![]() ![]() The five Emonds Fielders are generally pushed to the back (with the exception of Nynaeve). Major elements from later books, such as Warder relationships and Tower Politics are pushed front and center. It’s much more about Moiraine and Lan’s adventure than anything else. The show decides to majorly refocus this. While the books balloon out from this, the story is really focused on them and their feelings, struggles, and changes. It’s really about Mat, Rand, and Perrin and their bonds, with Nynaeve and Egwene also being important if somewhat less so. The Eye of the World is at its heart about the young people from Emond’s Field going out into the world and having an adventure. Moiraine dominates large portions of the book. She has hidden friends and allies, backup plans, and reserves of power and is a force to be reckoned with. She can be manipulative, but she’s also brilliant. Even when she’s not really, she projects the image of being in control and is working to take control. She’s powerful and mysterious and always trying to be in control. She finds the Dragon and his companions and puts things into motion. In the books, Moiraine is the driving force behind the plot of the first book. ![]() I think his changes make the show less colorful and rich. This is also confusing as he would have been a great person to have delivered exposition early on. I get that they might have felt introducing him at the start would have crammed too much into the first episode, and to be fair he is not integral to the plot of the first book, but this reduction in his role makes it unclear why he is even in the show. Rather than juggle and do mixed performances we get a single sad kind of country-western song out of him, and that is. It also removed his colorful persona, in favor of a very drab-looking costume (he’s also lost his famous mustaches). The show chooses to wait till episode 3, with this seeming death coming in the very next episode. He’s also super important in later books. ![]() He mentors both Rand and Mat for part of the story. Thom is also a gleeman, a traveling bard dressed in a bright cloak, who sings, dances, and performs tricks. He’s a pretty major part of the early book. In the books, Thom is introduced right off the bat and travels with the gang until his seeming death around halfway through. The show made a ton of changes to Thom and his role in it, and I’m not really a fan. **WARNING MAJOR BOOK AND SHOW SPOILERS** 5. Some of Wheel of Times changes were good, but a number were baffling or outright bad. Adaptations make changes, they have to, especially when going from one medium (books) to another (the screen). In the end, however, my overall reaction is pretty negative.Īs with any adaptation, it was compared to the books it was based on. Visually, while some parts seemed unfinished, they did have some good-looking locations. Overall the cast was great and they delivered good performances. We reviewed both the first and second halves of the first season, and it was a pretty mixed bag. Sometimes you have to rework things to make a book adaptation work, these Wheel of Time changes aren’t that.Īmazon’s The Wheel of Time is getting closer to its second season coming out. ![]()
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