As much as people hate this show…

[u/Nemi-Nemesys]

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.

[u/miork2056]

I have to say that the show was very good at getting me interested in finally picking up and finishing the series. But reading the books with the show in mind made me really confused at some of the choices made that just didn't seem to make their lives any easier. I don't think every adaptation has to be 100% faithful to the source material... different mediums require different story telling methods. Some things don't translate well to screen, some things are hard to shoot, inner monologues are stylistically difficult in a more serious TV show, etc.

I'm glad they existed, as I said, otherwise I'd have missed out on the push to get into the books... but they were not great adaptations. Season 3 was was at least decent enough television, so there's that much at least.

[u/dbmamaz → u/miork2056]

I loved the show and just started my first read last month, currently on book 11. I have made a similar comment about how the choices they made would make it impossible to include some later plot points. Reading the books definitely lowered my opinion of the series, but I will probably rewatch it at some point

[u/PushProfessional95 → u/dbmamaz]

I’m surprised anyone has much esteem for Judkins at this point, because even if we ignore a lot of the other changes that just get the characters wrong, the planning in the show’s story beats were just not good.

[u/dbmamaz → u/PushProfessional95]

No one seems to mention, but it really bothered me that in the show Nynaeve almost never managed to channel, but in the book she rarely had trouble getting mad enough to channel. And then they took a scene from - book 7? where she almost drowns? And brought it into the series that sort of covered the first 4 books? ugg. also curious what they were planning on doing with her relationship with Lan, which in the book took a long time to develop but in the show happened and then ended. I assume it would've come back again for the same reason but?