D&D Movie/TV Dragonlancing TV show being worked on by WotC confirmed

[doctorbadwolf]

Broody and dramatic do describe a large swathe of the Wheel of Time, but theybget the mix dead wrong: very little humor in the show, and they never even mention the Flame & the Void, IIRC.

Yeah the books have drama and brooding, but they almost make fun of the characters who are brooding, and it’s just a lot more fun.

Mat makes me so sad. Like, why make his parents garbage people? Why make him a scumbag with little sense of fun? Why should I care how dark he gets when he starts out like that, rather than as the vaguely bored rascal he is in the books?

I like the show for what it is. My peeve is unnecessary changes like the one I mentioned. As you said it served nothing aside from adding sexiness and drama ASAP.

Yeah that’s all I could figure for any of the changes, other than a weird “American audiences don’t know what a harp is! Give the guy a guitar!” nonsense.

 

[humble minion]

I started with the audiobooks, right from the start. Listened to every single second while I was on my daily constitutional. I made it as far as the start of Book 7 and realised life's too short to spend another 100 hours of Perrin moping about Faile and Rand moping about everything.

I binged the first seven books when stuck in a tent on a rainy fishing holiday, then decided that Jordan didn't know where he was going or how to finish, and never picked up another one. After all, at the time I'd just discovered the first book of this brand shiny new Song of Ice and Fire series, and I'm sure THIS author would never have those problems, right?

 

[Parmandur]

I binged the first seven books when stuck in a tent on a rainy fishing holiday, then decided that Jordan didn't know where he was going or how to finish, and never picked up another one. After all, at the time I'd just discovered the first book of this brand shiny new Song of Ice and Fire series, and I'm sure THIS author would never have those problems, right?

Here's the crazy thing: he did know where he was going. Try again, the end is worth the journey.

 

[humble minion]

Try again, the end is worth the journey.

To each their own. I stopped caring about the journey, which made the end meaningless to me.

 

[Azzy]

I don't disagree. They did a very good job of making it something close to understandable/filmable though, I thought. I was genuinely surprised anyone could get that sprawling mess that close. And yeah realistically I think there are quite a few fantasy series that, if you wanted to hew as close as possible to the source material, you would need an anime, basically. The trouble is, a high-quality, well-animated anime, with a non-generic art-style, like JJK, Chainsaw Man or Cyberpunk takes longer to produce than an equivalent live-action show, or at least very close to as long, and is far from cheap, too. The days of seasons dozens and dozens of episodes long, two-thirds of them filler, a la Naruto et al, are mostly gone.

Man, I'd figuratively kill for a D&D anime produced by the studio Ufotable. Everything they do is a visual treat.

(Interestingly this means I actually started watching a bit of anime again! Higher style levels and shorter seasons are a good thing!)

I feel that the quality of storytelling in anime has gone down in the past decade.

 

[Parmandur]

To each their own. I stopped caring about the journey, which made the end meaningless to me.

Worth another go: the ending is there, waiting, and it justifies everything. It is...not terribly surprising thar A Crown of Swords is where most people tend to lose interest, and it actually took me a couple years to get around to finishing the series...but it pays off, big.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Dragon Lancing across the multiverse
Boldly going forward 'cos we can't find reverse.

 

[mamba]

Worth another go: the ending is there, waiting, and it justifies everything.

no ending justifies me having to wade through 13.5 books of boring drivel.

Not saying that is what Wheel of Time is, never read it, but some here sure manage to make it sound like that while presumably being fans of it

Wheel of Time fans are the kind who would appreciate 24 seasons, with really slow plot progression oer season.

Going by the series, there is no chance of me giving the books a try or returning for season two

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Man, I'd figuratively kill for a D&D anime produced by the studio Ufotable. Everything they do is a visual treat.

Right? It could be amazing. Especially if they could avoid it being another Isekai/MMORPG-inspired deal and thus full of slightly annoying meta stuff.

I feel that the quality of storytelling in anime has gone down in the past decade.

That may well be true of anime overall, because I'm basically just watching the "best" available stuff and almost entirely recommendations, but I can say that a couple of friends recommended me a lot of anime shows 10-20 years ago, and I bounced off every one of them. Largely because though they were well-regarded (at the time), they were all heavy on the filler (in a 26-ish-episode season usually about 30-50% of the episodes were basically filler and not even really advancing the characterisation of the characters, just repeating it), and some just had some creepy attitudes or fan-service-y stuff which was really off-putting. All of that seems to be less common now, or perhaps segregated away somehow, and seasons seem to lean shorter.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

A co-production with a Japanese or Korean animation studio? Possible, but both sides would rather to enjoy total creative control about their IPs.