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This could still work with a 13 episode season Bryce Send a noteboard - 19/04/2011 07:04:06 AM
You'd just have to cut out the fat. It would require losing some minor characters, and making sure that the dialogue was streamlined, but I think you could do it in 13 episodes.

My thought has always been to do it as a six-season ongoing series, each season comprising 20 episodes:

Season 1: Books 1-2
Season 2: Books 3-4
Season 3: Books 5-6
Season 4: Books 7-9
Season 5: Books 10-12
Season 6: Books 13-14

That gives you 10 episodes each to do the first six and last two books, then you squeeze the slow books down into fewer episodes, maybe eliminate pointless secondary characters and storylines. This still causes issues - Faile is still a Shaido prisoner for about a full season - but I think it's the best compromise between getting as much on screen as possible and eliminating the longeurs. Plus it gives you Dumai's Wells and the Cleansing as cliffhangers, which works pretty well.

The only problem is that no pay-for cable network does 20-episode seasons, but doing it on a network would mean a fairly low budget. So it's probably not practical. But it's preferable to Red Eagle's current, vastly more unrealistic plans (1 movie per book).
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Wheel of Time Miniseries - 18/04/2011 09:07:54 AM 1566 Views
As what an animation? - 18/04/2011 10:37:31 AM 1091 Views
Depends on the level of detail. - 18/04/2011 11:24:33 PM 959 Views
Not a mini-series. - 18/04/2011 11:43:32 PM 1042 Views
I would do it like this.. - 19/04/2011 05:15:31 AM 1080 Views
And while we're dreaming, I'd like a pony. How many 9 season shows do you know of? *NM* - 19/04/2011 06:30:44 AM 418 Views
All the good ones. - 19/04/2011 10:31:36 AM 963 Views
This could still work with a 13 episode season - 19/04/2011 07:04:06 AM 1214 Views
Based on GoT, I'm not too sure about that. - 19/04/2011 01:43:36 PM 889 Views
Re: Based on GoT, I'm not too sure about that. - 19/04/2011 05:02:34 PM 1054 Views
One huge problem - 20/04/2011 05:42:49 PM 1092 Views
Ok, man *NM* - 20/04/2011 05:53:45 PM 592 Views
Re: One huge problem - 20/04/2011 09:18:07 PM 921 Views
Is this post still on the books board? How odd. *NM* - 21/04/2011 10:45:09 PM 465 Views
Seems so, sorry it's in the wrong place. *NM* - 22/04/2011 12:06:15 AM 490 Views
I don't think it would happen - 22/04/2011 05:13:15 PM 1084 Views
Shooting it all at once is the only way. - 16/05/2011 04:07:50 PM 1025 Views

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