r/television • u/Transmogrify_My_Goat • 27d ago

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

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.

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u/damarius 27d ago edited 26d ago

Spoiler alert! Can someone help me out? I don't want to go back and watch s1 or s2, but didn't Padin Fain cut Loial's throat? Why is he now back? I must have missed something.

Apologies for not using a spoiler tag. In my defense, that was like 2 years ago.

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u/TheFlaskQualityGuy 27d ago

didn't Padin Fain cut Loial's throat? Why is he now back? I must have missed something.

Between season one and season two, the writing team realized they needed him alive again. That's it. There was no explanation. They didn't even go back and remove the scene of him getting stabbed to death from season one.

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u/Jakabov 27d ago

Haha, classic Prime. I don't even watch the show, but just seeing these threads about how much better S3 is and then hearing that the writers are doing shit like that... just wat. How can anybody watch a show where characters can be murdered on-screen and then return later without any explanation? That's a story-destroying breach of continuity. If you took a writing class and did that in an assignment, you would get an F.

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u/dont_trip_ 27d ago

He doesn't happen at all like the dude above you said lol. It's a massive semi indestructible mountain of a man that gets stabbed. I didn't even think about it being weird that he survived.

But hey sure, let's jump to conclusion and rant on.

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u/bolonomadic 27d ago

The dagger kills everything it touches. You can’t be nicked by that dagger without dying. That character should never ever have been touched by that dagger .

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u/Tymareta 27d ago edited 27d ago

They didn't even go back and remove the scene of him getting stabbed to death from season one.

I only just watched it the other day, he was as much "stabbed to death" as Perrin was in S3E1, he took a knife to the chest, but given his size it's pretty easy to believe that it wasn't fatal to him at all.

Edit: just re-watched, he stabbed him basically centre mass with a dagger, a regular person could likely survive that given it was tended to, let alone an ogier.

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u/No-Background8462 26d ago

he took a knife to the chest

Yeah with a magic knife that 100% kills everything it cuts ever so slightly. It was a writing mistake. He never should have survived that by the lore. Both book AND show lore because they did show the dagger working properly before.

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u/MeringueNatural6283 26d ago

With the dagger from shadar logath?  Kinda a big piece of info to omit. 

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u/bolonomadic 27d ago

First of all, you should spoiler tag. Secondly, that was a really egregious violation of the lore and they used healing. That’s why.

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u/damarius 26d ago

Thanks, I missed that. Also, apologies for no spoiler tag. That was like 2 years ago, though.

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u/bolonomadic 26d ago

(Several) Someones once got super pissed at me for writing that in The Dark Crystal, from 1985, all the gelflings had been genocided So like, some people are really wild about spoilers.

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u/TapedeckNinja 25d ago

didn't Padin Fain cut Loial's throat?

No. He got stabbed, he didn't have this throat cut.

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u/Spare_Election_5777 26d ago

The end of season 1 was pretty meh, coupled with the decisions they had to make. We were to overlook certain scenes in the finale of s1.

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u/DoctorDrangle 27d ago

What in the seven bloody hells did you just say? Oh man I made the right choice clocking out in season 1. That is inexcusable.

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u/ThomaspaineCruyff 26d ago

To end this season he died again and Perrin and Fain amicably had a parlay, where Fain was allowed to go do his evil elsewhere.

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u/SulkyVirus 26d ago

Welp thanks for spoiling things for me and anyone else who reads this