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.
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.