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All those horses, clip-clopping around the forests.
Barns look like barns.
Towers look like towers.
You get the idea.
This detail and extravagance is not a shock Amazon poured money intoWheel of Time.
And theyre like, Great.
There are two different ideas happening here.
It was worth spending money on, which means it has a cultural worth.
The other idea is a little obscured beneath the piles of dollar signs.
And I get it!
Except thatWheel of Timealso feels hollow, especially in the department of character development and well-defined stakes.
Painstaking production of beautiful set pieces become counterintuitively distracting.
The backgrounds are too real; their fictionality is oddly absent.
into more clipped, economical dialogue.
Its whyWheel of Timehas been underwhelming so far.
It looks like swirling white or black stuff (for good versus evil!
), and it is hands-down the goofiest but also most effective thing aboutWheel of Time.
Theres personality to it.
