 Hello there internet friends YouTube people and the people who know me in real life and actually watch these videos for some reason I'm not sure of By now you have almost certainly heard that Wheel of Time finally had a trailer release and I'll be up front This is not a live reaction. I already watched this five or six hundred times I I don't really do live reactions just because I feel like there's a lot of things I'd be missing because I'd be focused more on trying to talk to you guys as opposed to Focusing on this. So I have watched this through a little bit and I have Almost nothing but positive thoughts on it and I just kind of just wanted to go over it with you and Talk about it a little nothing too crazy. I don't think I'm gonna go into a lot of detail breaking down the trailer or anything because I actually want this to Help bring in people who haven't read the books and might be interested in this So I'm only going to put out some very minor spoilers And I would also recommend that you go watch it before you watch the rest of this. So, please go do that Okay, you're back. Cool. Let's get started So we start off with what might look like an attempted murder, but it I'm pretty sure it's just some sort of Right of passage that wasn't in the books like either this will be a Gwain Training to become the village wisdom or it'll just be something that girls in Emmits field go through either way pretty funny opening And then we have, you know, nice landscape shots Okay, I have to pause it there because I Didn't quite squeal when I heard that the first time but I was like, oh, she said the thing which made me happy And if we go back a little you can see the inside of the in and to a lesser extent the Outside part of Emmons field as well It looks a little bigger than I anticipated Because you know Emmons field is supposed to be this really tiny backwater village out in the middle of nowhere and This on the inside it seems like a little too wealthy and a little too big like there's too many people in this area But at the same time that is a pretty small nitpick It's a small change like the important part is that they get across how isolated it is and also you can see right here the Main trio none of whom really get more focused than the others which Excuse me. I'll talk about a little bit more in a minute But I do like how they're doing that because if you're genre savvy Like if you've read a lot of fantasy and you read the first couple chapters of the book It's a bit more obvious what is going on And that can kind of ruin some of the surprises whereas for the show at least for the marketing they appear to be Not giving away the goose quite as quick. So I am happy with that But also that's it like the sets costumes everything. They all look great More landscape shots Now this guy. Oh, wow, I chose a bad time to pause. There we go Still my great time But this guy people keep saying that they think he's a warder because he's holding an ice at eye ring And he's sad and I just I don't think he is I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be loose therein who literally dies in the prologue so I mean, I don't know. I feel like they would have to show that scene at some point During the first season like even if they only show it briefly But I've just heard so many people say this is a warder. I I disagree Could become legend another cool shot Okay, and here we have obviously tar Valin Uh, because you can see dragon mount is there in the background. Uh, the white tower is a bit less, uh You know, normally I wouldn't go this route, but it's a bit less phallic than he is in the books Which I think is good Uh, because like the island is already shaped like a vagina. They don't need to Make it more obvious, but uh, again, just looks really cool. I I don't have a lot to add but it looks, uh It doesn't look like just any old Random european medieval city, and I know wheel of time is technically a little bit after medieval level of technology But close enough And then we have my reign The power inside you Pretty sure that was sort of going to amens all over the world. There are different lanes for it Okay, and this bit That this scene actually made me really happy up I think my face is probably covering the bottom right hand corner, but you can see all the Different ajas all the different groups of isidae who if you're unfamiliar They are the people who use magic in this world and they're all women Uh, I won't give away why men can't do it because I don't know if they want to do that in the marketing or not But just men For the most part cannot use magic But anyways, they're split into these different groups Which are all color-coded and my face is covering up the green ajas, but then counterclockwise We have brown white blue yellow gray and red and I am super happy that they are actually Color coding them. They're having them dressed that way so you can tell right away like yes, okay This is this person. That's what Some of what she stands for Etc. And just it takes advantage of the fact that this is a visual medium and also just, you know, bright colors people complain about movies and television In recent years being too dark, but you know, this doesn't appear to have that problem This is, you know, the amirland seed who is the leader and The rainbow shawl is one thing that I do wish they had done a bit different. It's not like a huge complaint But like if you look at her color, you can see like Yeah, there are the different colors for all the different ajas. They're supposed to be coming together But it's really faded. It looks like they put it through the wash. I feel like You know, if they're all going to be wearing their own colors super bright and obvious then she should also be doing that one thing And then healing power which some people said that didn't look impressive enough. I think Healing is supposed to be kind of subtle anyways. And then again right here We can see obviously some shits going down and then Uh much more impressive channeling coming from white rain there Again, just looks really cool. I have no complaints We protect the world Okay This this scene, I know I'm pausing it early on but you'll see what I mean in a minute This is a little odd to me because I don't know exactly where this is supposed to be in the book And it looks like it's a pretty big battle because at first I thought it was The ice that I capturing low gain which happened off-screen in the books But in the show, I'm pretty sure they're going to show a lot more of that storyline Which I'm okay with but at the same time we can see nine eve is here and she was not there in the books So either it'll happen later uh or it's Changing a lot or this is just a different scene altogether and I'm missing And again nine eve and lan right there More cool landscape shots People were saying that that's either tar valent or Shadar logoth I'm pretty sure shatter logoth and again This is meant to draw people in who are not as familiar with the books So if I keep rattling off names and locations and stuff that you don't understand I would discourage you from looking it up at least from looking it up on the series wiki because that has a lot of unmarked spoilers But basically just yes, that is a city where some shit goes down. So I see it and I go. Oh, that's kind of cool I'm pretty sure oh I just wanted to show that again, but I'm also pretty sure this guy Is he might just be some regular criminal, but I'm pretty sure he's meant to be an ideal Uh, who are these people who live like Far away from any of the main characters at the beginning They live off in a desert and rarely come into the westlands which are over the mountains But just based on his clothing. I'm pretty sure that's an ideal But at the same time we are getting again the three main boys. I'll get a little bit of their own Focus here. None of them are obviously the main character anything. Which is cool Uh, here we have Uh, this this also struck me as a bit odd. It's not a huge deal because clearly they're Being physical with one another uh, which is I know that in the show the characters are aged up a bit. So rather than being like uh, 17 or 18 as they were in the books They're probably going to be in like early 20s But at the same time they're supposed to be from an ultra conservative area where premarital sex is a big no no so I I'm not sure if I like that change, but it's not again not a big one and I could be misreading it And then look happy celebration. That's pretty clearly on winter night Uh, which is very quickly juxtaposed with A fucking funeral and I think this is again supposed to be the aftermath of capturing logane Uh, but I'm not totally sure It it is a little hard to to read but just you know again If you haven't read the books logane is just a giant troublemaker. We'll see him again very briefly Some shit's going down big battle. Yeah, like that's logane and he's releasing this wave of power you can see Which again, I'm cool with logane did not get quite enough screen time in the original books It's coming All right here. This was one of my favorite parts. So it's obviously not a great shot. It's not super in focus But uh, these are trolleycks. These are the main uh, servants of the dark one that People are fighting throughout most of the series and I mean, they look pretty cool here. One thing I will say is that Throughout all the years all the fan art and even uh, official art like on covers and stuff Uh trolleycks have always looked pretty similar to one another like there aren't a whole lot of different Ideas for what trolleycks could look like and these fit pretty clearly into that, you know It's again very good But it's not that different from anything anyone else has ever done Whereas the merge role which are also evil creatures, which we'll see in a second Uh, they went a different route The only thing that matters is what you do fighting fighting Okay land taking out three with one swing was pretty cool Whatever happens now, there's no turning back Yeah, there it is There it is. I don't tell I can't tell how much time I spent just staring at this like still image Uh, that's pretty clearly a merge role And it looks a lot different that or not a lot different but different than I expected Because most of the fan art and stuff has shown them having like hair And even if they don't have eyes they just have like little blank sockets where Their eyes should be if they were human they just they look too human basically whereas this and granted it's not an amazing look This looks inhuman. This looks like yes, if you told me That this thing was created by a being of pure evil to serve it Then I would believe it because like it has like 50 rows of sharp teeth. Look it goes back into its cheeks even I don't know. I don't want to rant about this one too much, but this looks really cool and I like it Okay, and then just that last bit where we're seeing all the channeling Of moirene and it looks really cool. And plus we see her and land seem seemingly know how to work together and they know how to fight together Which would make sense because they've known each other a long time and uh Yeah, don't have much else to add like it is coming out in november. Oh, hey I should probably not have that infinite thing going, huh? Uh, but yeah, it's coming out november 19th specifically And that's good to know because if this goes the same way amazon's shows are usually released That is three episodes at once and then once per week after that Then that means that the final episode will be coming december 24th. So You know an early christmas present and if you don't celebrate christmas, it'll just be a cool day anyways, and uh Don't think I have a lot else to add like I said I didn't want to go frame by frame and talk about everything But I think it has the feel of the books down pretty well where it's you know Not super dark and gritty like something like game of thrones or the witcher is but it's also a bit uh more serious and a bit darker than Uh, a lot of people imagine fantasy to be like lord of the rings for instance Uh, and again, we see there's a lot of cool vistas Cool landscape shots the costumes and sets all seem pretty good the vfx from what little we see all look pretty great I just have very few complaints like this This got me into it. I was like, yes, I want to see these battles and everything And I am curious about what other people feel this about this like if you are Someone who hasn't read the books I want to know if did this catch your interest and if you are someone who has read the books did this catch your interest and If it didn't for both groups, then Why not because i'm curious about your thoughts on it like The thing is I haven't seen too many complaints about that. Oh, there's a good place to stop. Oh, hold it there I haven't seen too many complaints about this I've seen one or two people whining about how like it's going woke or whatever because they dared to have Non-white actors in the show, but um, you know those those sorts of people are always there as long as they're Not too prominent. I don't really give a shit and plus I don't know if I ever saw this in a video or anything, but I I've been predicting for a while that There's going to be a lot of people whining about how the show Is going woke or whatever just because it has women in positions of power and because Many of the people involved are not white. That's just that's just what they do They're broken records at this fucking point Uh, but you know don't let them ruin it too much and yeah, I don't know if I have anything else to say I will see you later and goodbye