You can't have every thread. There are only going to be 64 episodes to cover 4.4 Million words. So you have to choose.

Sure, but who determines which thread is important? Why is the "Theme" that the EF5 come from an isolated village with a "strong moral upbringing" where the entire village is effectively the Shire, and the main characters approach everything with a sense of "purity" the one "thread" that's important for you? For me, the "Theme(s)" that are most important in a WoT TV Show are that people in power are corruptible. That even when people are telling the truth, the truth they know is likely to be a Lie, or false. That people's ego's need to be shattered as paradigms shift to a new truth. That the Dragon needs to break the world in order to rebuild it.

Internally, some show are greenlit for a second season if it tests well with their screeners & their execs particularly like it. (Bezos being a fan of WoT might have helped) As King of Nowhere mentioned, Contracts can also come into play. Before streaming on broadcast TV when "showrunners" and "Writers" put "real money" behind their show, they'd often get greenlit to start shooting a second season before the first has finished... but even that could have the pug pulled if the first season performed extremely bad, or the execs could gamble and hope Season 2 performs better before green lighting a third season. To balance these two points... As a TV show, the Two Rivers didn'tt need to replicate the cartoonishy goody two shoes nature of "The Shire", but it also doesn't need to go full "Game of Thrones" dark and gritty" either. We'll just have to WAFO, to see what they do with the "Cauthon's" in later seasons, right? Matrim isn't well educated, he is a charming rogue. e gambles and does some morally questionable deeds along his journey's. He also Marries the Seanchan Empress, and it remains to be seen what if anything Mat would do about the Damane situation... (So to put it another way. He comes from this great moral upbringing. But he's totally fine with Slavery. Right?)

Or you've given their team to little?

What was the theme of the marketing for Season 1? "Who is the dragon reborn?" "Is it a woman that'll save us, or a man who'll destroy us all?" What we have, was a carefully crafted narrative that they fed to us, the book readers, that changed what the Aes Sedai believe about the world and how it works. How much of those changes are actually changes behind the scenes, remains to be seen. (One of the obvious changes is linking no longer being safe. That's massive, and implies that key characters may die, during the cleansing.) We the book readers, know how all the rules work. We as viewers, are going to see characters in the show act like they know how everything works, and then hopefully as book readers we will exclaim "Well duh!" when the character is shocked as they find out what they thought was true was a lie the entire time. We're going to see that there has been a millennia long misinformation campaign orchestrated by the father of lies throughout the worlds history. We're going to see doubt, and a lot of contradictory stories/prophecies... Because information is power. One benefit that the show runners have, is that they have the complete works to go through. They would know what weaves Ishamael would have access to in EotW that RJ hadn't really thought up yet. They would be able to go extrapolate. How could Ishy have used that weave throughout history to distort people's perceptions of reality? Sow seeds of chaos? Distrust? War? Famine? Discreetly alter prophecies that were written down and locked away in dusty vaults?

Correct, but again. Is Joshua female? Is Egwene Male? Is Thom Female? At this point in time, the major characters haven't been gender swapped, and nothing's really changed as far as who the dragon is, the Dragon's "power", or anything regarding which side of the power you can access when you're born a man or a woman.

Jordan was a bit "wishy washy" on the concept of Dragons in other ages. The best we got out of him is that there were other "Dragons" in other ages, and that there was possibly a "female dragon", except that it was a "different" soul then the one tied to Rand. Either way, whatever the creators of the show said, what changed? Is Joshua female?

It definitely turned a better profit then Rings of Power. But that's easy when you don't blow $250M on just the rights to use the IP.

S1 was clearly setting up the coup, which we'll possibly see as early as the end of S2 / or the Beginning of S3. Book wise, That all went down during Book 4 when Rand was in the Aiel Wastes. I can't recall if she escaped the tower in book 4 or 5, but she was definitely deposed in the 4th book. Part way into the 5th book, she's been aimlessness travelling the countryside with Min, Leane and Logain, before finally stumbling upon Salidar. Meanwhile the wonder girls were actively traveling with Luca basically to the same destination. A LOT of the traveling crap with Siuan and the Wonder Girls can be completely cut to save time. What's important is the politics of the Tower Schism, Salidar, and what the wonder girls actually find in their travels. (The Kin) What it boils down to; they need to set up the politics of the tower coup, how the wonder girls are going to be involved in showing that Aes Sedai aren't all knowing. This gives Elayne, Nynaeve, Siuan, Min, Leane and several other key characters something to do until Egwene comes back from the Wastes with Rand/Mat. Perrin's obviously off doing Perrin stuff, and somehow they have to incorporate the other political situations throughout the world, with the machinations of the Forsaken without overwhelming the audience by hopping around from one story to the next, confusing the viewer by not knowing what's going on at any given moment, while balancing a cohesive plot/story that's condensed within a 60ish minute window.... You never want the audience to ask "Who the hell is this guy and why do I care about them?"

I see what you did there. "cough GoT cough" I still think it would be interesting to hear certain modern music, using non-modern instruments using entirely different or no-lyrics.

I mean, sometimes you get Actors(es) like Maisie Williams that can pull off a young adult/teen for YEARS.

Depends on the bundle I guess? Sometimes you get something like the "LotR 3 book bundle" which includes that big sleeve for all 3 books, and that's a different print then buying the books individually. Honestly, Thrift Store are probably your best and last hope at finding Hard Covers at a decent price! And if you're looking for WoT books and don't want that atrocious "Amazon Prime" sticker printed on your cover, you're going to have to steer clear of places like Barnes and Nobles for awhile! Nah, I think you're good. Linking to a specific place to buy books isn't break the rules. Posting about it in 30 different topics unsolicited, is.

I mean, war paint is a thing. Plus, if heavy Makeup is unrealistic, what's that say about the White Cloaks riding into battle with... white cloaks? 😛

Yeah, those are still people lol. Even then, we mostly got small skirmishes at that point, with the largest stuff being Tarwins and the Stone...

The Main enemies are People. Forsaken, Black Ajah...

Don't quote me, but I think he's sitting out this season (he had another project?) but he'll be return in season 3. That or I'm mixing up the actor playing Tam.

*Sniffs*

I mean, that just goes back to what I mentioned about working in those memorable (one)line(er)s. People will love-or-hate them as good dialogue or fan-service easter-eggs. Remove all the internal monologue in the books, and we're left with a lot of grunting and whining.

What was Ba'alzamon doing to Rand, Mat, and Perrin through out the first book? What did Loial warn Moiraine about in Caemlyn, which corroborated what Perrin & Egwene heard from the Tua'than? Rand didn't show up to foul their trap. They "followed" Rand and Co. because they couldn't find it due to it's peculiar nature. Aginor & Balthamel were just cannon fodder. Ba'alzamon likely tracked down most of the seals locations and had a hunch this last one was in the eye, and it likely couldn't be broken if it was covered in pure Saidin. Ergo the "trap" was to allow the other's to find it for them, so they'd inadvertently release the last seal from it's prison.

I mean, one of the hardest parts they have is actually working in the great lines of dialogue into the show in such a way that feels natural and not in a cheesy or grandstanding way. Some will get upset that they'll include throw away easter-egg lines as fan-service... But honestly, we' haven't got to deep enough into the novels yet where the lines of dialogue are really worth stealing yet. (The only line I'm here for is the one where Nynaeve drops Lan off in the North)

Stumbled upon this. You can actually see the loop the enters the nose from this large "nose ring" that covers the mouth.

I believe there was one side photo we got a while back, and maybe confirmation from Sarah/Rafe, that it's not a pacifier, but a nose-piercing that hangs below the mouth. In the picture below, you'll see that it touches the nose, and due to the lighting you can't see any detail about how it's attached.

The show "ended" where the books are supposed to "end" because G.R.R is grinding his wheels finishing the last two. The last seasons issues, go beyond just that the books aren't done. D&D (show runners) literally didn't know what they were doing, and their hands were held the entire time, until the last season where they were brought to the edge of a cliff and yeeted off of it.

When I think 80s Conan, I think helicopter footage of a random hilly countryside field in some country, campy b-quality stages with lots of snake statues, and about a third of the movie is pure exposition with Arnold grunting at us as the women swoon. (Which then makes me wonder after learning about his affair(s), how he didn't knock up half of Hollywood in the 80s? Maybe one benefit of the roids?) Anyways, nostalgia is fun and I get it. I've noticed a lot of movies/shows shifting to tighter shots that when they're not careful they feel like a "play" and not a "movie". For me, this wasn't one of them. But I have seen some pretty bad offenders. I've forgotten their names...

Good news, you can always fast forward the s-exposition scenes and still get a feel for how the set designs are similar and different. GoT is endlessly compared to every other fantasy show as the superior adaptation in every category, so it could be good to get an idea of what others consider the best of the best.