Wheel of Time Discussion - Spoilers(with book spoilers)

[TheSword]

Bye thread! That's the last thread I've tried to participate in without talking about stuff that hasn't happened in the show yet. I'll just stick to my friends.

To be fair. The thread does state that it contains spoilers. There’s another thread for non-spoilerific content if you haven’t read the books and don’t want to discuss how the show relates to the source material.

 

[TwoSix]

Nice.

Given what they get through in this season, getting through The Great Hunt and The Dragon Reborn in Season 2 is doable. Averaging 2-3 novels a Season seems achievable for much of the middle of the series.

And we can probably do books 7-10 in like 3 episodes.

 

[Maxperson]

What I really expect to see truncated is the Shaido plotline.

I missed this earlier. I agree that they will cut that short. A whole lot of the shaido wandering around just plain doesn't need to happen. They may just shorten it to the immediate troubles when the Dragon first goes to the Three-Fold land.

 

[Maxperson]

And we can probably do books 7-10 in like 3 episodes.

A whole, whole, WHOLE lot of stuff happens in books 7-9 that is important, but really doesn't move the plot forward. If they're doing 2 books a season, they could do those 3 in one season. Two of those books are the exact same time period, but with different characters. Those could be merged easily.

 

[TwoSix]

A whole, whole, WHOLE lot of stuff happens in books 7-9 that is important, but really doesn't move the plot forward. If they're doing 2 books a season, they could do those 3 in one season. Two of those books are the exact same time period, but with different characters. Those could be merged easily.

I'll take your word for it. I never had the heart to re-read books 7-11, and it's been a long time.

 

[TheSword]

I'll take your word for it. I never had the heart to re-read books 7-11, and it's been a long time.

The end of 9 and 10 are flipping awesome. You’re missing out.

 

[Maxperson]

I'll take your word for it. I never had the heart to re-read books 7-11, and it's been a long time.

I'm pretty sure that it's in book 10 that the story really picks back up. If I'm wrong, then it happens in 11. Books 7-9, though, are a slog to get through, but stuff does happen.

 

[Maxperson]

The end of 9 and 10 are flipping awesome. You’re missing out.

It's like one chapter or something at the end of 9. It was really good, but not enough for me to change my mind about that book as a whole.

 

[TheSword]

It's like one chapter or something at the end of 9. It was really good, but not enough for me to change my mind about that book as a whole.

I don’t know, I liked the whole section in Far Madding as well and Matt trying to escape Ebou Dar with Tuon.

Though I’ve realized I must have a high tolerance because I was never really affected by the middle books the way some people are

 

[TwoSix]

The end of 9 and 10 are flipping awesome. You’re missing out.

The end of 9 (the cleansing) I agree is really good. It's my favorite part of that portion of the series, but on the whole I find most of the back half of the series to be kind of frustrating, with a few exceptions. Knife of Dreams is on the whole much better than books 7-10, and The Gathering Storm is one of my favorite books in the series.