Wheel of Time Discussion - Spoilers(with book spoilers)

[Maxperson]

The very end with Rand is, at the very least, odd: it seems to set him up fir the 4th age as the opposite of what Ismael was doing through 3rd age.

His actual final confrontation, with the metaphysical revelations? Magnificent. As good as the elaborate war game scenario Jordan spent two million words setting up.

Yeah. Those revelations were good, but the second breaking was more of a minor warping, and again........what Rand did...

 

[Zaukrie]

are we spoiling things not in the show yet? I might have to leave the thread.....

 

[Maxperson]

are we spoiling things not in the show yet? I might have to leave the thread.....

Too vague to be spoiling.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Well, the benefit to Wheel of Time is that it's completed in addition to Sanderson being a producer.

Though, apparently he (Sanderson) wasn't always listened to. He objected to and tried to change the Perrin's wife angle in the first episode - but was ignored.

I mean, Rafe isn't going slavishly bind himself to everything Sanderson suggests; they're coming at it as two different different individuals after all.

But, at least that's been the only real major point of contention (obviously there are minor differences of opinion, but nothing on the scale of this). Sanderson has seen all the scripts up to an indeterminate point in season 2, and says they're otherwise all good by him. Jordan's widow (and editor) has given her approval as well...

 

[doctorbadwolf]

The very end with Rand is, at the very least, odd: it seems to set him up fir the 4th age as the opposite of what Ismael was doing through 3rd age.

His actual final confrontation, with the metaphysical revelations? Magnificent. As good as the elaborate war game scenario Jordan spent two million words setting up.

Not to mention Egwene’s final act, and her conversation with Rand. She saves the world as much as he does, paying off the entire series long dance of two mirroring foils that defines both characters.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I mean, Rafe isn't going slavishly bind himself to everything Sanderson suggests; they're coming at it as two different different individuals after all.

But, at least that's been the only real major point of contention (obviously there are minor differences of opinion, but nothing on the scale of this). Sanderson has seen all the scripts up to an indeterminate point in season 2, and says they're otherwise all good by him. Jordan's widow (and editor) has given her approval as well...

I still can’t believe they did that. It’s like a wild moment of fevered CW 3rd season finale level need to angst up a character very quickly.

 

[Parmandur]

I still can’t believe they did that. It’s like a wild moment of fevered CW 3rd season finale level need to angst up a character very quickly.

It's going to take a lot of work to make up for that.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

It's going to take a lot of work to make up for that.

Yeah.

Also I don’t recall any hint of Matt’s parents being drunks?

 

[TheSword]

He may have kept writing, and it may have actually gotten finished, but it suffered from a lot of the same problems Martin's attempt has. The narrative got to big and he lost control of it.

There's a good reason there's so many people in these threads saying they read up to a certain point and no further.

That is their prerogative. There are lots of people who did read on.

Yes the work got big, Jordan got lost in book 8 picking apart the threads of his story. He had to transition from the climax of each book being the slaying or yet another forsaken and I don’t think he knew how to do that in book 8.

Luckily Jordan took back control of his work at the end of book 9 and book 10 where all of sudden everything leaps into action with some pretty massive events. World shaking stuff that reverberates through the series. Anybody who stopped because of books 7 and 8 really missed out.

 

[Mercurius]

^ That would be me. I started the series around the time the Great Hunt came out, and bought and devoured each book as they came out. And then Path of Daggers hit (book 8). I think the 50 page prologue that was a horse ride killed it for me. It was peak braid-tugging and brocade-describing. I could never find my way back in.