clearly and the just whirling spinning motion it's dramatic but it fails to communicate anything of substance we do get some very interesting visuals and cool sequences like the tracking shot of barney as he's going through winter's night slaughter fantastic but there's just also so many poorly edited sequences especially this cold open it is what because in like the post process you work on everything not in chronological order of what you shot it you just work on the most important stuff and try to get it up there and then as more shots come in you're just working constantly and the quality wavering within this show for editing is just doing this next up is structure and this is where i start to feel really bad for the creatives involved with this show because we know for sure the showrunner asked for two more full episodes i assume mostly for character development world building and relationship work and the lack of those two episodes it's like desert every time we actually are given the moments of allowing the imminence field five to bond or display their character i am drinking them in like a fifth grader who is not hydrated all day at the water fountain that is the weirdest metaphor i've ever chosen because they're performed pretty darn well by the actors i we're gonna get into the characters a little bit later i really still like the casting almost entirely but they are given so few moments to actually develop the characters these actors have spent so much time trying to understand marcus rutherford and madeline madden especially i feel like i was given almost no time to watch them become a gwain and parent which is a damn shame because their performances deserve better than that i don't have too much more to say about structure except for it all just feels far too rushed episode one should have been two episodes i used to think yeah winter's night should have been the end of episode one but no it is a good way to hook an audience but a better way to hook an audience is to establish characters they care about and we did not get that until far too late in the season next up is communication an area where the show did shine and falter first and foremost the communication of lore and magic didn't really exist much here i have talked to people who have not read the books about their impressions of the lore of the world and the magic and while i admit the show is quite intelligently weaving in small elements here and there to get people informed on what's going on overall new viewers are just not super aware of what's going on in the show on like the broader sense to be fair most wheel of time book readers are not sure of what exactly is going on by the end of the eye of the world that's that's totally a justifiable thing to say robert jordan's admitted the isle of world's a bit of a mess and he didn't actually have the full lore solidified in his head at that point but for adapting the show it's your job to polish that up and try and make it fit the end vision for the series and there were some really good choices made to actually try and accomplish that in concept i actually liked the ending with rand quite a bit having this parallel without getting into spoilers to some elements from the ending of the actual series and having the main reason he doesn't agree to what's being proposed as he respects the agency of the woman he
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