@c53d74b8 Read the books. Watched S1. Bounced off S2 pretty fast. The departures from the books are so huge (though sometimes interesting) that I don’t feel as if I’m even watching WoT. The casting is pretty great, the acting’s pretty great, the production values are high, but the writing is so-so and the pacing is ugh. Most fans of the book will admit that the middle books drag, but that’s mostly because there are so many characters in so many places. Which the TV series decided to emulate. 

 @b8bd0c8f ha, I feel the same way about S2 of Foundation! It’s becoming painful to watch due to the pacing, and the “so many characters in so many places” issue. 

 @c53d74b8 I think it's easier to tell a sprawling, multi-locale story in novel-form than on TV. 

The thing about novels is… You can put them down. You can turn back a few pages. You can look at the character appendix. You can look at maps. 

With streaming TV, I guess you can pause and look at the casting info overlay, but it's not the same.