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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8494291" data-attributes="member: 59082">While I appreciate your optimism and agree with your general approach of enjoying it for what it is and feeling they are doing an overall good job of it, I'm a bit more concerned than you are that--by the time they wrap up the series, say after 6-8 seasons, they're going to have cut away so much of it that it will have greatly damaged the overall story. I've been wondering how they're going to adequately tell the full story, but was coming at it from a different angle. I was thinking that if they're taking the one season per book approach, there's no way they're going to run through 14 seasons. I thought maybe they would extend the seasons to 10 or 12 episodes, but evidently season 2 is also only 8 episodes. I think that's a big mistake: short seasons. I don't know why they're only doing 8 episodes, when 10 seems like the bare minimum and 12 would be better. I mean, from a viewing standpoint, I feel disappointed that the season is already over. It felt like it was just getting going.On the other hand, Jordan is infamous for his over-writing, and certainly they don't have to try to cover anywhere close to every sub-plot. As I was discussing with someone in PMs, from what I've heard, he really could have condensed books 8-10 to one book. Maybe condense books 1-7 to 4, 8-10 to 1, and 11-14 to 2 and you've got 7 seasons. Still, that doesn't feel like enough, especially in only 56 episodes.The danger is that it could end up feeling like a Cliff Notes version of the "real" story. Game of Thrones did a good job of avoiding that feeling, as did the LotR films (which were far more close to the books in terms of translating the majority of the books to film). I was already starting to feel that by the 2nd episode of Wheel of Time.</blockquote>

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