![]() ![]() ![]() Samantha Nelson gave the three-episode premiere of The Wheel of Time a 9/10: "The Wheel of Time is gorgeous, well acted, and strongly written, a show that understands the characters and plot of Robert Jordan’s books without being slavishly loyal to the source material. What We Said About The Wheel of Time's First 3 Episodes The chemistry growing between her and Lan is charming and she provides a good audience stand-in for an explainer on the deep bond between Aes Sedai and their warrior guardian Warders. They’ve captured her ferocious stubbornness and mistrust of the Aes Sedai without making her utterly infuriating. ![]() The writers of the Amazon adaptation are doing much better in this respect, particularly with Nynaeve. Robert Jordan filled his books with powerful women, but he wasn’t particularly good at writing them with complexity - most tended to be domineering and shrewish, which made it hard to like even the women you were supposed to be rooting for. It’s an uneven episode, with the plot surrounding the Aes Sedai largely eclipsing the segments where Mat and Rand continue to be dogged by agents of the Dark One while Egwene and Perrin hang out with the pacifist Tinkers. ![]() The Wheel of Time focused on worldbuilding in “The Dragon Reborn,” explaining significantly more about how channeling works with some ominous implications for the protagonists. ![]()
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