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“The Wheel of Time” Gets Plenty Right, But One Crucial Thing Wrong

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By Alex Lauer We need to talk about The Wheel of Time, Amazon’s new series on Prime Video that has been hailed as the next Game of Thrones. But I’d like to start with The Lord of the Rings, the other obvious comparison among adaptations of long-and-winding fantasy books. I recently had the pleasure of rewatching The Fellowship of the Ring in a movie theater, a special screening for the occasion of the film’s 20th anniversary, which is officially coming up later this month. As I sat there in the third row basking in the haunting opening sequence narrated by Cate Blanchett as the elf Galadriel, …

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