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That was the argument I made as well. It's a rural village, Two Rivers, why they fuck did they make it like 2020 London? Everyone would be the same ethnicity after a couple generations. So.. are we to infer this world is super metropolitan in travel? Or, that Two Rivers is highly insular and clannish? It's the same glaring problem with Rings of Power. Why the fuck does this small hobbit clan have ridiculous levels of disparity? In a theme (fantasy) that already requires you to suspend disbelief, it just sucks you outta the show.
Though with WoT, that was just a drop in the bucket. The opening montage already slayed the magic system and heirarchy. I didn't make it through the first episode it was such trash. Rand not even feeling like a main character.
I haven’t watched but I’ve been told it is obvious that it is downplaying the males. And as I’ve said before in the books they meet different people of different countries and cultures so it was dumber to race swap.
They've sidelined Rand hard. He's in a severe Henry Cavill situation. Guy read the books and wanted to do them justice. Shame nobody else did either.
I didn’t know that about the dude that played Rand. That sucks
Yea some scenes you can tell his frustration is palpable.
Jordan depicted the (main) characters (90-95+% as white (and heterosexual)) in the books, and he wrote a list too (a few examples):
Egwene: Audrey Hepburn at age 18
Nynaeve: a young Jacqueline Bisset
Min: Isabella Rossellini
Lan: Liam Neeson in one of his craggier roles
Siuan (after stilling): Renee Zellweger (before appearance change)
Padan Fain: Alan Rickman
Perrin: a young Val Kilmer [never mind his physique]
or this information is interesting too:
Q: How big are the cities in The Wheel of Time?
Robert Jordan: Tar Valon has 500,000 people and cities like Caemlyn and Tear are around 300,000 or so. I've envisioned a seventeenth century society and you've got to remember that for those times 300,000 would be huge. Some Asian cities of that period had populations near one million but nothing in Europe was even close.
So, according to him, the whole story takes place in 'Europe'...
Oh man, this hurts and it could have happened.
I remember seeing that. Just goes to further show the contempt they have for source material. They do meet some people of other races/cultures but like you said the vast majority in the books are white