Wheel of Time Review Amazon Burns The Books AND Their OWN Lore! Season 2 Episode 5

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  • @disparutoo
    @disparutoo  ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Wheel of Time Review Season 2 Episode 5, Where Rafe Judkins writes in new characters, blows up the ENTIRE BOOK LORE to the point the apocalypse is now certain. Creates brand new abilities for Lanfear, changes entire character arcs. And basically, the only things even related to the lore are throwaway side comments or the occasional reference to a stone. Which promptly contradicted the events of the series. Welcome to Wheel of Time people! The aim is to catch up with the rest of the episodes before the finale on Friday. So let me know your thoughts on what you saw of this train crash down below, and as always, thanks for watching :)

    • @ceinwenchandler4716
      @ceinwenchandler4716 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I wanna see the world end. I think it'd be hilarious if they acknowledged how badly they've scrambled up the lore by actually ending the series with an episode that's just the Dark One destroying/conquering everything.

    • @sargonyami4292
      @sargonyami4292 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No the person that blows the horn doesn't controll them. That person can only summon them. Only the dragon reborn can controll them.

    • @StephenGillie
      @StephenGillie ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This isn't Wheel of Time, but like Misshapen Ellipse of Tiem.
      Edit: A Brave New 1984, where we rewrite history to make ourselves happy. Or at least someone does, to make themselves happy, at our expense.

    • @EnsignRedshirtRicky
      @EnsignRedshirtRicky ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Holy Shit that intro was PERFECT! Ten whole seconds to hook me.

    • @bathtub_marmot
      @bathtub_marmot ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Idk how legal rights work around showing artwork on YT, but I think the Aviendha casting point you made could have been a little stronger if you'd shown several different artists' renderings, because I *know* most people didn't get Rafe's image from Jordan's description and there are probably some dorks out there who think you cherry-picked.
      As always, thanks again for standing up for Wheel of Time fans. Jordan deserved better.

  • @sharifrancis9826
    @sharifrancis9826 ปีที่แล้ว +323

    I now understand why Rand looks so bewildered and confused in every scene. He read the books, and is now wondering what went wrong.

    • @Ackalan
      @Ackalan ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Imagine being one of all those fan-fic characters reborn into books trying to use their knowledge of the books to get ahead, only to be reborn into their shitty TV-version instead without realising it and be utterly bewildered constantly why everything is so wrong.

    • @avanz2885
      @avanz2885 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😄😄😄

    • @MrsMacLover
      @MrsMacLover ปีที่แล้ว +5

      he had plenty of time off screen

    • @sharifrancis9826
      @sharifrancis9826 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MrsMacLover That is true.

    • @MrsMacLover
      @MrsMacLover ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@sharifrancis9826 sadly. but I've already given up on this show. still love Disparu's reviews, though.

  • @M-S_4321
    @M-S_4321 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    "Do you know why the Aes Sidai swear the three oaths in the first place?"
    Audience: 'Because The Sea Is Always Right?'

    • @Jamesmatise
      @Jamesmatise ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Because a wilder only looks down, but an Aes Sedai is made of wood!

    • @M-S_4321
      @M-S_4321 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Jamesmatise Writers Award Winner!

    • @Nyet-Zdyes
      @Nyet-Zdyes ปีที่แล้ว

      Uh... because men = bad?

    • @fionnaitsradag5152
      @fionnaitsradag5152 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      🤣

    • @avanz2885
      @avanz2885 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      😄😄😄👏

  • @waylander9265
    @waylander9265 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    You know what made the Forsaken intimidating? The fact that every dark friend would grovel and beg despite how narcissistic and egotistical they were. Or in the few cases of the over confident, they were immediately put in their place and lucky to be alive. Suroth should be walking on eggshells, Ishamael has the Dark One backing him up and could destroy her on a whim. She is only a convenience to him, a tool that happens to be useful, but has no other value. That scene between the two is incredibly damaging to Ishamael’s character because why should the audience respect Ishamael if his own subordinates don’t?

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap ปีที่แล้ว

      You shouldnt respect men. Thats the entire message of this abomination.

    • @dariovirga7711
      @dariovirga7711 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, yes, he did give me tne impression that he'd retort with extreme prejudice at the slighest lack of etiquette or attempt at challenge.

    • @haku8135
      @haku8135 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fucking FADES were afraid of Padan Fain, and Rafe made BOTH of those things totally fucking harmless. All you gotta do to kill a Fade now is poke its chin and it dies instantly.
      As for Padan Fain..... Has he been in the fucking story at all so far? I think this is the first time Disparu has mentioned him THIS SEASON.

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@haku8135 Padan who? He was mentioned in season 1 btw

    • @sayLeotardbutsayitChinese
      @sayLeotardbutsayitChinese ปีที่แล้ว

      That paragraph was both more enlightening and better written than every episode of this show

  • @Raggedy_Andy71
    @Raggedy_Andy71 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    I know the Wheel of Time reviews don't necessarily get the views that your other videos do. But I, and I'm sure many others, really appreciate that you continue to do it. The book series is something that has been dear to me for many years and I think it's great that you keep on calling out the desecration that Rafe has done with his "adaptation", so thank you!

    • @Blayzn18
      @Blayzn18 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Thank you for saying this. It's almost disheartening when you look on "social media" and these so called fans are cheering on the changes and cuts. Praising the swaps and the unnecessary adds. It's almost like, "Am I wrong?" So thank you as well for keeping us sane and reminding us that this could have been a great series with amazing story arcs and characters that you want to learn more about. The core of Robert Jordan's theme was that men and women working together created the best advancements of the age. This is all sacrificed because even that is problematic now.

    • @FiliusFidelis
      @FiliusFidelis ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mmm he has fallen behind in them quite a bit as episode 7 has aired already. I do enjoy these a LOT more than I do the actual series - which is crap. And Salty hasn't done anything in 2 weeks. There's always Shad though.

    • @benalo13
      @benalo13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@FiliusFidelisI think the shit series is getting to SALTY

    • @firenze6478
      @firenze6478 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Blayzn18the internet literally censors any alternative opinions about anything.
      Remember when they made captain America a nazi? There were loads of articles in outrage about it, now they are all deleted and all that’s left are articles saying this is what white people deserve.
      It even goes as far as deleting people that were upset at the ending of mario odyssey because being against was seen as mysoginistic.
      They believe that they can destroy alternative beliefs by simply deleting all discussion about it unless it fully supports their viewpoints. They are sick narcissists.

  • @TerryB01
    @TerryB01 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    I care more for that digital rabbit than I do for absolutely anybody in this show.

    • @eddiebendigo7317
      @eddiebendigo7317 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​​@@TheGreeny490 your english just as good as the show writers'

  • @bathtub_marmot
    @bathtub_marmot ปีที่แล้ว +139

    Pay attention: every time Jordan’s story is about a woman struggling against oppression, Rafe will get everything right. Otherwise, the books be damned!

    • @jackrose6996
      @jackrose6996 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Even when she thinks she is but definitely isn't.

    • @ImminDragon
      @ImminDragon ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Only if he hasn't already screwed everything up to the point that the scene can't even happen anymore.

    • @bathtub_marmot
      @bathtub_marmot ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@ImminDragon That's what makes it like a Tommy Wiseau film, but more meta. He'll find a way to MAKE it happen. Rafe Judkins is next-level bad. Just wait, he'll be +75% accurate when he gets to the test for the Wise Ones and Egwene becoming Amarylin, and 5% accurate for everything else in between. Egwene will fucking teleport to the Aiel Waste if he needs her to. And she'll be some kind of spear-master when she gets there. I'm calling it now.

    • @haku8135
      @haku8135 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@bathtub_marmot I think Rafe read (or rather had read to him, I'm not convinced he can read) like "The Wheel Weaves as the Wheel Wills" and then went THAT'S GENIUS! And so he just writes everything to happen because he wants it to.

  • @doc_adams8506
    @doc_adams8506 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    My son came up with the best explanation of the so-called Wheel of Time. Everyone knows the Telephone Game. Imagine explaining the Wheel of Time to a friend who has not read the books or any familiarity with the lore. Then your friend tells a friend etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Imagine how distorted the original explanation would be at the 100th iteration. That is what we are getting from Amazon's adaptation of WOT.

    • @scotishpatriot
      @scotishpatriot ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice one!

    • @hammerofscience534
      @hammerofscience534 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      After about 10000 tellings not 100. 😂

    • @Gumblethebear
      @Gumblethebear ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Much easier, this is simply a portal stone world that "could have been". It is a far from likely possibility, so it should be very hazy, but its just a portal stone world.

  • @JamesAnderson-dp1dt
    @JamesAnderson-dp1dt ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Actually, your "A horse is not a car" comment is spot-on.
    I bet the reason they wrote the killing of the horse is because they literally thought that without a driver, a horse won't move.

    • @boobah5643
      @boobah5643 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I'm inclined to think it's a combination of not comprehending how you could bring a spare with no idea why spares might be useful. After all, even if they brought a second horse for each, both horses would have had to move the same distance at the same speed, so they'd be equally tired, right? Right?!?

    • @dlschgo
      @dlschgo ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@boobah5643 No. The rider requires extra effort for the horse.

    • @darrenhoughton1515
      @darrenhoughton1515 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      He was being sarcastic@@dlschgo

  • @Dave3Dman
    @Dave3Dman ปีที่แล้ว +23

    The way Moiraine said "This is.. Rand" was actually so telling. Full of disdain and annoyance. Basically demonstrating the exact feelings Rafe and the writers have for him as a character and something they probably express daily in the writers room as they wonder what are they supposed to do with this gross yucky problematic annoying heroic male character. How are they going to minimize and humiliate him today. That line by Moiriane was 100% projection.

    • @Raximus3000
      @Raximus3000 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Just wait until ep 7... Disparu will have a field day with it.

    • @Dave3Dman
      @Dave3Dman ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Raximus3000 Oh my god... The sudden, instantaneous and unexplained yeeting of Mat to Falme after they literally invented an entire contrived and convoluted 100% non book related nonsensical plot line to get him there, only to render it completely defunct and irrelevant with that one act. That was absolutely the most mind boggling example of their incompetent stupidity in the entire series so far.

    • @Raximus3000
      @Raximus3000 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Dave3Dman
      And we still have ep 8 if the fall is like season 2 then you can welcome insane bs!

  • @Diego_BR
    @Diego_BR ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Disparu loosing his mind about Wheel of Time and Ahsoka is the best thing on the internet these days. 😂😂😂😂

  • @lachlanrobertson4825
    @lachlanrobertson4825 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    I must say Turok was able to open the chest with the Horn, it's a plot point because it made Fain lose leverage over him, but he saw it as a trophy to present to the Empress and not his place to blow it, again leaving Fain with less influence over him

    • @nullpexception
      @nullpexception ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Right. Thanks for the reminder. The dagger from Shadar Logoth was also in the chest and Fain tried to claim it at that point as well.

    • @kbab679
      @kbab679 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah, he didn't want to be tied to the Horn for life, which would have been easy context and world building for the show to make, rendering Disparu's criticism still valid lmao.

    • @Toxici-Ty
      @Toxici-Ty ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yep. It was an important plot point that Turak knew more about the horn than they did and knew by blowing it he was tying himself to it for life. It would be seen as a challenge to the Empress and he would likely be killed for it.
      Also it was Rand who originally placed the dagger in the chest. A lot of people seem to be forgetting Fain had the dagger outside of the chest when he first stole them both.

    • @hammerofscience534
      @hammerofscience534 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your forgetting one thing, these writers no nothing of the books and care nothing for the lore.
      You are falling into the trap of trying to justify what they have done remember they are IDIOTS.

    • @SwiftNimblefoot
      @SwiftNimblefoot ปีที่แล้ว

      Turok? How does he hunt dinosaurs with those big nails?

  • @haku8135
    @haku8135 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    A correction, in the book Faine gives Turak the chest and tries to negotiate some pull in exchange for opening it when his ally arrives.
    Turak then opens the chest in front of him and removes the horn(these chests are rare, but there's a few in Seanchan. Anyone who knows the mechanism, which is not a piss easy wheel, can open it. Moiraine, Lanfear and Turak all open it at some point.) It pisses Faine off that he keeps the horn and dagger both, and uses them as bait for Rand. He doesn't blow the horn because he's so loyal to his Empress, the horn is for her, which is consistent with how loyal these people are.
    However the real problem, is that ISHAMAEL IS RIGHT THERE! WHY WOULD HE NOT JUST TAKE THE HORN FOR HIMSELF!? He didn't have the opportunity in the books, because HE WOULD AND THEY WOULD NEVER GET IT BACK! Ishamael was also super injured AND Lanfear was clearly interfering. She WANTS Rand to use the horn for her own schemes. The Forsaken play against the light, but also against each other ALL the time. Lanfear teleports Rand into another dimension to give him a chance to swipe the horn back, and to ingratiate herself with him of course. It's all masterful.
    BUT IN THIS ISHAMAEL IS RIGHT THERE AND DELIVERS IT PERSONALLY!? TO A GUY THAT JUST FUCKING SAID HE'S AGAINST THE SHADOW!?
    WHYYYYYYYYYY!?

    • @haku8135
      @haku8135 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Also one woman could never shield AND bind THREE women at once. Especially not THESE three.
      Men had nothing to do with the oaths, Hawkwing wasn't even BORN by the time the oaths were all in place. They swore them because of the breaking of the world and the trolloc wars. Had nothing to do with evil men. They even knew it would shorten their lives, though this detail was lost in time.

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap ปีที่แล้ว

      @@haku8135Im pretty sure I recall reading something about Hawkwing laying siege to the white tower and only leaving after some concession was made, not sure if that was the 3 oaths or something else, but it was something.

    • @Jamesmatise
      @Jamesmatise ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@TheSuperappelflapno, he had been manipulated into the siege by Ishamael and by anger over the amyrlin Bohnwin's incompetence that may have had something to do with his wife and child's death. Hawkwing 's Siege was only lifted after his death and also once Bohnwin was deposed. The Three Oaths were all in place long before then.

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Jamesmatise okay thanks, i read the books over a decade ago so im a bit hazy on details lile that, all i know amazon is doing this show worse than lucas and spielberg did indiana jones

    • @MordechaiHershoffyoutube
      @MordechaiHershoffyoutube ปีที่แล้ว

      @@haku8135 just as a general Q. why did the Aes Sedai not take an oath to NOT serve the dark one?

  • @bookcloaks
    @bookcloaks ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The 3 Oaths being the result of Hawkwing is Show Canon (i.e., they are Patriarchy). In the books the 3 Oaths are all established by the time of the Trolloc Wars and it is the Aes Sedai who decide to implement them on their own.

  • @AncestorEmpire1
    @AncestorEmpire1 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Wheel of time vs The Witcher: which streaming series would ignore book lore more often in favor of “The Message”

    • @Degarth
      @Degarth ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Season one of the Witcher wasn't bad at least. I don't think Wheel of Time can string together 3 minutes of half decent content.

    • @AncestorEmpire1
      @AncestorEmpire1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Degarth season 1 isn’t so bad because of hindsight.
      I’m never forgiving them for what they did to Triss.

    • @Nevir202
      @Nevir202 ปีที่แล้ว

      Seems like WoT? but I'm not familiar enough with the sauce to say for sure.

    • @AncestorEmpire1
      @AncestorEmpire1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Nevir202 I’m learning through lore videos.
      The comment section is spicer than no man’s land in ww1.

    • @phillipc.6833
      @phillipc.6833 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Someone should do a video on this! It’s really tough to say as both adaptations are so awful.

  • @fredricklloyd5300
    @fredricklloyd5300 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    An adaptation typically means compressing material to fit a restrictive medium. To Amazon, adaptation means compressing the amount of source material you actually use.

    • @haku8135
      @haku8135 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They compress it alright.
      With a garbage compactor. It's gonna end in the trash anyway, may as well be efficient about it.

    • @Blayzn18
      @Blayzn18 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What have they even kept? Just the names and a few memberberries.

    • @haku8135
      @haku8135 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Blayzn18 It's SO different from the books, morons trying to justify it had to call it "Another turning of the wheel"
      When an ADAPTATION is justified by saying it's a radically different timeline that just so happens to have all the same names, you know you done fucked up.

    • @aulvinduergard9952
      @aulvinduergard9952 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@haku8135 The thing is, it _can't_ be "another turning of the wheel," because everything changes by the time the same age comes about again. Otherwise the Dark One would know who everyone is, what role they're supposed to play in the Pattern, and it'd make his job so much easier to accomplish.
      If anything, this is one of the Portal Worlds, something that's so off-base and removed from the true timeline that it's unrecognizable.

    • @haku8135
      @haku8135 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@aulvinduergard9952 Never said it was a good desperate justification. Just what they tried to go with.
      Now, one episode isn't QUITE as shit as the other garbage and it's the best thing ever. It's honestly like Star Wars fans with Ahsoka.
      Shit episodes across the board, TONS of filler in every single episode to pad the time, then Anakin shows up and everyone loses their fucking minds and proclaims that Star Wars is saved! Despite Anakin's appearance not being justified AT ALL. He's there to jangle keys. Now Wheel of Time is jangling and the muppets are cheering.

  • @hercules5141
    @hercules5141 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The Wheel of Time is something incredibly special to me and seeing what they did here just makes my heart weep...

  • @cas4611
    @cas4611 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I know many people who try to convince me that this is “so true to the spirit” of the books it’s just told from a different “point in time” of the Wheel, as it’s all “just an interpretation of the same story”. Then I watch your take and it makes me smile.
    It’s Wheel in name only.

  • @omnianimator8468
    @omnianimator8468 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I've come up with a great description of adaptations like these.
    They're trying to build a chair with the parts for a table. So they hack and missplace pieces. Whenever you see a piece you recognize, you all see that its not connected to the right thing. And what you're looking at is a forced amalgamation of a chair with pieces should have been a table.

  • @ThinkingManCounter
    @ThinkingManCounter ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Introducing Aviendha instead of Gaul at this point and Dain Bornhald rather than Geofram leads me to believe that they're going cut out the battle for the Two Rivers that should be coming up after the Stone is taken. And because that's going to be cut, and because Perrin already had a wife, they're just going to leave Faile out. And because they're going to leave Faile out, Perrin is due to hook up with Berelain who will most certainly be some fairly plain, race swapped woman who will still be amazing.

    • @MrMoridinalthor
      @MrMoridinalthor ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I could live without Faile and her getting captured by the Shaido.

    • @Jamesmatise
      @Jamesmatise ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Faile was cast for Season 3, so we definitely get her. I highly doubt we'll get Lord Perrin the savior of the Two Rivers, though. More likely he will tag along while the women's circle yeet the invading Trolloc army off of cliffs😂

    • @ebbitty132
      @ebbitty132 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Barelain is too sexy to show up in this show. Perrin is being set to end up with aviendha.

    • @duncanlutz3698
      @duncanlutz3698 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      there is 0 chance Berelain gets 'adapted' into anything but an insufferable bint

    • @aulvinduergard9952
      @aulvinduergard9952 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ebbitty132 I think you're probably right about Aviendha and Perrin. As 'forward thinking' as they like to think themselves of being, there's no way they're going to give a man -- even one as cucked as they've made Rand -- 3 wives.

  • @sharifrancis9826
    @sharifrancis9826 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    It seems we have a new imposter in the form of Aviendha.
    Also, these writers seem hell bent on making Liandrin sympathetic.

    • @Jamesmatise
      @Jamesmatise ปีที่แล้ว +12

      By episode 7, Lanfear is pretty much the hero, so that tracks.

    • @droog8400
      @droog8400 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lanfear has been by far the best character. With the three 'boys' being so insipid, there is not much else to barrack for.

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@droog8400 She looks pretty mid for "the most beautiful woman in the world". The actress isnt awful though, so that makes her better than, well, everyone else in this show.

    • @Raximus3000
      @Raximus3000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And failing... I wonder whose self insert she is?

    • @Metalgarn
      @Metalgarn ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheSuperappelflap mid is being quite generous.

  • @samsherrington7423
    @samsherrington7423 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Its hilarious how WoT youtubers are like this episode is a massive upgrade. And Disparu is just like.. nah mate. 😆

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap ปีที่แล้ว +8

      To be fair this one and episode 6 were considerably less shit than what came before. It still does things to the lore than even pornhub would have to censor, and its still a very bad tv show, but it actually seems like some people are trying to make something entertaining now, and failing, instead of just making it as awful as they possibly can on purpose.

    • @mesikoura3091
      @mesikoura3091 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I stopped watching after the scene where they for no fucking reason changed the lore about why Lews Therin made the seal and why saidin got tainted. Not as a desperate last attempt and sacrifice in the face of defeat, but as a irresponsible show of arrogance and "toxic masculinity". For me that ruins the premise, story and Rands arc up in so many levels. Fuck that.

  • @skyhawk554
    @skyhawk554 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Just double checked my book, and there are some things you got wrong.
    Both Elayne and Min tagged along and were at Falme.
    More than one person could open the chest. It was more of a puzzle box than a proper lock box. Fain took it to Turak because he needed someone to open it, as someone else had put the dagger in there. And because he wanted to corrupt a potential ruler.
    For his part, Turak refused to blow the horn because he respected the hierarchy of the Seanchan. He was actually loyal to his empress and planned to send the Horn to her, to let her decide what reward if any he received. As FUBAR as the Seanchan worldview is, Turak showed genuine virtue in the time he was with us. It was an interesting mirror to Lord Ingtar's arc in the same book.

    • @EvenGodsDie
      @EvenGodsDie ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Fain took it to Turak to gain his favor. He didn't expect Turak to open it, because he wanted to be able to gain more favor with Turak by opening it himself.
      He wasn't loyal to the empress. He says he isn't going to blow the horn, because it would put him in a position to take the throne, and he didn't want to deal with the extra hassle of everyone currently in front of him trying to kill him. He doesn't show virtue, but he does show wisdom. And I'll take that

    • @Nava9380
      @Nava9380 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EvenGodsDie " He wasn't loyal to the empress. "
      Any citations?

    • @zoranvujovic998
      @zoranvujovic998 ปีที่แล้ว

      Care to elaborate why do you think Seanchan worldview was fubar? I found them to be one of the more likable factions in the books.
      Fully agree with everything else in your comment.

    • @eddiebendigo7317
      @eddiebendigo7317 ปีที่แล้ว

      Disparu doesn't read the comments

    • @EvenGodsDie
      @EvenGodsDie ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@Nava9380The citation is in the scene in which he explains exactly why he won't blow the horn.

  • @mikkelnpetersen
    @mikkelnpetersen ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "What parts are from the book?"
    "There's a book? I just threw sh*t at a wall and used what stuck"

  • @zeroryuj6093
    @zeroryuj6093 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    The greatest joke that perfectly describes the casting replacement of people with red hair is - "They see the word ginger, but casting directors are dyslexic".

    • @Jamesmatise
      @Jamesmatise ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Eek! Red heads! Run away, run away!
      - casting directors, probably

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap ปีที่แล้ว +3

      hahaha, oof

    • @marhawkman303
      @marhawkman303 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ah, yes, anagrams. :D

    • @MaleusMaleficarum
      @MaleusMaleficarum ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol... that was so wrong. 😂

    • @phillipc.6833
      @phillipc.6833 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Omg trying not to laugh

  • @cdgolem
    @cdgolem ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Perrin: "Why do they call it the Three Fold Land?"
    Aviendha: "Because a rock never looks up."
    Makes about as much f0ckin sense as this train wreck of a show!

    • @MSpotatoes
      @MSpotatoes ปีที่แล้ว

      "You have not seen!"

    • @SarahDuke01
      @SarahDuke01 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But remember, ships are able to do just that. Oh wait, wrong blasphemy!

  • @Gammagreen
    @Gammagreen ปีที่แล้ว +1

    35:28 slight correction, nyneve, Elaine, Egwaine, and Min were all at Falma and came through the Ways with Leanndrin. Egwaine and Min were captured, Nyneve and Elaine were not.

  • @erichtomanek4739
    @erichtomanek4739 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That cute little bunny rabbit at the beginning, had more of a character arc and development than anyone in this series.
    BTW, this was the bunny in the joke who walked through the forest saying:
    "I'm a pig, I'm a pig, I'm a pig".

  • @shaunwhitehead1485
    @shaunwhitehead1485 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    6:16: the general could and did open the box containing the horn and dagger and put both on display, his reasoning was only the empress (may she live forever) should use it (the great hunt)

    • @sargonyami4292
      @sargonyami4292 ปีที่แล้ว

      And the person blowing the horn can't controll the heros only summon them, only the dragon reborn can controll them

    • @shaunwhitehead1485
      @shaunwhitehead1485 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sargonyami4292 and the dragon’s flag had to be risen on the field of battle, Mat isn’t even there to a. Blow the horn b. Carry the flag

    • @Nyet-Zdyes
      @Nyet-Zdyes ปีที่แล้ว

      He probably also knew what would likely have happened to him if he did blow it...
      The Empress (may she live forever... not... ) would probably have had him killed so that she could control it.

  • @MizakiFelix
    @MizakiFelix ปีที่แล้ว +3

    FYI turok does open the box. he also refuses to take the horn.
    Elaine is there when they are captured . The Andrean is upset because MIN also chooses to show up but the three girls are there.
    Veron is a dark friend therefore she can lie .

  • @BP-c6x
    @BP-c6x ปีที่แล้ว +5

    They can't act out the wheel of time when they ideologically disagree with everything contained within it.

  • @npenick66
    @npenick66 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    When they hire showrunners who hate the ip they get this kind of garbage (Witcher, RoP, WoT, Star Wars, Star Trek, most of the recent comic book movies, etc). That's why Jackson's LotR was so beautiful, it was a success because he loved and honored the story/books.

  • @racheljames7
    @racheljames7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Disparu, you are far better than anything on telly.

  • @stephenriggs3808
    @stephenriggs3808 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Also does everyone forget that by before the book starts Verin has been black ajah. She was forced or be killed. So she uses to study and learn the black ajah. Then she gets though the oaths she gave to the dark one. She finds a loop hole where on the hour of her death she can betray him. She then poison herself giving Egwene her notes which to purge the black ajah and dies. And as she dies says basically though black stains my name my heart was always brown. And a very touching part were egwene responds its as white as the light. The entire series she helps the boys fight the dark one behind the scenes as the ultimate double agent. Always helping the light by loopholes and such. Its ao fantastic. I dont see the super spy and as disparu says. Is because she is so low key no one suspects. They will talk not even noticing because its just Verin reading her books clueless to the world. Yet she hears and remembers everything she read.

  • @KitsuneAdorable
    @KitsuneAdorable ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1:01 That costume looks like a Time Lord Cyberman, and now I can’t unsee it. 😂

  • @lordhefman
    @lordhefman ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Technically in the books he opened the box and when Fain asked "why won't you blow the horn?" He responded "if I blow it the empress will think I aim above my station and will kill me".

  • @M-S_4321
    @M-S_4321 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    They made pointless changes to Jordan's work to mark their territory, like dogs pissing on their yard.

  • @TikkiNikki
    @TikkiNikki ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Props to actually giving an accurate description of Ishy. Reading the books, it's easy to forget how unfathomably powerful he truly is
    Side note: Avi laughed because Perrin had two names. She sees it as her being like "My name is Aviendha Tardaad" instead of Avuendha if the Tardaad Aiel. It's Aiel humor

  • @Gunleaver
    @Gunleaver ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Elayne was there in the books when they were handed over to the Seanchan by Liandrin. Arguably, she is the reason she & Nynaeve escaped, because the Seanchan came prepared to take custody of two women, rather than three. But Nynaeve did channel and she and Elayne were able to escape, separately, only finding each other after the Seanchan had left.

  • @BoopaKing
    @BoopaKing ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That "are you taking the piss?" clip is driving me crazy. The way he says it feels so wrong for some reason

  • @regiman222
    @regiman222 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The sheanchan view of channelers (or at least the book version) reminds me of how mages are treated and viewed under the qun in Dragon Age. Shackled and controlled, though in the DA version its because all mages have the potential to become possessed if tempted or overwhelmed by demons, because they're connected to the Fade where those beings reside.

  • @jimnip265
    @jimnip265 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your reviews dude but I do have to make a critique here, Fain did give high lord Turak in the book, who did know how to open the box. He did find the horn in there and said he'd never blow it himself as it was an honor for the empress herself. This is Turak who had blonde hair and blue eyes by the way

  • @TheNuclearGeek
    @TheNuclearGeek ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This goes beyond insulting Robert Jordan. Whoever earned the rights to sell them, apparently is too stupid or too cruel to ensure his work was protected. But, beyond that, this insults every novel writer at this point. It used to a top tier dream to have a studio want to adapt your work, NOW I'd be absolutely terrified if Hollywood was determined to get the rights on my life's work as Amazon especially likes to do.
    The ONLY bright spot to this I can possibly see, is that the terrible bastardization Amazon's drones have created is so unfaithful and SO MUCH WORSE that it has made me start to read the books and I hope is making others do the same. I'm borrowing the first ones for now since I don't plan on monetarily supporting whoever allowed this to happen.

    • @stonedog5547
      @stonedog5547 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm going to be buying the ones I'm missing on the second-hand market for the same reason

    • @TheNuclearGeek
      @TheNuclearGeek ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stonedog5547Luckily I could borrow a copy of of the first 5, but not 6 or 7, so I'm starting to do the same and see what I can get without rewarding them for their licensing decisions.

  • @briana7515
    @briana7515 ปีที่แล้ว

    21:35 ROFL Disparu you dog - that made me actually laugh just now.
    You slayed it.

  • @richmerch
    @richmerch ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It was always an impossible task to convert the books to film, but the deviations seem vengeful. Like they are purposely trying to burn the books.

    • @hammerofscience534
      @hammerofscience534 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ANY literate person on this planet could adapt the books better than Rafe. Anyone!

    • @firenze6478
      @firenze6478 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      After seeing how well one piece was adapted to live action, I don’t think anything is too hard to adapt. You just need a competent director who doesn’t have an alternate agenda to usurp the source material with.

  • @Jamesmatise
    @Jamesmatise ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Disparu, you've got to catch up before the season finale next week. I have seen the future and it is dumb!

  • @brandon5080
    @brandon5080 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Without Mat and Verin on the Hunt for the Horn, there is a good deal of the future plots that can either cannot happen or will not make sense. He's a main character. She's an integral character. And I still understand how Rafe plans on doing the Wheel of Time without Thom.

  • @MrLucidity
    @MrLucidity ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Is there anything slower than horses"
    Walking... Walking is slower than horses....

  • @timcotton1782
    @timcotton1782 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As always, terrific work, my friend. If I may, it is indeed Turak who opens the chest (which, by the way, was so large and heavy only Loial or a trolloc could carry it), containing the Horn and Mat's dagger. So that tiny bit of the lore was matched, amongst all the obviously stupid "adaptations" you have enumerated. As for Lanfear killing the horseman, she does kill at a whim, one time by making a wire-thin weave of air and slicing off a man's head. I guess they couldn't be bothered to re-create that visually in this high-budget "epic", so they went with a CGI'd Ghallager watermelon smash. As for Ishamael/Suroth, the entire thing is idiocy. Ishamael may have set in motion the infancy of the Seanchan empire by sending Luthair Pendrag across the Aryth Ocean, but it is Semirhage who is the currently controlling forsaken (Anath, Tuon's Voice), and they do not interfere with each other in this way. About Ryma, she does exist, but at this point of the story she is already collared, and renamed Pura as a damane. She is completely broken, and becomes Suroth's pet, shown off to Westland rulers to prove they can beat even Aes Sedai.

  • @thehoogard
    @thehoogard ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Pretty sure Turak opens the box in the books though, much to Fain's surprise and annoyance.

  • @jsrrrmg
    @jsrrrmg ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why would one of the Forsaken be chasing on a horse when they know how to travel?

  • @bandgeekforlife406
    @bandgeekforlife406 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sometimes the writing of this series reminds me of "The Tick," a goofy animated show when I was a kid. They would take questions from the audience and have The Tick answer them periodically. My absolute favorite, which I always remembered, was this exchange:
    Q: "If you were rolling down an ocean on a jet ski and the wheel came off, would it take the same number of pancakes to cover a doghouse?"
    A: "Purple. Because ice cream has no bones."
    But of course, things were goofy in The Tick on purpose, and there was a lot of hilarious absurdist humor. On "Wheel of Time," it doesn't make sense and isn't funny. Still, I wonder if eventually we might hear the "far-seeing," "all-knowing," and above all non-informative, answer to a simple question at some point be, "Because ice cream has no bones."

    • @eddiebendigo7317
      @eddiebendigo7317 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      People really out there eating boneless ice cream.

  • @jonesoliveira6013
    @jonesoliveira6013 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    its amazing how mad he gets. a true sign of a fan

  • @rescyn1190
    @rescyn1190 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've never seen that rabbit clip before... that's chuffing hilarious!

  • @TylerShe1ton
    @TylerShe1ton ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The only way they could save this is have a scene where there's a flash and Rand pulls his hands away from a portal stone hearing "I win again Lews Therin." ringing in his ears, then actually adapt the books.

    • @tokenghost7777
      @tokenghost7777 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don’t thing they can save it that way... but I think they should end it that way... just a fade to black in the middle of a scene and a spooky voice whisper “I win again...” then roll the credits.

  • @spacedoyster7686
    @spacedoyster7686 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The bit with Liandrin in the Ways is even funnier if you remember what happens when people channel in the Ways. Even if she didn't use the One Power to shield and bind the girls, do you really think she got them off and on those horses without it?
    Also, one small correction; Elayne did go to Falme in the books as well. It's been a hot minute since I've read the Great Hunt, but I do remember a few distinct events with Elayne in Falme.

    • @jamesdouglass2724
      @jamesdouglass2724 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup

    • @Jamesmatise
      @Jamesmatise ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also don't forget that Moiraine told them in season 1 that horses couldn't be taken into the Ways, the writers got to season 2 and realized they had written themselves into a corner with their own bullshit😂

  • @FeverDreamVideo
    @FeverDreamVideo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What do you have against those hearing impaired? I lost my hearing in the military but I love your content. Please remember to enable subtitles!!!!

  • @swampfaye
    @swampfaye ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you for filling in the blanks for me. Season 2 has literally been giving me nightmares with its inconsistencies.

    • @hammerofscience534
      @hammerofscience534 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can't imagine trying to understand this show if you have not read the books. It would be utterly confusing, but on the flip side knowing the lore makes you go insane.
      Not sure which is worse.

  • @jessejohnson8365
    @jessejohnson8365 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    24:07 why would he not just use compulsion to make her behave and operate the way that works best for his plans. Non of the forsaken would allow someone to know they were chosen and allow them to think they were above them. If they were in cognito sure they would blend in to accomplish some objective. But never if someone knows there true identity would they get away with showing disrespect or anything but 100% obedience.
    Also lanfear would never wear black. She always wears white and silver.

  • @RPSchonherr
    @RPSchonherr ปีที่แล้ว

    34:00 How about the Aes Sedai train for years to get the ring AND take oaths on an oath rod that COMPELLS them to not lie, and not use the power as a weapon except against a creature of the dark one or the defense of themselves?

  • @zeroryuj6093
    @zeroryuj6093 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why was Aviendha in the one in the cage? Perrin rescues Gual from the cage which starts to change Gaul's outlook of "wet landers" and Faile watches him do it..which is how they meet and starts her attachment to him..(Aviendha has own similar encounter but with Nynaeve) I swear, this director has no clue that changing little things completely screws entire characters and plot lines.
    "Ah it's ok is Rand sleeps with Selene, that won't change anything" - yeah except altering Rand's morals and screws characters development and plotlines for FIVE other characters...
    The Seanchan treat women who can channel with respect? HA! They keep them on literal leashes and in some cases, treat them like actual dogs or at least the same level the average person has a relationship with their dogs IE give them pats on the head and toys and accessories for being good...the entire mentality of a Damane is the greatest example of slavery mixed with Stockholm syndrome.
    "They train for years" - by training you mean being punished, humiliated and beaten into submission..

  • @MrMichaelBCurtis
    @MrMichaelBCurtis ปีที่แล้ว

    one small comment, the horn is connected to the person who blew it, when Matt blew the horn, he got the connection. so until he is dead, he is the only one that can use it, so anyone who possess it while Matt is alive has a pretty horn that does nothing.

  • @mrpoikins77
    @mrpoikins77 ปีที่แล้ว

    loved the video but you did get a couple of things wrong. Firstly, High Lord Turak was given the Horn of Valere by Padan Fain and he did open the case that it was held in. He didn't want to blow it because the empress would've probably taken his head. Secondly, Elaine did travel with Min, Nyneve and egwene to Falme, she managed to escape with Nyneve whilst the other two were captured. I only know this because i'm in the process of rereading the novels.

  • @deemcclanahan
    @deemcclanahan ปีที่แล้ว

    Avienda was not in the cage. A male was. And it was Egweyne, Nineve and Alaine that met up with Avienda and her spear sisters. The sisters could barely handle a few hunters and needed miraculous surgery from Nineve. Avienda later rescued the 3 when they were captured by slavers. thus, securing their relationship with each other - you know - the one that helps push Avienda to Rand because she's constantly trying to get Rand to hook up with Alaine.

  • @MSpotatoes
    @MSpotatoes ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Seeing reviewers claiming this episode somehow is redeeming the show blows my mind. The show absolutely cannot be redeemed at this point. All the major characters have been assassinated. Major plot points have been disregarded in favor of made up drivel. May the dark one take the showrunners to the pits of Shayol Ghul.

    • @gorbitroph
      @gorbitroph ปีที่แล้ว

      Harsh, but fair

  • @wheelofwokesellouts3900
    @wheelofwokesellouts3900 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1 correction or maybe 2.. elayne was there. it was 4 girls. min egwene elayne nyneave..
    min and egwen got cought and elayne and nyneave run away.
    and second correction is the horn is only following the light side and always the dragon or the dragon banner. as arthur says.
    its ez to forget small stuff like this .. but people didnt know horn follows rand.. or dragon. so it was danger to let others get it becuse they didnt know

    • @boobah5643
      @boobah5643 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pretty sure they point out that that is a misconception in-world; it adds urgency to their Hunt that the heroes bound to the Horn are bound _to the Horn and its wielder,_ not to anything else.

    • @yogurl6004
      @yogurl6004 ปีที่แล้ว

      As far ar as i understand it. Anyone whose intention is salvation can bkow the horn and it'll work for them but wether that salvation is from the light or the dark doesnt disqualify you from having the heros fight for your side. The only qualification made was that the heroes fight under the banner of the dragon. Or if blown by the good guys then the banner of the light which if im correct is the aes sedai/yin yang symbol.

  • @cadia7334
    @cadia7334 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Going to sleep listening to Disparu verbally eviscerate garbage tv brings me peace

    • @josephambani6664
      @josephambani6664 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought I was the only one who does this 🤣

  • @jjgourde
    @jjgourde ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I just read the TGH and Turak did open the box with only Fain present. Fain could give a hang about the Horn, he wanted the dagger which was in the box. He also wanted access to a powerful person to Mordeth them into corruption,

  • @williamhouseholder1558
    @williamhouseholder1558 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The best part of the wheel of time tv series is watching Disparu trash each episode.

  • @FiliusFidelis
    @FiliusFidelis ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:32 uh Correct me if I'm wrong but High Lord Turak DID know how to open the box, they didn't make that up. Padan Fain was the one who couldn't open it, and he was desperate to since the Shadar Logoth Dagger was put into it in the hopes it would be able to shield everyone from its effects. Turak also said it was not for HIM to blow, he would never presume. He would send it back across the sea. Anyone else really annoyed that Padan Fain is just "another friend of the Dark" now?
    9:33 No, the correct terms are PASSIONATE and KNOWLEDGEABLE.
    11:27 "It'll be a day or two"? as indicated here 16:14 they got within sight of Tar Valon in one night, nowhere even close to dawn.. and it is about a 1000kilometers from Cairhien to Tar Valon, that's a 10hour trip.. BY CAR! Those are effing impressive horses!
    28:37 Entirely made up indeed, Cairhien had a King at this point of the story, don't know if they changed that to a Queen to fit this crap in or just because you know.. Woman Power!
    34:17 Mmm.. probably because they only have 2 Damane/Sul'dam with them. Don't see how they planned on catching THREE Marath'Damane with no spare Sul'dam.. they'd have to be shielded and bound (as they do with Ewgwene) until more Sul'dam are available.
    42:34 Yeah but that's book Rand, THIS Rand breaks all the time, especially in episode 7
    43:58 haha Didn't notice this before, still uncollared.. BUT they did take the time to put her in a new dress and braid her hair in the Damane style. That must have been fun, even shielded I bet she put up a good fight! Speaking of the Dress, how the heck are they supposed to wash or change clothes with the tv design of the A'dam? bet they get rank real fast.

    • @spacezoo5079
      @spacezoo5079 ปีที่แล้ว

      you're right. This guy is a grifter

  • @TheSleepLes
    @TheSleepLes ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What is next? Moghedien will be a compassionate and understanding Chinese girl? Semirhage will be portrayed as a lover of puppies and little kiddies?

    • @Jamesmatise
      @Jamesmatise ปีที่แล้ว

      No Semirhage in the show. Moghedien will probably be Eleven from Stranger Things but more emo, and Graendal will be played by Lizzo.

  • @Gunleaver
    @Gunleaver ปีที่แล้ว

    Anvaere is the actual name of Moiraine's OLDER sister, who does not appear in the main series, but was referred to in New Spring. She is not a fake sister. That being said, Barthanes Damodred is the actual head of House Damodred in Book 2, he is not Moiraine's nephew, nor Anvaere's son. He is some sort of distant cousin to them. He is also middle aged. Moiraine is 42 at this point in the books. She is not old enough to have a younger sister with a full-grown son. Or at least not old enough to have a younger sister with gray hair. For the record, Lindsey Duncan, who plays Moiraine's sister, is 72. She's almost too old to have a son the age of Barthanes. She's barely young enough to be the mother of the actor, who is clearly playing a much younger man, with his naivete and infantile relationship with Moiraine.

  • @aoeiifreak
    @aoeiifreak ปีที่แล้ว

    "'If Picard were Satan" Jesus lol I almost passed out laughing

  • @rhysjones6944
    @rhysjones6944 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Awesome Review, it's a shame the writers haven read the books

    • @M-S_4321
      @M-S_4321 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't think they could read. Obviously they're using an AI to provide a an ability to write their words for them.
      Plot check was expecting to much of them.

  • @highcommander2007
    @highcommander2007 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    616 to be fair, the darkfriends thought they could blow the horn in the books; but Matt asks the heroes of the horn what would happen if the forsaken blew the horn and they straight up told him that basically nothing would happen and they would have only come to fight for the goodguys.

  • @ariel_of_narnia4482
    @ariel_of_narnia4482 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please tell me you’re not stopping here. I just saw a clip from episode 8 and… I need your commentary stat!

  • @SarahDuke01
    @SarahDuke01 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:35 All credit to Ishamael, the Forsaken does understand the hierarchy! 😂

  • @Gunleaver
    @Gunleaver ปีที่แล้ว

    Regarding the characterizations of the Forsaken in Lanfear's little rant, Moghedian is not insane, even if she isn't really a master strategist and manipulator (that's Graendal), but she is the ultimate survivor. Another Forsaken would be more likely to characterize her as a cockroach, but her name is the term for a species of spider from their time period, that was very small, hard to see and very deadly. Graendal, meanwhile, postured as a vain idiot, but as I said, was a master manipulator and strategist. The issue here is, Lanfear COULD have been taken in by the ruse and be mistaken, and the funny thing is, that is totally in character for Lanfear, who herself, is a loose cannon and one of the most incompetent Forsaken. Literally every plot she comes up with backfires on her, she is severely lacking in self-control in ways that prove detrimental to her. Everyone she tries to manipulate to serve her agenda not only does not serve her purposes, but actually goes behind her back to run his own game and come away with a win on his own, or at least be ready for her inevitable betrayal. But I don't think Rafe & co realize this. I think they really believe that Lanfear is the most dangerous of the Forsaken.
    Also, she scoffs about "the boys" not being able to execute a plan, but the male Forsaken include Demandred, Rahvin & Sammael who successfully took control of powerful countries without anyone knowing the truth, Bel'al who was known as "the Netweaver", Aginor, a brilliant mad scientist who genetically engineered Trollocs and other Shadowspawn, Asmodean, who outsmarts Lanfear in the books and almost gets control of her, except Rand outsmarted them both. The dummy of "the boys" is Balthamel, who managed to carry out an undercover ruse in the heart of the Aes Sedai, as the personal advisor to their leader, who believed Balthamel's persona to be a good friend she could confide in. By contrast, Lanfear is over-the-top when she tries to go undercover that the only way Rand is fooled by her guise is that she brought along a decoy who basically acts just like Lanfear would, so he was confused as whether or not the pretty skank who was hitting on him all the time was Lanfear, or if she was disguised as the fat lady who was always telling Rand that he should accept her bargains, and showed a lot of interest in his love life, and moved too fast and too easily for a morbidly obese woman. That's Lanfear's idea of cunning - create a fat lady illusion around herself, but don't even bother to act like she's truly heavy.
    If you read between the lines, her fellow Forsaken don't even take her seriously, sniggering behind her back at her crush on Lews Therin/Rand and her obsession with him. Graendal actually gives her shit to her face about it. Lanfear gets so pissed that she actually seems like she is about to throw down with the other woman, despite one of their rivals in the room and ready to pounce as soon as they are distracted, to kill both of them. Lanfear is hilariously incompetent, and the other Forsaken who are close to her on the incompetence scale are Semirhage and Mesaana, two other women. Both of whom are slightly more effective in their undercover roles than Lanfear ever manages.

  • @Michael_A_Lewis
    @Michael_A_Lewis ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Looking forward to your next review. Can't stand to watch the series anymore and just enjoying you tear each episode a new one.

  • @cmatagac4221
    @cmatagac4221 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this show is just sisters of Dathomir speed travelling across the continent featuring Rand

  • @avanz2885
    @avanz2885 ปีที่แล้ว

    Like how you highlighted in Lanfear being impressed by Moraine was just the writers patting themselves in the back for their “cleverness“.

  • @leonielson7138
    @leonielson7138 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lews Therin Telamon broke up with Mierin Eronaile, and in her anger at being dumped she focused on her research into developing a power that men and women could both use, hoping that the fame would earn her a third name, and bring Lews Therin back to her. Instead, she helped bore a hole into the Dark One's prison and was sucked in, becoming the first of the Forsaken, and the only one to name herself: Lanfear, which meant Daughter of the Night.
    In the books, Gaul (not Avienda, she doesn't show up until the third book) didn't follow Perrin, instead going to join the other Aiel who were searching for 'He Who Comes with the Dawn', and doesn't join Perrin until the 4th book ... because a woman he likes decides to accompany Perrin's girlfriend. A friendship does form, but it's mostly them commiserating over how strange women are.

  • @rufusblue8044
    @rufusblue8044 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Holy crap ads on here have gotten so horrible. 9 ads so far halfway through

  • @Nyet-Zdyes
    @Nyet-Zdyes ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I still want to know why Valda is walking around... alive...
    Egg-wayne killed him back in season 1...

  • @malcolmhays2726
    @malcolmhays2726 ปีที่แล้ว

    You were a bit off with your analysis of Turak opening the box with the Horn of Valere. When Padan Fain brings him the box in the book, Turak is able to open the box and is confused by Fain''s inability to do so, as Fain claimed his family guarded the Horn for centuries. Turak refuses to below the Horn because that honor belongs to the Seanchan Empress.

  • @chrispalmer3330
    @chrispalmer3330 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for my daily needed dose of sarcasm and laugh out loud moments. Your the best mate.

  • @bryansuminski7543
    @bryansuminski7543 ปีที่แล้ว

    The chest holding the horn and the dagger was opened by the high lord in the book as it was just an old and tricky chest. He just never blew it as he was saving that privilege for his empress, and he kept both the chest and dagger as he was a collector of antiques.

    • @teecee2211
      @teecee2211 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, I think I just read that last week. It was Padan fain (i am listening to the audio book, so I'm not sure of the spelling) who couldn't open it.

    • @boobah5643
      @boobah5643 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was, as I recall, less 'saving the privilege' and more 'no one else can use the horn if there's a living horn-wielder' and he didn't want to die so the empress could use it.

  • @Degarth
    @Degarth ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Of all the bad adaptations this one hurts the most . There was so much good stuff in those books.

    • @jacobdad2742
      @jacobdad2742 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I completely agree, I was so excited when I found out they were actually making a show. Right up until I seen the first preview. Nothing but disappointment since..

    • @Jamesmatise
      @Jamesmatise ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is like watching my best friend get gunned down in the street. Look at how they massacred my boy.

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap ปีที่แล้ว

      RIngs of Power was worse. At least this one is funny in the same way watching a train derail is entertaining. That show was just bad.

    • @Degarth
      @Degarth ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@TheSuperappelflap with RoP there was the Jackson movies to look to for how it could be done well and enjoy. With WoT you might as well look in the toilet after your morning constitutional for a rough comparison to this show.
      WoT fans have nothing that was ever done well to look at except the books.

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Degarth im just waiting for AI video generation technology to get a bit better and then ill do it myself for free.

  • @skylx0812
    @skylx0812 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why was the rat from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the front of that boat...

  • @zamanimagagula2393
    @zamanimagagula2393 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    hello @Disparu been waiting for your last 3 episode reviews please do them

  • @nullpexception
    @nullpexception ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The showrunners would have been better served not to claim this was another turning of the Wheel (which would have been a different time, age, with different characters and nations) and instead called it one of the Worlds of If accessed via the portal stones. Then all of these exceptions to the lore would actually make sense.

  • @hankdedalus
    @hankdedalus ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I am going to name this show the pentagon of time as at is the only thing I can think of being the opposite of a wheel.

    • @Nyet-Zdyes
      @Nyet-Zdyes ปีที่แล้ว

      Less "round" than even a pentagon... or a square... the Triangle of Time?

    • @Dragonsworn864
      @Dragonsworn864 ปีที่แล้ว

      The trash of time is better

    • @EbenezerEibenhardt
      @EbenezerEibenhardt ปีที่แล้ว

      The bane of the Wheel is the speed bump, for it damages it if taken in haste. The bane of Time is taking a knee, for it forces the opposing team to use a time out to stop the clock long enough to set up for their next play. The most well known in american football for taking a knee is Colin Kapernick.
      Hence, Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time becomes Amazon's gritty reality television show The Speedbump of Colin Kapernick.

  • @Dr.LightMarker5613
    @Dr.LightMarker5613 ปีที่แล้ว

    "The more questions I ask, the more answers I get!" Wow. That is PEAK Hollywood writing there, so profound.....

  • @doc_adams8506
    @doc_adams8506 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Suroth takes passive aggressive to an unhealthy level

    • @Nyet-Zdyes
      @Nyet-Zdyes ปีที่แล้ว

      The showrunner had to choose between making Suroth strong and independent... and STUPID... or SMART... but subservient.
      He chose the former...

  • @silverscorpio24
    @silverscorpio24 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lady: "Perhaps _my lord_ made a mistake."
    Right Hand Man of Satan: "Bitch are you for real?!"

  • @johnsinth8261
    @johnsinth8261 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the casting is devious
    i looked up wheel of time perrin artist rendition and he looks way cooler there

  • @alphaomega1328
    @alphaomega1328 ปีที่แล้ว

    Actually Disparu I have to disagree with one part : - in the books High Lord Turak did indeed know how to open that box, but he does reject the use of the Horn and Promises to send it to the Empress to whom he is both Loyal and frightened.
    The rest is a horrific abomination. Especially the whole Suroth thing - in the books she was punished and whilst she might scream and plot in private the few people that insulted the Forsaken to their face generally ended up going very badly for them.
    The Ishmael from the books would probably have burnt Suroth alive after the first word in the tone she used.

  • @torn83gaming19
    @torn83gaming19 ปีที่แล้ว

    actually the high lord was able to open it. It was a trick box and he knew it. They got that right at least. The problem I have is that the box was a chest that was so heavy one man couldn't lift it.

  • @Viv8ldi
    @Viv8ldi 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    „I dont know why u r acting … as if u own anything“😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Yolanda8419
    @Yolanda8419 ปีที่แล้ว

    Disparu’s review are so entertaining and point out, I need to read the books. I haven’t and they sound awesome.