Watching Wheel of Time

Eye of the World is probably my favourite book. For those who don't know, it's the first book in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.

Now Wheel of Time is probably ringing a bell with you because it is Amazon Prime's newest fantasy TV show. So obviously, I had to watch it and rope my hubby into watching it as well.

The problem with watching a TV show with your other half when you know alllllll the backstory is trying to stop yourself from explaining everything. 

Nynaeve comes on screen - she's the Wisdom
Rand, Mat and Perrin come together - they're best friends
Moiraine says ta'veren - I explain it means the pattern weaves around them, then I have to explain what the pattern is all about
An eyeless - that's a fade
The Aiel - that becomes important later
The wolves - that becomes important later
Thom Merrilin - he's important and so on...

And then, of course, there are the 'well that doesn't happen in the book' comments although to be fair it's been a while since I last read Wheel of Time so I'm not too worried. I understand why they did what they did to Perrin - it makes sense for his storyline.  

My fan thoughts on the TV show - I like. I think they've cast well on the whole although Mat isn't quite the cheeky chappie I was expecting and the Trollocs are rather more humanoid than I imagined. Strains of LOTR echo throughout. I liked the One Power depiction, the Whitecloaks are suitably worrying.

I saw on the webbyness complaints that it looked too TV. Erm... it's a TV programme? Also that it's too clean... not sure what that really means to be honest. My other half guessed who the Dragon Reborn is straight away and complained about the fact that the main cast are soon split. He'll be disappointed if he ever reads the books haha.

My main complaint is that Amazon didn't release all episodes at once. It is going to be hard to wait a week for the next instalment lol. I have all the books on my bookshelf and I'm struggling to not pick up book one.

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