Wheel of Time Review Season 2 Episode 5, Where Rafe Judkins writes in new characters, blows up the ENTIRE BOOK LORE to the point the apocalypse is now certain. Creates brand new abilities for Lanfear, changes entire character arcs. And basically, the only things even related to the lore are throwaway side comments or the occasional reference to a stone. Which promptly contradicted the events of the series. Welcome to Wheel of Time people! The aim is to catch up with the rest of the episodes before the finale on Friday. So let me know your thoughts on what you saw of this train crash down below, and as always, thanks for watching :)

@ceinwenchandler4716

10 ай бұрын

I wanna see the world end. I think it'd be hilarious if they acknowledged how badly they've scrambled up the lore by actually ending the series with an episode that's just the Dark One destroying/conquering everything.

@sargonyami4292

10 ай бұрын

No the person that blows the horn doesn't controll them. That person can only summon them. Only the dragon reborn can controll them.

@StephenGillie

10 ай бұрын

This isn't Wheel of Time, but like Misshapen Ellipse of Tiem. Edit: A Brave New 1984, where we rewrite history to make ourselves happy. Or at least someone does, to make themselves happy, at our expense.

@EnsignRedshirtRicky

10 ай бұрын

Holy Shit that intro was PERFECT! Ten whole seconds to hook me.

@moresnacksplease526

10 ай бұрын

Idk how legal rights work around showing artwork on YT, but I think the Aviendha casting point you made could have been a little stronger if you'd shown several different artists' renderings, because I *know* most people didn't get Rafe's image from Jordan's description and there are probably some dorks out there who think you cherry-picked. As always, thanks again for standing up for Wheel of Time fans. Jordan deserved better.

I now understand why Rand looks so bewildered and confused in every scene. He read the books, and is now wondering what went wrong.

@Ackalan

10 ай бұрын

Imagine being one of all those fan-fic characters reborn into books trying to use their knowledge of the books to get ahead, only to be reborn into their shitty TV-version instead without realising it and be utterly bewildered constantly why everything is so wrong.

@avanz2885

10 ай бұрын

😄😄😄

@MrsMacLover

10 ай бұрын

he had plenty of time off screen

@sharifrancis9826

10 ай бұрын

@@MrsMacLover That is true.

@MrsMacLover

10 ай бұрын

@@sharifrancis9826 sadly. but I've already given up on this show. still love Disparu's reviews, though.

"Do you know why the Aes Sidai swear the three oaths in the first place?" Audience: 'Because The Sea Is Always Right?'

@Jamesmatise

10 ай бұрын

Because a wilder only looks down, but an Aes Sedai is made of wood!

@M-S_4321

10 ай бұрын

@@Jamesmatise Writers Award Winner!

@nyetzdyec3391

10 ай бұрын

Uh... because men = bad?

@fionnaitsradag5152

10 ай бұрын

🤣

@avanz2885

10 ай бұрын

😄😄😄👏

I care more for that digital rabbit than I do for absolutely anybody in this show.

@eddiebendigo7317

10 ай бұрын

​​@@TheGreeny490 your english just as good as the show writers'

You know what made the Forsaken intimidating? The fact that every dark friend would grovel and beg despite how narcissistic and egotistical they were. Or in the few cases of the over confident, they were immediately put in their place and lucky to be alive. Suroth should be walking on eggshells, Ishamael has the Dark One backing him up and could destroy her on a whim. She is only a convenience to him, a tool that happens to be useful, but has no other value. That scene between the two is incredibly damaging to Ishamael’s character because why should the audience respect Ishamael if his own subordinates don’t?

@TheSuperappelflap

10 ай бұрын

You shouldnt respect men. Thats the entire message of this abomination.

@dariovirga7711

10 ай бұрын

Well, yes, he did give me tne impression that he'd retort with extreme prejudice at the slighest lack of etiquette or attempt at challenge.

@haku8135

10 ай бұрын

Fucking FADES were afraid of Padan Fain, and Rafe made BOTH of those things totally fucking harmless. All you gotta do to kill a Fade now is poke its chin and it dies instantly. As for Padan Fain..... Has he been in the fucking story at all so far? I think this is the first time Disparu has mentioned him THIS SEASON.

@TheSuperappelflap

10 ай бұрын

@@haku8135 Padan who? He was mentioned in season 1 btw

@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese

10 ай бұрын

That paragraph was both more enlightening and better written than every episode of this show

Pay attention: every time Jordan’s story is about a woman struggling against oppression, Rafe will get everything right. Otherwise, the books be damned!

@jackrose6996

10 ай бұрын

Even when she thinks she is but definitely isn't.

@ImminDragon

10 ай бұрын

Only if he hasn't already screwed everything up to the point that the scene can't even happen anymore.

@moresnacksplease526

10 ай бұрын

@@ImminDragon That's what makes it like a Tommy Wiseau film, but more meta. He'll find a way to MAKE it happen. Rafe Judkins is next-level bad. Just wait, he'll be +75% accurate when he gets to the test for the Wise Ones and Egwene becoming Amarylin, and 5% accurate for everything else in between. Egwene will fucking teleport to the Aiel Waste if he needs her to. And she'll be some kind of spear-master when she gets there. I'm calling it now.

@haku8135

10 ай бұрын

@@moresnacksplease526 I think Rafe read (or rather had read to him, I'm not convinced he can read) like "The Wheel Weaves as the Wheel Wills" and then went THAT'S GENIUS! And so he just writes everything to happen because he wants it to.

My son came up with the best explanation of the so-called Wheel of Time. Everyone knows the Telephone Game. Imagine explaining the Wheel of Time to a friend who has not read the books or any familiarity with the lore. Then your friend tells a friend etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Imagine how distorted the original explanation would be at the 100th iteration. That is what we are getting from Amazon's adaptation of WOT.

@scotishpatriot

10 ай бұрын

Nice one!

@hammerofscience534

10 ай бұрын

After about 10000 tellings not 100. 😂

@Gumblethebear

10 ай бұрын

Much easier, this is simply a portal stone world that "could have been". It is a far from likely possibility, so it should be very hazy, but its just a portal stone world.

I know the Wheel of Time reviews don't necessarily get the views that your other videos do. But I, and I'm sure many others, really appreciate that you continue to do it. The book series is something that has been dear to me for many years and I think it's great that you keep on calling out the desecration that Rafe has done with his "adaptation", so thank you!

@Blayzn18

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for saying this. It's almost disheartening when you look on "social media" and these so called fans are cheering on the changes and cuts. Praising the swaps and the unnecessary adds. It's almost like, "Am I wrong?" So thank you as well for keeping us sane and reminding us that this could have been a great series with amazing story arcs and characters that you want to learn more about. The core of Robert Jordan's theme was that men and women working together created the best advancements of the age. This is all sacrificed because even that is problematic now.

@FiliusFidelis

10 ай бұрын

Mmm he has fallen behind in them quite a bit as episode 7 has aired already. I do enjoy these a LOT more than I do the actual series - which is crap. And Salty hasn't done anything in 2 weeks. There's always Shad though.

@benalo13

10 ай бұрын

​@@FiliusFidelisI think the shit series is getting to SALTY

@firenze6478

6 ай бұрын

@@Blayzn18the internet literally censors any alternative opinions about anything. Remember when they made captain America a nazi? There were loads of articles in outrage about it, now they are all deleted and all that’s left are articles saying this is what white people deserve. It even goes as far as deleting people that were upset at the ending of mario odyssey because being against was seen as mysoginistic. They believe that they can destroy alternative beliefs by simply deleting all discussion about it unless it fully supports their viewpoints. They are sick narcissists.

Actually, your "A horse is not a car" comment is spot-on. I bet the reason they wrote the killing of the horse is because they literally thought that without a driver, a horse won't move.

@boobah5643

10 ай бұрын

I'm inclined to think it's a combination of not comprehending how you could bring a spare with no idea why spares might be useful. After all, even if they brought a second horse for each, both horses would have had to move the same distance at the same speed, so they'd be equally tired, right? Right?!?

@dlschgo

10 ай бұрын

@@boobah5643 No. The rider requires extra effort for the horse.

@darrenhoughton1515

10 ай бұрын

He was being sarcastic@@dlschgo

Wheel of time vs The Witcher: which streaming series would ignore book lore more often in favor of “The Message”

@Degarth

10 ай бұрын

Season one of the Witcher wasn't bad at least. I don't think Wheel of Time can string together 3 minutes of half decent content.

@AncestorEmpire1

10 ай бұрын

@@Degarth season 1 isn’t so bad because of hindsight. I’m never forgiving them for what they did to Triss.

@Nevir202

10 ай бұрын

Seems like WoT? but I'm not familiar enough with the sauce to say for sure.

@AncestorEmpire1

10 ай бұрын

@@Nevir202 I’m learning through lore videos. The comment section is spicer than no man’s land in ww1.

@phillipc.6833

10 ай бұрын

Someone should do a video on this! It’s really tough to say as both adaptations are so awful.

The way Moiraine said "This is.. Rand" was actually so telling. Full of disdain and annoyance. Basically demonstrating the exact feelings Rafe and the writers have for him as a character and something they probably express daily in the writers room as they wonder what are they supposed to do with this gross yucky problematic annoying heroic male character. How are they going to minimize and humiliate him today. That line by Moiriane was 100% projection.

@Raximus3000

10 ай бұрын

Just wait until ep 7... Disparu will have a field day with it.

@Dave3Dman

10 ай бұрын

@@Raximus3000 Oh my god... The sudden, instantaneous and unexplained yeeting of Mat to Falme after they literally invented an entire contrived and convoluted 100% non book related nonsensical plot line to get him there, only to render it completely defunct and irrelevant with that one act. That was absolutely the most mind boggling example of their incompetent stupidity in the entire series so far.

@Raximus3000

10 ай бұрын

@@Dave3Dman And we still have ep 8 if the fall is like season 2 then you can welcome insane bs!

I must say Turok was able to open the chest with the Horn, it's a plot point because it made Fain lose leverage over him, but he saw it as a trophy to present to the Empress and not his place to blow it, again leaving Fain with less influence over him

@nullpexception

10 ай бұрын

Right. Thanks for the reminder. The dagger from Shadar Logoth was also in the chest and Fain tried to claim it at that point as well.

@kbab679

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, he didn't want to be tied to the Horn for life, which would have been easy context and world building for the show to make, rendering Disparu's criticism still valid lmao.

@Toxici-Ty

10 ай бұрын

Yep. It was an important plot point that Turak knew more about the horn than they did and knew by blowing it he was tying himself to it for life. It would be seen as a challenge to the Empress and he would likely be killed for it. Also it was Rand who originally placed the dagger in the chest. A lot of people seem to be forgetting Fain had the dagger outside of the chest when he first stole them both.

@hammerofscience534

10 ай бұрын

Your forgetting one thing, these writers no nothing of the books and care nothing for the lore. You are falling into the trap of trying to justify what they have done remember they are IDIOTS.

@SwiftNimblefoot

9 ай бұрын

Turok? How does he hunt dinosaurs with those big nails?

Disparu loosing his mind about Wheel of Time and Ahsoka is the best thing on the internet these days. 😂😂😂😂

An adaptation typically means compressing material to fit a restrictive medium. To Amazon, adaptation means compressing the amount of source material you actually use.

@haku8135

10 ай бұрын

They compress it alright. With a garbage compactor. It's gonna end in the trash anyway, may as well be efficient about it.

@Blayzn18

10 ай бұрын

What have they even kept? Just the names and a few memberberries.

@haku8135

10 ай бұрын

@@Blayzn18 It's SO different from the books, morons trying to justify it had to call it "Another turning of the wheel" When an ADAPTATION is justified by saying it's a radically different timeline that just so happens to have all the same names, you know you done fucked up.

@aulvinduergard9952

10 ай бұрын

@@haku8135 The thing is, it _can't_ be "another turning of the wheel," because everything changes by the time the same age comes about again. Otherwise the Dark One would know who everyone is, what role they're supposed to play in the Pattern, and it'd make his job so much easier to accomplish. If anything, this is one of the Portal Worlds, something that's so off-base and removed from the true timeline that it's unrecognizable.

@haku8135

10 ай бұрын

@@aulvinduergard9952 Never said it was a good desperate justification. Just what they tried to go with. Now, one episode isn't QUITE as shit as the other garbage and it's the best thing ever. It's honestly like Star Wars fans with Ahsoka. Shit episodes across the board, TONS of filler in every single episode to pad the time, then Anakin shows up and everyone loses their fucking minds and proclaims that Star Wars is saved! Despite Anakin's appearance not being justified AT ALL. He's there to jangle keys. Now Wheel of Time is jangling and the muppets are cheering.

A correction, in the book Faine gives Turak the chest and tries to negotiate some pull in exchange for opening it when his ally arrives. Turak then opens the chest in front of him and removes the horn(these chests are rare, but there's a few in Seanchan. Anyone who knows the mechanism, which is not a piss easy wheel, can open it. Moiraine, Lanfear and Turak all open it at some point.) It pisses Faine off that he keeps the horn and dagger both, and uses them as bait for Rand. He doesn't blow the horn because he's so loyal to his Empress, the horn is for her, which is consistent with how loyal these people are. However the real problem, is that ISHAMAEL IS RIGHT THERE! WHY WOULD HE NOT JUST TAKE THE HORN FOR HIMSELF!? He didn't have the opportunity in the books, because HE WOULD AND THEY WOULD NEVER GET IT BACK! Ishamael was also super injured AND Lanfear was clearly interfering. She WANTS Rand to use the horn for her own schemes. The Forsaken play against the light, but also against each other ALL the time. Lanfear teleports Rand into another dimension to give him a chance to swipe the horn back, and to ingratiate herself with him of course. It's all masterful. BUT IN THIS ISHAMAEL IS RIGHT THERE AND DELIVERS IT PERSONALLY!? TO A GUY THAT JUST FUCKING SAID HE'S AGAINST THE SHADOW!? WHYYYYYYYYYY!?

@haku8135

10 ай бұрын

Also one woman could never shield AND bind THREE women at once. Especially not THESE three. Men had nothing to do with the oaths, Hawkwing wasn't even BORN by the time the oaths were all in place. They swore them because of the breaking of the world and the trolloc wars. Had nothing to do with evil men. They even knew it would shorten their lives, though this detail was lost in time.

@TheSuperappelflap

10 ай бұрын

@@haku8135Im pretty sure I recall reading something about Hawkwing laying siege to the white tower and only leaving after some concession was made, not sure if that was the 3 oaths or something else, but it was something.

@Jamesmatise

10 ай бұрын

​@@TheSuperappelflapno, he had been manipulated into the siege by Ishamael and by anger over the amyrlin Bohnwin's incompetence that may have had something to do with his wife and child's death. Hawkwing 's Siege was only lifted after his death and also once Bohnwin was deposed. The Three Oaths were all in place long before then.

@TheSuperappelflap

10 ай бұрын

@@Jamesmatise okay thanks, i read the books over a decade ago so im a bit hazy on details lile that, all i know amazon is doing this show worse than lucas and spielberg did indiana jones

@MordechaiHershoffyoutube

10 ай бұрын

@@haku8135 just as a general Q. why did the Aes Sedai not take an oath to NOT serve the dark one?

The 3 Oaths being the result of Hawkwing is Show Canon (i.e., they are Patriarchy). In the books the 3 Oaths are all established by the time of the Trolloc Wars and it is the Aes Sedai who decide to implement them on their own.

It seems we have a new imposter in the form of Aviendha. Also, these writers seem hell bent on making Liandrin sympathetic.

@Jamesmatise

10 ай бұрын

By episode 7, Lanfear is pretty much the hero, so that tracks.

@droog8400

10 ай бұрын

Lanfear has been by far the best character. With the three 'boys' being so insipid, there is not much else to barrack for.

@TheSuperappelflap

10 ай бұрын

@@droog8400 She looks pretty mid for "the most beautiful woman in the world". The actress isnt awful though, so that makes her better than, well, everyone else in this show.

@Raximus3000

10 ай бұрын

And failing... I wonder whose self insert she is?

@Metalgarn

7 ай бұрын

@@TheSuperappelflap mid is being quite generous.

Its hilarious how WoT youtubers are like this episode is a massive upgrade. And Disparu is just like.. nah mate. 😆

@TheSuperappelflap

10 ай бұрын

To be fair this one and episode 6 were considerably less shit than what came before. It still does things to the lore than even pornhub would have to censor, and its still a very bad tv show, but it actually seems like some people are trying to make something entertaining now, and failing, instead of just making it as awful as they possibly can on purpose.

@mesikoura3091

9 ай бұрын

I stopped watching after the scene where they for no fucking reason changed the lore about why Lews Therin made the seal and why saidin got tainted. Not as a desperate last attempt and sacrifice in the face of defeat, but as a irresponsible show of arrogance and "toxic masculinity". For me that ruins the premise, story and Rands arc up in so many levels. Fuck that.

The Wheel of Time is something incredibly special to me and seeing what they did here just makes my heart weep...

Introducing Aviendha instead of Gaul at this point and Dain Bornhald rather than Geofram leads me to believe that they're going cut out the battle for the Two Rivers that should be coming up after the Stone is taken. And because that's going to be cut, and because Perrin already had a wife, they're just going to leave Faile out. And because they're going to leave Faile out, Perrin is due to hook up with Berelain who will most certainly be some fairly plain, race swapped woman who will still be amazing.

@MrMoridinalthor

10 ай бұрын

I could live without Faile and her getting captured by the Shaido.

@Jamesmatise

10 ай бұрын

Faile was cast for Season 3, so we definitely get her. I highly doubt we'll get Lord Perrin the savior of the Two Rivers, though. More likely he will tag along while the women's circle yeet the invading Trolloc army off of cliffs😂

@ebbitty132

10 ай бұрын

Barelain is too sexy to show up in this show. Perrin is being set to end up with aviendha.

@duncanlutz3698

10 ай бұрын

there is 0 chance Berelain gets 'adapted' into anything but an insufferable bint

@aulvinduergard9952

10 ай бұрын

@@ebbitty132 I think you're probably right about Aviendha and Perrin. As 'forward thinking' as they like to think themselves of being, there's no way they're going to give a man -- even one as cucked as they've made Rand -- 3 wives.

I've come up with a great description of adaptations like these. They're trying to build a chair with the parts for a table. So they hack and missplace pieces. Whenever you see a piece you recognize, you all see that its not connected to the right thing. And what you're looking at is a forced amalgamation of a chair with pieces should have been a table.

The greatest joke that perfectly describes the casting replacement of people with red hair is - "They see the word ginger, but casting directors are dyslexic".

@Jamesmatise

10 ай бұрын

Eek! Red heads! Run away, run away! - casting directors, probably

@TheSuperappelflap

10 ай бұрын

hahaha, oof

@marhawkman303

10 ай бұрын

ah, yes, anagrams. :D

@MaleusMaleficarum

10 ай бұрын

Lol... that was so wrong. 😂

@phillipc.6833

10 ай бұрын

Omg trying not to laugh

Just double checked my book, and there are some things you got wrong. Both Elayne and Min tagged along and were at Falme. More than one person could open the chest. It was more of a puzzle box than a proper lock box. Fain took it to Turak because he needed someone to open it, as someone else had put the dagger in there. And because he wanted to corrupt a potential ruler. For his part, Turak refused to blow the horn because he respected the hierarchy of the Seanchan. He was actually loyal to his empress and planned to send the Horn to her, to let her decide what reward if any he received. As FUBAR as the Seanchan worldview is, Turak showed genuine virtue in the time he was with us. It was an interesting mirror to Lord Ingtar's arc in the same book.

@EvenGodsDie

10 ай бұрын

Fain took it to Turak to gain his favor. He didn't expect Turak to open it, because he wanted to be able to gain more favor with Turak by opening it himself. He wasn't loyal to the empress. He says he isn't going to blow the horn, because it would put him in a position to take the throne, and he didn't want to deal with the extra hassle of everyone currently in front of him trying to kill him. He doesn't show virtue, but he does show wisdom. And I'll take that

@Nava9380

10 ай бұрын

@@EvenGodsDie " He wasn't loyal to the empress. " Any citations?

@zoranvujovic998

10 ай бұрын

Care to elaborate why do you think Seanchan worldview was fubar? I found them to be one of the more likable factions in the books. Fully agree with everything else in your comment.

@eddiebendigo7317

10 ай бұрын

Disparu doesn't read the comments

@EvenGodsDie

10 ай бұрын

​@@Nava9380The citation is in the scene in which he explains exactly why he won't blow the horn.

"What parts are from the book?" "There's a book? I just threw sh*t at a wall and used what stuck"

They can't act out the wheel of time when they ideologically disagree with everything contained within it.

Perrin: "Why do they call it the Three Fold Land?" Aviendha: "Because a rock never looks up." Makes about as much f0ckin sense as this train wreck of a show!

@MSpotatoes

10 ай бұрын

"You have not seen!"

@SarahDuke01

8 ай бұрын

But remember, ships are able to do just that. Oh wait, wrong blasphemy!

Disparu, you've got to catch up before the season finale next week. I have seen the future and it is dumb!

That cute little bunny rabbit at the beginning, had more of a character arc and development than anyone in this series. BTW, this was the bunny in the joke who walked through the forest saying: "I'm a pig, I'm a pig, I'm a pig".

When they hire showrunners who hate the ip they get this kind of garbage (Witcher, RoP, WoT, Star Wars, Star Trek, most of the recent comic book movies, etc). That's why Jackson's LotR was so beautiful, it was a success because he loved and honored the story/books.

They made pointless changes to Jordan's work to mark their territory, like dogs pissing on their yard.

Props to actually giving an accurate description of Ishy. Reading the books, it's easy to forget how unfathomably powerful he truly is Side note: Avi laughed because Perrin had two names. She sees it as her being like "My name is Aviendha Tardaad" instead of Avuendha if the Tardaad Aiel. It's Aiel humor

Also does everyone forget that by before the book starts Verin has been black ajah. She was forced or be killed. So she uses to study and learn the black ajah. Then she gets though the oaths she gave to the dark one. She finds a loop hole where on the hour of her death she can betray him. She then poison herself giving Egwene her notes which to purge the black ajah and dies. And as she dies says basically though black stains my name my heart was always brown. And a very touching part were egwene responds its as white as the light. The entire series she helps the boys fight the dark one behind the scenes as the ultimate double agent. Always helping the light by loopholes and such. Its ao fantastic. I dont see the super spy and as disparu says. Is because she is so low key no one suspects. They will talk not even noticing because its just Verin reading her books clueless to the world. Yet she hears and remembers everything she read.

It was always an impossible task to convert the books to film, but the deviations seem vengeful. Like they are purposely trying to burn the books.

@hammerofscience534

10 ай бұрын

ANY literate person on this planet could adapt the books better than Rafe. Anyone!

@firenze6478

6 ай бұрын

After seeing how well one piece was adapted to live action, I don’t think anything is too hard to adapt. You just need a competent director who doesn’t have an alternate agenda to usurp the source material with.

Disparu, you are far better than anything on telly.

6:16: the general could and did open the box containing the horn and dagger and put both on display, his reasoning was only the empress (may she live forever) should use it (the great hunt)

@sargonyami4292

10 ай бұрын

And the person blowing the horn can't controll the heros only summon them, only the dragon reborn can controll them

@shaunwhitehead1485

10 ай бұрын

@@sargonyami4292 and the dragon’s flag had to be risen on the field of battle, Mat isn’t even there to a. Blow the horn b. Carry the flag

@nyetzdyec3391

10 ай бұрын

He probably also knew what would likely have happened to him if he did blow it... The Empress (may she live forever... not... ) would probably have had him killed so that she could control it.

FYI turok does open the box. he also refuses to take the horn. Elaine is there when they are captured . The Andrean is upset because MIN also chooses to show up but the three girls are there. Veron is a dark friend therefore she can lie .

1:01 That costume looks like a Time Lord Cyberman, and now I can’t unsee it. 😂

Technically in the books he opened the box and when Fain asked "why won't you blow the horn?" He responded "if I blow it the empress will think I aim above my station and will kill me".

Pretty sure Turak opens the box in the books though, much to Fain's surprise and annoyance.

Awesome Review, it's a shame the writers haven read the books

@M-S_4321

10 ай бұрын

I don't think they could read. Obviously they're using an AI to provide a an ability to write their words for them. Plot check was expecting to much of them.

Without Mat and Verin on the Hunt for the Horn, there is a good deal of the future plots that can either cannot happen or will not make sense. He's a main character. She's an integral character. And I still understand how Rafe plans on doing the Wheel of Time without Thom.

Holy crap ads on here have gotten so horrible. 9 ads so far halfway through

Sometimes the writing of this series reminds me of "The Tick," a goofy animated show when I was a kid. They would take questions from the audience and have The Tick answer them periodically. My absolute favorite, which I always remembered, was this exchange: Q: "If you were rolling down an ocean on a jet ski and the wheel came off, would it take the same number of pancakes to cover a doghouse?" A: "Purple. Because ice cream has no bones." But of course, things were goofy in The Tick on purpose, and there was a lot of hilarious absurdist humor. On "Wheel of Time," it doesn't make sense and isn't funny. Still, I wonder if eventually we might hear the "far-seeing," "all-knowing," and above all non-informative, answer to a simple question at some point be, "Because ice cream has no bones."

@eddiebendigo7317

10 ай бұрын

People really out there eating boneless ice cream.

35:28 slight correction, nyneve, Elaine, Egwaine, and Min were all at Falma and came through the Ways with Leanndrin. Egwaine and Min were captured, Nyneve and Elaine were not.

That "are you taking the piss?" clip is driving me crazy. The way he says it feels so wrong for some reason

its amazing how mad he gets. a true sign of a fan

What is next? Moghedien will be a compassionate and understanding Chinese girl? Semirhage will be portrayed as a lover of puppies and little kiddies?

@Jamesmatise

10 ай бұрын

No Semirhage in the show. Moghedien will probably be Eleven from Stranger Things but more emo, and Graendal will be played by Lizzo.

Elayne was there in the books when they were handed over to the Seanchan by Liandrin. Arguably, she is the reason she & Nynaeve escaped, because the Seanchan came prepared to take custody of two women, rather than three. But Nynaeve did channel and she and Elayne were able to escape, separately, only finding each other after the Seanchan had left.

Thank you for filling in the blanks for me. Season 2 has literally been giving me nightmares with its inconsistencies.

@hammerofscience534

10 ай бұрын

Can't imagine trying to understand this show if you have not read the books. It would be utterly confusing, but on the flip side knowing the lore makes you go insane. Not sure which is worse.

I am going to name this show the pentagon of time as at is the only thing I can think of being the opposite of a wheel.

@nyetzdyec3391

10 ай бұрын

Less "round" than even a pentagon... or a square... the Triangle of Time?

@Dragonsworn864

10 ай бұрын

The trash of time is better

@EbenezerEibenhardt

10 ай бұрын

The bane of the Wheel is the speed bump, for it damages it if taken in haste. The bane of Time is taking a knee, for it forces the opposing team to use a time out to stop the clock long enough to set up for their next play. The most well known in american football for taking a knee is Colin Kapernick. Hence, Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time becomes Amazon's gritty reality television show The Speedbump of Colin Kapernick.

I just read the TGH and Turak did open the box with only Fain present. Fain could give a hang about the Horn, he wanted the dagger which was in the box. He also wanted access to a powerful person to Mordeth them into corruption,

As always, terrific work, my friend. If I may, it is indeed Turak who opens the chest (which, by the way, was so large and heavy only Loial or a trolloc could carry it), containing the Horn and Mat's dagger. So that tiny bit of the lore was matched, amongst all the obviously stupid "adaptations" you have enumerated. As for Lanfear killing the horseman, she does kill at a whim, one time by making a wire-thin weave of air and slicing off a man's head. I guess they couldn't be bothered to re-create that visually in this high-budget "epic", so they went with a CGI'd Ghallager watermelon smash. As for Ishamael/Suroth, the entire thing is idiocy. Ishamael may have set in motion the infancy of the Seanchan empire by sending Luthair Pendrag across the Aryth Ocean, but it is Semirhage who is the currently controlling forsaken (Anath, Tuon's Voice), and they do not interfere with each other in this way. About Ryma, she does exist, but at this point of the story she is already collared, and renamed Pura as a damane. She is completely broken, and becomes Suroth's pet, shown off to Westland rulers to prove they can beat even Aes Sedai.

The sheanchan view of channelers (or at least the book version) reminds me of how mages are treated and viewed under the qun in Dragon Age. Shackled and controlled, though in the DA version its because all mages have the potential to become possessed if tempted or overwhelmed by demons, because they're connected to the Fade where those beings reside.

The only way they could save this is have a scene where there's a flash and Rand pulls his hands away from a portal stone hearing "I win again Lews Therin." ringing in his ears, then actually adapt the books.

@tokenghost7777

10 ай бұрын

I don’t thing they can save it that way... but I think they should end it that way... just a fade to black in the middle of a scene and a spooky voice whisper “I win again...” then roll the credits.

Why was Aviendha in the one in the cage? Perrin rescues Gual from the cage which starts to change Gaul's outlook of "wet landers" and Faile watches him do it..which is how they meet and starts her attachment to him..(Aviendha has own similar encounter but with Nynaeve) I swear, this director has no clue that changing little things completely screws entire characters and plot lines. "Ah it's ok is Rand sleeps with Selene, that won't change anything" - yeah except altering Rand's morals and screws characters development and plotlines for FIVE other characters... The Seanchan treat women who can channel with respect? HA! They keep them on literal leashes and in some cases, treat them like actual dogs or at least the same level the average person has a relationship with their dogs IE give them pats on the head and toys and accessories for being good...the entire mentality of a Damane is the greatest example of slavery mixed with Stockholm syndrome. "They train for years" - by training you mean being punished, humiliated and beaten into submission..

Love your reviews dude but I do have to make a critique here, Fain did give high lord Turak in the book, who did know how to open the box. He did find the horn in there and said he'd never blow it himself as it was an honor for the empress herself. This is Turak who had blonde hair and blue eyes by the way

Damn! Your review is savage! Great one!

The best part of the wheel of time tv series is watching Disparu trash each episode.

21:35 ROFL Disparu you dog - that made me actually laugh just now. You slayed it.

Of all the bad adaptations this one hurts the most . There was so much good stuff in those books.

@jacobdad2742

10 ай бұрын

I completely agree, I was so excited when I found out they were actually making a show. Right up until I seen the first preview. Nothing but disappointment since..

@Jamesmatise

10 ай бұрын

This is like watching my best friend get gunned down in the street. Look at how they massacred my boy.

@TheSuperappelflap

10 ай бұрын

RIngs of Power was worse. At least this one is funny in the same way watching a train derail is entertaining. That show was just bad.

@Degarth

10 ай бұрын

​@TheSuperappelflap with RoP there was the Jackson movies to look to for how it could be done well and enjoy. With WoT you might as well look in the toilet after your morning constitutional for a rough comparison to this show. WoT fans have nothing that was ever done well to look at except the books.

@TheSuperappelflap

10 ай бұрын

@@Degarth im just waiting for AI video generation technology to get a bit better and then ill do it myself for free.

I've never seen that rabbit clip before... that's chuffing hilarious!

Why would one of the Forsaken be chasing on a horse when they know how to travel?

Thank you for my daily needed dose of sarcasm and laugh out loud moments. Your the best mate.

Wait, they took Aviendha, a woman who *teleported herself **_to the other side of the world_* to get away from a man she _loved,_ just because he saw her naked and made her into some slut who's DTF Perrin? _PERRIN?!_ This is the problem you stupidly get yourself into when you destroy one character (Gaul) and put another in his place, just so you could introduce yet another race-changed girl boss.

The bit with Liandrin in the Ways is even funnier if you remember what happens when people channel in the Ways. Even if she didn't use the One Power to shield and bind the girls, do you really think she got them off and on those horses without it? Also, one small correction; Elayne did go to Falme in the books as well. It's been a hot minute since I've read the Great Hunt, but I do remember a few distinct events with Elayne in Falme.

@jamesdouglass2724

10 ай бұрын

Yup

@Jamesmatise

10 ай бұрын

Also don't forget that Moiraine told them in season 1 that horses couldn't be taken into the Ways, the writers got to season 2 and realized they had written themselves into a corner with their own bullshit😂

"Is there anything slower than horses" Walking... Walking is slower than horses....

one small comment, the horn is connected to the person who blew it, when Matt blew the horn, he got the connection. so until he is dead, he is the only one that can use it, so anyone who possess it while Matt is alive has a pretty horn that does nothing.

What do you have against those hearing impaired? I lost my hearing in the military but I love your content. Please remember to enable subtitles!!!!

1 correction or maybe 2.. elayne was there. it was 4 girls. min egwene elayne nyneave.. min and egwen got cought and elayne and nyneave run away. and second correction is the horn is only following the light side and always the dragon or the dragon banner. as arthur says. its ez to forget small stuff like this .. but people didnt know horn follows rand.. or dragon. so it was danger to let others get it becuse they didnt know

@boobah5643

10 ай бұрын

Pretty sure they point out that that is a misconception in-world; it adds urgency to their Hunt that the heroes bound to the Horn are bound _to the Horn and its wielder,_ not to anything else.

@yogurl6004

10 ай бұрын

As far ar as i understand it. Anyone whose intention is salvation can bkow the horn and it'll work for them but wether that salvation is from the light or the dark doesnt disqualify you from having the heros fight for your side. The only qualification made was that the heroes fight under the banner of the dragon. Or if blown by the good guys then the banner of the light which if im correct is the aes sedai/yin yang symbol.

this show is just sisters of Dathomir speed travelling across the continent featuring Rand

Why was the rat from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the front of that boat...

This goes beyond insulting Robert Jordan. Whoever earned the rights to sell them, apparently is too stupid or too cruel to ensure his work was protected. But, beyond that, this insults every novel writer at this point. It used to a top tier dream to have a studio want to adapt your work, NOW I'd be absolutely terrified if Hollywood was determined to get the rights on my life's work as Amazon especially likes to do. The ONLY bright spot to this I can possibly see, is that the terrible bastardization Amazon's drones have created is so unfaithful and SO MUCH WORSE that it has made me start to read the books and I hope is making others do the same. I'm borrowing the first ones for now since I don't plan on monetarily supporting whoever allowed this to happen.

@stonedog5547

10 ай бұрын

I'm going to be buying the ones I'm missing on the second-hand market for the same reason

@TheNuclearGeek

10 ай бұрын

@@stonedog5547Luckily I could borrow a copy of of the first 5, but not 6 or 7, so I'm starting to do the same and see what I can get without rewarding them for their licensing decisions.

24:07 why would he not just use compulsion to make her behave and operate the way that works best for his plans. Non of the forsaken would allow someone to know they were chosen and allow them to think they were above them. If they were in cognito sure they would blend in to accomplish some objective. But never if someone knows there true identity would they get away with showing disrespect or anything but 100% obedience. Also lanfear would never wear black. She always wears white and silver.

„I dont know why u r acting … as if u own anything“😂😂😂😂😂

Disparu’s review are so entertaining and point out, I need to read the books. I haven’t and they sound awesome.

616 to be fair, the darkfriends thought they could blow the horn in the books; but Matt asks the heroes of the horn what would happen if the forsaken blew the horn and they straight up told him that basically nothing would happen and they would have only come to fight for the goodguys.

Looking forward to your next review. Can't stand to watch the series anymore and just enjoying you tear each episode a new one.

I know many people who try to convince me that this is “so true to the spirit” of the books it’s just told from a different “point in time” of the Wheel, as it’s all “just an interpretation of the same story”. Then I watch your take and it makes me smile. It’s Wheel in name only.

"'If Picard were Satan" Jesus lol I almost passed out laughing

Anvaere is the actual name of Moiraine's OLDER sister, who does not appear in the main series, but was referred to in New Spring. She is not a fake sister. That being said, Barthanes Damodred is the actual head of House Damodred in Book 2, he is not Moiraine's nephew, nor Anvaere's son. He is some sort of distant cousin to them. He is also middle aged. Moiraine is 42 at this point in the books. She is not old enough to have a younger sister with a full-grown son. Or at least not old enough to have a younger sister with gray hair. For the record, Lindsey Duncan, who plays Moiraine's sister, is 72. She's almost too old to have a son the age of Barthanes. She's barely young enough to be the mother of the actor, who is clearly playing a much younger man, with his naivete and infantile relationship with Moiraine.

hello @Disparu been waiting for your last 3 episode reviews please do them

Please tell me you’re not stopping here. I just saw a clip from episode 8 and… I need your commentary stat!

I still want to know why Valda is walking around... alive... Egg-wayne killed him back in season 1...

Wow. They made Moiraine evil in this.

@Jamesmatise

10 ай бұрын

But wait, there's more!

Regarding the characterizations of the Forsaken in Lanfear's little rant, Moghedian is not insane, even if she isn't really a master strategist and manipulator (that's Graendal), but she is the ultimate survivor. Another Forsaken would be more likely to characterize her as a cockroach, but her name is the term for a species of spider from their time period, that was very small, hard to see and very deadly. Graendal, meanwhile, postured as a vain idiot, but as I said, was a master manipulator and strategist. The issue here is, Lanfear COULD have been taken in by the ruse and be mistaken, and the funny thing is, that is totally in character for Lanfear, who herself, is a loose cannon and one of the most incompetent Forsaken. Literally every plot she comes up with backfires on her, she is severely lacking in self-control in ways that prove detrimental to her. Everyone she tries to manipulate to serve her agenda not only does not serve her purposes, but actually goes behind her back to run his own game and come away with a win on his own, or at least be ready for her inevitable betrayal. But I don't think Rafe & co realize this. I think they really believe that Lanfear is the most dangerous of the Forsaken. Also, she scoffs about "the boys" not being able to execute a plan, but the male Forsaken include Demandred, Rahvin & Sammael who successfully took control of powerful countries without anyone knowing the truth, Bel'al who was known as "the Netweaver", Aginor, a brilliant mad scientist who genetically engineered Trollocs and other Shadowspawn, Asmodean, who outsmarts Lanfear in the books and almost gets control of her, except Rand outsmarted them both. The dummy of "the boys" is Balthamel, who managed to carry out an undercover ruse in the heart of the Aes Sedai, as the personal advisor to their leader, who believed Balthamel's persona to be a good friend she could confide in. By contrast, Lanfear is over-the-top when she tries to go undercover that the only way Rand is fooled by her guise is that she brought along a decoy who basically acts just like Lanfear would, so he was confused as whether or not the pretty skank who was hitting on him all the time was Lanfear, or if she was disguised as the fat lady who was always telling Rand that he should accept her bargains, and showed a lot of interest in his love life, and moved too fast and too easily for a morbidly obese woman. That's Lanfear's idea of cunning - create a fat lady illusion around herself, but don't even bother to act like she's truly heavy. If you read between the lines, her fellow Forsaken don't even take her seriously, sniggering behind her back at her crush on Lews Therin/Rand and her obsession with him. Graendal actually gives her shit to her face about it. Lanfear gets so pissed that she actually seems like she is about to throw down with the other woman, despite one of their rivals in the room and ready to pounce as soon as they are distracted, to kill both of them. Lanfear is hilariously incompetent, and the other Forsaken who are close to her on the incompetence scale are Semirhage and Mesaana, two other women. Both of whom are slightly more effective in their undercover roles than Lanfear ever manages.

loved the video but you did get a couple of things wrong. Firstly, High Lord Turak was given the Horn of Valere by Padan Fain and he did open the case that it was held in. He didn't want to blow it because the empress would've probably taken his head. Secondly, Elaine did travel with Min, Nyneve and egwene to Falme, she managed to escape with Nyneve whilst the other two were captured. I only know this because i'm in the process of rereading the novels.

Are going to finish rest of series as was looking forward to your take on rest and is dissapointing not done rest.

Genuinely over women with zero height and muscle defeating droves of fully armed men.

@stephenclark4258

10 ай бұрын

Armed AND armored. She was good in the books, but not that good. Nobody was without the Power.

2:17 excellent one!

Suroth takes passive aggressive to an unhealthy level

@nyetzdyec3391

10 ай бұрын

The showrunner had to choose between making Suroth strong and independent... and STUPID... or SMART... but subservient. He chose the former...

2:35 All credit to Ishamael, the Forsaken does understand the hierarchy! 😂

The showrunners would have been better served not to claim this was another turning of the Wheel (which would have been a different time, age, with different characters and nations) and instead called it one of the Worlds of If accessed via the portal stones. Then all of these exceptions to the lore would actually make sense.

Seeing reviewers claiming this episode somehow is redeeming the show blows my mind. The show absolutely cannot be redeemed at this point. All the major characters have been assassinated. Major plot points have been disregarded in favor of made up drivel. May the dark one take the showrunners to the pits of Shayol Ghul.

@gorbitroph

9 ай бұрын

Harsh, but fair

Lady: "Perhaps _my lord_ made a mistake." Right Hand Man of Satan: "Bitch are you for real?!"

the casting is devious i looked up wheel of time perrin artist rendition and he looks way cooler there

"Verin shouldn't be able to lie" umm, I'm pretty sure that's not the case...

About the Horn.... what did Hawkwing say to Mat during the Last Battle? No, I'm not going to answer that question. Read the books, and pay attention when you get there. I will say that I can't be bothered to care about the Horn in the way that this show's creators might want.

Actually Disparu I have to disagree with one part : - in the books High Lord Turak did indeed know how to open that box, but he does reject the use of the Horn and Promises to send it to the Empress to whom he is both Loyal and frightened. The rest is a horrific abomination. Especially the whole Suroth thing - in the books she was punished and whilst she might scream and plot in private the few people that insulted the Forsaken to their face generally ended up going very badly for them. The Ishmael from the books would probably have burnt Suroth alive after the first word in the tone she used.

Going to sleep listening to Disparu verbally eviscerate garbage tv brings me peace

@josephambani6664

10 ай бұрын

I thought I was the only one who does this 🤣

I really hate doing this because it means saying something positive about this abomination of a series. But Turak could open the box, he could because there were similar ones in Seandar, but he is a loyal follower of the Empress (may she live forever) and chose to be respectful and planned to hand it her and let her blow the horn. This partially is because of the literal snowstorm of spies that are infesting all of Seanchan who can and do regularly strip people as high as Turak of all their status, brand them with a Raven tattoo and condemn all their families to Da'covale slavery for the slightest of insults.

@boobah5643

10 ай бұрын

I forgot about the secret police. But it wouldn't have been a mere branding Turak got, because if he blew the Horn the empress could not until Turak was dead. He _might_ have lasted long enough to deliver the Horn, just because then the Seanchan wouldn't have had to worry about anyone else becoming bound to the Horn.

@yogurl6004

10 ай бұрын

I hate what theyve done to the Seanchan culture. I hate that they've made surith some attention seeking spoilt brat. Its like how theyve reduced lanfear as well (to basically just butt hurt coz she got dumped by a boy, she fcuking whines about it long enough inthe show) . Both those women are superbly ambitious power hungry go getters and pretty fxuking badass already but ultimately evil and willing to do the most to get what they want. . But the thing is the whole point of the book is that in order for good to be redemptive we need evil to contrast. Thats why we have choice and will power. Thats why two sides of the one power. Its compare and contrast. Not this fcuking shades of gray nonsense. So why reduce suroth and lanfear why try to justify liadrin. Can people not just choose to do the wrong thing. Can people just not give zero fxuks about other people. Like suroths Character takes so much away from how the Seanchan view power, how they aquire it and also lest we forget t lose it as well, how absolutely fantastic they are as colonizers how effecient and controlled and powerful they are as an enemy

@UncensoredScion

10 ай бұрын

@@yogurl6004 I wish there was a more complex reason for the idea of giving each of the characters you've mentioned reasons for their behaviour but the reality is simple in how they see it. If a woman does something bad, the reason is that it's a man's fault ultimately, it cannot be that they themselves are bad people. The idea comes from the "don't blame me for things" culture where even questioning a woman is seen as an attack, so Rafe and the writers HAVE to make them sympathetic as if they don't - in their own minds - they will be saying "women are always to blame for what happens to them." It's just insane in the end.