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I'd like Netflix to get it. While HBO tries to cater to an R-rated audience and other networks have budget and content concerns, Netflix does what is good for the show. Daredevil is right in between PG-13 and R. WoT would range from PG (even G) up to a soft R, when the scene demands it. It's got Netflix written all over it. I started another reread to celebrate the news, and I've been paying special attention to how it might be adapted. I think that they should do the unexpected and not open with the Dragonmount prologue. It should be worked in later, preferably as a dream that Rand has in the second or third episode, when they're doing a lot of traveling and need something to liven up the proceedings. I think opening up with Rand and Tam on the road, with Rand glimpsing the Mydraal, is the best place to begin. The first episode should take us through Winternight and get the characters on the road away from home. The second could be travel and Baerlon (a good place for the Dragonmount dream), and the third episode could cover Shadar Logoth. If they kept it moving at that place, drastically condensing all the travel scenes, they might be able to get a good ways into The Great Hunt by the end of the first season. There are reasons not to do it that way, especially because The Eye of the World is a very good, complete arc of a story. But I think it would be good to aim for opening the third season with The Shadow Rising. That's where one really starts to have an understanding of the full scope of the series.

Well, it's not exactly a wealth of news, but it is very encouraging (especially after the travesty of that so-called pilot with Billy Zane): https://plus.google.com/u/0/103674399065634804648/posts/1aeEKJiqdeF

From reading this thread, it seems that most of you are not watching Game of Thrones. They've largely abandoned the gratuitous nudity thing, even though there is still nudity occasionally. Now, they're holding people's attention with the story and sets and such, since they know they've got their audience hooked. In the season premiere on Sunday, I was really struck by the Dorne sets and costumes (it showed up last season, too, but I guess I was distracted by how uninteresting they made Dorne, compared to the books). I think that the Stormlight Archive would be just as ornate and eye-catching but much more fantastic and original (i.e. not heavily based on any real-world cultures). Check out this image, below (which actually is from last season), and image something equally detailed and intricate but from the Stormlight world:

I'm also going off of what Syl said and the little excerpts from the in-universe Words of Radiance. Again, it's very little, but the legalistic type is pretty well established, and it does make sense for an Order bound to law to fit in with that type, so it seems to me that this is what the few clues we have point to. Really, Nalan and Szeth's behavior hasn't influenced my speculation on typical Skybreaker behavior very much at all. They're both crazy.

I don't like the non-Cosmere stuff nearly as much, myself. It does come down to personal preference (plenty of people are crazy about Reckoners, even though I don't like them as much). I've still read most of the non-Cosmere stuff, except Alcatraz, and you'll probably think it's at least worth reading.

Are you thinking of the line in the second letter that says, "The worlds you now tread bear the touch and design of Adonalsium"? I don't know that this necessarily indicates that Adonalsium created Roshar. I think that (s)he/it probably did, but that line seems to apply to all the worlds that Hoid is running about on, and Scadrial, for one, definitely owes most or all of its creation to Preservation and Ruin. I think the line points more to Frost's general philosophy about the Cosmere--that Adonalsium's influence remains, whatever the Shards have done since the Shattering--and doesn't say much about the specifics of what is going on with Roshar.

It seems like this wouldn't really be the type of thing a Skybreaker would do. I interpret the little we know about them as pointing to very letter-of-the-law sort of people.

If I'm not mistaken, there were also humans on planets other than Yolen before the Shattering. Whether they got there because they worldhopped from Yolen, because Adonalsium created human life on several planets, or a little of both, we don't know. As for humans that were created by the Shards after the Shattering, WOB implies that Scadrial isn't the only place that this happened, but I don't think there's any 100% confirmation. So, basically, no one knows (except Brandon and maybe some of his team).

Filming wrapped on this 10 days ago, so it's kind of crazy that they already have a trailer. Hopefully, the origin stuff is handled they way they did Daredevil's origin. A Hydra agent name-dropped Stephen Strange in The Winter Soldier as a threat for them to target, so he should already be established.

The plane thingy is a drone that Falcon uses. It's a nod to his pet falcon that he has a telepathic link with in the comics. For the movies, they decided to cut the part where he's a bird telepath because that's kind of silly.

I really don't think it's referencing Breath, myself, but with Vasher and Nightblood on the planet, I guess it can't be 100% ruled out.

It's in the Ars Arcanum in The Alloy of Law. I don't thinkit showed up before that (in actual Mistborn books, anyway).

The new Civil War clip is pretty cool. Cap, Falcon, and the Scarlet Witch in action. No Spider-Man, which I think is a good thing. Some of the people who saw the preview showing said that he's the best thing about the movie, so they should save his scenes. https://youtu.be/wajZX4nkjyQ

There has been a little buzz online about Paul Louise-Julie's comic book work, primarily about the upcoming space opera, Yohance (I heard about it through i09): As is pretty clear from the poster, the aesthetic is African inspired, and this extends to the other planned books. He's obviously developing an expansive mythology for his comic book universe, and I'm pretty excited. The only thing out so far is the first 3 issues of The Pack, which is about Nubian werewolves in ancient Egypt. It's pretty good, but I'm much more interested in the upcoming titles--Yohance, in particular, but I also am intrigued by Dwarves and Voor. Scroll to the bottom of this article for art from those: http://www.okayafrica.com/news/african-comic-book-universe-paul-louise-julie/

We really don't know if Khriss is on the planet during the time period of the story. Nazh definitely is, but we don't know enough about how they operate as a team to say whether or not this means that she is certainly on-planet too. I'd say probably--it seems like she probably sets up shop to do her research somewhere, then sends Nazh out to do adventuring for her--but who knows?

So, I know this doesn't have a lot to do with the main discussion, here, but it seems like a lot of people aren't getting that Nightblood basically is a spren, albeit an artificially created one. Because he is on Roshar, he should be able to form a Nahel bond with someone.

I think that it probably has to do with the whole law-centered nature of the Order. The strict adherence to the law implies that a strict hierarchy should also in place. Therefore, candidates do not haphazardly attract spren; rather, a Skybreaker is initiated when the head of the Order decrees it. In other words, you're a Skybreaker when Nalan says you're a Skybreaker.

The Stormlight Archive doesn't need nudity to hold people's attention. There will be spren.

I believe it was in fact "sexposition," but I get what you mean. I do watch GoT, and I believe that the nudity has actually been toned way down. It seems like they hooked everyone with the sexiness, then started just doing the show as a serious drama. It's still there, but there's nothing like the first season, where Littlefinger goes off on a monologue containing important plot information with a couple of nude prostitutes in scene, just to keep viewers staring at the screen.

Please note that I said (with added bold for emphasis): I certainly don't want someone adding a bunch of sex scenes to Stormlight. It doesn't make any sense for the story. I just mean that when HBO created Game of Thrones, they approached it as something serious. The history of genre adaptations is that it is very difficult to get studios to accept that science fiction, fantasy, comic books, etc, should be adapted as if they are something to take seriously. Look back over years of adaptations, and one finds that most have at least something that is ridiculous or corny or needlessly deviates from the source material. When I say that Stormlight could be like GoT, I only mean that it could be filmed as a serious drama and taken every bit as seriously.

Not in... *dum dum dum* THE FUTURE!!!

I don't know if anyone answered you about this. It certainly sounded like Ati was talking about a person, from the context. However, the only thing we know for sure is that Vax is almost certainly a planet. From the Elantris 10th Anniversary Ars Arcanum (the author is musing about how no one knows how Elantrians are initiated):

The Second Army in The Moontide Quartet has a couple of Last Stands in Ascendant's Rite.

Legends this week was kind of meh for me. I actually started to dose off at one point, and while that's probably more due to me being tired from work and staying up late to finish a book the night before, it still says something about the episode's quality. I am very excited for next week, though. I've been waiting for

I think they're using CGI or really good makeup. If you look her up on IMDb, she doesn't look much like Mon Mothma.