I finished the books in Spring of last year and I started reading them partly because someone recommended them to me after I finished Song of Ice and Fire books and I also knew that Amazon was doing a show and at that point I was already jaded about book adaptations.
I was talking to a friend over the holidays and him and his wife told me they watched a few episodes and couldn't take it anymore. I didn't even know in the show it has Moraine and Siuane in some sort of relationship. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but I see morons online who defend it since it is mentioned they were pillow friends in the books but in the books they both end up marrying men (which I'm sure they won't include in the show).
Honestly it really makes me sad that Wheel of Time has had such success (at least according to Amazon) and the usual suspects are praising it like crazy. It was a major red flag for me when the showrunner said in his first interview that there will be lots of lgbt representation and that the show is about Moraine (she isn't even in half the books). In all 14 books pillow friends isn't something they really do a deep dive into at all but I guess that doesn't matter.
I got into a debate in the comment section of one of the youtubers I like who was disappointed in WOT and a guy was saying how it follows the spirit of the book and it was great. To his credit he at least respected where I was coming from when I said I am a book purist and from everything I have heard the showrunner has made too many changes I don't care about.
I just don't get it, the books had women in power and people of different races once they leave Two Rivers. I've seen some people online compare book readers who don't like the show to people who didn't like that Tom Bombadil wasn't in the Lord of the Rings. Too bad there wasn't someone like Christopher Tolkein to defend Wheel of Time.
The bastardization of these stories isn’t the result of incompetence or just them misguidedly shoving their Marxist politics into an existing story, destruction is their endgame. Existing properties only serve as an avenue for these people to subvert them and insert their politics. It’s not about telling a story, it’s not even really about convincing or converting people to their politics, it’s all about destroying something that normal people loved.
They want to tear down anything that exists simply because people like it, they might not even realize they’re doing it consciously but the result is the same. It’s the same principle as modern art and modern architecture; they want to infect the imagination so that people have nowhere to escape to, just the ugly grey concrete globohomo reality of the twenty first century.
Yea that’s true. Honestly wish they would just stop adapting anything older. Adapt the new garbage that wins Hugo awards
Yeah. no point in them doing that though, they can’t destroy something when it was shit from the beginning.
Hugo awards are already infested with that crap. No use in infesting your own shriveled up husk.
I think a lot of these writers are mad that their own shitty creations never took off. None of these people wanted to be "adapters". They wanted to write big original stories that "change the world". But their stories suck, and no one wants to read them let alone pay for them.
So they get jobs adapting the great works of other writers, and then they use established IP to tell garbage stories. When someone challenges this nonsense, these assholes immediately pull out the "gotta make changes for television" card. It's bullshit. They're only making changes to assuage their own narcissism.