I know it's been quite a while since I've added anything here, but while the first few books are relatively straight forward, starting with this book it really requires me to think about how you organize and plan for a TV production what you could condense and what could be expanded. I've also been trying to continue my reread, but have once again encountered the slog and it is noticeable how much slower the pace becomes starting in book 6 a bit, and very much so by book 7. I wanted to give this fourth season plenty of my attention because it gets way more complicated after this one in terms of density and run time, there will be plot points excised and chapters ignored after this point which is consuming to consider.
I've still got to work on some of what I would want focus on in each episode for flow, however I have at this point figured out the arrangement of chapters. There is a very dense early episode, and the last few encompass only a few chapters each. This will be the first season I put out that breaks the 8 episode mark, with my outline reaching 9 episodes for the content in The Shadow Rising. I think that my outlines will end up having more episodes per season than the first 3 from here on out generally as there is more ground to cover and books will begin being combined starting with my next season.
As a preview to illustrate my point:
Episode 2 covers 13 chapters of material (9-21 mostly), which is a lot, but I think it's really important we not spend too much time in Tear when the most important parts of this book are elsewhere despite the time dedicated in the book to the politics of Rand's decisions. There is enough content you could stretch out here into at least 2 episodes, but this is already going to be a long series and we need to condense some material somewhere especially given the extra time I would want to dedicate to other sequences later. As much fun as the calmer slice of life stuff that is hinted at in the early parts of this book, I just don't think we need a ton of it. The romances in particular in this world move at lightning speed so I think we can let some of that happen in the show too.
Episode 9 meanwhile is 3 chapters worth of content. I had some smaller parts broken out, but I felt like a really epic pair of episodes to finish out the season would be great. Since the prior 3 were 8, I wanted 8 to feel like it could be a finale too.
My real debate is whether the climax in Tanicho and with the Aiel/Rhuidean should be one episode or if each plot point deserves it's own. I feel like for TV both of those adventures will visually be possible to add something to, whether that is additional action or otherwise. For now I've got them as two separate pieces. Each plot thread gets its own sort of finale episode this season so each one has it's space to breathe and do more with.
I promise I'll have a full outline up soon!
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