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So, after watching the first three episodes, WoT as implemented, seems pretty much entirely unrelated to anything resembling the books other than in the most general sense, with a bunch of completely gratuitous changes to characters and plot serving no purpose whatsoever, other than apparently to show that Aes Sedai can, on rare occasion be badass (with cheesy, low budget CGI), and that the script writers don't appear to be interested in the original books as other than general source material. They've taken a hatchet to it with no art whatsoever. To say it's only vaguely derivative at best might be overstating things. It's sort of like watching a high school drama teacher who thinks they can improve upon Shakespeare by entirely rewriting it. (I'm not trying to compare Robert Jordan to Shakespeare here, just make an analogy about hacks thinking they can do better than original authors who are clearly vastly better.) With no exaggeration whatsoever, a more accurate analogy might be, say, if a writing AI was tasked with generating a totally unrelated script after putting a loose plot outline through a randomizer, then only taking the first 'n' results for each episode. It's a truly random mashup. There are literally scene (plot would be too strong a word) fragments from the first half-dozen books all thrown in with no rhyme nor reason, without any regard to chronology nor coherence, with a few lines of loose dialogue attempting to string them together. To make a LoTR analogy for folks who may not already be familiar with WoT, as far as adaptations go, we're not just talking, say Chris Columbus deciding to have Nazgul find Frodo and the One Ring while in the custody of Faramir. We're talking the equivalent of Nazgul interrupting Bilbo's birthday party and eating his birthday cake, followed by everyone selling off Bilbo's possessions because he never returned from the Lonely Mountain, followed by dinner in Rivendell, then Nazgul appearing again, only to be driven off by the Ghostly Army, who are then in turn chased away by Tree Ents carrying torches, following which Merry and Pippin discover 'Ale can be ordered in Pints!", followed by Gandalf asking Bilbo if he might like to go and find some dwarves because maybe he has a fun picnic idea, and they can catch a ride with the Hosts of Rohan on their way to Minas Tirith to catch a broadway show before continuing on to the Prancing Pony to ‘meet a man about a horse.’ In this abomination (not adaptation) there is no character development. There is nothing even resembling a plot, let alone any plot coherence, let alone even the broad strokes of the actual *original* primary plot by Jordan (nor any of the myriad subplots). To paraphrase Douglas Adams tea analogy, this is instead "something almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea." But, the location scouts did find some pretty scenery, the set designers and crew did some good work, and the costuming and and art departments did some decent work. So, one actual, not zero stars. Don’t waste your time. nor reward this by bothering to watch. I certainly won’t be watching another minute of it. It is unredeemable, and unsalvageable, with no entertainment value, even totally divorced from the concept that Amazon did anything more than pay to use the title. This debacle deserves to die on the vine as swiftly as possible, and perhaps if Amazon looses vast sums of money on this, they will think twice before completely destroying an Intellectual Property again, or ever allowing the director and show runners to ever work on (that is to say completely ruin) anything else. Clearly, no one involved in this project cares at all about Jordan's WoT.