The woman who played Faile almost looked exactly like the Min from my imagination. May be a little younger.

I have always thought an animated series would suit this series best, but might be difficult to get adults to sit and watch such a thing in the west. Additionally as you pointed out western style doesn’t suit itself to that self talk as well as Anime. May be with the right creators it could work. I really like the art style of Arcane and think that would be a perfect fit for WoT.

S2 and S3 changed Mat from a smart ass to a dumb ass. Sanderson did that some as well. IMO I prefer how Barney Harris’s Mat was playing than the later actor—no shade on him as I could see Mat in his portrayal, but some of it seems direction and writing.

I do feel Wheel of Prime was probably not judicious with its budget, but I have no proof other than the final product and casting Pike as the lead. A big problem was lack of extras. Extras are supposed to be cheap, yet we had very little of them. ?! Were they giving extras nice paychecks, so that they couldn’t afford to have many? The world felt underpopulated and the battles were lack luster. Modern AI could potentially fill that gap with convincing CGI IMO. There may be conflicting opinions in the faults in Jordan’s work that need to be shored up for a definitive adaptation, but I think a poll on DM could give us the list things of things that need changing 🤣. E.g. Rand’s fight with Turak, the roll your eyes battle of the sexes, the battle in the sky, Moiraine’s and Thom’s relationship, etc etc etc.

Is WoT too sprawling, does it have too many characters, too much internal dialogue to be adapted? As big of a critic of Rafe’s/Amazon’s adaptation that I am I feel they proved it could be done IMO. Every time they followed Jordan’s script I felt like it was possible. I don’t know if that would have achieved an audience necessary for continuation though. In the cancellation thread the discussion turned to speculation of using AI to bring WoT to video through computer animation. Would such a thing be soulless? We have endless ways of spending our entertainment budget, but could such a thing get a new audience? Please no criticism of Rafazon in this thread as that is well trodden territory.