4 Reasons The Wheel Of Time Deserves Your Attention, If You’re a Fantasy Fan
Miss Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones? The Wheel of Time is just what you've been looking for.
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan is one of the largest fantasy series in the history of the genre. It has a lot of charismatic characters, well-developed mythology, geopolitics and cultures of different peoples.
If you're a fan of the fantasy genre, then you must see the adaptation of The Wheel of Time, and we have four reasons to convince you.
1. The book cycle is rightly considered one of the best in its genre
The Wheel of Time cycle was published for 23 years – from 1990 to 2013. 14 novels, each more than 600 pages long, tell a single story: four teenagers from a distant wilderness grow up, seek allies, and fight the absolute evil that wants to destroy the world.
In The Wheel of Time universe there is no place for elves or other races typical for the genre: Robert Jordan invented all the creatures himself, trying not to copy anything from mythology or other works.
2. The Wheel of Time has a fresh look compared to similar series
There have been many fantasy shows in recent years, but none have become as popular and acclaimed as Game of Thrones.
After GoT, no one has tried to make a series in the genre of classic epic fantasy – with the good old fight against evil and the huge scale of the events.
The Wheel of Time tries to fill this niche, and so far, successfully. It is an understandable fantasy adventure, which main goal is to show the viewer how events unfold and how the journey changes the main characters.
3. The original source has been treated very carefully by the show’s creators
Although the series differs from the book in some places, its main events are carefully transferred to the screen. The main characters and all the people the protagonists meet do not differ much from those in the book.
4. The series' feminist topic is more than relevant
In The Wheel of Time feminism has already won. In this universe, equality between the sexes has existed for a very long time – different cultures have maintained different relationships between the men and women, but there’s no oppression or domination of one sex over the other.
