Lots to talk about in here!
Fuck this show. WoT should have been the easiest conversion to TV possible with all the detail Robert Jordan put into it. Instead, we got this abomination.
I fundamentally disagree. These books translated 1:1 for film would make some of the worst movies ever. The plot just doesn’t work for the new medium, they would DRAG and get very repetitive, especially the first three books.
HAVE you listened to any of Sanderson talking about his mistborn adaptation? He has been working on scripts for that for a while, and he said very early in that it became apparent very quickly that large changes needed to be made to characters and the story in order to make it work on screen at all.
That’s true if ALL adaptations if books to film. You can’t just do things 100% the same way.
Sometimes I feel bad for the showrunners. You can see in subtle ways how much they absolutely love the Wheel of Time. I rarely meet someone that knows it better than I do, but they clearly do.
And all they get is shit on by some people.
Sure, adaptation, not wholesale removal of key elements of the plot and replacement with stupid bullshit because the showrunner wants to put his own spin on it.
I’m glad that’s not what we got. One of the things I hoped for the show was that they would remove the details that Jordan adds to the books. It wouldn’t be fun to have 5 to 10 minutes every episode detailing irrelevant things.
Also hope they keep out other Jordan-isms like the excessive sexism, and how almost every character is a super prude virgin.
