User Reviews

I never read the books, so i cannot give any judgement as to the adherence to the source material.

For the rest, there is to say that TWoT is a great show. Improving greatly from the first season, which was not to be considered a masterpiece, but still a great show, this gets closer. I have full respect for the deeper sides of cinema, so i'm not willing to throw the label of masterpiece freely, and i'm not sure this one deserves it, especially because it would depend on the source material, which i do not completely know. But, judging simply the aspects of the film until now, it deserve a lot. Surely more than any other recent fantasy i have met. And those with some taste in good cinema and respect for literary themes will agree that this is miles above stuff like The Witcher series.

The photography is great, the actors are too, surprisingly. The themes i am unsure of. But honestly, even if this was just a evil vs. Good kind of thing, it wouldn't deny it a potential value. And i think it does have value. In the seriousness with which it commits to the topics it presents, the real-wordly brutality that is expected by any good fantasy work, and that made Game of Thrones great, and that for me, also means respect for the viewer, that not necessarily is a 14 year old child intending to watch something stupid. It's not polluted by stereotypical interactions, cringy jokes, it just honestly tries to portrait the story as if it was real, really taking place in our world. And I love ir for it.

Maybe it's not a masterpiece, but it's a great work and does what it's supposed to do way better than most other fantasy shows have done lately.

In my opionion the hole project was a fail due to high expectations and barely any similarities to the books.

The costume designers helped proving this point using their own fantasy to create something new that Robert Jordan had already given descriptions on in his books - and these designs are not it.

"The helmet looked very much like some monstrous insect's head, with thin red plumes like feelers; the wearer seemed to be peering out through mandibles. It was painted and gilded to increase the effect, and the rest of the man's armor was also worked with paint and gold. Overlapping plates in black and red outlined with gold covered his chest and ran down the outsides of his arms and the fronts of his thighs. Even the steel backs of his gauntlets were red and gold. Where he did not wear metal, his clothes were dark leather."

These new designs are not insectile at all.

All the Seanchan armor and clothing are way, way over the top. Over designed.

And whats all that paint in the "Damanes" face?

God damn it.