As I said last time, I’m rereading the series and watching the new Amazon Prime show about Robert Jordan’s universe.
I have to point out from the get-go, they’ve changed quite a few things from the stories. To start with, they’re all 20 instead of teenagers. Perrin (middle of the back row) is married. Rand (right side, back row) and Egewene (left side, front row) are lovers. The Wisdom (second from left, front row) cannot marry. And there’s gore for the sake of it, which you pretty much expect nowadays, with screenwriters who have little or no imagination and think that blood and explosions equal a good story.
If you ignore what you’ve read, though, the story is pretty good. I love the scenery–filmed near Prague in the Czech Republic–and the costumes are great. I like Morraine and Lan as characters in the show (Rosamund Pike goes brunette, which works better than blonde). I’d like to reserve judgement on the show as a whole, though, until I see where they’re going with it. More on this topic later…
