[TV] The Wheel of Time

[Shadowferal]

I recently finished A Memory of Light and, man, what a ride it has been. The story is insanely good, very well written, with the exception of book 12 which, frankly, scared me a little. I wish I could press a button to forget the whole thing so I could re-read the whole series. The show is going to need a significantly larger budget to pull this one off.

One thing worries me about the show though. Rand has a major character defining moment in the 3rd book, which I assumed season 3 will be based off of, but I heard they are actually skipping this one completely. Like, how is that even gonna work? Has there been any news about the show that actually confirms it?

Dude, you really don't want to see the travesty that was...whatever show they called "The Wheel of Time."

[ItsRainingMetal]

Dude, you really don't want to see the travesty that was...whatever show they called "The Wheel of Time."

Oh, I've seen it. We can only hope whoever is producing/writing for this show are replaced. They have excellent source material to work with, but it seems they are choosing not to make use of that. They definitely have to make some hard decisions if they want to turn this boat around.

It's such a shame. I've become a huge fan of this universe and I really want the show to become better, but then my friend broke the news that they may(?) be skipping the next book completely. This seems odd to me.

[Biomega]

they may(?) be skipping the next book completely. This seems odd to me.

It not only isn't odd, it's inevitable.

There's no way to realistically bring this to screen and NOT skip some stuff. WoT is notoriously drawn-out and overstuffed, the book series itself is already several books longer than it should have been. They're necessarily course-correcting in the adaptation because it would be unwatchable if you stuck to everything in the books.

That being said, whether they'll do this well is an entirely different question...

[rhorle]

It's such a shame. I've become a huge fan of this universe and I really want the show to become better, but then my friend broke the news that they may(?) be skipping the next book completely. This seems odd to me.

Season 3 has a focus on the Waste so it will likely be primarily book 4. There really isn't much lost as book 3 has a lot filler that could be covered at a later point. A lot of Wheel of Time could be condensed to an abridged version and not really lose much.

[En Sabah Nur]