 Hello there! So on November 15th I was able to go to an advanced screening of the first two episodes of The Wheel of Time show and I kind of just wanted to go over some of my thoughts about it. Like this isn't a review. I might do a review of the entire first season when it's finished. We'll have to wait and see. But I kind of just wanted to talk a little bit about it and what my thoughts are so far and also full disclosure I was not paid by Amazon for this nor was I like invited to the screening as a VIP. I was I just signed up for an advanced screening to get the way a lot of other regular fans did and I managed to get it so with that out of the way. This is the introduction song. It's not very good but it's not too long. Overall I will say that the first two episodes were really good. You know I do have criticisms of them but I I really liked it. There are obviously some changes from the books like the first book is just so long that even when you have an eight hour television show to work with or eight hours of television to work with there are some things that you're just gonna have to cut and those other things which happen off screen which are just gonna be better when you put them on screen and there's also just differences in characters and stuff like you know there's changes but overall I think it's a net benefit. My only like real criticism is the pacing is way way too quick or you know that that's uncharitable. It's too quick but I think that is partially coming from my experience as being someone who read the books to someone who hasn't it might still seem fast but it won't seem like lightning and it's only at a few points that it really feels that way really like I think the first episode should have been five or ten minutes longer because the ending of that is just a little abrupt and I feel like there should have been a conversation there which there was in the books. They are also changing the setup for some of the characters most notably Perrin and Matt. I'm not gonna go into that but I will say that I do like the changes they've made to Matt because in the first book he was kind of just Rand's friend who happened to come along and they say he's like this sneaky wise cracking jokester but he doesn't feel like that all that much. He's just kind of he's just a bland character whereas in this one he actually is a sneaky wise cracking joker which is surprisingly difficult to do well but he has a couple of funny lines while also still feeling like a realized character you know he doesn't feel like his whole role is just to be comic relief like he feels like a real person with some flaws and stuff and it sets up his character arc a little bit more uh I guess it's a little more obvious and for Perrin I have mixed thoughts on that but I will have to see how that develops as the show goes on I'm not gonna say anything right away and as for everything else like the sets costumes really good other than the costumes look just a little too clean I guess might might be a word for it like the Emmonsfield outfits are all simple you know they look like something that yeah these are very sturdy, simple made farm hand clothes but they just look like they're brand new as opposed to being worn for a while and they like got some holes that they had to patch over and things like that that would have been a little better but you know sets and costumes are all really good action sequences are really good the acting is really solid overall uh that just made me more excited to watch the show when it comes out or well when the first three episodes come out so hey we're all learning something new on Friday so uh yeah that's about it goodbye Olivia Rayan, Brother Santotes, Buffy Valentine, Carolina Clay, Dan, Ant Seliovic, Echo, Joel, Carcat Kitsune, Liza Rudikova, Lord Tiebreaker, Madison Lewis Bennett, Marilyn Roxy, Michael Weingartner, Mycophone, Peep the Toad, Sad Martigan, Tobacco Crow, Tom Beanie and Vaivictus. If you want to support me or the channel then consider donating to my Patreon or just becoming a channel member or you can just rate this video, comment on it, subscribe to my channel and then subscribe to my other channel which I have now it's called The Other James I'm trying to get that built up and uh yeah I will see you later um goodbye friends goodbye