

It depends.Īmazon's 'Jack Ryan' Series Debuts Frenetic Final Season Trailer They are so in demand, you see, because one of them could be the reincarnation of the so-called “Dragon,” a super-powerful being with the potential to destroy the world, or prevent it from being destroyed. Accompanying the quintet on their search for safe haven is Moiraine ( Rosamund Pike) - member in good standing of an all-female cadre of magic-users called the Aes Sedai - and her bodyguard, Lan (Daniel Henney), who’ve also come to Emond’s Field looking for them.

In this case, five youths from the remote farming village of Emond’s Field set off on a high adventure after a horde of trollocs - a sort of large humanoid goat/bull/dog thing - violently interrupts a holiday dance party looking for them. Readers of The Eye of the World - the first book in Robert Jordan’s sprawling fantasy series The Wheel of Time - will no doubt note several prominent changes in Amazon’s ambitious series adaptation, the first three episodes of which premiered on the streamer Friday.īoth the book and series begin in the same way as so many fantasy epics - with a group of nobodies who don’t choose greatness but have (potential) greatness thrust upon them.
