The higher up's are working with TOR atm trying to figure out what's going on with this. We'll try to let you know what we know when we know it.

This is more of a Sig/artist creator specialist thing, not my territory. @Zenythmon you'll likely have to use a program like MS Paint or GIMP (if you don't have Photoshop) to add the text you want to your signature image. There's other processes people use to create what's called a rotating signature (Gifs). You can also use those same programs to shrink your Signature to the maximum size of 600x150 pixels.

https://dragonmount.com/Books/Dragon_Reborn/ Here you go.

Here's the oldest set of Lyrics I made, way back when the Dusty Wheel did its first "WoT Idol". "Flame and the Void", which is supposed to be a cover of "Sound of Silence - Disturbed Edition". https://www.udio.com/songs/rtWoW1PdTfJfEBxDPhDMHK

Well, here's my Mat Cauthon inspired song called "Blood & Ashes", that's supposed to be a Cover of "Blood & Glitter" By Lord of the Lost. https://www.udio.com/songs/dKT2nYsvdcv4tuTZaustJV This is a "Graendal", that's supposed to be a cover of "Zombie" by the Cranberries/Bad Wolf https://www.udio.com/songs/n87jChBpbySxBHFP91Yh8m And this is called "Only Slaps (The Ballad of Curbag)". In a D&D game I play in, another player used ChatGPT to write this song about their character named Curbag that died... If Curbag hadn't died... we were going to set up a slapping booth, and setup an subscription service called Only Slaps! We were going to be RICH! https://www.udio.com/songs/s22RGq5q4tPUVFXCHciUuk

Some excellent reading here about the history of the film rights. Also, since I, and many others here at Dragonmount get called a "fake fan" all the time, here's a link to the Blog Jason Denzel started for Robert Jordan all the way back in 2005. RJ posted in it while he was undergoing treatment for amyloidosis at the Mayo Clinic... Many members of Dragonmount TODAY, were here during that time. We were here every week, anticipating a new blog entry, hoping any news, particular good news about his health. That man, was practically a "grandfather" to all of us. So I hate to see it when people claim they can know for certain what he would have hated (or loved) the adaptation, simply because they don't like it. Personally, I'm not going to use my knowledge of knowing about RJ longer then some fans to gatekeep other fans from being fans of his work. Nor am I going to use it as a source of authority of what RJ would like or dislike. I will however, keep using that knowledge to contradict people who keep using that crappy argument from authority from which they have none, to point out that he was quite happy about the people behind NBC's Merlin getting to do a version of his show before that went belly up.

It doesn't leave your point intact at all. You made the claim that his "Family sold him out". It's the implication that RJ would be "spinning in his grave" over this adaptation. This is the same man, that loved the Merlin TV series and wished an adaptation of his books would be that good.

lmao. Every time RJ goes on a tangent talking about amble bosoms, the AI's going to go hallucinate and the people in charge will have to keep re-rendering the scene and tweaking the prompts so it doesn't just blast the screen with T&A every time RJ mentions some physical feature in their POV.

You realize that RJ himself sold the rights to Red Eagle Entertainment in 2004 (now known as iWoT), which through some deals, Sony and ultimately Amazon became the companies involved with making the show... Right? There was even this huge kerfuffle with Red Eagle over them pushing out Winter Dragon in order to keep the Rights... just days before they were set to expire... But... You ya know... that just doesn't fit the narrative people like to tell themselves to make them sleep easier at night.

Well you see... when a banana and a pepper fall in love...

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/wga-new-contract-strike-ai-writers-room-staffs-residuals-1235736648/ https://www.thewrap.com/writers-rooms-wga-strike/

You're neglecting that these are Streaming Networks. Yes these are "Series", but they've changed the game and how the deals were made between writers/directors. What you're describing is how Writing Rooms USED to work for standard broadcast television... Back when Seinfeld or Lost was popular. The reason I mentioned show runners used to have "skin in the game", is because... Skin in the game = $$. Back in the the day, show Runners were often producers of their own shows because they often had to put their own money into their show to get a network to buy it. This information shouldn't be news to anyone. However, like I said, Netflix "changed" the game. They effectively removed that barrier by just "letting anyone" make a show. That means... contracts changed.... and when contracts change, so did the balance of power. How "writing rooms" work in "Streaming" are fundamentally different then how they were 10-20 years ago for standard broadcast television... Again, they changed the "balance of power".. It's completely shifted in favor of the "streaming provider" and out of the hands of the show runner. This is literally a Huge chunk of what the writers guild strike last summer was about. You might have got lucky and worked with a writer that worked on a show that actually still worked in a "classic writing room environment", but unfortunately that's not how every writing room operates these days... Hell, not every show even has a writing room... Again, something the writers guild strike was literally about!

Producers/Studio Executives can and will interfere with how a Movie/TV show is written or directed. The metaphor of "Architecture" and "writing" was used to illustrate the relationship between the Client (producer) and the architect (Writer). "Change orders" are a very real thing in the construction industry that causes Architects/Drafters to beat their head against a wall when the client makes a new demand.... and this is also something that 100% definitely exists in Hollywood... because ultimately the client is the person with the money (Producer).

Do you remember Rafe's story where the other writers in the room were talking about changing Perrin's power from Wolves to Bears, and Rafe had to Interject before Sarah had an aneurysm and started stabbing people? (paraphrasing here) Some of the other writers they hired were too worried about the optics of WoT looking like a GoT knock off that they wanted to change Perrin's core ability from Wolves to Bears... Making him... Bear Brother. These same writers also couldn't see the implicit colorism/racism of making a black actor (Marcus Rutherford) a Bear Brother when his book counterpart was a Wolf Brother. Though it should be noted, I don't know if they had already cast people at this time, or if this was before casting. But Holy shit. If they went with, not only would it have pissed of every fan, the racism optics of that is just absolutely bonkers bad... It's also something Rafe never acknowledged from that story. (which at least leads me to believe this was before casting?) Point is. That was one story that didn't get through the writing process. Obviously Mat's parents did. The other thing you have to consider is that just because they finish a script in that room, doesn't mean they don't have to come back for rewrites when mother (amazon) says re-write. Amazon might come back with redlined notes like "make this character darker". "Make this character a drunk". "Make this character gritter". "Make the episode darker". "Make it more like game of thrones". Then the writers have to go back through, and tweak everything they've already written based off those notes. Why didn't Egwene's father have more lines? Probably because those notes cut him short. Why did they cast "Cenn Buie", only to change him to "Old Man" in the credits? Those notes all play a role... If you want a better example then a racecar driver... Think of an Architect designing a house. You approach an Architect and say want a 4000SF house and you've got $1M to build it. You present the Architect with the Land you've already purchased. You show the Architect a picture of a house you really like, and some descriptions of what you'd like inside that house. Few months later, the architect presents you the plans! It's a two story, 50'x40' house, the exterior looks identical to the picture! The interior layouts look nothing like you imagined it however! You wanted the bedrooms on the first floor, and the kitchen on the top floor. You wanted a walk-in-closet in the master bedroom. A shared bathroom for 2 of the bedrooms. A Large Pantry. The Architect looks confounded as none of this was in the original notes! They even explain that typically bedrooms go on the top floor, and kitchens are on the bottom floor! The Architect makes the changes a few weeks later. You return, look over them and ask if the architect could remove a wall down the center of building to add a pool. The Architect sighs and explains that's a load bearing wall and while it's possible it would cost a lot of money and would vastly change the core structure of the building. And so it goes, for months and months. Redlining and changes and by the time the project is done, it looks nothing like the "original draft". If your lucky it's still under budget and doesn't get canceled for going over.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The writing rooms we have today (2024) are different then the writing rooms we had back in 1994, or 2004. The amount of "control" the "show runner" had, has severely diminished in favor of the "network"... And you can thank Netflix for changing this Dynamic. Remember the joke "Netflix will give ANYONE a show?" There was truth to that. They experimented with "Orange is the New Black" by creating something that was never done before on a Streaming network before. An "original". Then they started pumping out more "originals". Eventually they started throwing $$$ around and created a LOT of Low quality content. (That's where that joke came from) That backfired, so they dialed that back and started putting their thumb on the writers and producers... And so did every other company that did streaming. Disney+, Paramount, Peacock, etc. The main point here is that back when shows like "X-Files", "Supernatural", "Lost", "Heroes", "Etc", were being made, show runners had a lot of "skin" in the game. They "owned" a portion of the show, and thus they had the were able to maintain creative control of their shows to an extent. Shows like WoT? Rafe doesn't have that kind of Skin in the game. If Amazon fires him, he's completely SOL. He likely doesn't have a huge contract that they have to buy out... And he ultimately has to play Daes Dae'mar with Amazon Studios.... So let's hope he was good at Survivor and not voted off in the first round? WoT. Because Star Wars Episode VII isn't a Book Adaptation.