Comment on Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series

psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Doubletake2121@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The author’s story was also pretty terrible. I re-read it again last year, and man does it drag. You could most likely cut it in half and make a better series.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You could potentially cut a lot, yeah. But this wasn’t cutting, this was just plain rewriting.

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    • geekwithsoul@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Considering the original author had his wife do his editing, rewriting is hardly the worst thing that could have happened.

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        She was a professional editor and worked on his books before they started dating. She’s also been the editor for several other classic and famous series’. So unless you’re implying that her feminity is cause for lesser quality, I fail to see the relevance.

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  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t even disagree with you about the drag. However, books 1 and 2 are some of the best modern fantasy you can find. I knew the show was in trouble when it started making major changes to the story right out of the gates.

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  • Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I just finished the series last week after starting it in January 2024. It’s a pretty damn good epic. Yes there are slower parts, but on the whole it’s very enjoyable and well paced. Not sure what you’d expect from a 14 book series. You’re also full of it if you say the 12000 page series is terrible, yet you also reread it last year. That is nonsensical to put that much time and effort into something that’s ‘pretty terrible’.

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    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      WoT is not “Well paced”. It’s egregiously slow and long winded. Robert Jordan should have been beaten with a chair for the bullshit he put his readers through.

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      • Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s a 14 book epic, that pretty much comes with the territory. You get the details, world building, character’s nuance, etc. it’s not all moving the plot forward.

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    • Doubletake2121@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I was a big fan as a child, but I haven’t re-read them in about 15 years or so, since Sanderson finished it. Whenever that was.

      It’s not at all well paced. That’s some fandom cope if I’ve ever heard it, good lord.

      I can tell you 100% that I don’t plan on reading it again. It’s not worth it.

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