I guess that's true, the major cities of the three seas will be very similar looking. But, then there is a need to add some travel period from Carythusal to Sumna, with the stop at Atyersus. Maybe have Atyersus/Quorum be a dream sequence, using it as a way to get an early intro into sorcery.
Having something mysterious like Geshrunni being murdered is a pretty good hookfor the first episode.
If you just start in Sumna, it gets rid of the need for that. Then you can conceivably just start in Sumna with Esmi and Inrau kind of already in the picture. I just dont think there will be time to be flashing around to all these different places - it'll just confuse viewers don't you think?
Kell in the mountains, then some random trapper, then these barbarians, then several different cities, schools, Quorum, some prostitute, a priest, then to another city following an emperor and his retinue, it all seems like too much. Mostly, I should add, because TDTCB is unusual compared to the rest of the story. I think people would be pissed if, for all of the first season it looks like you're getting into a medieval political intrigue/drama, that then for the rest of the show is a adventure/war story.
If you start out and have season one, two, and three each be their own book, it might as well be 3 different shows, not to mention TTT itself probably isn't long enough to be a whole 8-10 episode season.
I'm thinking the show would be better served to have the world building of TDTCB sort of chopped up and spread throughout, taking less time to get to the holy war moving... But I don't watch a lot of TV, and what I do watch is nothing like this. Any suggestions on a show that was done well with the same scale as TSA? Maybe a season for TDTCB is plenty of time, I just worry about the cohesion of the story not working well in TV format the way its written in the book.
That post just kind of became a steam of conscious. FYI, I don't know shit about TV, so please enlighten me if what I saying doesn't make sense.