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Wheel of Time season 2 trailer
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You know almost every "original world" borrows elements from the real world, right? It's incredibly hard to make something that isn't influenced by reality would be incredibly hard... and almost impossible to relate to.
Admittedly, I only watched the first episode and have read five or six of the books. They seemed to be rushing through any kind of development, character or plot wise, so any similarities may have been enhanced due to a lack of depth.
Game of Thrones took tons of ideas from real human cultures and it wasn't very subtle, but that world still seems much more alive and real to me than what I see in the WoT television series. (I have only read parts of the first book in this series and I know the fans adore the world building, so I assume this failure is on the show and not the source material.)
Yes, that's true; everybody borrows.
This seemed particularly plagiaristic though. Oddly placed yin-yangs? Allusions to the Roma people? An underworld looking distinctly hell-like?
At least make me work to find the source material.
Keep tugging on that thread.