Raistlins Apprentice

Not exactly. They have it open-ended at the moment, but if you watch ep. 8 when it happens, its pretty clear that Ishy shields Moiraine and ties it off.

I think they mean that both books 2 and 3 feature very similar Rand/Ishy closing climaxes. There was no way we were ever getting 3 straight Rand/Ishy fights to end seasons. So that part makes perfect sense.

I think the big question is what the show does with the Stone of Tear. Alot of speculation that its getting moved to a later season post-Rhuidean.

But season 2 seems like a pretty clear setup at this point for most characters outside of Mat for obvious reasons. Egwene/Nyn are following their book 2 arc, Perrin is sort of a mashup of his books 2/3 arc with his season 1 Elyas teaching thrown in, Moiraine/Lan are getting expanded backstory to keep them involved, and Rand looks to be doing more book 3 arc than book 2, though it also probably will end up being a bit of both.

Its not that odd actually. For one, there is a huge backlog with cgi stuff that is affecting every show like this. Shadow and Bone just came out with its season 2 on Netflix after a similar period of time. Same thing is projected to happen with House of the Dragon season 2. And part of the problem with WOT's last 2 episodes was the cgi was terrible because amazon rushed it onto their service because they were using it as a guinea pig for their LOTR show.

Anyway, if you follow those in the know on this, seems like Amazon is going to aim for September/October this year, which makes some sense from a timing standpoint.

I enjoyed season 2 alot, though I can see how it might be a struggle if you arent familiar with the books as they throw alot of stuff at you throughout the season, including tons of teases and easter eggs. The Crows continue to kill it as a group, and Nikolai was handled really well. Excited to see what they do moving forward.

Also, just want to point out regarding the books, the Shadow and Bone trilogy is pretty much standard YA shlock, but the Six of Crows duology is fantastic, and the King of Scars duology is really good as well, especially at tying together the disparate characters from the previous stories.

Also with this wave they added Birdo as a character, and there are at least 5 more ? characters to come, I guess in the next 2 waves. Or perhaps there might be some crossover with the Mario movie and they add someone from it.

This has not been my experience at all. Reddit seems to be much more pro-book, while not necessarily being as anti-show as like this site.

But there are plenty of people posting on reddit that didnt like the show so I'm not sure why that one poster would have been banned.

Yeah, I get that it can be hard to believe this type of stuff but you can get clues from reading between the lines on these things and usually its not that out of whack with the end result.

For example, there were similar whispers before season 1 that were quite negative and ended up panning out so the fact that these same whispers are much more positive for season 2 does mean a little more than you might think. Also, the leaks are usually coming from people working on the show that arent necessarily committed to the show in any real way so they have no incentive to lie about these things. And usually if things are going poorly, they want to leak it and get out ahead of it to not be associated so strongly with it.

As to the specifics, I have heard the production values are supposed to be alot better for season 2. They got an expanded budget for season 2, plus they have much more time to do the VFX and stuff. Season 1 was rushed out by Amazon because they wanted a trial run for the Lord of the Rings show, which is why The Wheel of Time exists at all. Amazon used it as a training ground for directors, production staff, and just a general feel of doing a big fantasy tv show.

As for the source material question, thats more of a subjective thing. Of season 1's many problems, not following the source material closely enough would not rank in my top 10. The ultimate story of season 1 tracks pretty closely to book 1, with a couple of brief exceptions to flesh out certain story beats. But anyway, I would assume season 2 will probably follow season 1 from a structure standpoint. But thats pure speculation.

And while this board is very out on the show, the WOT fandom at large is much more split. There are still huge numbers of WOT fans who love the show, another group that were pretty meh on the show, and a group that hated it. Individual boards have a tendency to become hive mind groupthinks about various shows or whatever, so it depends on where you look.

I think its doable with enough money and resources, but most importantly, better creative.

As for Rand's internal stuff, that is definitely the hardest to translate, which is why they almost have to do something with Lews/Moiraine (post doorway) as someone Rand can have conversations with reflecting his mental state.

Certainly a tricky line to walk.

Is this disagreement? It is regarded by pretty much everyone that the casting was spot on and the clear strength of the show. Not sure how anyone can even argue that.

The show's problems were much more related to plot choices, adaptation choices, and the covid/actor leaving outside stuff.

Also, this is kind of telling in how subjective this stuff can be, but I've heard multiple Witcher fans who have read the books say that season 2 was a disaster and potentially ruined the show. I've only read the first witcher book and I enjoyed Season 1 and so far the first 2 eps of season 2, but you will always find people with opinions on each end of the spectrun with regards to book/show.