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Matata · 12-06-2021, 11:45 AM

I'm still having a hard time judging it on it's own merits. I'm either comparing it to the books (which is frustrating because I don't remember most of them) or Game of Thrones and it's 5 seasons of medieval fantasy perfection. It compares very poorly to GoT particularly with casting. GoT seemed like they could never make a mistake where WoT has had some pretty weak casting choices, particularly among the Aes Sedai (bunch of frumps with no screen presence. What have they done with my poor Alanna?).

Maybe part of the reason I'm having a hard time judging it on it's own is because it's still finding it's feet as I also noticed a change between episodes 1-3 and 4&5. I still think it has all the ingredient to be great but it may take another season or two to get there.

I also think they should have dropped the whole "Aiel hair" thing since they decided to make race invisible, which was already challenging due to the extremely jingoistic structure of the WoT world. It's also going to be hard for a bunch of black and asian people not to look comical with thick, straw-like, red hair wigs on.

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Matata Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Jul 2007 Exp:	I'm still having a hard time judging it on it's own merits. I'm either comparing it to the books (which is frustrating because I don't remember most of them) or Game of Thrones and it's 5 seasons of medieval fantasy perfection. It compares very poorly to GoT particularly with casting. GoT seemed like they could never make a mistake where WoT has had some pretty weak casting choices, particularly among the Aes Sedai (bunch of frumps with no screen presence. What have they done with my poor Alanna?). Maybe part of the reason I'm having a hard time judging it on it's own is because it's still finding it's feet as I also noticed a change between episodes 1-3 and 4&5. I still think it has all the ingredient to be great but it may take another season or two to get there. I also think they should have dropped the whole "Aiel hair" thing since they decided to make race invisible, which was already challenging due to the extremely jingoistic structure of the WoT world. It's also going to be hard for a bunch of black and asian people not to look comical with thick, straw-like, red hair wigs on. Last edited by Matata; 12-06-2021 at 11:47 AM. Reason: e: how many opportunities am I going to get to use jingoistic in a sentence?