I still can’t stop but think how stretched out the Hobbit films were, for an otherwise short book. That’s a sin that stains forever with me. The Lord of the Rings films, do have their own flaws, but they’re fairly contained and can be debated as to whether they were good or not. I have so much trouble excusing anything with the Hobbit though.
And I hope we never, ever see anyone tackle The Silmarillion. Simply because, there will be so much improvised fluff in that would-be film, that it’d make the Hobbit films blush.
I get that Amazon strayed from the source material for Rings of Power buuuuut didn’t they also not have the rights to the source material? It doesn’t make it any better for the fans but I can see why it would be that way. They should have just not made it instead of being the douche canoes that they are and going the ol cash grab route they love so much.
But for Wheel of Time they had the rights to the source material. They had access to Brandon Sanderson for guidance. They had it all and all they had to do was make a best effort attempt at a like for like adaptation. Instead, the hubris of those ass clowns caused it to be one of the worse adaptations I have ever witnessed. Those jerkoffs decided they were going to make a better story themselves and just use the same character names.
The only good way I have seen it being described to lessen the pain is that the show is a different turning of the wheel and has nothing to do with the story in the books. Maybe we’ll get a better adaptation twenty years from now? I never thought I would look back at that terrible Red Eagle version “Winter Dragon” as the best live action variant…