually shoot a bow. Rand is a marksman and shoots his bow completely wrong. You don't pull a long bow (the kind he is shooting) back and hold it and aim. You pull back and release. If you pulled back a long bow with enough pound draw it would take to kill anything, your arm starts shaking heavily, the arrow shoots wobbly and you can't be accurate. To draw a long bow back and hold it it would have to basically have the draw weight of a kids bow and couldn't kill a rabbit much less what these people are trying to kill.

Archery rant is over.

I'm on episode 5. Starting watching episode 5 three different nights in the last week and just haven't finished it yet, which tells me something about how much I'm enjoying this.

I've read the first 5 books. The show is just....not that good. I want to like it, but I don't find that many scenes that I like.

The visual tone/set design is both good and horrid (I particularly find it difficult to see dirty people covered in brand new looking clothes, which in part look like blankets from my couch).

The actors are a very real mixed bag, but its also as if they purposely chose some people who just aren't pleasant to watch/look at.

To this point, I'm the happiest with Rand, Morraine and Thom. Nynaeve I'm pretty happy with as an actress and her scenes, but she seems to have chemistry problems with other characters - that may be on purpose. The others are ok at best, but even within their own quality they are wildly inconsistent.

Since I haven't finished yet I won't get too much into the changes to the storylines. I understand some are necessary. But lots of little plot weirdness where the world/characters don't seem to make sense. The menancing and capableEamon can face down multiple Aes Sedai, but screams meekly for 5 seconds (queue slow motion austin powers steam roller) waiting for Perrin to do something? That happens over and over. The entire Aes Sedai/Dragon's army battle was just not physically plotted out well.

TL:DR - show runners don't know what they are doing for the most part.

I gave the first season the benefit of the doubt to the very end.

But the finale, somehow, was the worst episode of the season.

The opening scene makes me think no one involved has opened the books. More like the show is based on a conversation at a bar someone had with someone who DID read the books.

Not only is the Dragon Reborn the Dragon Reborn, but the actual Dragon, that the Dragon Reborn is reborn of, well, let's call him the Dragon Reborn too! In another language!

Turrible.

Lmao. Reading the Reddit reviews of this shite storm, a second season shouldn’t see the light of day. Glad I leaves out after 3. Reading the crap Rafe has tried to pull has been hilarious. Not one success in this entire $100 mil mess. This is essentially The Joker burning that pile of cash for shits and giggles.

Haven't read the books and don't care. Enjoying the show unless they go off on a woke tangent. I expect several seasons.

The actor who plays Perrin is an absolutely atrocious actor and I'm not sure why more people aren't talking about this. Some of those scenes were just straight up cringe. Like the scene where he's supposed to be "cold" and trying to make a fire. Go rewatch just that scene. The guy is shaking his body and jaw like somebody out of a bad comedy.

I’ve read the whole series twice now and am hear to say that this is absolute dog shite. I do not know how people that are paid a lot of money looked at this script and said “yea let’s go ahead and blow a couple hundred million on this”. I understand having to appeal to mass audiences but my god this is just bad.

Why does egwene have Oscar the Grouch eyebrows. Worse than the mole.

So did they just decide they’re going to still Moiraine? And implication was Mat goes full bad guy at the end? Major divergences from books.

This finale was like a sci-fi channel movie from 2006.

Holy frick the acting and CGI was awful. Legit terrible CGI.

Sharknado takes a dump on this shows’ special effects.