Like, if it’s an ensemble, we should be seeing what happened to all the characters on Winter Night. (Laughs.) And those two core ideas, you know, fluttered out into a lot of the other changes that are in it. Like, I think probably lots of Wheel of Time fans even forget that we didn’t meet the Aes Sedai until the second book. In terms of the changes that we were making for the adaptation, I think the ones that we put most up front were making it an ensemble piece - make that first book more like the rest of the books - and then the second main one was bringing the Aes Sedai in earlier they don’t come in until the second book, and they’re such an iconic piece of the IP. So for me, I wanted to infuse the first season of the show with a lot of the things that people love about the Wheel of Time series as a whole.” It’s really very much that high fantasy, adventure storytelling. “ Eye of the World shares way more with Lord of the Rings than it does with Game of Thrones. “I think the whole series of Wheel of Time books is much more aimed at adult audiences than the first Wheel of Time book is,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. According to showrunner Rafe Judkins, this was done to bring the first season - which adapts premiere novel The Eye of the World - more in line with the rest of the series. Some of the changes are comparatively small, liking aging the main characters up a bit. With a series that enormous, naturally some things are going to need to be changed for TV, and viewers have already noticed a lot of changes in the first three episodes, which are streaming now. It’s 14 books long huge, so huge that Jordan died before writing the end of it author Brandon Sanderson came in to finish it up. Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Timeseries is huge.

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