I am gonna need some more info on that because a LOT of the changes made (both in the back end and throughout the season) don’t seem like things Covid would’ve or should’ve affected
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Biggest ones are probably writing Mat out of episodes 7 & 8, and inability to have any large battle scenes in 8 due to limited number of people on set at once, and physical separation of those on set. 1/x
Mat wasn't directly due to covid, but if they had continued filming on time, probably the actor wouldn't have left right when he did.
They also had to find a new location for the blight, spend a bunch of time rewriting S1 and S2 scripts, and maybe other things I'm forgetting, on very short notice.
Yeah, see, I’m referring to splitting the group/having only Rand and Moiraine go to the Eye, no Green Man, no Forsaken showdown, the dumb Rand/Egwene/Perrin “love triangle”, and (potentially) stilling Moiraine.
Shifting Morgase’s Tower experience to someone Brand New is as another weird choice, but I do like where it ended up. Though I didn’t like the potential implication of Egwene Healing death.
Also, if you plan on watching season 2, obviously that was tremendously changed from the original plan, because they had to find something plausible for Mat to do to somehow get him re-aligned with the desired storyline.
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They also had to find a new location for the blight, spend a bunch of time rewriting S1 and S2 scripts, and maybe other things I'm forgetting, on very short notice.
Perrin’s Hammer vs Axe conflict scrapped for basically nothing. Mat insinuated to be Dark-adjacent is gross, at best.
You can also see in that last episode where they’re prioritizing social distancing &/or keeping the bubble small.