I'm in the same camp. Never even heard mention of these books. It has me intrigued.
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If you have any patience at all in reading, I recommend them. Jordan was very into in depth descriptions of minute things, but the characters and action in the story are awesome. Leading of a certain Band later in the story and the aiel are both awesome to follow imo.
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Fourth episode feels like they're starting to really settle in. In the first episode, Moiraine drawing the Power looked a little cheesy, but since they're sticking with that visual all the way through, you kind of get used to it. And the battle scene started to really showcase what they can do.

I particularly thought it was effective that (book spoiler)...



At this point, I'm relatively confident that this will be good enough to satisfy book readers. Now the only question is to what extent they'll be able to draw in the masses.
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Y'all are re-igniting the interest now.
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I hope they re-work the macarena-style linking of the aes-sedai some.
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Loial was well done
Ep5 was good overall, some stuff was combined and the timelines seem a little off, but this one did move things closer I'd say.
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Not sure I understand why they had the character do what he did at the end of the episode, not really matching the mood of that character....
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yeah, it was overdone I thought as well. But I think it was supposed to show how much pain he carries around with him already. Knowing the character from the books, he has a lot more personal pain than just what has happened around him recently, like a lot.
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A lot of wasted episode in this last one. No reason for episode 5 to have focused so much on the warders while totally skipping other elements of the story line that they have so far excluded.

Bits I liked, but after episode 4, was a let down.

I really don't understand some of the editorial decisions and how they seem to be editing out important things, while adding in fluff that doesn't add to the story at all.
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gotta stay woke
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What part are you interpreting as "woke"?
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Well...they have one Asian, one Indian, a couple of African Americans...the feminist Reds...and a lot of out of place forced homosexual references.

I guess that covers the "woke" demographic quota from the producers.

Did like the two black demons whispering to the false dragon on top of the castle...nice effects.

I didn't read the books...so I'm not horrified by it. I could see how fans might want to burn it to ashes though. The first episode started a bit ruff...

If you put the Hobbit, the Witcher, Harry Potter and GOT in a blender and added dashes of modern politics/woke propaganda...you have this. It's entertaining escapism...the effects are decent.
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Sure, but all of those are in the books to some extent. Perhaps RJ was woke before woke was cool.
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This first season is almost entirely exposition with a little plot thrown in here and there. The warder stuff is pretty clearly setting up...



I didn't mind it.
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Yes, and it could have been done without using half a damn episode to do so.

Honestly, so far it feels a bit like they've nerfed the warders.
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