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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 9518698" data-attributes="member: 6906155">In theory, its the director who is ultimately responsible for what ends up on the screen. But movie-making is an inefficient business. Reshoots, script changes, etc means a lot of the money spent ends up down the toilet rather than on the screen, especially when things are going wrong. You might think that with careful planning, this could be avoided, but the truth is no plan survives contact with reality. You really can't tell if something isn't working until you have seen the rough-cuts. Compare to how Shakespeare worked. He didn't dash off a perfect final draught of Hamlet, to be performed exactly the same way forevermore. Every night the play was performed, and every day it was revised and rewritten.Now, with Wheel of Time, as a TV show, did not have one single director, and a lot of the faults can be blamed on the producers. It had elaborate costumes, that did not look lived in or practical. It had an elaborate mountain village set, on perfectly level ground. But once you have spent a lot of money on these things, you are kind of stuck with them, even if they are not right.</blockquote>