So I finished the last Wheel of Time book yesterday. I really enjoyed the series, but for someone who isn't a huge book reader I could definitely see them as being too long. I know Amazon is adapting it but considering what the showrunner is saying I don't have much faith. He said Moraine is the main character and wants to make it a feminist show. I mean the show has plenty of women in power as well as different races but I guess that isn't sufficient. I do remember seeing a stupid article where the lady was criticizing Wheel of Time because it has three women in love with one man. Because of course there has never been a story where multiple men are after one woman.
I do wonder how they will handle a messianic type male character in the current year.
I remember the guy who directed the Lord of the Rings trilogy saying that he wanted to present Tolkien's vision. Now they hire people who seem to be clueless about the source material. Biggest example would be that lady doing the She-Hulk show. Can't shut up about nerds/white males.
Dragonriders of Pern has been in development hell for years. I can only imagine how they'll gut it now that McCaffrey is dead, and her son is a full-on sex freak who only seems to want to recycle his mom's ideas and make sex stories about Green riders or some shit; w/e I really didn't like any book with his name attached to it.
They won't understand the feudalism, they'll treat F'lar like some sort of rapist, and they won't understand the in-universe historical context of why people were like they were when we first meet this world. All they'll see is women and faggots, and they'll probably even bitchify or animalize the fucking dragons, too, by turning them into nothing but vehicles for peepeepoopoo jokes.