They're completely ruining Aiel culture! The show is going to be a disaster and Rafe is the literal Dark One for doing this! How can Amazon think this is okay?!?!1!?
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Not much changed but the music is different and it's slower. Honestly I preferred the old one
I find it encouraging that this was chosen as artwork for one of the books because it seems like the casting is true to how Jordan imagined the character.
https://preview.redd.it/1zvrl4on2re41.jpg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d05dabc18a9eb1f8b28c26332e175332bc1e34ea
Madeleine Madden as Egwene al'Vere fan art by Corey Lansdell
Hey all! I finished Egwene! This one was fun. Enjoyed the challenge of depicting the channeling of the one power.
I also painted Mat, Perrin and Moiraine. I'm working on Nynaeve next followed by Rand.
These are all created in Procreate on the iPad.
I marked it spoiler as she is wearing the stole of the Amyrlin Seat.
From watching Tidelands twice, that girl is Egwene...especially post Seanchan imprisonment...she is utterly perfect...not to mention her personal passions...she addressed her nation as a pre teen on an issue she cares about...she is Egwene in this weave of the pattern...
Just binged Tidelands on Netflix (only like 4 and a half hours total). Fun show, and I recommend it, but I am here to talk about her in the show. She plays a minor character, but has enough screentime to leave a strong impression of her as Egwene. Her character looks about 20 (maybe is 20, but might be 40, 60, or older). To use WOT parlance her character can channel water strongly, and can likely heal like a yellow (or close to it). Violca is reminiscent of Egwene in KOD and early AGS...she is trying to bring down an evil women ruler (in a matriarchy) from the inside. In appearance Violca is willowy yet seeming like wrought iron. She can be cruel in trying to achieve her goal, which turns out to be the correct goal, but she is pretty horrible in one sequence (not bad acting, just her character does something horrible). We see her maintain Aes Sedai serenity well. She also shows the ability to portray tenderness, suffering, and loss. She shows fierce ambition and bravery in the face of a much older, powerful woman(?). In the end, she shows herself saving her own ass...she can pull off panicked and "I'm out" well...I never saw innocence, or naïve, so early Egwene might be a different game...but from what I saw she will nail late book 2 Egwene, and especially Egwene book 6 and on...
I feel like plenty of showfans and showcritics have had their say on this topic without quite representing my own point of view. So I thought I’d try and explain it.
Massive spoilers for both the show and all the books incoming.
For some background, I’m a huge fan of the books. I’ve been reading since the mid-90s, multiple read throughs of the books. The Wheel of Time books were a foundation of my love for fantasy since I was a teenager.
I was so excited for the show. My dream was for the show to be so successful that it would spin off other projects in the Wheel of Time world, as has happened with Game of Thrones. My biggest hope was that Harriet and Tor would bring someone on to write the story of Mat and Tuon in the Seanchan Empire.
Even once the show came out, I loved some aspects of it. I’m a huge fan of the casting. Rosamund Pike is perfect as Moiraine, and even without his character being written true to the books, Danniel Henney is a great Lan. Josha is great as Rand, Madeleine Madden is a great Egwene, and the others are all pretty fantastic too. I don’t think there’s a single major actor who is badly cast so far. I also like the changes to make Egwene and Nynaeve _ta’veren_. It makes complete sense considering the huge roles they play in the plot, especially towards the end of the book series. They are just as important as Perrin and Mat to the Light’s victory at the Last Battle.
I knew adapting 14 books to a TV format would not be an easy task. I knew plenty of fan favourite characters and plot lines would end up getting cut. I’ve seen non faithful film and TV adaptations of books before, and I’ve been able to sit back and enjoy them for what they are, without any of sense of regret or anger towards the TV show or film.
(Game of Thrones is a great example of this. They cut storylines and characters, and changed core moments. But they remained faithful to the books. Sure, once they ran out of books they started running into trouble, but they at least had the author to consult on. Despite the much maligned ending to Season 8, I enjoyed the show as a whole. Another example is Spider-Man: No away Home. It is its own thing. It takes inspiration from the comics but without copying any particular storyline. It remains faithful to the core of the Spider-Man mythos. It is fantastic, and an absolute love letter to the fans.)
However as the episodes went on I felt a mounting sense of unease. There were plenty of hints that things were goin
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/wheel-time-review-dungeons-dragons-cosplay-game-thrones/
Pretty unflattering title but 4/5 stars, full text below since it's behind a pay wall:
The Wheel of Time, review: more Dungeons and Dragons cosplay than Game of Thrones
At first inspection Amazon’s The Wheel of Time looks like Game of Thrones with its plumage tweaked. Bearded men dash about waving swords; female characters are belted into many shades of fantastical frock. The series even features a Hollywood name clopping around grimly in cape and hood – Rosamund Pike taking up the baroque baton from Thrones’s Sean Bean.
There are also murky mutterings about dragons and ancient prophecies whilst an all-powerful dark lord slumbers in the shadows (the Jeff Bezos jokes write themselves). But substantial differences exist, too, between WoT and GoT. And the success or failure of this $100 million adaptation of Robert Jordan’s cult fantasy saga may hinge on how its more distinctive elements are received by audiences hungry for further helpings of what Game of Thrones had to offer.
The biggest departure is tone. In a stark break from Game of Thrones, Wheel of Time does not feature 10 year-olds shoved from windows or right royal incest. And when Pike told the Radio Times that the show would emphasise male nakedness rather than the female variety she was half right. In fact, there’s almost no nudity aside from an early and relatively demure love scene.
The Wheel of Time isn’t entirely squeaky clean and is too scary and gory for children. But it is recognisably a grand adventure in the tradition of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings – rather than, as Thrones was, a subversion of fantasy cliches. And in its early episodes this big Wheel has enough sweep, mystique and momentum to suggest that it can keep on turning and give Amazon the global hit it dearly craves.
That oomph is partly down to the massive budget. It is also, though, a testament to the mythic grandeur of Jordan’s 14-volume tale. The Wheel of Time, it should probably be acknowledged at the outset, is unlikely to become as big a phenomenon as Game of Thrones. In terms of media interest and cultural buzz, Thrones’s heir has already arrived in Succession. However, The Wheel of Time squeezes in enough excitement into the six instalments sent to reviewers – three of which will be available at launch on November 19 – to suggest it could well be a blockbuster on its own terms.
As a bonus, it makes an unexpected case for P
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I guess love triangles are very much in the 'spirit" of WoT lol.
Personally I didn't see this subtext and am not keen on how this may unfold, what do you think?
>When she walked into the London casting room of The Wheel of Time, Madeleine Madden scanned the faces – a sea of white – and thought, “Yep, standard.”
>To announce her presence, she politely inquired, “The Wheel of Time?”
>“They were like, ‘Oh no – upstairs’,” she recalls. “Then I walked into the actual room and it was such a diverse room of people, I just felt so relieved. For so much of my life I was the odd one out.
This kind of stuff right here infuriates me. Why are these people like this? Why do they can't look past skin color? This is the main reason I can't enjoy the show because in the back of my mind, I always assume that every decision about the show is not to serve the story but completely ideologically driven.
PS. I am not White!
