Wheel of Time

The fact that you have not yet read the books likely made it easier to enjoy the show, since you had no real expectations to be shattered. I think of the show as either a "World of If" or a Tainted nightmare that will end with "I win again, Lews Therin".

I always wanted a TV show when I read the books years ago, but it is nothing like it should have been. Watchable but mostly crap.

avoided the books cause people were always like its boring at first, but gets REALLY good around book 7/8

Because people are not saying this: world construction on the wheel of time is, in my opinion, awesome.

However the characters are written blandly. In the first books, before they are better developed, they are usually attached to one characteristic to describe most of their personality.

Jordan didn't have a good pace for the story. Some characters had their epic struggles solved too soon... And barely have development on later books. Some have little improvement and then are rushed to epic levels.

Others needed too much preparation to be set before it could finally reach the final. This becomes the long stretch on middle books that seems like nothing happens, but the characters must mature and develop to reach later books. Could it be cut short? No... But maybe all events could be better distributed.

The world is awesomely built and I would recommend the books. I watched the first two seasons and they were quite meh.... Said that, the

The books are available on humble right now. All 17 books (16 novels + 1 companion guide) are $18.
Of course, they have the silly modern covers.

I really enjoyed season 3. Season 2 was a bit of a hit and miss. Some plots were good. Others not so much. And they are sometimes having trouble juggling all the plot lines. But season 3 was more balanced, I felt.
With all these characters, heads are going to start rolling but at least characters who died were well developed and nothing felt gratuitous.
The last couple of scenes of the finale gave me chills. It was really cool to see Rand finally channel fiercely (even though that whole storyline is so much Dune, they had a hard time trying to make it look like it wasn't) and the fact it was intercut with Siuan's speech about facing the truth and the corruption of power was very good writing.

I hope they are renewed or that Sony shops it somewhere else if Amazon's idiots pass on it.

Your spoiler isn't hidden.

There is also a video game. It is non canon, but quite good for its time (1999).

When a certain somebody was decapitated in the last episode, I thought to myself, "and that is the show also being decapitated."

You can't just kill off characters who are significant to the entire story over fourteen books when you're only four books in, lol. Well, you can, if you aren't getting another season, I guess.

Fun series with excellent acting and visuals but piss poor and 100% unnecessary deviations from the actual story.

I read every book, and I loved them - even the long segments at the beginning where it was just walking to another place peacefully. My friend, who I recommended the books to, mentioned for the first 3 or 4 books that all they did was walk somewhere. It took a long time to build the world. I added the wheel of time to my amazon playlist, but the free sub ran out before I got to watch even one episode. I preferred The Boys instead, and I didn't get through all of those either. Maybe next year.

I am one of those who read the books early on, and I reread them from the beginning each time a new book came out. To this day, I still read them all over again every so often.

I read the books. I enjoyed them a lot.

So, I did not enjoy how the show butchered the books. At times I think the show runners didn't really read the books in the first place, just got chatgpt to quickly explain.