The Wheel of Time adaptation

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That is part of the challenge of doing the adaptation: the characters' opinions on what is going is almost as important as what is actually going on. That's great for a book, but it needs to be done differently for a visual medium. A voice over to reveal characters' thoughts would not be a good way to do it.

 

One way to work towards getting inside the characters' heads a little would be to put what characters are thinking into the scripts. WoT characters are generally quite expressive, to the point of almost being like caricatures--but not in a negative way. Any actor cast in the production would have to be very good at communicating a lot with just their face, and there's no reason not to provide them with the thoughts that are running through their characters' heads that cause them to make those expressions.

 

Now, no amount of emoting is going to give viewers a clear idea of the literal words that the characters are thinking, but maybe that's a good thing. Really getting to know the characters is a major part of the WoT's charm, but it's also overly dependent on repetition. I say that as someone who is reading the series for the fourth time right now. I really do love the series, but I understand why a lot of people just can't deal with it. For a show to be popular among general audiences, it's going to be a whole lot better for them to get to know a character through her comical furious facial expressions, rather than her 300th recitation of Men! Always thinking with the hair on their chests!