Wheel of Time, Prime

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Never read. Series start has moments of joy, like river whirlpool. Yet hard to not see each scene as having been done before (in better movies). Uruk Hai clone here had good costumes.

I guess it's okay. Ep02 was better than one. Ep03 trite and borderline retarded acting. Should have started the series somewhere between. Needs some small defining exposition, like Ep02 had. Not sure I like anyone in the thing. Actors might as well be faceless color-coded by shirt.

Here's my main problem: I don't mind kid's action themes. I'd rather it be adult, show the adults at play. But if it's only violence that's R-rated, not the sexuality, I see the whole as Tween. Feels Tween, written to be watched by the whole family together. Not Conan style in a dark theater with no one watching back. Not like Bakshi's Wizards, where you catch yourself smiling and blush.

Feels like the production would be exciting if I never saw anything like it. Except I have, ad nausea. These multiracial, scrubbed teeth fantasy novelettes, where the stitching on just a man's coat seem too Sewing Machine to be plausible -- I keep falling out of the story and wondering how the ax heads are sharpened without a Mikita cordless hand grinder nearby. Palisades and walls; go to Colonial Jamestown and see how humans defend towns for human enemies and the unknown.

Magic is overrated. Start by building a fence around the courtyard where we dance and filk each evening. Magic unbounded is dull.

GoT had small magic, not great spectacle. This is making the wizard chicks pretty powerful, except when it's convenient that they aren't. One wizard touch heals by mind; the other needs herbs. Kinda stupid. Aragorn asking the hobbits for a weed, perhaps. Yet that mythos too had very little magic spewing from anyone's palm open hands.

At least dub seems clean -- thank goodness the Oh Poor Pitiful Me is delivered static and mumble free. I do wonder. Once maybe, someone told they were 1-4 chance of being a Godling, might act the role. Wait, it has happened. It's Harry Potter. he accepted completely the large guying saying one line. Say it with me -- You're a Wizard Harry. Those adaptations were pure cool. When is that miniseries coming.

Wheel of Time = World of Warcraft the Movie

What's in this for someone who has no vested interest? Answer, nothing.



Yours,