Wheel of Time, season 2

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Really having a hard time following it two episodes in. It just seems.... bad. I vaguely know what's going on from the books but without that back knowledge, it just seems like a really disjoint series of scenes with the audience left wondering WTF.

Or maybe it's just me?
 
How after seeing one episode did you figure it would get any better? Tried season 1 episode 1 so many times I lost count. Thai is the worst adaptation of any media I have seen to date.
 
If you have not read the books, it probably is hard to keep up with. Thinking about the show, it seems to be the cliff notes adaptations.

I read most of the books and despised reading them but was hooked on the story. The books were written in a very descriptive style that I did not enjoy.

The show is great in that it mostly hits the highlights of the books, but Netflix has adopted the English method of only producing 8 episodes in a season. The first two seasons each seem to be trying to cram an entire book into 8 episodes. Which leaves a lot out. If Netflix would have expanded the season out to 16 episodes I'm sure it would be easier to follow.

As for production quality, the show has done and amazing job of bringing the world of Wheel of time to the screen. The sets, costumes, and over all feel of the world really brings it alive.

Netflix has done a much better job with bringing the books to the screen than SyFy did with its adaptation of Terry Goodkinds Sword of truth books, The Legend of the Seeker.
 
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NoNameHaveI said:
How after seeing one episode did you figure it would get any better?
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Was hoping that episode 1 was just a huge info dump to get everyone up to speed and that things would calm down after and get back to storytelling mode vs. 'here's a scene from the book you might recognize if you've read the books'.
 
cold1 said:
If you have not read the books, it probably is hard to keep up with. Thinking about the show, it seems to be the cliff notes adaptations.
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I think it's impossible. I was quizzing my wife after last night's episode, and she didn't know who characters were or how they got there or why we even cared. The stuff in the tower is rushed but able to be followed with what they show, but the whole Rand thread is 100% random, even to me.

cold1 said:
As for production quality, the show has done and amazing job of bringing the world of Wheel of time to the screen. The sets, costumes, and over all feel of the world really brings it alive.
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I'll give them that, nothing looks cheap.
 
Jayne said:
I think it's impossible. I was quizzing my wife after last night's episode, and she didn't know who characters were or how they got there or why we even cared. The stuff in the tower is rushed but able to be followed with what they show, but the whole Rand thread is 100% random, even to me.



I'll give them that, nothing looks cheap.
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I find reading the wiki synopsis of the book before watching the season to be helpful. Its been 20+ years since I read the books.
 
cold1 said:
I find reading the wiki synopsis of the book before watching the season to be helpful. Its been 20+ years since I read the books.
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She said she didn't want to have to be 'filled in' on the details, she's just going to watch it like a normal person. Which is why she has no idea what's going on, cares nothing about the story or characters.... but also isn't all cranky about the changes. She did call out the "the way back comes only once" thing as being odd since it clearly comes more than once.
 
I loved the books and have read them multiple times.

I love his descriptiveness.

What I didn't love was him repeating the descriptions over and over as if I might have forgotten between mention #234 and mention #235 that Nynaeve pulls on her braid, is angry, and uses the term tongue lashing (in a bad way) over and over again.

I made it about 3 episodes into season 1. That was all I could take.
 
thrillhill said:
What I didn't love was him repeating the descriptions over and over as if I might have forgotten between mention #234 and mention #235 that Nynaeve pulls on her braid, is angry, and uses the term tongue lashing (in a bad way) over and over again.

I made it about 3 episodes into season 1. That was all I could take.
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That was part of my dislike of the writing. Also during a conversation between two people, there would be 1.5 pages of internal thoughts, ramblings, or other mundane writing between one line of dialog and the next.
 
NoNameHaveI said:
How after seeing one episode did you figure it would get any better? Tried season 1 episode 1 so many times I lost count. Thai is the worst adaptation of any media I have seen to date.
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I don't think I made it 20 minutes into episode one before all focus shifted to playing on my phone. Never bothered to revisit it.
 
Watched 5 minutes (maybe) of an episode from season 1 & had to bail. Started reading the books when #2 first came out in paperback & loved them, but by book 5 or 6, he began trying to out-Tolkien Tolkien, I got sick of slogging my way through an effective 150+ pages of completely unnecessary & painfully redundant overly descriptive BS & bailed on the series. Just uggh.
 
Jayne said:
Really having a hard time following it two episodes in. It just seems.... bad. I vaguely know what's going on from the books but without that back knowledge, it just seems like a really disjoint series of scenes with the audience left wondering WTF.

Or maybe it's just me?
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The first season was so bad i stopped watching it. It was so amazingly stupid and woke it just caused too much distraction. I will not participate in the second season. I have read most of the books. They just butcher the series with nonsense.
 
thrillhill said:
What I didn't love was him repeating the descriptions over and over as if I might have forgotten between mention #234 and mention #235 that Nynaeve pulls on her braid,
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Yea, but what about that time she pulled her braid? Or the other time, when she pulled her braid? Or maybe that one time, at band camp, where she pulled her braid?

On the plus side, I think they took that out of the TV adaption, haven't noticed it at all.
 
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