#wot tv show
one of the things i really like about the wheel of time show that stands out from both past bigtime tv fantasy adaptations (okay, it’s game of thrones) and the WOT book series is just how clear it is that the characters are friends. in the books they always seem to be sniping at each other or behaving cordially but judging each other on the inside, but in the show as it currently exists there’s so much palpable affection, you can really feel that these people are comfortable with each other and have intimate histories beyond just happening to be involved in the same plot together, and it gives them more density as characters and shows how that intimacy matters when they are going through these intense, traumatic, world-changing events together. they’re not bonded by the trauma, they have had bonds before it and those bonds enable them to survive it better than they would alone. there’s a lot of visible, casual affection and closeness on display here, in a way that reminds me of lord of the rings somewhat, how the movies had that running undercurrent of earnest, unembarrassed friendship. it’s really refreshing
yeah the character work was really good and i think a lot of that comes down to actor chemistry and direction in addition to a script that spent some time establishing that. having said that, i kind of hope wheel of time gets cancelled before they achieve similar emotional verisimilitude with rand spanking people because watching that will do irreparable damage to my psyche
Not to disagree with your main point but I think Rand might be the only main character who doesn’t spank anybody on-screen (and only gets spanked off-screen, in stories about his childhood, as opposed to just getting beaten up the good old-fashioned way)
one of the things i really like about the wheel of time show that stands out from both past bigtime tv fantasy adaptations (okay, it’s game of thrones) and the WOT book series is just how clear it is that the characters are friends. in the books they always seem to be sniping at each other or behaving cordially but judging each other on the inside, but in the show as it currently exists there’s so much palpable affection, you can really feel that these people are comfortable with each other and have intimate histories beyond just happening to be involved in the same plot together, and it gives them more density as characters and shows how that intimacy matters when they are going through these intense, traumatic, world-changing events together. they’re not bonded by the trauma, they have had bonds before it and those bonds enable them to survive it better than they would alone. there’s a lot of visible, casual affection and closeness on display here, in a way that reminds me of lord of the rings somewhat, how the movies had that running undercurrent of earnest, unembarrassed friendship. it’s really refreshing
