A former co-worker of mine who is a huge fan of the Wheel of Time books (pretty liberal but hated the show because it didn't follow much of the source material) showed me a shill article anticipating the next season and dismissing people who didn't like it as lore nerds who want everything like the books.

I am very sick of the attacks on people who had been fans of the original source material of an IP. I haven't seen the list in a while but I think that was one of the steps of geekergate that Itchy Bacca made. As for Wheel of Time I knew it was dead on arrival when the showrunner couldn't shut up about female/lgbt representation. Yes there is mention of pillow friends and the demigods seem to find pleasure with men and women, but in the 14 very thick books mention of that isn't very prevalent, but along with taking things that Rand does to give to female characters, he seems intent to "representing" lgbt.

The larger point is that it is laughable when people who say to respect the lore/source material are attacked as racists/sexists. When Disney bought Star Wars I remember so many articles praising the erasure of the EU, and while Disney has the right to do what it wants they would've been smarter in at least doing some sort of animated adaption of EU content like DC does with alternate storylines.

Sorry for the rant but the whole "nerds are evil" mindset really annoys me because it seems like a lot of these people who get control of these IPs or are hired as writers were the very people who laughed at those who played video games, read books, or comic books but once nerd stuff became trendy (thank you BBT and MCU) now everyone is an expert. Poster child for this is Anita Sarkessian. She really strikes me as someone who never gave gaming a second thought til she saw the money to be made whining endlessly about girls in gaming.