re: Wheel of Time TV, Full Trailer Oct 27, show premieres Nov 19

They are doing a big event at a convention in London today where they have aired a bunch of scenes apparently.

I kind of like this, I hope this may curtail some of the massive exposition dumps necessary at the start of these kind of adaptations.

Just watched dune and they were extremely heavy on it in the beginning where it was kind of distracting. Better to let the audience figure some shite out than go over the top overtly explaining everything in the beginning

Are you sure, the opening 15 minutes or so felt like a pure exposition dump. It was a voice over explaining the spice, space travel, the emperor,how the fremen were exploited throughout their history, etc.

Ya the voice over was shorter but there were a lot of other info dump tricks used. Paul watching exposition movies, odd lines with characters explaining stuff to each other about things like the benegesserit plan, etc. It certainly made it difficult for me to get immersed in the movie early on. It was vague cause there is way too much of a learning curve to succeed - but I still found the amount that was present distracting me.

I'm not surprised that nonreqders didn't get a lot of it cause it is difficult to comprehend the mass of small comments trying to flesh out the world. I think they would have been better served focusing in and letting characters interactions provide an expanding understanding of the world.

But bringing it back to the wheel of time, the structure of the story allows for us to learn the world largely as the main characters do as they venture out of the two rivers so hopefully they will avoid too many infodumps or have it happen in a more organic way

Ya, I'm waiting on the full trailer - it has to be this week - we are what like 3 weeks out?

Looks like they changed Abell to a total deadbeat. Which I don’t love.

Also:

Full Trailer tomorrow morning. Just announced on official Insta

11 a.m. trailer release.

Ya I've been going back and putting on his deep dive episodes on while I work.

The generic sit and chat ones I don't listen to but deep dives and then marketing material analysis videos are pretty solid if you are just looking for some WoT stuff to kill time until show releases.

Ya, I watch some of his stuff if it crosses my particular interests - but he comes off as really preachy.

I remember when he was talking about his new book and self-publishing and said something like "Hire an editor to avoid errors - don't be a part of the problem with self publishing". I don't completely disagree with the sentiment but just dropping it like everyone who has a dream of publishing their book can drop $5k - $10k extra on hiring an editor rubbed me the wrong way.

I really like the Dusty Wheel and his deep dives, analysis of the trailers, etc., but a lot of the others I don' like and they don't seem to add much value to the discussion although some do some interesting analysis of the production and stuff.