After my Rangz of the Kangz review I re-read the first book in the Wheel of Time series, The Eye Of The World. My review was generally favourable, although I stopped reading the series early into The Great Hunt, since I found it had many of the fantasy tropes that I’ve grown to loathe, and I don’t have time for a 4+ million word slog. Nevertheless, I said in that review that I felt obligated to watch Amazon’s disastrous Wheel of Time show series, and here we are.
The Wheel of Time book started off with a prologue involving Lews Therin, the Dragon, that I didn’t much care for. He’s gone mad, and has killed his entire family. We’ve also got The Dark One there in the scene making fun of him. Eventually some magic stuff happens and he ends up breaking the World.
Like I said in my review of the book, I didn’t much care for it, but the intro to the main story is much better. We follow Rand and Tam as they transport cider to Emond’s Field for the festival of Bel Tine. It’s exactly the slow paced and atmospheric introduction that the book needed. I was looking forward to it.
So of course the homosexual Rafe Judkins decides to throw in his own creation, a minute long monologue of Moiraine talking about how men are so arrogant and ghey.
There was even a third prologue they could have used, which is the short prequel novel that Robert Jordan wrote, which focuses on Moiraine, Lan, and the war with the Aiel that predates the start of The Eye Of The World by eighteen years. I didn’t much care for that prequel myself, but fans of the series found it to be solid.
But no, we’ve got to roll with this lore shattering monologue delivered by Moiraine.
Moiraine: The world is broken. Many many years ago men who were born with great power believed they could cage darkness itself. The arrogance.
When they failed, the seas boiled, mountains were swallowed up, cities burned, and the women of the Aes Sedai were left to pick up the pieces.
That’s not what happened in the books, not even close, but I guess (((Jennifer Salke))) needed to chuck in misandryist fanfic for no particular reason. That’s what happens when Robert Jordan’s work is rewritten by the Red/Black Sedai.
These women remembered one thing above all else… the man who brought the breaking of the world. And him they named Dragon.
Now this man has been born again. We don’t know where, or to whom, if he was reborn as a girl or a boy. The only thing –
We don’t know if The Dragon is reborn as a boy? Uh, yes, we most certainly do know that, and it’s dramatically necessary that The Dragon be reborn as a boy, since the male half of the magic power drives the users crazy. Because of this, Rand, who is The Dragon Reborn, has to deal with himself going crazy, having no one to teach him how to use magic. He also needs to deal with the female magic users who have a great deal of political power in the world, and are often very rationally hostile to male magic users. If the Dragon is reborn as a girl, none of this is an issue, she’s just another Aes Sedai who is a bit more powerful than the rest.
The only thing we know for certain is that this child is coming of age now, and we must find them… before the dark does.
We’re exactly one minute in, and I already hate it. This is an incredibly stupid change from the perspective of forcing drama. Rand is the main character for a reason, and they’re going to need to rewrite much of the story in order to facilitate this change. I have no confidence they will do so with any amount of competence, not just based on already knowing that everyone hates this show, but because there was no reason to make the changes they already made.
Why is this opening scene so ****ing dark?
On top of that the outfit they gave Moiraine is… interesting. I guess they’re going for some sort of Dominatrix look, when she was clearly described as wearing dresses and a blue shawl in the books. Lan is also Asian, which, whatever, and the music in the background combined with the tropey writing gives the scene a Baby’s First Fantasy feel that would make me roll my eyes even if I didn’t know it was breaking the lore.
The tropes just keep on comin’ in the very next scene, which sees two men running away from the Red Sedai, but we’ll get to that next time.
I watched up to the anti-men rant and figured it was garbage. Feminism is so gay, I am almost thankful to trannies for absolutely ending feminsim. Feminism is now for male sex predators it has come full circle. The trannies can kill feminism and then kill themselves for all i care.
It really is a cannibals vs pedos type fight, isn’t it.