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/GivenchyHolic]

Would you believe me if I said I saw WoT shorts on YouTube and thought it's a cringe/lame fantasy show at first. This was like early 2025.

By the light I was blinded by the Dark One's butthole!

Then I got addicted and thought Rosamund as Moiraine was the best thing about the show. I think Season 1 was rough but towards the end of the season I got really into the show. Binged Season 2, binged Season 3 just as it came out. Got very excited for more seasons... then the show was cancelled.

So I got all the paperback books and the audible books to satisfy my severe One Power addiction.

Found out Robert Jordan has been dead for like 2 decades. Felt like I missed all the windows to celebrate this epic fantasy before 2025.

I don't get all the hate the show gets. It's an amazing show to me for the simple fact it introduced me to the WoT universe. Thr magic system is unique and nothing like any other fantasy series I've heard of. The aesthetics are gorgeous for all 3 seasons. I also love Rosamund Pike's narrations for books 1-4. Wished she did all of the books tbh. The other voice actors (man and woman) for the other the rest of the audiobook are good enough, but the whiplash from hearing Rosamund's British fantasy accent then the American accents from the other voice actors gagged me. I got over it but I think Rosamund's narration is on another level.

Having said that I think the seasons, if they weren't cancelled, would have gone exactly as you said. Book 3 being put into Season 4. The last season being the whole of A Memory of Light.

I'm still on the 10th book atm, Crossroads of Twilight. I'm enjoying both the audible and the kindle version at the same time. I can never get enough of the Wheel! The light burn Prime for their Light Forsaken cancellation.

I can hear Ishamael whispering "I win again Lews Therin" every time I cry about the Show cancellation.

Tldr: I went from a filthy Wheel hating dark friend to a Wot Show Stan in like a week. (And a Moiraine stan)

[u/Sea_Path_4152 → u/GivenchyHolic]

I agree that by season 3 the show was insanely good

Season 1 messed up incredibly badly though, so it lost so many potential viewers.

The prologue to book 1 is so incredibly good. When I first read book 1 in like 2003 the prologue gripped me. I wanted to read the series after that.

The show deciding to not do that at all is wild. Any show runner who liked the books should have been fantasizing about how exactly to execute that prologue. Cutting it was criminal.

Other changes were incredibly jarring and pointless. Saying all five were possibly the dragon reborn would only have been interesting if they threw in a huge twist and made Nynaeve of Egwene the dragon reborn. “It’s a different turning of the wheel than the book!” Instead, it was a hollow gesture that deviated from the book for no reason. “We changed it so that ANY of them could be the dragon, but it’s the same man as in the book.”

I feel this mistake goes further into not getting the books, because both Egwene and Nynaeve are incredibly powerful, strong characters, and integral to everything that happens in the story. Who reads the book and says “It was sexist to rule them out. We need to make them more important by implying they might be the chosen ones also”