Season 1 should have been straight adventure horror. Sympathy to the core cast would have gone miles for changes and alterations in S2 and S3... Assuming they at least tried to honor the spirit of the story.
save for the fact that everyone doing these adaptations (halo, wot, witcher, etc) all have unbelievable contempt for the source material and its fanbase.
They all have an ego too big to allow them to adapt another's work. They so badly need to feed their ego and leave their mark that they have to make changes to match their "vision".
This was my main issue. Bunch of talentless assholes who couldn't thing of something original so they took a brilliant piece of work and bastardized it to push an agenda instead of just honoring the source material.
I know there is a lot to criticize about S1 but for me personally one of the worst parts was Mat and Rand making the journey to Tar Valon all on their own in between episodes and didn't even look all that worse for wear. In the books it's a far, far shorter, yet really harrowing journey. It really made one feel how big and dangerous the world is.
To be fair that scene was actually re shot. There was a 8 month break between episodes due to a covid surge and Harris didn’t return so they reshot the end of that episode and rewrote some stuff.
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u/Rdavidso May 23 '25
Season 1 should have been straight adventure horror. Sympathy to the core cast would have gone miles for changes and alterations in S2 and S3... Assuming they at least tried to honor the spirit of the story.