Cosmere picked up by Apple TV

[Ruin Explorer]

No, but I cling to whatever hope there is that companies will stop funding wearable AI listening devices and insisting we should be excited to pay $300 to join their corporate surveillance state.

Other than Sanderson, who's the best candidate to finish A Song of Ice & Fire (ignoring that GRRM is saying he doesn't want anyone else to do so)?

Daniel Abraham, I think. He's worked closely with GRRM before, I think GRRM is kind of his mentor, and he's written multiple epic series, especially with his collaborator as SA Corey (The Expanse). Tonally he works in a similar space to GRRM, even though I don't anything he's written that I've seen has had the sort of weird beauty/bittersweet charm that GRRM sometimes manages to pull out of the most unlikely places.

 

[Parmandur]

1) Sanderson has almost no experience in the industry and this is a huge role.

Yeah, honestly that is a pretty major concern. He is a film buff, but he has no production experience.

2) He's taking on a ton of work when he's already doing a ton of work.

This is what actually irritates me: I know that I would like more Sanderson novels, but these shows/films are an entire unknown.

Talk about sound and fury signifying nothing - it doesn't even have the courage of its own conviction, it's literally, literally too cowardly to say "actually enslaving people and putting them in horrific situations is purely evil and people who do it are evil", instead chickening out and going for "Well we should probably not really resist slavers and slavemasters, they're people too, you can't just kill them!" (counterpoint: YES YOU CAN. It is never not okay to kill slavers and slavemasters. That's like saying "Well death camp guards are people too!").

I...honestly have no idea how this was your takeaway from SA...? The main criticism the books have been getting on Goodreads has even been how "W-wprd" the series is, which is mostly a meditation on deconstructing and addressing social issues