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This is the second entry in the Kill It With Balefire series, which is documenting my growing disbelief at how awful the Sony / Amazon production appears to be.  As noted from the trailer, the show-runners seem to be diverging meaningfully from the plot of the original story, including: Elevating certain characters to greater roles (Egwene and Logain) Reducing other characters to bit roles or delaying their introduction (Thom Merrilin and Padan Fain) Adding additional plot lines that are not needed (Egwene's Women's Circle Initiation and the whole Logain chase) Getting nearly every costume wrong (from Aes Sedai combat outfits, the lack of color-shifting Warder cloaks, to the silly bath robes Mat and Rand appear to be walking around in) Utilizing cheap special effects and CGI Ruining Myrddraal  Invariably, most of my criticisms of the trailer were ultimately related to the costume department.  Though it might seem trivial, that would only be to someone that has not read t...