who in this bitch reads robert jordan? -- The Wheel of Time thread

There are, and look we're all fans here, entire books that could be covered by one five minute montage of people noticing the weather got better so i think we might be ok

lol, that's exactly what I meant by the early books being the packed ones, some of the middle books can be covered in a scene or two

just take out perrin and faile completely imo

Ah here not perrin

Aw, I've always had a soft spot for Perrin. Always seemed like the most relatable one when I was 15 reading the first few books.

+1 to Perrin (no relation)

perrin was perfectly fine early on and the story of him initially getting together with faile was actually very sweet . . . and then they spent the next 10 books acting out jordan's shitty ideas about relationships, largely away from the main action

They'd have to do smell-o-vision for the Perrin scenes of course

and then they spent the next 10 books acting out jordan's shitty ideas about relationships, largely away from the main action

My podcast cohosts and I have been chatting about the TV series and we're kinda all in agreement that it's proooobably good that Jordan's not around to oversee or comment on it.

Already renewed for season 2, etc. etc.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/amazons-wheel-of-time-has-already-been-renewed-for-seas-1846935381

Thatll get us as far as whitebridge anyway

"Judkins previously revealed that while the book series is notably massive, these seasons wouldn’t be just 1:1 adaptations of book to season." well yeah because... you know... the pacing.

The episode where they cure the one power will make up for a lot of faffing alright

Season 1: Book 1
Season 2: Most everything else
Season 3: That one part
Season 4: Profit?

who killed asmodean?

The big sleep nod imo

Oh and one other bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRygwxWvo3c

So, definitely some time this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxLKUSi7c8g

i started reading the first book recently! almost done with it and liking it quite a bit so far. there aren't any spoilers in this thread right? (;)

I just finished Winter's Heart, which was more of a slog at times than I remembered so I'm taking a little break before hitting book #10.

Wait, what?

https://gizmodo.com/the-wheel-of-time-is-getting-a-movie-trilogy-now-too-1847281197

#SixSeasonsAndAMovie

Interesting to see whether the other two planned movies are also prequels or what...

Gotta say, I didn't expect to someday see multiple adaptations to be in the works when I started reading these in high school.

I sense portends of a clusterfuck.

Starting to remind me of that Dark Tower 'oh yeah a movie and a TV series too, really' plan that went nowhere. Also two separate teams entirely?

Yeah, that's what seems the most clusterfuck-ish about the whole thing.

when is Vincent Gallo going to release his 2 hour montage of Egwene and Elayne bathing

Six episode arc about when Min, Elayne and Aviendha all finally meet up with Rand at the same time and consequent sexy time "bonding".

xp would watch tbf

Anyway it's all happening (soon)

https://ew.com/tv/the-wheel-of-time-amazon-series-adaptation-exclusive-first-look/

Judkins hopes to explore all those angles as his drama expands beyond Jordan's first WoT book. It helps that Amazon has already commissioned a second season — and that an unrelated WoT prequel movie in the works is sure to boost name recognition — but Judkins knows he must bring in more than the existing die-hard fan base for any chance of his series lasting long enough to cover Jordan's epilogue. To accomplish that goal, he's relying on the author's celebrated world-building.

"I try to stick to the spine and the heart of the books, and bring that to the screen," Judkins says of his philosophy as showrunner. "If I can successfully do that, the story and the characters will sell themselves."

GET READY FOR LOTS AND LOTS OF BATHING SCENES

Picked up one of these last night at random and read several thousand deaths worth until i got snoozy

IT'S HAPPENING etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fus4Xb_TLg

looks watchable

all the aes sedai wearing entire outfits of their ajah color looks super stupid

Trailer is good! The myrdraal is A+.

I think the aes sedai clothing choice was probably practical necessity - without the benefit of the characters’ interior monologues it would be almost impossible for the viewer to keep track of ajah affiliation otherwise. In the books they were basically behaving like that towards the end anyway.

I'm faintly blown away by seeing a myrddraal onscreen. I have read and re-read the early books of this series and I always loved the idea of them. Never occurred to me that I'd see one in a TV show one day.

Yeah I actually really dig the look of the myrddraal.

Looks good

Not like in my head but still, good

Aes sedai gonna present lots of probs tbh so simplifying seems best

Are other trailers coming out foregrounding other characters or is this strongly pivoting to egwene

Flicking through these at random again, which doesnt help with keeping track of aforementioned aes sedai tbh, but nothing does

Theyre good, yknow. Obv the easy criticisms are there and once the worldbuilding became boxticking it loses elasticity and possibility but theres still a dozen easy all time characters here id read the parts of forever

maybe i should get into this

First six are a thrill, which is an achievement considering length alone

Worth finishing after that, in fact last three are great again rly

I’m in that middle dull zone right now and had to take a break, tbqh.

Like paddling between waves surely

Are other trailers coming out foregrounding other characters or is this strongly pivoting to egwene

It would kind of make sense for dramatic irony purposes for the first season to focus more on egwene (as well as moiraine) than rand, or at least for him to be no more distinguished than mat or perrin. If he wasn't the primary POV, he might not have seemed like a particularly important character for most of the first book.

Also, all the advance press implies that the world will be presented as more matriarchal than it is in the books. Given the difficulty of conveying the sense of the weight of history hanging over everything, presenting the world as one where male characters are typically limited to supporting roles might be an effective shortcut for explaining the broad sense of disgust (as opposed to just fear) that attaches to the entire notion of the dragon reborn. I think this would be thematically consistent with the books even if not literally faithful: one of the things I think a lot of readers struggle with is how reluctant pretty much everyone in the series is to ever accept that rand might have a clue what he is doing (even those who know him). Rebasing the entire social order to better align it with the typical red ajah aes sedai solves or simplifies a lot of these issues.

I strongly rep for Knife of Dreams btw, which I'd say is probably more enjoyable than the final three and tends to be underrated, perhaps because rand isn't in it much. A Memory of Light is a bit of a slog tbh, though for essentially opposite reasons to Crossroads of Twilight (the clear nadir).

I should reread these

skip all the perrin parts and it's fine

skip all the perrin gamestop assistant manager mat parts and it's fine

Perrin is my favorite character, though

Yes, I read these at an age where I'd gravitate towards characters similarly named to me, why are you asking?