Imo the Amazon series is good if you just mentally separate it from the source material, which you honestly have to do with pretty much every adaptation if you’ve read it, so it isn’t like it’s a new phenomenon.
I’m probably on my own in being a big fan of the books and also liking the first season for the most part. Despite the changes, the world felt recognizably like Randland. I only really hated the last episode.
But that last episode was an absolute trash fire. It wasn’t just different, it was wrong. A bunch of characters and story elements are either killed off, not present to begin with, or in the wrong place at the start of the second season.
I’m willing to forgive a lot of that due to the troubles the production had with COVID and the loss of one of the main actors. All that was on top of regular old studio meddling that happens with these things.
My hope then is that the second season will go about trying to correct everything and put all the characters where they are supposed to be at the start of season three, which I’m assuming will align with the third book.
See, having not read the books, there’s no way for me to know anything is “wrong”, so the finale didn’t particularly stand out as better or worse than the rest of the season. Said season was not insanely good, but a decent piece of entertainment to me.
I’ve seen S2E1 so far. It was a bit slow, but at least Egwene and Nynaeve are mostly in the right spot, and Perrin is almost exactly where he’s supposed to be (a bit strange considering of the five main characters he was the one with the biggest change to his backstory)
Imo the Amazon series is good if you just mentally separate it from the source material, which you honestly have to do with pretty much every adaptation if you’ve read it, so it isn’t like it’s a new phenomenon.
I’m probably on my own in being a big fan of the books and also liking the first season for the most part. Despite the changes, the world felt recognizably like Randland. I only really hated the last episode.
But that last episode was an absolute trash fire. It wasn’t just different, it was wrong. A bunch of characters and story elements are either killed off, not present to begin with, or in the wrong place at the start of the second season.
I’m willing to forgive a lot of that due to the troubles the production had with COVID and the loss of one of the main actors. All that was on top of regular old studio meddling that happens with these things.
My hope then is that the second season will go about trying to correct everything and put all the characters where they are supposed to be at the start of season three, which I’m assuming will align with the third book.
See, having not read the books, there’s no way for me to know anything is “wrong”, so the finale didn’t particularly stand out as better or worse than the rest of the season. Said season was not insanely good, but a decent piece of entertainment to me.
Season 2 has three episodes out now! I’d say they recovered nicely from the S1 blunders.
I’ve seen S2E1 so far. It was a bit slow, but at least Egwene and Nynaeve are mostly in the right spot, and Perrin is almost exactly where he’s supposed to be (a bit strange considering of the five main characters he was the one with the biggest change to his backstory)