Wheel of Time season 2 trailer
Wheel of Time season 2 trailer
Just putting this here for those who might miss it.
I saw season 1 and it was...okay? I gather that Wheel of Time diehards were upset about plot deviations. I never read the books so that didn't matter much to me. IMO the world setting seemed janky - it was as though Robert Jordan couldn't build an original world to save his life and borrowed bits and pieces of different Earth cultures and threw them in a blender. I could pass on the next season but I have too many people around me who will want to watch it so I feel somewhat compelled to.
What did you think of season 1? Will you be watching season 2?
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You know almost every "original world" borrows elements from the real world, right? It's incredibly hard to make something that isn't influenced by reality would be incredibly hard... and almost impossible to relate to.
Admittedly, I only watched the first episode and have read five or six of the books. They seemed to be rushing through any kind of development, character or plot wise, so any similarities may have been enhanced due to a lack of depth.
Yes, that's true; everybody borrows.
This seemed particularly plagiaristic though. Oddly placed yin-yangs? Allusions to the Roma people? An underworld looking distinctly hell-like?
At least make me work to find the source material.
Keep tugging on that thread.
Game of Thrones took tons of ideas from real human cultures and it wasn't very subtle, but that world still seems much more alive and real to me than what I see in the WoT television series. (I have only read parts of the first book in this series and I know the fans adore the world building, so I assume this failure is on the show and not the source material.)