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Well, as of the February 17, 2026 weekly update we have an answer, it has to do with the weird stuff going on with the Writer's Guild of America right now. It will happen at some point

I don't necessarily agree with that particular criticism, I liked WaT for the most part, just relaying what I've seen online. the Shallan stuff was weak, but not because of Renarian and Rlain. Yeah, the Shinovar arc could have used, idk something more, but I wasn't expecting Kal to be fighting much after RoW, and he'd just invented therapy like a month ago, I didn't think it should be sophisticated. I'm saying this as an LDS member that leans a bit more to the right on some issues. To be fair though, I've only read WaT once. I need to work my way back through the series for a reread

I think a sizable portion of it, not all mind you, but a good chunk has to do with how generally polarized things are. The amount of comments on the internet I've seen saying they're done with Brandon because he went a certain W word after WaT, but at the same time there would be people calling him all sorts of phobic if he didn't include gay or trans characters. Hell, even now there are people who hate him purely because of his faith despite his efforts to let the gay, ace, and trans portion of his fanbase know they are seen. There are legitimate gripes to have with WaT, but the current cultural climate didn't help.

Well, the progress bar is back.

I'm sure if it was something where nothing could be said they would have told us that instead of saying it would be rescheduled.

No, point in worrying too much, the earliest we'd see anything is probably 2028 or 2029.

Oh, I'm still excited. I'll back this stuff with my mond when and if the time comes, and with Apple, I feel like it actually will. I'm just worried we won;t see the Cosmere be really connected on screen the way we do in the books. It's part of what I like about it.

I understand the business behind it. It jut makes the connection that we'd want to see a little bit harder. I'm thinking like Nightblood not hitting quite as hard without Warbreaker. It's small stuff like that. It's a smart move on Apple's part, I agree and it's still a big deal. It's just less exciting than we thought. I knowb if that Final Empire movie actually comes to frution I'm going to watch it ASAP and hope it's good and that we get the other stuff. I honestly have more hope for Mistborn than Stormlight, given the concerns I voiced about adapting Stormlight.

Well, yes, I just meant the deal isn't as big as we initially thought, and I wish the reporters had made sure they had the correct facts is all.

Well, that's somewhat disappointing, I wish the articles got it right the first time.

I'm most worried about how they'll handle Stormlight in general, and they way of Kings specifically, and I'm not talking about the CGI. The structure of the book makes it a pain to adapt. The beginning starts with three time jumps in as many chapters, though to be fair the Cenn chapter could probably be folded into the Kaladin flashbacks. There are large portions of the book where major POV characters just don't appear (Shallan not having a POV in part 2 for example), then there's what to do with the Interludes. Plus, you would probably have to film every scene that takes place at Gavilar's feast during season 1's production so the actors don't age and create a discontinuity between the flashbacks because of the time beween seasons with the actors aging. Yeah, it's a TV show so they have more run time to work with, which is great given the book length, but it's still going to be a nightmare...

I think it's just the natural human inclination to want to share things we love.

First of all, I want to reiterate, I don't think it's needed, the books are good and popular on their own (Even the ones I have some things I didn't like in then like Wind and Truth were still good). That said, this will help Brandon reach a wider audience, and some of them will pick up the books and future books, even if the majority might not. It having a visual adaptation opens to door to some other things I would like to see, but that's got nothing to do with adaptation itself. All that said, studios wanted these rights because of the built-in audience they know they can ask for lots of money from, so a faithful adaptation (Faithful not one to one as much as we'd like it, the nature of movies means things will be cut and changed) is paramount to getting those fans to watch it and to have good word of mouth.

I don't think there's a need for adaptation per se, but it's nice to have.

Don't get me wrong, I adore book 1, but I understand some of the issue with drawing on the mists does come across as a deus ex machina in that book.