WOTCast: A Wheel of Time Book & Watch Club

Leshies and witchers and wood elves, oh my! Caleb guests on this episode of the wonderful Two Friends Watch podcast to talk The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf with Daniel and Andrew. We have a great time digging into Witcher lore, the Netflix animation pipeline, and what it means to craft a story that straddles the line between prequel, standalone film, and adaptation of an adaptation. Find all th...

This is not the ending of The Wheel of Time TV series, but it is an ending. Specifically the ending of Season 1. And hoo boy, what an ending it is! Rand faces off against Ba’alzamon himself as an army of shadowspawn bears down upon his friends and the people of Far Dara. Battles rage, lives are lost, and choices are made that will determine the fate of this world. Friend of the show Nick Wicks joi...

We travel “The Dark Along the Ways” in this, The Wheel of Time’s penultimate season 1 episode. The party reaches Fal Dara on the edge of the Blight and are forced to confront their darkest fears. Secrets are kept, confessions are made, and at long last our Dragon Reborn is revealed! Friends of the show Andrew and Eric join Caleb and Dan in excited debate about where all this is headed. Laughs abou...

At long last, we reach the Blight and the shadow of Shayol Ghul. THIS IS IT: the climax of The Eye of the World, the reveal of the Dragon Reborn, and the close of our first Wheel of Time novel! And boy is there a lot to talk about here in our biggest WOTCast episode yet. We unpack our surprises, our frustrations, our curiosity over lingering mysteries, and our excitement for what comes next. This...

Friend of the show Nick Wicks joins Caleb and Keeley to talk The Wheel of Time episode 6: The Flame of Tar Valon. And what a flame it is! Moiraine takes us on a whirlwind tour of the White Tower and its dangers as she reunites the party, rescues Mat from the infection of the dagger, and faces judgment from the very person she loves most. Yet Moiraine’s time in Tar Valon doesn’t last long. The Whee...

United at last, the party prepares to flee Caemlyn as an army of trollocs and fades bear down upon the city. Moiraine is able to reverse the effect of the dagger’s curse in Mat, but only temporarily; the evil which spreads in him could soon infect the entire world. And that’s not our only world-ending threat! Turns out the Dark One is just about ready to break free of his prison if the Dragon Rebo...

While Mat lies dying of doom-laden dagger disease, Rand explores the great city of Caemlyn and meets a colorful cast of characters. Loial the "hotheaded" "young" ogier full of lore, Elayne the daughter-heir of Andor, Elaida the Red, and Queen Morgase herself, just to name a few. Elsewhere, Nynaeve, Lan, and Moiraine launch a daring rescue of Perrin and Egwene from the Whitecloaks. Is our party abo...

Friend of the show Nicholas Wicks joins Caleb and Keeley this Thanksgiving weekend to talk the latest two episodes of The Wheel of Time. And we are hot to talk about the big changes brought to the source material by Episode 3: "A Place of Safety" and Episode 4: "The Dragon Reborn"! Nynaeve rejoins the fray, Moiraine confronts the self-proclaimed Dragon Logain, Perrin and Egwene learn the story beh...

After decades of waiting and failures to launch, THE WHEEL OF TIME adapted series has premiered, with the first batch of episodes live on Amazon Prime! But was it worth the wait? We watch the first two episodes to find out.  Meanwhile on the page, Rand and Mat's perilous journey to Caemlyn continues in chapters 31-35 of The Eye of the World. Darkfriend after darkfriend hunts for them as Rand grows...

Things go from bad to worse for our Two Rivers teens in chapters 26-30 of The Eye of the World. Nynaeve intensifies her search for her charges, Moiraine once again makes harsh choices, and Thom stays behind to proverbially HOLD THE DOOR so that Mat and Rand can escape the Myrddraal. Swarms of the Dark One's beast servants descend on Perrin and Egwene, and after a temporary reprieve they face a mor...

In chapters 21-25 of The Eye of the World, we meet the traveling Tuatha'an—also called Tinkers—and discuss the significance of their pacifist Way of the Leaf in a world full of monstrous aggressors. Do the "Lost" children become the Lost because of their, as Keeley puts it, insatiable lust for human blood that can never be satisfied except at the point of a blade? We ask the hard questions here. S...

Chapters 16-20 of The Eye of the World take us out of Baerlon's frying pan into the fire of Shadar Logoth—a dead city of tempter ghosts and grasping, all-devouring mists. We discuss our enjoyment of these action- and horror-packed chapters...but also our mounting frustration with the three stooges Rand, Mat, and Perrin as they continue to flout common sense and wizardly warnings in favor of messin...

This week in Chapters 11-15 of The Eye of the World, we meet our new frenemies the Whitecloaks, learn more about the danger of the "Dragon" Logain, and find out just how far Moiraine Sedai is willing to go to keep her charges away from the Dark One.  Before that, we discuss Zach Baron's comprehensive GQ exposé on the Wheel of Time TV series production. We also chat about Netflix's hit new dystopia...

This week, the action begins! We dive into Chapters 6-10 of The Eye of the World to find the idyllic country life of our Two Rivers crew plunged into violence and chaos. Secrets are revealed, desperate bargains are struck, and our protagonists make decisions that will change the course of their lives. Amidst this all we find some surprising moments of humor. We share our excitement for the directi...

Welcome to WOTCast's inaugural episode! Caleb, Catie, Dan, and Keeley dive head-first into the sprawling fantasy world of Robert Jordan's first Wheel of Time novel, The Eye of the World.  Join us as we introduce ourselves, a brief history of the series, and the upcoming Amazon adaptation. Then get a close look at the Prologue and Chapters 1-5 of The Eye of the World. We talk about epic worldbuildi...