I’ve been having a few weeks of “well, this isn’t exactly what I had planned” encounters.

Let’s go to this past Wednesday (Aug. 14). I had down on my calendar that Lisbon School Board was supposed to have a school board meeting. But I hadn’t seen an agenda for the meeting. I always worry in those instances with the number of emails I get, that I had an errant thumb slip and sent something to archived emails on accident.

As I’m waiting to find out if the outdoor movie night is canceled, I continue watching the first season of “Wheel of Time.” I tried the first book a long time ago, and the show presents many characters and stories I was intrigued with following, roughly an episode or two a night winding down in my evening. Of course, when I hit play on Amazon originally, it started me on the first episode of season two, and I was thoroughly lost… Went back to season one, and that was easier to follow.

Episode 7 of season one finishes with a cliffhanger, and I was determined to watch episode 8 when I got back from Lisbon.

I go back to my watch list in my Fire TV stick and start playing episode 8. The first issue I’m immediately having – there is no English audio track with this episode. It’s playing what is obviously Spanish, but the rest of the show has previously been in English. A few audio switches later, I find an English track that works.

None of the characters I’d previously been following in the first or second season are showing up in this episode. It’s not unusual for a show to do a flashback after a big reveal at the end of the last episode in sci-fi or fantasy, so I’m thinking this is just the case and continue watching, waiting to see when we get back to the larger story of the Wheel of Time, but every 10 minutes going back to make sure I am indeed watching the Wheel of Time episode 8 on Fire TV. Yes, this is that episode.

An hour later, and I’m still scratching my head and even more bewildered than before. Because this show I just watched, while it was intriguing for the past hour, is not in any way associated with Wheel of Time, especially a finale episode… For someone who hasn’t read all the books, I was even more frazzled reading the Wikipedia entry for episode 8 and going “none of those story beats just happened in the episode I just watched!”

When I went to the show on the Amazon website, they had the correct episode 8, but that also meant rewatching the show on my laptop screen an hour before bed.

I now have the first season down and will restart with season two, and hopefully it won’t be as jumbled of a mess trying to keep the story straight.