Season three of Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time is set to premiere in mere weeks. Readers of Robert Jordan’s third and fourth books in the series have some sense as to what will unfold in those upcoming episodes, but the show has veered away from the source material in the past, and will likely do so this season as well.
Reactor had the chance to talk with showrunner Rafe Judkins about some of those changes, specifically around a certain relationship that he wanted to dig into more than what we read in Jordan’s works.
(Warning! Spoiler below for how a certain relationship plays out in Jordan’s third Wheel of Time novel, The Dragon Reborn.)
“I actually think the Rand and the Egwene relationship this season is really interesting to me, and it’s different than it was in the books,” he told Reactor. “In the books, Egwene just has a really clean realization that she is ready to have a life without Rand. And they’re just both like, ‘Okay, great! Well, we’ll see you on the flip side.’”
Judkins wanted to dig into that dynamic a bit more, especially since the characters are aged up a bit in the show. “We wanted to feel it a little bit more, and feel the pain,” he said. “Everyone knows what that’s like to love someone—and I think they do love each other—but know that underneath that, there’s something that just inevitably is never going to work. It’s that feeling of love wrapped in nostalgia, that you can never go back to what they were before. And I think seeing that play out across the season, I’m excited for it. It’s not what happens in the books, but I think it’s really true to both of those characters and feels right.”
You can see Rand and Egwene’s relationship unfold when the first three episodes of season three’s The Wheel of Time premiere on Prime Video on March 13, 2025. Subsequent episodes premiere weekly, with the finale on April 17, 2025.
