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

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I like how plan C was arming all the lesbians to defend the city.

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Which ones were the lesbians? Because two of them had already hooked up with dudes and the other three had no story line to even know what they like.

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they couldn't even come close to handling the amount of saidar that Nynaeve and Egwene could produce.

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I'm over thinking it or does that scene setup Egwene to be even more of a badass channeler than Nynaeve?

That's backward from the book right?

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I'm over thinking it or does that scene setup Egwene to be even more of a badass channeler than Nynaeve?

That's backward from the book right?

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Sort of... they already showed Nynaeve healing multiple people at once.

In the books though Nynaeve is definitely more powerful than Egwene.

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I definitely try not to nit pick battles in high fantasy... they are generally terrible, even in Game of Thrones toward the end.

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I hated the ending with a passion, and will never watch the show again because of it, but I will stand behind the battle at Winterfell. I loved that episode.

I never got the gripe that it was too dark. It didnt feel that way to me and I didnt have any trouble seeing things. I loved the camera angles. It had a very gritty, realistic feel to it in many ways. Which is just what I wanted in a nasty battle. Especially the scenes with Jon on the ground.

I get the complaint about not liking who killed the Night King, but she was my favorite character in the books/show, so I didnt mind it.

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I definitely try not to nit pick battles in high fantasy... they are generally terrible, even in Game of Thrones toward the end.


I hated the ending with a passion, and will never watch the show again because of it,

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not to sidetrack this thread, but although I agree in principle, I occasionally cherry-pick single episodes.

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but I will stand behind the battle at Winterfell. I loved that episode.

I never got the gripe that it was too dark. It didnt feel that way to me and I didnt have any trouble seeing things. I loved the camera angles. It had a very gritty, realistic feel to it in many ways. Which is just what I wanted in a nasty battle. Especially the scenes with Jon on the ground.

I get the complaint about not liking who killed the Night King, but she was my favorite character in the books/show, so I didnt mind it.

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My overall take on this is-

Jon didn't kill the Night King, and therefore the other complaints get magnified.

I did love that episode, and it should have been the climax of the show.

I don't think they put in any real strategy, they devised Jon having one. And then filmed it. And unfortunately for that, it showed... my son is a gamer. He plays Rome: Total War, and he agrees with the complaint on the battle strategy-
the forces are laid out backwards.

The catapults and ballista should be behind the infantry, so you could use them longer in the battle.
The Dothraki should have harrassed the flanks of the dead the entire battle, instead of being tossed into a frontal assault.

The visuals were fine for me, as was the epic nature. I wish Jon had got him, but I'm ok with "A Girl" getting the kill shot. It's what she trained to do.

We really need the books to finish so we can see what the intention really was. Hopefully they don't change it to match the show

It’s a joke

The arming the women to save the city was non sensical.

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It’s a joke

The arming the women to save the city was non sensical.

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I guess the concept was, arm everyone. Once the men have fallen, better for the women to die swinging, instead of getting slaughtered.

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He plays Rome: Total War, and he agrees with the complaint on the battle strategy-
the forces are laid out backwards.

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I don't even think you can say they were laid out backwards. You had the freaking Dothraki cavalry in the vanguard, when they should have been off to the left and to the right of Winterfell, looking for the flanks of the Army of the Dead and attacking them via hit and run.

Meanwhile, there should have been no infantry in front of the Cheval de frise. Why the hell they would have infantry positioned IN FRONT OF THEIR OWN OBSTACLES is quite beyond me and shows just how poor of a tactician Jon Snow was. Once the Night King's army started to overrun their positions they would have to dodge their own obstacles to get back to the city walls.

And speaking of the city walls, there was absolutely no point in having your army out in front of the walls. The point of a walled off city is for defense. Your entire army should have been behind them save for the cavalry and maybe a few handpicked men as a delaying action.

Also...it was suicide to fight at Winterfell in the first place. You're talking about a small, walled-in city that is surrounded on all sides by a vast expanse of open ground. There is no tactical way to defend against an attacking force of superior size. And strategically that city holds no value as it's isolated in a far off corner of the Seven Kingdoms.

A skilled commander would have evacuated and abandoned the North, falling back to the Vail where the terrain is narrower, less open, and the fortresses imposing and far easier to defend.

Non book reader here. I found the series somewhat entertaining. I like the magic and the storyline could go any direction. The middle episodes to the season were pretty dull. A lot of random talking about stuff that did not keep my interest.

I expected Rand to have more trouble defeating the dark guy?