#Moiraine: doesn’t even do anything after all that buildup

[daisyachain]

Genuinely the end of WoT feels like such a kick in the teeth. The women in the series whose arcs are independent from men get disappeared. The women whose arcs involve men are given side quests that feel peripheral or irrelevant to the plot. The most pivotal female character and the only one who has a continuous arc through the books to match the male trio…well. You Know.

[strikerez]

So, I’ve been thinking for awhile about how I’d like to see the WoT adapted into a series. Which books I’d condense into x number of seasons in my ideal world vs. how I think they’ll condense the books into the 8 seasons they’ll probably get. 

For my ideal world, I’d want 10 seasons:

1: Basically what we’re already getting. EotW, plus bits of NS, TGH, and probably Mat getting healed from the dagger being pulled forward from TDR. Maybe. I’m still not sure what plotline they’re pulling from TDR

2: This is probably the most difficult season to adapt, as TGH and TDR are both very similar in their overall structure and their climaxes. We don’t need to keep three seasons where they all end in Rand “killing the Dark one.” So, for season 2, I think we’ll speed things up and have all the events of TGH and TDR end in a climax at Tear where Rand draws Callandor and kills Ishamael, plus Mat blows the Horn at some point. Possibly have the Seanchan attack Tear instead of over at Falme or wherever they first attacked in TGH. Maybe make there be some prophecy about the return being that they need to grab Callandor.

3-5: In my opinion, just basically do a season per book for books 4-6. Move plotlines around (or from previous or later books) as needed to make it work for TV. 

6: I feel you can easily do CoS and PoD as one book. There’s some good stuff that happens in those books, despite what some might say. Definitely just doesn’t feel like they needed to be split up books.

7: This one is personally my favorite idea. Take the travesty that is WH and CoT being two separate books and make one season, and just cut anything that happens after the cleansing of saidin.

8: Start with all the stuff from CoT that happens after the cleansing, then go into all of the KoD stuff, which is all really good again.

9: Just combine TGS and ToM, since a lot of the buildup to AMoL is stuff that’s happening at the same time, just kind of told to us out of order.

10: You just gotta do AMoL in one season. Preferably with an episode for the entire Last Battle that is longer than entire the first harry potter movie. (The Last Battle is longer than the first Harry Potter book)

This is definitely my ideal breakdown of a WoT show, but the one we’re getting is probably gonna be capped at 8 seasons, assuming we even get past season 3. (Here’s hoping!) With that in mind, here’s my guess for how they’ll do their 8 seasons:

1: See above

2: See above, with an added comment that they might just cut the Seanchan out of this season and have them show up later, though I worry about where they would do that. Plus how would you have Egwene end up trapped like she is in TGH? That ends up being a pivotal moment for her character arc.

3: Still would have this be TSR by itself because that book has a lot going for it.

4: They’ll probably combine books 5+6 together into one season, with a shocking battle with Rahvin a few episodes in to kill off a bunch of people then bring them back then really kill Moiraine. Then Rand has to stumble on his own for the rest of the episodes before he ends up in a box and...yeah, Dumai’s Wells. If they do this route, I definitely think they have to have Rand start the Black Tower before he leaves for the Aiel Waste in season 3. Having the Black Tower start in this season and then be ready for Dumai’s Wells just feels way too rushed.

5: My best bet for this season is they’ll do a huge condensing of everything that happens after Dumai’s Wells until the Cleansing. Not sure how I feel about that, but it makes the most sense to me.

6-8: See seasons 8-10 above.

Maybe I’m being a bit optimistic with how they’d do those last few seasons, but I just feel like way too much happens in the last 4 books to condense them to shorter than 3 seasons. 

Anyway, I am curious what anyone who sees this thinks of my thoughts. Let me know in the tags or notes! :D