My favorite part of the whole shitshow is that they tried to shoehorn in all the woke bullshit into a story that already highlights it all in a way that is much more effective and organic.

In the books, all the main characters are from the same town and they all look alike. Brunette, brown eyes, short. All of them. It's a basic old english farming village where every family has been there for centuries and they don't trust outsiders, and any outsider is very obvious just by looking at them. They have their traditional "gender" roles and the whole place is exactly what you expect it to be.

Except Rand. He is a very tall ginger in a town of short brunettes. He doesn't fit. No one knows why because they all come from this tiny insular village backed up against mountains and rivers in the middle of nowhere where no one ever comes. They think he just looks a little weird, but ok, he's Tam's kid and we all know and respect Tam, so whatever.

None of them have any experience in the world, so they don't know that he's adopted and very clearly from a specific race of people.

The first six books or so spend a whole lot of time showing us how these insular, isolated nobodies are out of their depth and have to learn to adapt to a world that is full of variety and customs and cultures that they don't understand, how the people you know and love are still the same on the inside even if you find out that they are from a totally different race or even that they have a power that has had world-ending consequences in the past. It's a huuuuuge theme throughout all the books.

And now these idiot showrunners have so little understanding of it that they decided to diversify the shit out of the hwole town, completely ruining that entire theme. If everyone is already diverse, then there is no culture shock to be had when they go to another country and everyone is a different color than they are and the women have no problems drinking in taverns with the men and the women actually are the ones tht do all the courtship etc etc.

Their little town has already been portrayed as super woke with the wahmen in charge and all the people are already various shades of brown, so there is no way to show the value of accepting people that you don't understand because they present no differences and you already understand that people are different.

Congratulations, woke morons: You killed your own favorite theme with your unending butthurt.