Wheel of Time - Cast Predictions/Wishlist (2 Viewers)

[kcirdor]

Im in love with Rands mom.

 

[whiteshadowen]

Im in love with Rands mom.

She was beastly!

 

[kcirdor]

She was beastly!

The Aiel are the deadliest fighters in the world... but watching a pregnant lady in labor whooping the best swordsmen all at the same time was pretty awesome to see.

 

[Taurus]

The Aiel are the deadliest fighters in the world... but watching a pregnant lady in labor whooping the best swordsmen all at the same time was pretty awesome to see.

It's kind of what happens any time you search "sword vs spear" on YouTube.
And yet the love affair Western literature has for the longsword persists.

 

[kcirdor]

It seems alot of the edits are starting to take shape and aren't as bad as they seemed at first. Other than the man/woman dragon thing. That's just silly.

 

[Cage1]

It seems alot of the edits are starting to take shape and aren't as bad as they seemed at first. Other than the man/woman dragon thing. That's just silly.

I think they wanted to throw off the viewers by making Nynaeve super powerful. There has to be a "surprise" these days.

 

[kcirdor]

but Nynaeve is legit the stongest female channeler.

 

[Cage1]

but Nynaeve is legit the stongest female channeler.

Probably time to tag

Right, but I just mean using that to misdirect the audience into thinking it might be her. And I guess I'll spoiler tag book spoilers that may or may not be show spoilers.

 

[Taurus]

but Nynaeve is legit the stongest female channeler.

Top 3 for sure.

It'll be interesting to see how they handle the time differentials. Book-people spend a couple-three years doing things apart that I imagine the show will try to find ways around so they can all remain together.

 

[kcirdor]

They made a month pass in one episode. But they are gonna have to seperate when the girls enter the Tower as novices.

Wish this season had 10 episodes to help the pacing and character development. Im glad that the report that the first book would only take 4 episodes was false.

 

[kcirdor]

I just don't get why they wanted to throw off the audience to Rand when Moirraine and Lan knew all along who the dragon was in the books. The rest were just part of the Ka-tet to borrow a term from the Dark Tower...

Especially based off the actual New Dawn prophecy.

 

[Taurus]

I just don't get why they wanted to throw off the audience to Rand when Moirraine and Lan knew all along who the dragon was in the books. The rest were just part of the Ka-tet to borrow a term from the Dark Tower...

Especially based off the actual New Dawn prophecy.

Yeah, the prophecy is pretty clear about where the Dragon gets reborn and none of the other Two Rivers kids remotely meets it.

"The Dragon could be anyone."

Uh, anyone born on Dragonmount, sure.

 

[Zztop]

I’m just trying not to compare to the story “ as I know I.”

Almost all of my issues wouldn’t be issues if I’d never read the books.

I feel like you're getting too caught up in detail. They can just easily make up something.

My thought(s) can apply to both these comments I suppose. I am not against changes from the books. But I think it makes sense ONLY if the changes are for the better. So far these differences in the adaptation - either additions that never happened in the book (or happened much later in later books) or omissions from the book, have not really made things better. So it just seems like change for the sake of change or for some dramatic effect, or something. I don't know. I'd be real curious how or why the writers took what actually happened in the books and went "naw, lets change that to something completely different"

 

[Brad Mojo]

Usually changes in adaptations like this are not to make things "better" per se. More like having to make changes in order to fit a TV season format that by definition has limited time available. I think they are doing as well as could be expected. The time and energy put into the sets and landscape, etc., clearly show that they are invested in making a good show.