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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9188529" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I don't think that's really the issue, though you're close. Plenty of shows manage a larger ensemble cast that this - most notably in this context, Game of Thrones.</p><p></p><p>The issue is how much they're trying to pack in to 8 episodes and that the books aren't written like a TV show. GRRM can say "I wrote ASoIaF to be unfilmable", and he has - saying this long before the show - but he wrote it <em>like</em> an ensemble TV show to a significant extent, and with significant TV screenwriting experience under his belt. So chopping ASoIaF down into a manageable TV show just really involved removing some less important characters and combining others, and then for the first four seasons it practically wrote itself. Whereas with WoT, the task is vastly more challenging. Not only do you have to remove and combine a lot of characters, but you have to deal with GRRM basically writing the entire hero-stories of all six main characters, not really leaving much to the imagination. All six of them have a ton of badassery they're supposed to do and power to gain, and it's no wonder the show is struggling with that a bit. And not just them, either! We've got a whole bunch of others who need a fair bit of time.</p><p></p><p>I actually think they did a shockingly good job to manage to do as well as they did. But Jordan wrote something much harder to put to film than Martin did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9188529, member: 18"] I don't think that's really the issue, though you're close. Plenty of shows manage a larger ensemble cast that this - most notably in this context, Game of Thrones. The issue is how much they're trying to pack in to 8 episodes and that the books aren't written like a TV show. GRRM can say "I wrote ASoIaF to be unfilmable", and he has - saying this long before the show - but he wrote it [I]like[/I] an ensemble TV show to a significant extent, and with significant TV screenwriting experience under his belt. So chopping ASoIaF down into a manageable TV show just really involved removing some less important characters and combining others, and then for the first four seasons it practically wrote itself. Whereas with WoT, the task is vastly more challenging. Not only do you have to remove and combine a lot of characters, but you have to deal with GRRM basically writing the entire hero-stories of all six main characters, not really leaving much to the imagination. All six of them have a ton of badassery they're supposed to do and power to gain, and it's no wonder the show is struggling with that a bit. And not just them, either! We've got a whole bunch of others who need a fair bit of time. I actually think they did a shockingly good job to manage to do as well as they did. But Jordan wrote something much harder to put to film than Martin did. [/QUOTE]
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