Interview with Harriet McDougal and Brandon Sanderson
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- Robert Jordan's widow and editor Harriet McDougal and bestselling author Brandon Sanderson get together and talk about how Harriet picked Brandon to complete the beloved Wheel of Time® series and how Brandon first saw the final notes and material left by Jordan. These notes and material have now become The Gathering Storm, Towers of Midnight, and A Memory of Light.
The Gathering Storm goes on sale October 27, 2009!
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I just realized that Tarmon G'aidon is a play on Armageddon. Maybe it's because I've been pronouncing it wrong.
Harriet is basically how I see Verin
Huh, just like how Robert Jordan inspired Brandon, Brandon now inspires me and many other writers. I get to be a part of that long tradition as my career starts to bud.
"I don't want dinner, I want to know who killed Asmodean!" :-D
Yeah me too. I am still at Crossroads... :-D
Aged Really Well 😊
Oh hey, Branderson from 12 years ago.
TH-cam, why are you showing me this?
Who thought 12 yrs latter he will become legend in the community of fantasy novels
Attempting to mimic RJ's style would have been a huge mistake. tGS made me a Brandon Sanderson fan.
I wish RJ could have made it to the end, but Sanderson is going a very good job especially considering the weight of the whole series. Hard to believe it will end in just one more book!
its hard to believe this was so long ago. This comment alone is 10 years old and Brandon is a superstar. He crushed it with the ending and there's even a show about the series now (its trash but I have hope).
@@Osyrous I enjoyed the Amazon series despite them taking it off the tracks of the source material. I can live with some of the changes they made. Especially the ones that don't really change the outcome of what happens in the end. Like you, I have hope it can be better. Not having Thom at the beginning of the series was one of the things that bugged me more than it really should have. Which isn't to say him being there would have changed the story much, but it also would have been nice to give him more screen time since his character seems far less important in the first season than he was in book one. Some of the castings were actually quite awesome too. Rosamond Pike was the perfect pick for her role as Moiraine. Marcus Rutherford as Perrin and Josha Stradowski as Rand were both really good picks for their respective roles. Zoe Robins also killed it as Nynaeve. There are parts of the show I really wish weren't there though. Rand and Egwene's intimate scenes just weren't in the books and it felt really out of place. Especially on the first episode. Changing Perrin's story arc as drastically as they did bugs me quite a bit too. I think the biggest crime is that they stabbed our Ogier homie, Loial. How dare they. I am not particularly fond of the love triangle BS they decided to throw in there (Especially since Perrin was deadass married in the show. Him loving Egwene literally makes zero sense and is blatantly used to create a rift for the characters. Felt lazy as hell and way out of place) Min, while still seemingly important in the show, is given more of a backseat, I felt. Obviously, she is going to be back so we will see. (At least they had better bring her back) One change I did find fun about the show though, is how they made it a bit harder to figure out who the Dragon might be. Those who read the books, obviously, knew going into the show but I can appreciate making it a little harder to tell. Anyway, this is long enough. If I nitpicked the whole show, I would be here for a while. I found it enjoyable enough. It's certainly not what I had hoped it would be but so long as they don't do anything insanely different from the books, I am okay with them cutting some off the fluff out if it's handled well.
The only Wheel of Time book to come out on my birthday c: Granted . . . This was almost exactly a decade before I picked up and started reading The Eye of the World lol . . .
Birthday buddy
I wasn't a huge fan of the Gathering Storm but Towers of Midnight is one of the best in the series, I am looking forward to A Memory of Light!
SPOILERS:
It's awesome.
He did a great job)
thank god we got brandon
@Luffy327
I'm gunna have to disagree with you. I've been reading these books since I was 11 years old. I grew up with teh Wheel of Time, and reading the last book, I found it very difficult to tell the difference between Sanderson's and Jordan's writing.
Harriet's right; Sanderson's style is darker. And I found it very appropriate. It really worked!
Just finished ToM, very good.
I think Brandon is good enought to finish the series, I for one, actually like Mat more than before. :D
@alphaknave
I've only read Sanderson's Elantris and the Mistborn Trilogy, and I have to admit that imo it's not really darker thatn WoT, but maybe she was referring to his other books...
But have you read A Song of Ice and Fire? That's definitely how you can get darker than WoT!!
What. Those are way darker, especially Mistborn. It's a post apocalyptic wasteland where most of the populous is enslaved and treated like animals. The can be raped or killed for whatever reason their lords see fit. Then the heroes are constantly killing people without any remorse or regret in assassination style strikes instead of "honorable" battles.
@Gawaine687 he's done a pretty good job, and she read his Mistborn which she enjoyed she said AFTER reading the list of possible candidates to write the WOT...it's impossible to emulate Robert Jordan, but Sanderson is amazing! I found his style much simpler, whether that's a good thing or bad thing is matter of opinion.
Wow Brandon was thinner.
They had to choose between Martin and Sanderson and they still thought Sanderson was dark.
Martin would be around halfway done with this book by now.
I have high hopes for the work Brandon is doing on this also. My only concern, and it's not huge but nevertheless, is that Brandon is big on describing his works as having great magic "systems", and from that follows the story. I've never approached the WoT experience as being a great "magic system" but rather as a fascinating and self-consistant world on which Jordan painted an epic drama. I hope Brandon doesn't lose that feel for the sake of gaming the "magic system".
Oh boy how do you feel now about what Brandon did to WoT??
He crushed it
@saskewoo that's what she said
i havent read any of sanderson's books, but i dont see how you could get much darker than WoT
@justintraviscarlson LOL, that would be epic, we should see a flashback of that!
well i wish harriet had actually read some of sanderson's books first before deciding, especially with the magnitude of the ending of this powerful series. but she understood Robert Jordan best and the story only second to Jordan, so i'll trust her judgement and wish Brandon the best of luck on finishing this powerful and great fantasy series!
Hi, this comment is 11 years old, I haven't finish WOT yet but how did you find Brandon Sanderson's writing?
It been 11 years......
Didn't Harriet say that she asked to be sent one of his books? Right before she said that Brandon Sanderson was "a bit darker" (around 0:40).
Who killed Asmodeon was his biggest question?
arrrggghh who did kill Asmodean?!
***** If I remember correctly it was Graendal.
i think that the gathering storm lacks on writings and plot..it's like he was in a hurry to finish and he wrote the entire book fast..
TGS had to have been mostly written by Jordan. At least all the big moments. That's the only way to explain how unbelievably horrible Towers of Midnight was. So bad.
I found Sanderson stayed true to the theme of Jordan's writing, but he messed up some characters pretty terribly. Siuan is one that doesn't seem to have the same bite in her that Jordan wrote of, Bryne seems.. completely different. I can't even put my finger on it.
Some are raging about how awfully he messed up the ending so far. Yes, perhaps he hasn't done as stellar a job as Jordan did, but I'm happy enough just to be able to finish the series, myself.
Sanderson is incompetent at best. He didn't learn a single thing from the thousands of pages of Jordan's writing. His dialogue is laughable and contains all the silly fantasy tropes that Jordan managed to avoid. Mat in particular is excruciating to read. Way to ruin that brilliant character.
Not that it's easy to follow in RJ's footsteps, but come on man. At least try to mimic his style. I don't want your crappy take on Jordan's masterpiece. Just try to write like him. Plain and simple.
I Couldn't disagree more. Anyway.... 7 years is a long ass time between comments. ill expect a response in 2026.
Yeah, he would mimic RJ's style and you would complain about him mimicking RJ's. There's no pleasing fanboys like you.
@@BDMort147 Well, it aint 2026,. Its 2021, but at the direction things are going I figure I better respond now. We may not here in 2026. How are you enjoying the plague, man from the past?