With Robb Stark off to war, he’s left to rule Winterfell, but he has wiser counsel and a kinder heart than Joffrey.īut the real reason to look forward to Season 2 is marked by a red comet in the skies of the Seven Kingdoms. “It’s your one redeeming quality-that and your cheekbones.”Īnother child, the youngest Stark Bran, has also been thrust into a position of leadership. “You love your children,” he tells his sister, the Queen mother Cersei. It doesn’t take long for The Imp, Tyrion Lannister to remind us why we missed this show, as he arrives in King’s Landing as the representative of his father.
His wife, young Sansa Stark is forced to watch his cruelty and call her father a traitor. This one is for the entertainment of King Joffrey, the sadistic boy who called for the head of Lord Stark at the end of the first season. Season 2 may be guaranteed, but the longer future of Amazon's Wheel of Time seems in doubt right now.Season 2 of Game of Thrones begins where Season 1 ends-with a death. With that, the already irritated fandom is likely to get even more frustrated, damaging the show's reputation even further.
Wheel of Time episode 3 sets up radical changes to Egwene and the prophecy of the Dragon Reborn, which - if followed through - means the TV series will diverge completely from Jordan's own story. Meanwhile, the changes in Wheel of Time seem to be building. The positive buzz simply isn't there, which threatens to prevent Wheel of Time ever reaching its wider potential audience. Instead, the opposite is happening: book readers are furious, leaving negative comments and reviews, as they're disappointed that the story they love hasn't been brought faithfully to life.
It's quite incredible that the Emond's Field group found their way to the cursed city of Shadar Logoth by episode 2, whereas this journey takes quite some time to develop in the books.Ī book adaptation like Wheel of Time can't depend on the sensibilities of book readers: the TV show is too vast, too expensive, and needs to reach a lot more people. However, the spirit of Robert Jordan's books should still be sustained throughout the show, and Amazon's hope would be that fans of the books would drive a positive buzz for the show to catch the attention of viewers who had never even heard of the fantasy novels. All this is compounded by the sheer pace of the story, which is running through chapters at remarkable speed. This shift in age and violence is a naked attempt to appeal to Game of Thrones viewers, but for those who love the books, it goes rather too far. Although Wheel of Time could get pretty brutal, he didn't go into detail, and, visually, the first two episodes are already gorier than anything Jordan wrote.
Meanwhile, Jordan tried to balance traditional fantasy violence with an attempt to appeal to general audiences with younger characters. The most striking change of all is a visual one, with Wheel of Time's main characters aged older than their book versions in an attempt for the show to avoid feeling like some sort of YA fantasy adventure. The core problem is that the Amazon series is rather different from the books - with these differences angering readers who initially loved Jordan's novels. Related: Wheel Of Time: What Mat Being Recast Means For Amazon's Show Unfortunately, the reception to Wheel of Time's first episodes hasn't exactly been positive. They've already renewed Wheel of Time for season 2, although they've recast Dónal Finn ( The Witcher) in replacement of Barney Harris as Mat Cauthon, one of the show's stars. No doubt, Amazon hopes Wheel of Time can become the next Game of Thrones, a long-form fantasy series intended to last for years. There have been several attempts to get Wheel of Time transformed into a TV series, but they've been met with no real success until 2021. Their instincts proved correct, although they'd underestimated Jordan's ability to get carried away: the Wheel of Time series was completed after 14 books. The series was only finished by Brandon Sanderson after Robert Jordan sadly died in 2007. In 1984, fantasy writer Robert Jordan approached Tor Books with the idea of a trilogy he called " Wheel of Time." Tor's editors had worked with Jordan before, and they knew he tended to go long, so instead they commissioned him for six books.
The fan backlash to Amazon's Wheel of Time is a major threat to future seasons of the fantasy TV series.