WiC Weekly: May 4-10, 2025

We check in with the Cosmere, ogle the costumes of The Wheel of Time, get updates from Outlander, House of the Dragon, The Last of Us and more. It's been another busy week sci-fi and fantasy world!
Madeleine Madden (Egwene al’Vere), Ayoola Smart (Aviendha) in The Wheel of Time season 3 finale. Image: Prime Video.
Madeleine Madden (Egwene al’Vere), Ayoola Smart (Aviendha) in The Wheel of Time season 3 finale. Image: Prime Video. | The Wheel of Time

Every Sunday, we here at WinterIsComing.net go over the latest and greatest news, reviews and more from the worlds of sci-fi, fantasy, movies, TV and books. It's Sunday now. Let's begin.

Let's start by visiting with our old friend Brandon Sanderson, who is hard at work writing his ever-expanding Cosmere books. This far into the saga, some of its deep lore is becoming clearer:

Sticking with books, we've got new into about the tenth and final novel in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. What does the title presage about Jamie and Clare Fraser?

The third season of The Wheel of Time featured some gob-smackingly beautiful costumes courtesy of Sharon Gilham. We dive deep on them:

Still missing Netflix's excellent historical drama The Last Kingdom? There's a book for that:

Is The Wheel of Time TV show improving sales of the original books? Anecdotally, yes. Does that mean Amazon and Sony should renew the show as soon as possible? Anecdotally, yes.

The latest run of Andor may be some of the best Star Wars anything — movies or TV shows — that we've ever seen. There only a few episodes left before this masterpiece ends:

The third season of House of the Dragon is on its way, and we're hearing a lot about what's in store for Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint):

We're in the thick of the second season of The Last of Us on HBO. Season 3 is coming...but probably not for a long while:

Once upon a time, the SyFy Channel was a place you could always turn for all-ages genre fare. The tradition continues to this day. What classics need to come back?

It's looking more and more like Hollywood's going to make an Elden Ring movie. We have a few (thousand) thoughts:

Stick around WiC all week for more, More, MORE of this kind of thing.

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