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Sep. 19th, 2021 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretI don't really have feelings about the WoT trailer? It looks like very high production values, which I think is a good sign that someone competent is running it and has studio backing?
But I was talking to my little brother about it over R"H and the point I was making is that the thing I find most compelling about WoT, and this is admittedly a me thing, is how messy the writing is. There are plot holes and inconsistencies in narrative and characterization and Jordan loses his objectives in far too many characters doing far too many things and... it is a minor miracle that Brandon Sanderson, a far more technically competent plotter than Jordan, was able to wrap everything up satisfyingly in just three books. But for me, the storytelling failures of Jordan are the point. The Wheel of Time is all about its metathematics, the idea of stories being told over and over again, slightly different each time, overlaying on top of each other to become part of a larger story that both progresses and regresses.
And I worry that if you set a professional TV writer's room on the Wheel of Time, they will rationalize it and streamline it and the result will be a story that is enjoyable but doesn't have the out of control bigness, the unwieldy but immersive complexity that makes you dream about Ogiers and Trollocs and the One True Source.
But I was talking to my little brother about it over R"H and the point I was making is that the thing I find most compelling about WoT, and this is admittedly a me thing, is how messy the writing is. There are plot holes and inconsistencies in narrative and characterization and Jordan loses his objectives in far too many characters doing far too many things and... it is a minor miracle that Brandon Sanderson, a far more technically competent plotter than Jordan, was able to wrap everything up satisfyingly in just three books. But for me, the storytelling failures of Jordan are the point. The Wheel of Time is all about its metathematics, the idea of stories being told over and over again, slightly different each time, overlaying on top of each other to become part of a larger story that both progresses and regresses.
And I worry that if you set a professional TV writer's room on the Wheel of Time, they will rationalize it and streamline it and the result will be a story that is enjoyable but doesn't have the out of control bigness, the unwieldy but immersive complexity that makes you dream about Ogiers and Trollocs and the One True Source.