The Shaido thread should end with a defeat at Caihrien that's so decisive that they go back over the spine. Have a big showdown with Mat and Couladin and that's it.
While I think Seanchan stuff can be trimmed, it's way too central to TGH and Egwene's storyline to remove completely. Each of the...
I think I'm assuming it'll be a shorter season than the rest, Toral Gaidin, but there's so many plot threads to follow through the Last Battle that I think it's a minimum of six episodes? Lan at Tarwain's Gap, Faile and the Horn, Elayne's battle, Perrin in the tel'arah'rhiod, Lan battling the...
I think we could compress the books down into this:
Season 1: EotW and TGH: Season 1, ending with Rand's image being seen in the sky.
Season 2: TDR (drawing callandor as a half-season finale, with the battle beginning in the Stone as a cliffhanger) and TSR. The rainstorm/Rhuidean battle and...