WOT on Prime

[Aiden Finnegan]

Just watched the first two episodes at the Chicago premier screening!

Non-spoilery thoughts.... I will try to be as vague as possible and avoid any hard details...

• The cold open for episode one was the only thing I disliked. It's been released online already.
  
• The acting is amazing. You can tell who is who without names and none of them feel cheesy or inauthentic. 
  
• I'm not a huge fan of Mat normally (unpopular opinion.) But I am very upset Barney won't be reprising his role as Mat after seeing him as the character. 
  
• There is a point where I thought to myself 'Oh, I cannot wait to see him as Darth Rand.' Josha was fantastic.
  
• There are slight changes to a few character backstories, but they all work and I can see why they played around with those details.
  
• Episode two was better than episode one, but all the reviews I've read say each episode is better than the previous one. I liked episode one, but episode two was better lol.
  
• The scene of Moiraine and Lan on Winter's Night is much longer, obviously, in the first episode and they didn't even show you the best parts of it in the clip they released. I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE BIG BATTLES WITH CHANNELING! OH MAN!
  
• The Trollocs and the Myrddraal.... holy fuck. They fucking nailed that one, guys.
  
• Get ready to have all of your pronunciations challenged.
  
• Costuming is on point. The White Cloaks... I hated the pictures of their costumes, but I liked them way more after seeing them in an episode. I don't know what I think of Eamon Valda yet. I definitely hated him as a character, but he felt a little too villainous at times? More in the way the actor is portraying the character than what his character gets up to. I'm waiting to judge him until I see more.
  
• Liandrin... I cannot wait to see more of her. I really can't wait to see her with Moghedien.
  
• There is some lore that is changed. I don't hate the things that were changed, but there was one bit that caught me off guard.
  
• The world just feels huge and the locations they chose are breathtaking.
  
• There was a scene in the Two Rivers where I just found myself marveling at the screen. They really went all-in with the design aspect of the show. I wanted to be there with them, just because it looked so awesome.
  

I'll stop there, anything else is gonna skirt the line of spoilers. I'm confident you guys will like what you see. I haven't stopped smiling since I left the theater.

edit: I also really liked the opening credit sequence. Shadar Logoth felt sufficiently creepy and threatening. You will get much more than a well-turned calve and it's glorious <_<