"The Wheel of Time” Season 2, Main Actors & Characters

Fans of Robert Jordan’s best-selling fantasy book series and the Prime Video adaptation gathered at the Charlotte Street Hotel in Soho for an exclusive screening, hosted in partnership with Pilot TV and Empire magazine, of the first two episodes of The Wheel of Time’s highly anticipated second season.

Just before the screening started, I joined the other avid fans adorned in The Wheel of Time cosplay, excited to have their pictures taken by a professional photographer. There was a clothing rack filled with fantasy costumes inspired by the series like colourful cloaks, elegant dresses, intricate jewellery and even a great selection of medieval weapons! After careful consideration, I picked out a lovely emerald green cloak and a huge sword – looking just like a character out of Robert Jordan’s enchanting world.

Production on season 1 of The Wheel of Time was plagued with problems, mostly related to multiple Covid-related work stoppages, but also from the departure of Barney Harris, the actor playing Mat Cauthon, one of the central characters of the story, before production was complete. The specifics of why Harris left the series were never clarified, but it necessitated a marked change in how the story progressed in the show versus how it did in the books. Instead of going to the Eye of the World with the rest of his friends, Mat abandoned them and ended up returning to Tar Valon, the city of the Aes Sedai. Though far from the only way the show departed from the books, it was definitely one of the most significant, and altogether left many fans questioning whether season 2 would get the story back on track.

In the first scene of "The Wheel of Time" season two, the audience is brought to a mysterious building at nighttime.

Outside the building, a young girl is playing over a metal disk. Looking closely at the disk, it has the same symbol as the giant metal disk at the Eye of the World in the season one finale.

The Wheel of Time TV series is an adaptation of many thousands of pages, first of all. Also, some of the Forsaken are more interesting  than others. Plus, we saw in season one that the Warder Stepin had statues of the Forsaken. The idea is you make offerings to them to ward off the Forsaken. Anyway, he had eight statues displayed, which may mean that’s all the Forsaken we’ll see in the TV series.

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Sarah H

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