https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2026-hugo-awards/ For Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form The show may be canceled but I will take news like this any day. Season 3 and especially episode 4 deserves all the accolades!

Small number of critic reviews but it is true. Specifically for season 3.

As I mentioned in the other thread I would be incredibly excited to have a solid animated adaptation of WoT. While I adore the live action series and would have preferred it to continue, an animated show solves many of the problems that the live action had to work around. You don't need to worry about the cast aging, having to cut locations because you visit it once and not again for books. Same with actors it is easier to bring in voice actors for small cameo's or just have the character present with no dialogue if needed. Certain set pieces would also likely translate better to animated. Unfortunately I do not have high hopes. This just seems to be more "stuff" that Red Eagle/iWot is throwing against the wall to see what sticks. The article even mentions all the other "announcements" they have made; The pre Breaking trilogy, the "3d" White tower prequel, the AAA video game, an animated movie etc... They highlight a producer from Arcane as part of the team. Arcane is amazing but they are not bring in the animation studio Fortiche. The studio they are actually partnered with is another concern, it is led by some AI tech bro. Personally I would not support the show if it was made with AI, I know others here have a different opinion on that. tldr; Hope it will be amazing, incredibly low hope due to all the red flags.

I hope an animated series can be created but this paragraph kinda says it all. "The upcoming animated films and series are meant to be separate entities from other projects that have already been announced, such as the White Tower 3D prequel film and the live-action Age of Legends trilogy, assuming these even get made." Red Eagle is throwing everything at the wall hoping something will stick. I do not have the much faith if they are heavily involved.

I have heard it said that GRRM wrote his books more like a screenplay or at least as if he planned to adapt it to such. The creators of the Expanse did something similar which makes sense since they worked under GRRM before publishing the series. But even with that taken into account a BUNCH of stuff in the Expanse was changed for TV. Wot and The Expanse are my top 2 book series and the their respective shows are in my top 5.

Haven't watched the series in a bit but i do recall 2-3 instances of whispers when Rand is channeling. Difficult to say if it was Lews Therin or just the taint. As for seeing Lews Therin I thought the speculation was from episode 8 not 4. Rand sees a figure all in black standing on a sand dune for a brief moment and then they are gone the next. LTT would be my speculation as to whom it would be but nothing definitive. I don't believe Alexander Karim filmed anything for season 3 so if it was suppose to be him it was meant to be vague.

He was also changing things with the thought of future seasons in mind and how much they were going to have to condense.

Is that a bad thing? That some people enjoy the show more than the books or were introduced to the show who had never read the books? I appreciate all the people who got introduced purely through the TV show. Many of those people also hopped into the books. Not all of them enjoyed them but more people attempting to read the series is better in my opinion.

Oh wow. I don't know whether to feel glad to see discussion popping up here or if I should be disappointed seeing the same old argument we have been having since the cast was first announced. I love this series. I read it annually for nearly 20 years before I stopped reading in general. I love the TV series. It got me to actively engage in an online community for the first time ever(the horror). Everyone agrees that Wheel of Time can not be adapted word for word, page for page to the screen. There are pages and pages of opinions of what people would focus on, what they would cut. More commonly I hear people would cut the or significantly shorten the Faile kidnapping and Elayne succession plots. With Perrin being my favourite character in the series and both Faile and Elayne are top 5 consideration I don't agree with those opinions. BUT those people's interpretations and adaptation choices are valid if they ever got the chance to put the show to screen. Rafe's version is no less valid because of "forced ideology" as if one's ideology doesn't influence their own interpretations and potential adaptations. His life experiences gave him a different view of the series than many, he got to focus on those as those are what seemed important to him. My second favourite book series is The Expanse and people love to compare its TV series to WoT's. But even the Expanse made massive changes similar in scope to WoT. They introduce Avasarala and her supporting cast in season 1 and give her a significant plot line despite not showing up until book 2. They introduce extended drama among the main crew several times for TV reasons I imagine. They change the way the protomolecule spreads in book 1. The standout TV character Drummer is an amalgamation of at least 3 book characters and Drummer herself is a minor character AT BEST in the books. Captain Klaes Ashford is unrecognizable to his book counterpart and to the benefit of the show. But maybe this is all easier to stomach because the book writers were the guiding hand for the show. Or possibly people here and on WoT reddit are less invested in those books so they don't notice as much. Well I am rambling now so I will end with. Just be good to other people. We all seem to love the books but we also all love the books in different ways.

This is why the series is often describe as awesome to read but MORE awesome to re-read.