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Book Reader Wheel of Time Recap and Reaction: Season 1, Episodes 1-3
It’s happening! And five hours early![1] I watched the first three episodes Thursday night (and started this post) and then watched them again tonight (and finished this post). If I can convince a...
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Book Reader Wheel of Time Recap and Reaction: Season 1, Episode 4
I am thankful this Thanksgiving season to have a high quality, high production value TV adaptation of my favorite fantasy series of all time. SPOILERS abound below. Mostly for the first four episodes...
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Book Reader Wheel of Time Recap and Reaction: Season 1, Episode 5
The strident pleas of book hipsters and show apologists notwithstanding, after five episodes we have a sense of what we are getting from Amazon’s adaptation of a landmark work of epic fantasy. A high...
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Book Reader Wheel of Time Recap and Reaction: Season 1, Episode 6
I’ve been pretty lenient with the book changes up to this point. A certain amount of leeway is necessary—the change in format requires changes in storytelling, and any creator worth their salt is...
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Book Reader Wheel of Time Recap and Reaction: Season 1, Episode 7
Changes in adaptation are inevitable. Making a TV show is a messy, collaborative process that demands endless tradeoffs. It’s an iceberg, because it happens almost entirely out of the public eye...
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Book Reader Wheel of Time Recap and Reaction: Season 1, Episode 8
There are a couple primary problems with Amazon’s adaptation of The Wheel of Time. The first is a lack of respect for the source material. The second, and more serious, is that the show creators are...
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Recap and Review of the First Two Episodes of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings:...
Did I watch the first two episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on Amazon Prime (Rings of Power from here on out) on Thursday evening as soon as they dropped? Well, I tried. I didn’t...
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Book Reader Wheel of Time Recap and Reaction: First Six Episodes of Season Two
I’m trying not to hate-watch the Amazon Wheel of Time show. I really am. And succeeding! I don’t hate it. But then I don’t exactly love it either. SPOILERS abound below. Mostly for the show, but...
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Book Reader Wheel of Time Recap and Reaction: Season Two, Episodes 7-8
Episodes 7 and 8 of season 1 sharply turned me against the show. The good news is that is not the case with episodes 7 and 8 of season 2. Part of that is my dim view of the show is already baked in,...
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