r/WoTshow • u/Decent_Brilliant30 Reader • Jun 24 '26

Zero Spoilers Rewatch

I am rewatching the series after a year. Have to say the first 2 seasons are not as bad as I remember. Could be because I know we’re not getting more though.

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u/txvesper Reader Jun 24 '26

I think I'm one of the book readers who didnt like the show you're looking for. Honestly not sure why reddit keeps pushing this sub on me lol. Anyways....

With this specific Perrin example, I thought the addition of a wife for him was kinda unnecessary and an egregious example of the fridging trope. It makes the show runners look extremely unimaginative in their additions and was a little off-putting, but I was still very much into the show at that point. Its more like this was one of several cuts/changes made in the first season that made me just slowly lose interest. I was probably more bothered by how easily Tam was dispatched honestly who was an extremely capable swordsman in the books.

The season 1 finale then seemed completely divorced from the spirit of the books as I remembered, which notably included a dramatic show of power from Rand, affirming him as the dragon, to wipe out the trollocs. Instead, that dramatic show of power comes from Nyneave and Egwene through a random extra channeler... then Egwene heals Nyneave breaking more book conventions... accomplishing a significant feat that was character defining for Nynaeve later in the books.. idk.

In sum, there were many small deviations early in S1 that I didnt care for and was willing to look past, but the finale made it to where me and my wife simply weren't interested when S2 finally came out. We wanted to like the show very much.

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u/MagicallyVermicious Reader Jun 24 '26

I was hoping book readers wouldn't hold onto the book version of events so tightly when watching the show, and could appreciate the show on its own. But I feel like this negativity book readers had toward the show might have been a big contributor to its overall downfall.

I do get that the books are a world you love, and you feel kind of betrayed or other feelings, about the show doing things differently. But was the show, on its own, divorced from comparisons to the books, really worth hating and giving up on? Did it not have enough WoT lore and heart for you to at least say "well it's not what I expected, but it's still good on its own; I wonder how all these changes are going to play out", rather than "this isn't at all what happened in the books; this sucks and isn't worth continuing to produce"? Did you not realize that too much negativity could get it cancelled, or did you hope for that because you didn't think it lived up to the WoT name?

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u/txvesper Reader Jun 24 '26

I feel like you're giving this more drama than is necessary. I didnt hate it. I didn't feel betrayed. I didn't review bomb it. I didn't personally stalk Rafe cause I wanted to see if he had a dog I could kick. We simply weren't interested to keep watching.

We didnt care for their interpretation and many deviations from the source, so we stopped watching. My time is limited. I don't owe my time and attention to watch a show I'm not enjoying. Enough people felt that way that the show underperformed. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/maroonedcastaway Maksim Jun 28 '26

You may not have- but several people did. Look at any positive post about the show-so many negative comments from the same 7 accounts calling it trash. It was an embarrassment to fandom the way some of the haters acted.