The Wheel Of Time - 5 Ways To Differentiate From Game Of Thrones

Adapting anything to the screen is always a difficult proposition. Many fanbases desire 100% straight adaptations of the source material, which is impossible due to the fact that some things do not translate well from the page to the screen, some things need to be explicitly shown to the viewer in the absence of a narrator explaining everything and some things need to be cut or condensed for pacing.

A full adaptation of the Wheel of Time will not be possible given that fourteen seasons (one for each book) will be completely unfeasible for budgeting and actor scheduling, meaning that many things will have to be condensed.

There are hundreds of pages from some of the middle books that are devoted to absolutely nothing and could be lost without impact, whereas life will be much easier for everyone if the hundreds of similar Aes Sedai are composited into a more manageable amount.

The first two seasons of Game of Thrones were almost direct adaptations of Martin’s first two novels, before they began to deviate substantially from that point onwards, opting to neglect or omit developments in areas such as Dorne, the Iron Islands and the Vale and instead invent moments like the early dispatch of Barristan Selmy or Sansa Stark’s treatment at the hands of Ramsay Bolton, which were huge missteps.

The Wheel of Time’s showrunners should tread carefully, keeping the story dedicated without going off on tangents of their own that go nowhere.