Again, should I continue? (I don't think so. It's totally meaningless.) Nielsen, March 25 – 31

Nielsen, March 18 – 24

Nielsen, March 11 – 17

Nielsen, March 04 – 10 The Wheel of Time (16) – 40M

Nielsen, Feb 26 – March 03 The Wheel of Time (16) – 47M

Nielsen, Feb 19 – 25 The Wheel of Time (16) – 69M

Just to be sure... Checking the latest data... Nielsen, Feb 12 – Feb 18 Again, no data regarding Amazon's WOT...

Nielsen, Feb 05 – Feb 11 It looks like that Amazon's WOT has irrevocably disappeared from Nielsen's list – something similar happened to Amazon's LOTR ("why"?) –, and while I understand Amazon a little bit (for not allowing Nielsen to disclose the figures), I think publishing low numbers is better than zero publishing... So, I will not post Amazon's numbers anymore. (But who needs real data after all, the marketing department will tell us that Amazon's WOT is the biggest and the best television show ever (I'm a little bit confused: according to the PR team Amazon's LOTR is the biggest and the best television show ever), and everybody (especially the "modern" audience) loves it, so it was such a brilliant idea tossing (you know the drill) the dated and toxic and bad books of Robert Jordan out of the windows.

Nielsen, Jan 29 – Feb 04

Nielsen, Jan 22 – 28

https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/DEIA_InclusionReport_2023_RF.pdf

Nielsen, Jan 15 – 21 Wheel of Time (16) – 84M

Nielsen, Jan 08 – Jan 14 The Wheel of Time (16) – 128M

What will happen when the AI (ok, LLM) gets a novel instead of a very short promt? https://openai.com/sora#capabilities

It is worth to read his novels even just to compare things: Perrin's eyes etc, there are so many things which surely came from him. Or you will recognise a certain thing from A Rose for Emily etc. His best book is Light in August (he has Soldiers' Pay, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, LiA, and Pylon – A,A! is on the fence for me, his other books are just bad), read it, if you have the time, and you will see tons of stuff which Jordan used in WOT – in wildly different forms, of course.

Nielsen, 2024, Jan 01 - 07 The Wheel of Time (16) – 137M

along with the (Roman) Catholic Church – and while it's true that Jordan used everything from everything (see FAQ, interviews) he ever read (e. g. if you read Hemingway's books you will see many, many things which Jordan deemed worthy to use in his own books), the biggest motifs (I think) came from Faulkner (as inspirations, naturally). From the character of Rand, through (the development of) the whole story, through 'small' things like the agelessness of Aes Sedai, the cloaks of the Warders, or sometimes Jordan did quite a deed, like condensing As I Lay Dying (the whole novel!) into two chapters in TSR (chapter 25 and 26) with a few twists, and so many things come from Light in August, Soldiers' Pay etc. that I reckon the spine, the basic foundation of WOT is based on Faulkner's works, despite having not seen William Faulkner's name ever mentioned in posts regarding WOT. Thoughts, opinions?

Nielsen, Dec. 25 - 31 The Wheel of Time (16) – 85M

Nielsen, Dec 18 - Dec 24 The Wheel of Time (16) – 92M

Nielsen, Dec 11 - Dec 17 The Wheel of Time (16) – 78M

Nielsen, Dec 04 – Dec 10 The Wheel of Time (16) – 85M

Nielsen, Nov 27 - Dec 03 The Wheel of Time (16) – 72M

Nielsen, Nov 20-26 Wheel of Time (16) – 107M

Like it ot not, Jordan, Martin, and Hobb have been/are/will be forever the kings and queen of epic fantasy. By the way it was really eye opening that fans (or so-called fans of WOT) of the tv series informed us that TEOTW is very bad, TGH is also very bad, TDR ditto, so I cannot wait till 2025 when they will inform us that TSR is also a very bad book, but thanks to the greatest writer and showrunner of all time, all the faults of the book are now corrected. There are books, and books have fans. When someone does a TV adaptation, fans (most of them) want to watch a very faithful adaptation, not a retelling, not a brand new story which has zero common material with the original source. (I heard sometimes they using a name right, but that's not enough. 😉 ) And fans do not like when showrunners talk about their favorite books being bad, or need an 'update' to the 'modern' audience and many other things like these ones. Heads of studios and showrunners have to understand that these are the problems, which cause that their projects get cancelled one after the other, and fans of different books getting more and more angrier, because the overwhelming majority wants to watch the the original stories of original authors, not the failed end-products of failed 'writers', 'producers', 'showrunners', who do not care about the original works. An example: Jordan has no problem with sex (read his other books, and/or read his first ideas, notes, and thoughts of WOT – wot tidbits etc), but he deliberately decided to make the books 'sexless'. There is no sex scene between Rand and Eg, or between Rand and Lanfear at all. So, if there's no sex scene between them in the books, then there's no sex scene in adaptation. Is it really hard to do that? I know, I know. I'm an old, toxic etc. person. Sure. Another example: according to Jordan AS look like sometimes 20, sometimes 40, 20, 40. Another example: Min is not a pensioner in the books. Another example, Another example, Another example, Another example, Another example, Another example, Another example, Another example, Another example, Another example, Another example, Another example, Another example, Another example, Another example. I will very lightly touch upon Jordan's fan cast, because I will be branded racist right now. Now I'm old, toxic, and racist too. Sure. Wait a minute! Then Jordan was a racist too?

That's your opinion, and it's a free world, you can think anything about anything, but could you mention examples about these things?