Review of The Wheel of Time

You literally had an entire proven and established plot line, a fan base, a script and character development written out for you 20 years before the series premiere and you managed to screw it up. The first 5 episodes were fantastic: casting was great, adaptations were appropriate, and then you got to Fal Dara. WTF. You could not have diverged harder from a successful, proven, and oft emulated plot. I watched episode 7 and felt the same thing Rand felt at the Eye- hope and confidence in the beginning that devolve into absolute horror at the shortcuts and adaptations created for literally no benefit to the original plot. It's a whole new story, different plot, and here's my spoiler: their adaptation ain't gonna stand up to 20+ years of fandom. This is the death knoll of a series, I hate that I had such high expectations. They literally had a script written for them and they screwed it up.