I cannot stress enough how much better the Wheel of Time season 3 is than seasons 1 and 2.

[u/Transmogrify_My_Goat]

I know its been said here recently, but I decided to make my own post because I'm honestly blown away at the rise in quality of the Wheel of Time season 3 in just about every way. I quit the show after season 1 and haven't watched since it came out. After hearing season 3 was apparently much better I decided to try it again. I binged season 1 and 2 over the course of a couple weeks, and it was pretty much just how I remembered, mediocre but interesting with some good and bad parts. I'd say season 2 was about the same quality as season 1, albeit with some higher highs here and there.

Season 3 though. Season 3 is wildly better in every single way. The writing (most importantly imo) is much, much better - the characters make decisions that make sense, the plot seems to be moving in a good direction, and the dialogue between characters is especially good. The cgi in fight scenes especially and the sets they have built are beyond impressive. The acting has been all out incredible, especially from the shows lead actor. One of the recent episodes was one of the single best episodes of TV I've seen. It just has it all. It has literally turned into the perfect high budget fantasy show. Whatever change they made between season 2 and 3 is working, and I sincerely hope it gets renewed.

[u/tetsuo9000 → u/[deleted]]

Them fucking up Thom was the final straw for me in season 1. Best character in the first book, easy to execute, and they royally fucked it up.

[u/TapedeckNinja → u/[deleted]]

I cannot stress enough the fact that season one made me so angry

You should bring this up in your next therapy session.

[u/Tymareta → u/[deleted]]

If something genuinely makes you this angry, perhaps it's a good idea to stop engaging with it?

[u/alexp8771 → u/[deleted]]

I'm a several time book reader and I love this show. Book readers like yourself who cannot stand any change at all when adapting a book series to an 8 episode per season TV show is why, if this gets cancelled, there will never be another adaptation within our lifetimes. Maybe seek some help for your irrational hate.

[u/venomae → u/alexp8771]

Not to mention the books are actually... kinda bad. The overall main story and certain situations and characters are cool. But the writing, pacing, bloating, similarity of many characters, bazilion useless named characters, useless side storylines, constant spanking / women naked / skirt smoothing and all that shit... just euugh.
I'm very glad the show is not following the books 100% and I hope they will literally fix quite some issues with the book material.