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After Wheel of Time my expectations are so incredibly low, if it still manages to disappoint I will be impressed.

I'm expecting a shitshow and a shitstorm of epic proportions.

I'm expecting a 465 million dollar joke about the ease of delivering products to Mordor using Amazon's infrastructure. If not in live action then at least as an advertising campaign based in supporting material.

Stop giving them ideas!

If the "ma" of the Amazon logo isn't modified with a pictogram of LOTR landmarks someone needs to get fired. "From A to Z through The Shire" should be their Superbowl campaign.

Wheel of Prime

Have to agree! I'm not sure what I was expecting with Wheel of Time, but I wasn't expecting it to look so cheap. Also one of the central characters wears a pullover in early episodes that's definitely dry-clean only, and had definitely just been dry-cleaned. While it sounds like a little thing, it's the little things that add up to an immersive world.

> Also one of the central characters wears a pullover in early episodes that's definitely dry-clean only, and had definitely just been dry-cleaned.

Wait, which character? If it was Morraine or Lan, then she can totally "dry clean" stuff as needed, right? If it was one of the Emond's Field characters, then yeah, you got a point :)

Yeah, Wheel of Time was really bad. I tried so hard to like it but it had little to redeem it.

One of the major themes of Wheel of Time is how myth changes over the ages as it passes from person to person, culture to culture. This can be very entertaining in the books because you read the inner thoughts of dozens of protagonists and antagonists. Each of them are ignorant in different ways and nobody really knows exactly how the wheel is going to weave things in the future.

I'm not sure how a narrator or having someone's thoughts read aloud would be done in a show like this, though, and Amazon didn't try. There are definitely a lot of villains in it but from what I saw they couldn't make the subject of ignorance interesting.

I think we all would benefit from a 10 year moratorium on taking on epic legacy cultural icons by the current US media and entertainment crowd.

Wow I didn't even know that happened until right now. At least they're advertising for Rings of Power.

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