All in all good. At points very good to excellent, at others...incomplete or flawed? I think it's hard to say. The characterization was very strong and the things they changed I don't think are so massive that they can't fit with the original story's vision. Two thumbs up and I'm excited to rewatch it now that it's all available. The metrics look very strong for it which is good! Hopefully after the second season we will have a much better understanding of the broader world at play and the really great stuff won't be too far off.
It's also got me thinking I should continue with my straight adaptation outline. So Season 5 of my Wheel of Time for TV is getting dug into. My initial plan is to combine books 5&6 into a singular season, compression has to begin somewhere and this is about the point where I feel you can tell Jordan knew he had a long leash and started stretching a lot of plot threads to include other POVs. Hopefully it'll make sense using the confrontation with Rahvin as sort of a mid season finale. These are the last 2 books that I think will be easy to straight forwardly adapt before reaching Knife of Dreams (maybe not even then since CoT is likely to be combined with some of that too). After this I suspect it's going to be a lot trickier to piece together how plot threads should be paced and cut/condensed since books 8-10 overlap a great deal. Hopefully it'll be fun - in the time since I last did this the invaluable WoT Encyclopedia had a massive update which may help with this. A huge credit to the folks that have maintained and finally updated that through the years (fingers crossed they are able to cover AMoL before I get to it, seems safe though).
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