What if The Wheel of Time were a different kind of show? Less super-serious, fate-of-the-world and all that, and more … quirky ’90s buddy comedy? You needn’t try too hard to imagine it; someone has brought this concept to life with an almost disturbingly perfect video that layers the Perfect Strangers theme song onto scenes from the show.
@TheWheelOfTime Intro as 90s Sitcom Edition. Inspired by @weeklywheelnews Disney tweet. Please enjoy #TwitterOfTime #90s #throwback pic.twitter.com/WtDkr0dqIP
— BlackTowerNews (@BlackTowerNews1) October 12, 2022
Everything here is just right (also, I’m pretty confident you could do the same thing quite effectively with the song from Friends). Amazon’s high-gloss aesthetic is all too malleable with a little change in soundtrack, and the video’s creator has gone a step further and even used the Perfect Strangers font. (ed note: technically Perfect Strangers is an 80s show, but it did carry on into the 90s, standing tall on the wings of its dreams.)
These wacky kids! They’re just out there having adventures, hanging out in the local pub, doing what ordinary small-town fantasy-land kids do! Maybe sometimes there’s a threatening beast or two, but every new face is just someone you haven’t made friends with yet. Sometimes they even go to the big city and meet lots of new people. That’s the plot of the show, right? And Mat Cauthon is absolutely the cousin Larry of this crew, forever getting into easily-avoidable scrapes.
Obviously there’s one small error here, which is that Lan should be in the main cast, not relegated to “featuring.” But we’ll let that slide.
If you now need to cleanse your palate and remember what The Wheel of Time is actually like, you can stream it on Prime Video.
