So I finished the last Wheel of Time book yesterday. I really enjoyed the series, but for someone who isn't a huge book reader I could definitely see them as being too long. I know Amazon is adapting it but considering what the showrunner is saying I don't have much faith. He said Moraine is the main character and wants to make it a feminist show. I mean the show has plenty of women in power as well as different races but I guess that isn't sufficient. I do remember seeing a stupid article where the lady was criticizing Wheel of Time because it has three women in love with one man. Because of course there has never been a story where multiple men are after one woman.
I do wonder how they will handle a messianic type male character in the current year.
I remember the guy who directed the Lord of the Rings trilogy saying that he wanted to present Tolkien's vision. Now they hire people who seem to be clueless about the source material. Biggest example would be that lady doing the She-Hulk show. Can't shut up about nerds/white males.
The Wheel of Time adaptation is going to be absolutely horrendous. With no meaningful previous adaptations setting expectations for the audience, and a dead author offering no guidance, the painfully woke showrunner can present this series however he likes.
I am semi-interested to see how they fuck it up. It's a story about a massive Gary Stu dominating a world full of Mary Sues. Are they going to just shit on the main character of the series? Replace him? Make him gay or bi or trans? Because we all know they will not permit a red-headed straight white dude to be the most powerful and important character in a modern adaptation of a gigantic fantasy epic.
As for the books: they are ridiculously bloated with repetitive and pointless detail, to the point where you can literally skip the 10th book altogether and miss almost nothing important. The closing books, written by fill-in writer Brandon Sanderson, are much tighter but also much more derivative and cliche, feeling almost like they belong to another series. All in all, a tough series to recommend given its length and lulls. Some quality highs in there, though.
I forgot about Rand being a red head. He may be a Gary Stu but he goes through more struggles than characters today. I wouldn’t be surprised if the show is all about the AES Sedai.
Except the bit about the Vileness where the Red's were actively going around stilling male channelers and then leaving them to die at the hands of their former neighbors and the open wilderness. How Elaida herself had a hand in that before the book events. How the reason Tom despises Aes Sedai so much is because his nephew fell victim to their actions.
I'm sure they'll totally include a literal manifestation of misandry in their woke masterpiece.
Should happen right around the time ASoIaF releases it's next book despite that being half the length of WoT in the end.
Aaany day now.
When the showrunner took questions from “fans” he said he would take out the violence against women. Because zero men suffer in the books of course
Yeah that's about as retarded as I'd expect a modern wokester to answer with despite all the claims women are strong and independent and should have all the equalities of men.
All the while being protected and shielded from everything bad that happens to men in magnitudes more.
Brings up the question now what happens with Egwene and whether she'll still die at the very end, if the series even lasts that long, along with Brigitte being decapitated because of Elayne's downright stupidity and arrogance.
I read up to Crossroads of Twilight. Too much Elayne, Egwene, and Nynaeve. Not enough Rand and Matt. And Perrin was pretty boring most of the time. Some of the misc chapters were entertaining enough, but the focus on the Tower was a drag.
Did it improve?
Anyway, I couldn't give a rat's fuck about a possed Amazon series.
It did but it dragged in parts. I know what you mean. Mat, Rand, Avhienda, and Moraine were my favorites to read
The male channelers and the female forsaken were the most interesting characters IMO. I liked Lan and Matt, but they ended up extremely pussy whipped by the end. The aes sedai were incredibly boring and obnoxious. I have no doubt they will be the central focus of the show.
Yea the channelers were interesting as well as the dream world.
It seemed obvious to me that once the series started to sell well, the author just milked it for everything it was worth. There were several books in the series that didn't advance the plot in the slightest and were just side bar filler for the sake of publishing more books. The author eventually died before he even finished and his widow had to hire another author to come in and close the series out. I thought the series started out great but completely hit the wall when the author decided to sell out.
I had similar feelings about the Sword of Truth series, but after seeing what happend with the Wheel series, that author finally stopped screwing around and wrote the conclusion.
Ah yes, the character who isn't in half the books because everyone thinks she died in book 5 of 14 and isn't seen again until book 13... ?
Dragonriders of Pern has been in development hell for years. I can only imagine how they'll gut it now that McCaffrey is dead, and her son is a full-on sex freak who only seems to want to recycle his mom's ideas and make sex stories about Green riders or some shit; w/e I really didn't like any book with his name attached to it.
They won't understand the feudalism, they'll treat F'lar like some sort of rapist, and they won't understand the in-universe historical context of why people were like they were when we first meet this world. All they'll see is women and faggots, and they'll probably even bitchify or animalize the fucking dragons, too, by turning them into nothing but vehicles for peepeepoopoo jokes.
I didn't come here to win.