Ani Bundel: Amazon's 'The Wheel of Time' looks to push fantasy beyond 'Game of Thrones.'
Rosamund Pike as Moiraine Damodred and Daniel Henney as Lan Mondragoran in "The Wheel of Time" on Amazon.Amazon’s “The Wheel of Time” feels, at first blush, like just another entry in an already crowded field of series fighting toWhile the streaming service’s adaptation of Robert Jordan’s bestselling fantasy series isn’t mind-blowing, its diverse cast, thoughtful script and often nuanced female portrayals make it yet another step in the right direction for the fantasy genre.
Amazon’s “The Wheel of Time” feels, at first blush, like just another entry in an already crowded field of series fighting to be the next “Game of Thrones.” The story is relatively straightforward. Three young men and two young women from a small town — Mat , Perrin , Rand , Egwene , and Nynaeve — are whisked away by a mysterious stranger to follow their destinies. That stranger, a member of the magic-wielding Aes Sedai , Moiraine , believes one of the five to be the reborn spirit of “The Dragon,” who will save the world.
Despite the simplicity of the overall narrative, at 14 books, “The Wheel of Time” is the ultimate unfilmable fantasy saga. The novels changed the game in the 1990s, ushering in an era of doorstopper-sized, continent-spanning fantasy epics revolving around “chosen one” narratives. The series was a marvel of meticulously detailed world-building. However, it cared little for momentum.
By arriving after the first wave of “Game of Thrones” imitators like “The Shannara Chronicles” and “The White Queen,” “The Wheel of Time” lands long after ultra-faithful adaptations have gone out of fashion. Two decades ago, the “Lord of the Rings” film trilogy was measured by its ability to precisely re-create the novels on-screen. Nowadays, it’s
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