11/14/2023 0 Comments Just roll with it season 2 episode 12![]() ![]() ![]() Performances have not distinguished it either. ![]() Most of the fits and sets are unremarkable, while Apple+’s Isaac Asimov–derived Foundation leaves it (and all other non– House of the Dragon sci-fi/fantasy adaptations currently airing) in the dust where memorable, spectacular imagery is concerned. Beyond the sheer scale of the production, the money Jeff Bezos sank into this thing is rarely evident onscreen. Yet overall, adapted as it is from author Robert Jordan’s source material, itself mostly content to play Songs in the Key of Tolkien rather than blaze new trails outright, TWoT has been a series that rarely distinguishes itself. Pike, Henney, and other members of the core cast are enjoyable screen presences, and not just for horny reasons either - but horny reasons apply, and showrunner Rafe Lee Judkins would be a fool not to take advantage. The big-budgeted Prime Video series - itself just a blip on the radar of the even more expensive, far more creatively dubious epic-fantasy saga The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - has never looked like much more than a season of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys with a bankroll that permitted not so much designing better costumes and props and sets, but simply ordering several hundred times more of them. You see, there’s a thin line between “not bad” and “pretty good,” and for the bulk of its duration thus far, The Wheel of Time has rolled right down that line. Hey, you’ve got to give the people what they want! Within minutes of its opening title hitting the screen, The Wheel of Time’s season-two premiere shows us Rosamund Pike bathing knees up and Daniel Henney practicing swordplay shirt off. ![]()
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