Wheel of Time TV series! Hope they call it: The Dragon Reborn

WoT TV series may happen after all! After Game of Thrones (based off A Song of Ice and Fire) and The Shannara Chronicles (based off Elfstones of Shannara), I really hope to see more epic fantasy serialized.

Been tinkering with ideas on how this series would work. They would likely drop a lot of story-lines (like Perrin's) and characters (hopefully NOT Perrin). The whole series takes place over three years or less, and I'm very sure that they would try to have it go much longer (kids in Game of Thrones are adults by now).

Anyway, I envision a seven season, ten episodes per season show called THE DRAGON REBORN to look something like this:

*SPOILERS!*(duh)

Season 1:  Book 1 (The Eye of the World). This book covers a lot of ground, quite literally. Works out to be one town per episode. Give Perrin/Egwene chapters separate episodes, so viewers get used to not seeing Rand every time.

Season 2: Prequel, Books 2-3 (New Spring, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn). Two episodes for NS as a secondary jumping on point; then 4 for TGH and 4 for TDR. More expensive special effects and growing cast, but no wars yet.

Season 3: Books 4-5 (The Shadow Rising, Fires of Heaven). 5 episodes each. Massive tonal shift with the Aiel, and huge battle scenes. Also has several 'deaths' in season finale. Who kills Asmodean?

Season 4: Books 6-8 (Lord of Chaos, A Crown of Swords, The Path of Daggers). 4 episodes for LOC, 3 for ACOS, and 3 for TPOD. Series starts slowing down here, so more books per season to compensate. Season finale has the only real hot war with the Seanchan.

Season 5: Books 9-11 (Winter's Heart, Crossroads of Twilight, Knife of Dreams). 4 episodes for WH, 2 for COT, and 4 for KOD. Last Robert Jordan books here, I expect the series to drift away a bit from the source material ala Game of Thrones. Hopefully Perrin will be searching for his wife for less than a season.

Season 6: Books 12-13(The Gathering Storm, Towers of Midnight). 5 episodes each. Brandon Sanderson really picks up the pace here, and we finally get payoffs that I want to see expanded upon.

Season 7: Book 14 (A Memory of Light). 10 episodes devoted to the Last Battle. Sanderson was sprinting through plotlines to finish off this series, but here I want to really do full justice to them and mine every note Robert Jordan scribbled down. I want to see fighting in the Ways, Seanchan civil war, troubles in Shara, etc. I desperately want a scene with all the Two Rivers boys together. Lets stick the landing on this series, and present its ultimate incarnation.

And that's it. I've been tinkering with what chapters would correspond to which episodes, but this is the gist of it. I desperately hope that this show gets the freedom, budget, and love that it so desperately deserves.

I would watch and love every episode, even if one is titled 'Crossroads of Twilight' *sigh*.