‘Wheel of Time’ Season 2 Mat Recast Previews Redemption Arc — Donal Finn

Jul 23, 2023

I’m glad to hear this from the actor, but I just can’t watch the show again. What they did to Perrin’s character, especially “fridging” his non-existent wife (by that, I mean, non-existent in the book), was absolutely horrible. There’s a lot of other problem with the adaptation that just don’t work for me — and I’m not a purist when it comes to such things (for example, I love a lot of the casting decisions). But when you fundamentally change a character’s motivations for launching their character arcs — especially in such an anti-woman way as Perrin’s “wife” — I have to draw the line. So, good luck to Finn, but I won’t be watching.