The Wheel of Time Show Watcher Reads the Books |

[@DoublePMedia]

HAVE THEY DONE A GOOD JOB ADAPTING THE WHEEL OF TIME?

[@glen9593]

No.

[@matthewmurdick]

It is a different "turning of the wheel" - if Rafe makes it a good story regardless of the books.... fine... if he is actually trying to do the books - he's failing. (Yes Matt is "negative Nancy_ - that's a double N!)

[@emil0r]

No. It was a really poor adaptation. All of us fans understand you can't have it exactly as in the books, but they made too many changes.Too many changes in the timeline, changes to main characters that's not part of the books and doesn't help moving the adaption forward, but rather is there to 'modernize' it. LOTR is still the gold standard for how to adapt a book series to the big screen.

[@thebign2398]

I'd argue that the book does not reveal right away that Rand is the dragon reborn. In actuality, both the first book and the first season keep an intriguing mystery throughout most of them, only to answer it towards the end with the same shocking(?) reveal that "Rand is the dragon reborn" - but each keeps a different question (and they both answer the other's question very early on). In the show, that question is "who is the dragon reborn", while in the books it's "what (the hell) is happening to our boy Rand?"

[@DoublePMedia]

You're correct, however imo because Rand is so much more developed than the other boys, it reads as if it's his story. But that may be just because I watched the show before reading

[@andrewdemarco3512]

It was pretty obvious the first t8me the dragon reborn is mentioned that it must be rand, just because of how much of that first book is from his perspective. Also once the prophecy is mentioned it becomes even more obvious because of the tam fever dream. The show didnt show that until episode 7 because that does indeed give it away that he was born on dragonmount and therefore the dragon

[@johngoldsmith847]

matt is too negative - but i mean the show character

[@annanz0118]

I did not like the way Egwene frees herself as it completely clashes with the ways the magic in the world works and the Damane and the Adam are very important in the future. It also made Nynaeve and Elayne pretty much useless when their plot in the books was being the ones to free Egwene.

[@DoublePMedia]

Thanks for the feedback - as a show watcher to book reader, it didn't bother me. But I've only read thru book 2

[@superjohngoldsmith8406]

The books are better

[@johngoldsmith427]

The show is better