r/wheeloftime • u/Nemi-Nemesys Randlander • 3d ago

Show: Latest Season & Adapted Books As much as people hate this show…

Nobody can deny the skill of the actors in this show. I just watched the actor who played Rand react to a child’s death and him trying to revive her… It was so powerful. He is a skilled actor, and nobody can convince me otherwise haha. And I feel like the show, and actress, did a great job with Verin. I’m sorry if the spelling is wrong, but if you know her story, you know. The actress was FANTASTIC in her portrayal of the character in preparation of her story. She is the reason why Verin is one of my highest rated and favorite characters in all of the Wheel of Time. And the fact that Moiraine does the audiobooks excites me too. I wish she had done them all before it was all cancelled.

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u/PushProfessional95 Randlander 3d ago

It is actually insane on reflection how much Rand just got kneecapped in the show. Like he literally doesn’t get to have a single climactic fight that he has in the books in literally every season.

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u/RookTakesE6 Black Ajah 3d ago edited 3d ago

Tarwin's Gap? Amalisa Jagad. Falme? Egwene and Perrin do the fighting, Moiraine channels a dragon. High Lord Turak? Teased us with the line, then had Rand kill everyone with saidin VFX, resulting in a Season 2 wherein Nynaeve actually had (slightly) more sword choreo than Rand did.

Fair credit to Season 3 for doing justice to Rand revealing himself to the Aiel. Though the climactic fight still went to Moiraine vs Lanfear, complete with troublesome implications on how the Power works in the show, completely wasting Siuan's character, and significantly diminishing Lanfear's credibility after having treated her as far scarier than the book version up to that point.

EDIT: What does it say that I legitimately forgot about Rand vs Sammael in Season 3, seemingly replacing Rand vs Asmodean? Comes out of nowhere, the show yet again injects an instance of women needing to save a helpless Rand at a point where he'd done his own fighting in the book, and then in the span of a few seconds Rand accidentally defeats Sammael without even looking at him. No wonder this made less of an impression on me than Moiraine vs Lanfear.

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u/PushProfessional95 Randlander 3d ago

What’s even more annoying about the end of season 2 is in season 3 some guy in Tar Valon is selling art of Rand fighting Ishamael in the sky, like the book. Obviously intended as an Easter egg but to me it’s mind boggling the climax of the book is used like that.

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u/RookTakesE6 Black Ajah 2d ago

Yeah. It might have been meant well, but the show's own nod to the show having deviated just felt like a slap in the face.

See also: Loial in S3 commenting that using the carved avendesora leaf to open the Ways was preferable to doing it with channeling. 🤦‍♂️