The color-coding of the various factions of the Aes Sedai feels particularly hamfisted. Yet no aspect of the production feels particularly inventive or even revealing of the characters. Moiraine, Lan and the Dragon hopefuls gradually make their way on horseback to the White Tower, the Aes Sedai headquarters, and you can see where the reported $10 million budget per episode went: to the battle scenes with the Trollocs, the military camps in which a loquacious Aes Sedai hunter (Abdul Salis) peacocks about, the wandering troupe of obviously doomed pacifists, the writhing black-and-white smoke that does too much of the fighting between the characters. Shot in Prague, the scenery changes often, and there’s no shortage of elaborately costumed extras. Rand al'Thor rules Cairhien and Andor until he is captured by Aes Sedai loyal to Elaida, then freed by Aiel, Asha'man, and others. It was published by Tor Books and was released on October 15, 1994.
#Wot lord of chaos series#
“The Wheel of Time” disappoints most in its surprisingly prosaic visuals. Lord of Chaos is the sixth book in the main series of The Wheel of Time. Their friend Perrin (Marcus Rutherford), who accidentally maims a fellow villager in the chaos of a Trolloc attack, is so sparsely characterized it’s utterly unclear how he feels about being so abruptly uprooted, yet offered distance from the site of his grave mistake. Mat (Barney Harris), who has cared for his younger sisters when his alcoholic mom couldn’t, is the sorriest to leave their hometown behind.
Already eager to dedicate herself to a cause, Egwene (Madeleine Madden) trusts Moiraine most readily, in stark contrast to her scoffing once-lover Rand (Josha Stradowski). In their seemingly Buddhist-inspired search, Moiraine and her companion, or Warder, Lan (Daniel Henney) narrow down the Dragon candidate to the quartet. That stranger is Pike’s Moiraine, one of a group of superpowered women called the Aes Sedai who strive to keep evil in check by neutralizing the aptly named Dragon, a magical being born into various human incarnations who may be steered toward goodness or destruction.
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