![]() I watch the films pretty much annually as well (and boy, do the new 4K Dolby Vision versions on disc look gorgeous on my OLED TV) because they got so many things stunningly right (I cry every time when the Rohirrim charge at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields). Paradoxically, since I really love LOTR (and have reread it almost annually since the late '60s) but not the WOT, I was indifferent to the changes the mediocre TV version made though I still get angry at the changes Peter Jackson made in the generally far more faithful film version of LOTR. Jordan would have written a trilogy getting Frodo from Bree to Rivendell.) I'm not a fanboy and my memory of the books are hazy, but I knew some of the show was off immediately-by definition, a woman could not be the Dragon Reborn, it was clear from the start, at least to the reader, that it was Rand, Min was a teenager that they met in a completely different way. (A couple of characters might set out for a particular city and arrive there two books later. ![]() ![]() It's been years since I read the Wheel of Time books and I don't recall them all that clearly, but IIRC, I liked the early books also before they devolved and became ridiculously longwinded (Jordan would take pages to describe a meal or clothing), repetitious, and glacially paced. ![]()
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