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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.

I mean, I'm probably going to be a bit of a book purists (Not out of any sort of malice or superiority complex for having read them, I hope the adaptations are good.), even if the adaptation is good, especially when it comes to Era 1 for personal reasons. Heck, when I went to the Worldhopper Ball this year, small costuming inaccuracies and changed lines stuck out like a sore thumb to me because I've read Final Empire probably too many times. Honestly, I'm not too worried about it, the books aren't going anywhere, an adaptation probably won't change much for me, and if it means more Cosmere fans, all the better.

The odds of an adaptation being so good that it completely supplants the books is vanishingly small. I have hope that it'll be good, but stuff is going have to but cut and Brandon has already talked about changes he wants to make. With how loved these books are, I don't see them pulling a The Princess Bride. It's not like new people don't get into the Lord of the Rings books every year.

I feel like Brandon knows why the stories worked, and what his fans liked. Yes, there will be changes, he's already talked about some of the changes he wants in Final Empire, some of which I'm unsure about, but with this much creative control, I'm sure the general plot and spirit will be there, and if worse comes to worse the books aren't going anywhere.

Not to mention all the stuff that happens to the skaa, Era 1 wasn't exactly shy about that, even if it didn't show it often (and it never overtly showed what happened to skaa women nobles took a liking to, thank god.)

I'm excited, but I do worry about this delaying Ghostbloods. In his reddit post, he said he'd be working on the Mistborn (presumably just Final Empire for now), screenplay for the next five months, between that and him needing to do edits of Fires of December...

A new Cosmere book in about two weeks! (Well, kind of new given the incorporation of Sixth of the Dusk as flashbacks.)

To be fair, that was a Hoid thing, a word he likely picked up on another world. Kaladin just didn't have another word for what he was as he's inventing a new medical field on Roshar, and since Hoid said he was a therapist, it stuck. It was even called out, by I can't remember if it was Ishar or Nale. I'm paraphrasing here: "What are you to him? (Szeth)" "I'm his therapist." "What is that?" "I have no idea."

WOBs say that Era 2 takes places between SA 5 & 6, with WaT out now we can see it's a little more nuanced than that because of the time dilation. In the WaT epilogue we see Hoid applying for the job of being Wax's coachman, which he first had in Shadows of Self. Months after Retribution is formed Shallan contacts Kelsier, and Kell says it's been years for them, and that the time dilation hadn't quite settled yet, and it was worse at the start than it will be in once things stabilize. Combine that with Kell's mention of a crisis and I think we can place Shadows, Bands, and Lost Metal all in that "months" long period post the formation of Retribution, where Shallan was travelling to the Horneater peaks in Shadesmar. Alloy of Law is a bit more ambiguous, given that was a year before Shadows of Self. Hoid was there for the Yomen-Ostlin wedding dinner, but we see him arriving some time before Shadows pretty right after Retribution is formed. That puts Alloy before WaT. Now a Rosharan year is 1.1 Cosmere standard years, which are equivalent to Earth years, which both Yolen and Scadrial share. There Rhythm of War leads directly into WaT, but there was a year gap between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War. So, given the new information that puts the main part Alloy of Law, somewhere in the Oathbringer-Rhythm of War timeskip. EDIT: Disregard the bit about Alloy, when Hoid appears on Scadrial he says he'd left instructions for his things years ago, and in the epilogue, he mentions busting out his beggar costume for appearances, and that is what he wore for the wedding dinner. So, we can place Alloy after his arrival but before the epilogue.

I think Taravangian made a miscalculation in his Interlude that may come back to bite him down the. Specifically, when it comes to Sazed. He thinks the other Shards are ignoring him and that Sazed is impotent. We know from the Letters that Sazed recognizes the threat of Odium and is willing to do what he can to fight against him, and with what we saw in Lost Metal (Though that is after WaT) he may not be impotent for much longer... Also, it's interesting that he was able to contact Valor but Taravangian can't find her.

It's probably just normal cow leather.