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Adapting a pretty long fantasy novel into just eight episodes requires cuts and rewrites, and the fact is some of these changes are bound to be unpopular with readers. The obvious reason for many changes was simply time. So changes were made to make the first season less focused on Rand and more focused on the broader cast. Judkins wanted to accelerate the “ensemble” nature of these stories, but the first book is very Rand-centric. Sanderson has some other good insights into the show’s adaptations.įirst, he points out that the reality of adapting a book to screen results in challenges we might not be aware of, such as casting and location obstacles. That’s a good way of looking at it and fits thematically with Jordan’s ideas. “It's not an adaptation of the books to me it's an adaptation of the NEXT time these people are living this story.” “I view this as a new turning of the wheel,” he writes in a comment further down the thread. A lot of book fans are upset with this change as well as with some others, like the notion that the Dragon Reborn can be any of the five Two Rivers youths, not just Rand al’Thor (it’s probably going to be Nynaeve).īut Sanderson has a smart way of looking at these changes.

I think this makes a lot of sense and I wish Judkins had listened to the advice. Killing Perrin's wife felt edgy just to be edgy.” One thing I don't want this WoT adaptation to try to do is lean into being a tonal Game of Thrones replacement-IE, I don't want to lean into the 'Grimdark' ideas. Accidentally killing your master steps the trauma back a little, but gives the same motivations and hesitance.

As much as I hate to do Luhhan dirty like that, I think the idea Rafe and the team had here is a good one for accelerating Perrin's plot. “I suggested instead that he kill Master Luhhhan.

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That kind of trauma, dealt with realistically and responsibly, is really difficult for an adventure series to deal with. I have faith that the writers won't treat it lightly, but still. Perrin killing his wife then going off on an adventure really bothers me, even still. First off, it feels a lot like the disposable wife trope (AKA Woman in the Fridge.) Beyond that, I think the trauma of having killed your wife is so huge, the story this is telling can't realistically deal with it in a way that is responsible. I liked that idea, but didn't like it being a wife for multiple reasons. I realize that there is a good opportunity here for Perrin to be shown with rage issues, and to be afraid of the potential beast inside of him. “Biggest thing he and I disagreed on was Perrin's wife. In a long post on reddit, Sanderson writes that he disagreed with this change, as well as other changes that made the story feel more “grimdark”-a sub-genre of fantasy that Game Of Thrones would fall into, but which The Wheel Of Time does not. Apparently there’s a line in one of the books that has Perrin saying if he’d stayed in the Two Rivers a few more years he would have married Laila Dearn, and that’s where the inspiration for the character came from.

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