¿Quieres hacer el próximo Juego de Tronos? Así es como tienes que empezar. Los espectadores se han acostumbrado a un tipo de escala, o realismo, que se arrastra hacia lo realmente real. "No es como si pudiéramos decir: 'Oh, ya sabes, en Juego de Tronos, en la primera temporada, solo pasó esto'", dice Mike Weber, productor ejecutivo de La rueda del tiempo. "La expectativa de la audiencia viene de la última temporada de Juego de Tronos, no de la primera". Para la primera temporada, HBO gastó unos 6 millones de dólares por episodio, una cifra que fue subiendo a partir de ahí. ¿Amazon y La rueda del tiempo? Están arrancando con más de 10 millones de dólares por episodio -para un total de ocho, el primero de los cuales comenzará a transmitirse en noviembre- sólo para salir de la puerta.

"One of the most striking things now," says Rafe Judkins, director and executive producer of the time wheel, "is the prepared and willing that the chains are to look in the eye and say: 'I will build two rivers andThen let's burn it at the end of the first episode '.And they say: "Great.What is going to later?"

It is easy to say it, of course.But then you have to do it.You have to spend months and millions of dollars to build the town, populate it with actors and then stage its fall.You have to build and build and build, just to break everything in pieces in one day or two.You have to risk failing at the highest level, and in the most spectacular way possible, just to play the game.And that's what Judkins and his production did.They built two rivers and burned it.That was two years ago, and although they have continued to do almost two television seasons in elaborate sound scenarios and in remote places in Eastern Europe, they have not returned to that town burned since then.

Imagine a child.Learn to read late.Very late.As if the letters that guide everyone while walking, moving from point A to B (is that a B? What is a B?), Were only twisted and illegible symbols for him.They are teasing.So, finally, the child learns to read.What reads?All others have already read the books that are supposed to read when you start reading.One day, in the bookstore, in a corner, see a section of thick, soft colors, with magicians and swords on their covers.No one seems to go to this corner.The child says: this is my corner.Books are as long as those of adults - more long, in fact - and have sex and magic scenes, sometimes in that order and sometimes the vice versa.The child becomes a fantasy reader.Not science fiction, with its intelligent conjectures about the dystopic future, its skies of television color, tune in a dead channel.It is fantasy.