WOT. Would the series have been better had Sanderson took over around Book5-6

Books 5 and 6 are excellent, so no, not at all. 7 is solid even if it does spin it's wheels a bit. Now 8 is a big pile of meh and 9 and 10 are straight garbage, with 11 being a pile of meh as well, so maybe Sanderson could have improved those.

But the last two books that Sanderson wrote in the WOT series aren't even that amazing anyway, they were a big disappointment compared to Gathering Storm (though it's hard to say how much of that Sanderson could control since he was supposedly following a script). So I'm not sure having him do the rest would have improved anything all that much, though it probably would have cut out a couple of books of dead wood.

*sniff*

Yes. Or the stuff would have been more interesting. WoT could have been told in 6 books easy

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I think so. The books in the middle are atrocious and some of the most boring convoluted stuff I've ever read

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Sanderson's job was to write with the copius notes Jordan left. Jordan's last few books were more money-grabs than real story so I think if Jordan had died around book 5 (and had left all the notes he did) the series would have been shortened by at least 3 books. The remaining books would have been far more active.

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Don't forget Nynaeve tugging on her hair. You could take every excerpt of her doing that and have a whole novel unto itself.

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Most annoying character twitch ever.

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WoT could have been told in 6 books easy

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There is no way in hell it could have been 6 books. Now if you wanted to say 8ish, I could see that fairly easily once you cut out all the pointless repeating braid pulling and sideplots.

Book 1 is just so completely different than later ones for example

Eye of the World felt like I was reading the novelization of a Final Fantasy game.

He had to make his money somehow. Jordan was SJW before SJW was a thing! But they would have lost their shite at the ending though.

Since Amazon has the rights to distrubute the TV series of this now, I've thought about how they could streamline it and make it actually work for TV.

Basically:

Get rid of tons of useless subplots
No or signficantly less Seanchen
Basically no Aes Sedai POVs besides Moiraine, Egwene, Nynaeve, Elayne, and even then cut down on them drastically
Focus almost entirely on Rand, Mat, Perrin
Get rid of re-incarnated Forsaken, they die they are dead
Speed up the plot to Rand becoming DR, consolidating power, last battle
Get rid of the vast majority of the Ashaman subplot