Checked all the usual shill sites and it has been cancelled. I say good. The tone of the sites was about how they are leaving fantasy fans high and dry and insisted that the 3rd season was getting good. Some comments from show fans attacked book fans for being critical of the show by using the stupid "the books are the books and the show is the show" argument.
They act like we don't understand that some changes need to be made when adapting a story from book to tv/movie. This showrunner made zero attempt to respect the source material that already had plenty of female empowerment to go with.
Maybe I'm petty but when they announced the cast of the show I knew it wouldn't be good. I guess the one benefit of race and gender swapping is that is shows the priorities of the people in charge.
FYI, I read the first four pages of the first book and decided it wasn't for me.
What did I miss?
A very long and epic fantasy. I loved it but can understand why people wouldn’t like it. The showrunner immediately said he is a feminist and also said he will have more lgbt representation and added a bunch of stuff that wasn’t in the books. Race swapping like crazy even though the books had the characters travel to different lands and meet different cultures.
13,000 pages of fantasy that transitions from country town boys and token female to a full JRPG cast of magic knight, thief, barbarian, and sorceress, plus a cast of minor characters that each have nearly half a book to a whole book worth of their own development over the course of it. That ends on a surprisingly Christian theme that would be spoiler if I explained.
Brandon Sanderson did a tolerable job finishing off the series because Robert Jordan left 2000 pages of notes. It is still a shame that he died befire finishing, and the spinoff series following the thief that was supposed to be a 3 book project sounded interesting and will never be written.
Will it, though? In the age of AI ...
Machine learning algorithms are incapable of original thought. No bastardized vomit is even worth consideration.
Based on 2000 pages of notes, with the AI trained on the previous books to capture the original author's voice? I think it has a high degree of success.
Maybe one day I'll finish it, but for some reason I never could get into the Sanderson books.
The last one is long. Insanely long. The chapter for 'The Last Battle' alone is longer than some other novels and it's something like a whole ninth of the book.
If you made it all the way through what, twelve novels and stopped before the last three it's worth it to finish. Sanderson isn't as good as Jordan, but the story gets it's ending and it isn't as cliched as you might expect.
If you just don't like sanderson so haven't started WOT at all, that's different.
I started back when there were six or seven novels and reread the early ones a few times over the years aa new ones came out, but only made it through one and a half Sanderson novels before getting sidetracked, then managed to accidentally get spoiled on the last book before getting back to it. I'll probably get around to finishing it eventually.