The Wheel of Time
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In a way, storytelling isThe Wheel of Times biggest storytelling problem.
From an epic-fantasy perspective, this is an impressive feat.
In short,The Wheel of Timeis a show thats almost all fantasy world-building, at least so far.
If youre a mark for that sort of thing as, frankly, I am then hey, great!
World-building out the wazoo!
If yourenotinto it, though, hoo boy, I can imagine this is quite a slog.
To paraphraseI Think You Should Leave, suffice to say,The Wheel of Timeisa lot.
Theyre traveling with the nomadic Tuathaan, or Tinkers, the shows Roma stand-ins.
Perrin, meanwhile, discusses the Tinkers pacifism with Arams grandmother Illa (Maria Doyle Kennedy).
Rand is plagued by nightmares and the sinking suspicion that something is very wrong with his friend.
(More on that later.)
Neither the doll nor the daughter gets the chance.
When Logain lashes out, Kerene shields her sisters at her own expense and dies for it.
Is Nynaeve the Dragon Reborn, then?
Which brings us back to the shows surfeit of history lessons.
