Spoilers ahead, if anyone cares. Spoiler: you shouldn't.
The three primary male characters in this series are Rand, Mat, and Perrin.
In the TV show, Rand is dating and fucking Egwene. Mat comes from a broken home with a lecherous and alcoholic father. Perrin is married, and he accidentally slaughters his wife in the very first episode.
None of this happens in the books.
Rand and Egwene seem like a thing initially, but it never happens. Mat's dad is a stand-up dude and a pillar of the community. Perrin is very single and doesn't accidentally murder anyone.
Let's summarize the changes:
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Rand goes from having no physical relationship with Egwene to fucking her in the first episode
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Mat's father goes from good and decent member of the community to drunken adulterer
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Perrin is given a fucking wife out of nowhere, and he accidentally kills her for cheap effect
I've never seen such radical, unnecessary, and terrible changes to a beloved series. I've also never seen the sheer cope I witnessed when surveying the WoT communities online. People are glossing over these massive, character-wrecking alterations like they're somehow part and parcel for adapting anything to TV/film. No, retards, this is not normal. This is fucked.
Brandon Sanderson, the dude who finished writing the books after Robert Jordan died, is on record saying that he tried to fight these changes, and that the fans would be upset about them. He of course moderated his position because you can't burn any bridges in the industry - especially not when you've got a whole bunch of your own books you'd like to see adapted. But even with his tacit permission to hate this nonsense, people are still posting about how they cried when they finally saw their favorite books on TV.
I'm rambling. I knew it would be bad. But Jesus Christ, I never expected it to be this flagrantly disrespectful. Robert Jordan is turning over in his grave.
After watching, I find myself wondering if people who haven't read the books will even know what the hell is going on?
People typically fear/hate Aes Sedai, so why would she make an entrance like that? (bc she's a strong independent woman, and she deserves it!!!)
Lan is the embodiment of death, but he can barely hold his own against a Trolloc, and hides on the ground as Moiraine kills dozens, lol.
All the added scenes with Egwene and Nynaeve in Ep.1, they tried so hard to be like look! Women! Women important! Women powerful! See? Women! But they never explained what the women's circle even is, or why any of it was important, or it's dynamic, so it was all pointless gratification. And they burned up how much time on that trash instead of doing actual character development?
Egwene could have been introduced exactly like the story Tam told about Rand bringing her baskets of berries. An old crush, but NOOOO.
Why is Nynaeve so protective? Why is she important? Why do the other characters respect her so much? Obviously because she's a WOMAN! Can't be any other reason, like idk, her being their Wisdom, since they never explained what that is.
There's ample room in the story for female empowerment. But this is just too much. It's so cringe, like the scene in Avengers when all the women have to get together to secure the gauntlet. Forced and unnecessary.
Don't even get me started on the "weird diversity that has no place there or in the books where all of this was written". Source:https://communities.win/c/KotakuInAction2/p/13zzR9ycMu/the-woke-of-time-or-how-to-adapt/c
They don't adapt material because they like it, it's because it's a recognizable corpse they can hang their woke sjw shit on and something they can subvert to eliminate interest in the radically different original material.