{"id":57339,"date":"2023-08-31T16:12:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T16:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/the-wheel-of-time-season-2-review-prime-videos-fantasy-series-finally-finds-its-footing\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T16:12:05","slug":"the-wheel-of-time-season-2-review-prime-videos-fantasy-series-finally-finds-its-footing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/games\/the-wheel-of-time-season-2-review-prime-videos-fantasy-series-finally-finds-its-footing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wheel of Time season 2 review: Prime Video’s fantasy series finally finds its footing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unlike Prime Video’s other fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power<\/a>, which acts as a prequel to Peter Jackson’s six-movie franchise, The Wheel of Time had the challenging task of introducing viewers to a whole new world in its first season. Sure, The Rings of Power finds most of its inspiration outside of its big-screen predecessors, with characters and lore pinched from Tolkien’s notes and literary works, but due to the flicks’ cultural relevance, its creators could count on a wider audience already knowing what Elves, orcs, Mordor, and more were. The same couldn’t be said for The Wheel of Time’s One Power, Amyrlin Seat, and Aes Sedai.<\/p>\n

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Unlike Prime Video’s other fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which acts as a prequel to Peter Jackson’s six-movie franchise, The Wheel of Time had the challenging task of introducing viewers to a whole new world in its first season. Sure, The Rings of Power finds most of its inspiration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57342,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57339\/revisions\/57342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}