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I saw that post about tgh/tdr being adapted and like. yeah, rand has very fundamentally different journeys in the two books in ways that are very clever and dear to me but it’s alright for television as a medium to condense stuff. that’s just how adaptations work. and yes, the two endings are repetitive - to a close enough degree that although I prefer reading them as two separate books, I’m not sure it would work as an adaptation. (I think thematic explorations and narrative points that are very good on pay offs for readers but not necessarily well-translatable to the screen can tend to be a wider category than people realise.)

#and arguably the s1 ending does tackle the tdr plotline already?#the first three books are very tonally different and lotr-esque while the next chunk of the series inspired asoiaf lol and you cannot have #both vibes going! 8 episodes per season is not nearly enough for that!#I do agree that picking moiraine as the main character was a mistake even if I love her shdhsfehdh #text #this is not a vague post or anything ahdheudhdh I just don’t want to come off as discourse-y! so just. rambling.#I think the show’s quality is not as good as it could have been but an adaptation will inevitably explore the same themes in different ways #and I think they should be given the space to do so as long as they stick to the spirit of it #anyway the other characters barely do anything in those two books so it would be difficult to justify the narrative void it would introduce #wot

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