'The Wheel of Time' Season 3 Trailer Shows Us the Future

The Wheel of Time may turn on the page of the original Robert Jordan novels, but it moves much swifter on screen. There are many book fans who have been turned off by showrunner Rafe Judkins' extreme streamlining of the 14 tome series, but considering when you add all of them together, the series runs somewhere in the ~11,000 page range, you can't really fault him. (Also, considering that some of the main characters wouldn't be introduced until Seasons 5 or 6 if the show had done a faithful retelling, that wasn't really an option.)

Thus far, Judkins' far brisker telling of the fight between the light and the dark for worldwide domination has managed to squeeze out a full novel's worth of excessive detail. The result is that the forthcoming Season 3 will draw primarily from what was arguably* Jordan's last good novel from the series before it all started going off the rails, Book 4, The Shadow Rising.

(*I have been arguing this for years. Once you hit Book 5 and the novels start leaving out entire lead characters, it's no longer a functioning series. Fight me.)