Our investigation kept turning up more elements, opening more doors into his past - of his life in America, his life online, and ultimately, his time in Ireland, living as an asylum seeker in Tralee. Thomas was a man with illogical and unsettling beliefs, someone often struggling with his mental health, manacled to his convictions even as his life veered off course. When we dug deeper into his past, it opened up a strange and often poignant story. With such a HUGE series to play with, and books with 10s of thousands of pages to draw from, it's a shame.When Echo journalist Mostafa Darwish was researching an award-winning series on deaths of people in Direct Provision, he discovered that one of those who passed away was an American. A few tidbits are tossed out here and there, names and locations, but most of the key components have been changed or tossed out entirely. The First Rule never even played into the defeat, instead of being THE reason for the defeat.Īgain, it's an entertaining Fantasy series, and I like watching it, but they've really butchered it to the point where it's fairly dishonest to call it part of the Sword of Truth series. Actually, when you look at the entire final sequence, you really can't say that this season was much based upon Wizard's First Rule at all. Instead of seeking the truth of the matter, and tricking Rahl, Rahl just died by accident.
Richard also never defeated Rahl, or really did much of anything to help his growth as a character (and leader). Suppose this way, they can keep them together rather than constantly kidnapping Richard or Kahlan to prevent them from being together. Looked like they were going to include that as part of the finale, but they just dropped it out again, staying with the status quo. Which also took away a couple other big points: Richard hasn't figured out how to be with Kahlan yet. Suppose it doesn't really matter, though, as the whole point was to get the Boxes of Orden (again), and they appear to have been destroyed by Darken Rahl's bad luck. We've already played the "multiple copies of the Book of Counted Shadows" game. The Sisters of Dark also were supposed to come out of that. They're no longer from the Old World, no experience with Jajang, and seem pretty unlikely to be kidnapping Richard in the near future. Sisters of Light, major players in the series, have already been pretty much burned up in a one-off reference. The plague storyline was taken from the same book and used for an episode here.
Rahl as his father (and also his evil half brother) doesn't work as well if Darken Rahl is his brother, as it makes the new brother "just another evil half brother". They've already burned so many plot points that ended up being major themes in later books. Not sure how much they CAN follow the books now, though.
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