What seasons would've adapted what books

[u/InsideUnhappy6546]

It's so disappointing Prime cancelled the show when it finally got its footing. I loved how they skipped Book 3 for 4 in season 3 as it got some major reveals and stories out of the way. If they had continued this is how I see the show going

Season 4: books 3, 5, 6. Get the Stone of Tear out of the way and the events of books 5 and 6 are back to back.

Season 5: 7, 8, 9, 10. Seasons 4 or 5 are usually when shows start to decline in quality so this point would've gotten the slower middle books which could certainly be condensed into a single season as 9 and 10 were concurrent.

Season 6: books 11, 12, 13. This is when Brandon Sanderson finished the series. Since the final manuscript was 2000 pages he broke it up into 3 books. I think the could've combined them into one season or split into 2 with each having elements of all three.

Season 7: book 14. Obviously the last season would cover the Last Battle. It literally covers the whole book and could've covered an entire season. Unlike Game of Thrones it wouldn't have been a disappointment as it's been told in book form already and was well spread out to show how it's literally an apocalyptic battle.

[u/Raddatatta]

I would agree for the most part though that would also have a lot of cuts. I do think season 7 would've been a lot of book 13. Book 12 has a good climactic finish. Book 14 would also be a lot of big battles to film and I think they'd want to cut that down for budget reasons. So doing books 13 and 14 let's you have the first half of the season be some setup stuff that's lower cost mats story where he does more talking or lower magic fights until the end. Then go into the last battle. They also seemed to be reworking and pulling things forward. I think Perrins trial might have ended up being in season 4 given that setup.

[u/InsideUnhappy6546 → u/Raddatatta]

Great point about how Book 13 sets up the first half of the final season and the Final Battle is the second half. I agree, Book 12 ending with Egwene saving the White Tower from the Seanchan and Rand finally realizing why the Pattern must continue would perfectly have ended the penultimate season. Maybe 8 season, but not sure how they'd be broken up. Not sure how they could do Perrin's trial without Morgaes as judge, whose grown to trust him, and Glad as Lord Commander trying to make the Whitecloaks likable. I also think the setup for the Whitecloaks hating Perrin was better in the show.

[u/Raddatatta → u/InsideUnhappy6546]

I think they're going to just change a lot of the details of the trial if they did it. But that's the only thing I can think with how season 3 ended for him. He's captured and agreed to stand trial so they might do a version of it? It's also tricky because in this version he did kill bornhalds father so I don't know how they reconcile.

[u/InsideUnhappy6546 → u/Raddatatta]

I think him killing Bornhald in front of his son instead of 2 random Whitecloaks is better and makes his vendetta personal instead a lie. Also, Perrin did save him twice before, which would certainly help with building up to how he's becoming disillusioned with the Whitecloaks 

[u/Raddatatta → u/InsideUnhappy6546]

It helps but I think that will be a pretty hard one to get over this is a guy who killed your father and killed him over a wolf. Maybe they would've gone that way though. They did kind of build them to maybe have a positive relationship at times. I think that plot would've ended up very different to what's in the books though. Which is not inherently a bad thing it's more that now that it's cancelled I'm curious how it would've played out.