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Five members of the village make the cut as the ‘dragon probables’ and when the village is attacked by trollocs, an orc-meet-troll-meet-giant-meet-centaur creature who has boar-like protruding teeth, Moraine flees with her chosen five. Moraine and her warder, Lan Mandragoran - Daniel Henney looking impeccable in a man bun and wielding cloaks with supreme ease - reach a small village where the dragon’s reincarnate is supposedly located. She’s on a quest to locate the next reincarnation of the ‘Dragon’ who in an earlier avatar had destroyed all humanity. We meet Moraine Damodred (Rosamund Pike), looking ethereal in her blue cloak, a part of Aes Sedai, an all-powerful women’s collective that can harness magic. The first three episodes have dropped on Amazon Prime, and they have only scratched the surface of what the books have in store. With the source material spanning 14 volumes, we kind of have an idea that the series too would be a marathon. The eponymous novel series by Robert Jordan forms the core material for this larger than life, epic fantasy show.

Fantasy on Xanax is not a mix that goes down well. While Game of Thrones was racy, graphic and intriguing, all of them making it an addictive heady mix - one often felt that the show was on acid, with the many twists and turns, WOT feels like a show that’s taken a downer like Xanax. Honest intentions aside, Wheel of Time ended up being just that, an honest attempt, nothing more. Amazon Prime’s latest offering, Wheel of Time (WOT) is Jeff Bezos’s attempt to fill the GOT shaped hole in people’s lives. Game of Thrones - now a verified genre in pop culture and entertainment circles - ended in 2019 and since then the fans, critics and consumers have been waiting like hungry church mice for their next hit.

Today, the lightest nip in the air in the tropical sweltering city of Mumbai and the phrase ‘Winter is coming’ is thrown around like candy. Ten years ago, a gigantic phenomenon in the form of Game of Thrones (GOT) swept the world and changed its vocabulary forever.

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