Winter Dragon

Understanding the circumstances of this Short, created in a tight deadline to retain the rights to the story, is key to appreciating its value. It is a stylistic portrayal of the series prologue and fully stands alone as a short. The remaining 13,000 pages aren't needed to explain this short, and the characters and actors in this short aren't needed to create a TV series which would likely skip the prologue completely.

I thought the directing and writing was a very good adaptation and really captured the spirit of the prologue.

I found it entertaining. If you're expecting a 'Game of Thrones' type of pilot, don't watch.

When I saw the description of this episode tucked away in an obscure time-slot on an obscure channel I was both excited and concerned. The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan is deeply significant in my life. Even in the start of this episode, you can immediately feel the collective disappointment of Wheel of Time fans worldwide as the quality was low and dull in the extreme. As it went on I began to understand just how offended one can get by blasphemy or mockery to something well loved... This poorly handled grab at retaining rights nearly physically hurt me with how disgusted I felt.

Why. Why would you deliberately sabotage an entire series with this travesty. Wheel of Time has the potential to be an outstanding television series, with engaging plots and strong characters- male, female, people of color- it has it all and you did this. We know you did it in order to hold on the film and TV rights, however you just shot yourself in the foot, because if this is what you have to show people interested in making a show, you have no idea how badly you have screwed up. It was nice (and incredibly lazy) of you to incorporate so much of the book's original dialog, but that won't save the kindergarten level acting and complete disregard for basic plot elements- like, I dunno- never naming the Dark One? Ever? It's a thing? You did actually read more than the prologue, yes?

Still better than Amazon's version of the story. This phoned in recreation of the first few pages of the first book are a more true to source material than the entirety of that abomination that Amazon has poured millions of dollars into. I give it a 8/10 just for being a truer version of Robert Jordan's written work.

There is one popular WoT "content creator" over at the Shadowspawn YT domain... he ruthlessly mocked this production. But upon re-reading the prologue of The Eye of the World (no, not "Ravens") for the fourth time, the accuracy is there in speech and in tone.

Haters will latch on to this for it's legal maneuverings, but it really is the prologue brought to the screen.