Checked all the usual shill sites and it has been cancelled. I say good. The tone of the sites was about how they are leaving fantasy fans high and dry and insisted that the 3rd season was getting good. Some comments from show fans attacked book fans for being critical of the show by using the stupid "the books are the books and the show is the show" argument.
They act like we don't understand that some changes need to be made when adapting a story from book to tv/movie. This showrunner made zero attempt to respect the source material that already had plenty of female empowerment to go with.
Maybe I'm petty but when they announced the cast of the show I knew it wouldn't be good. I guess the one benefit of race and gender swapping is that is shows the priorities of the people in charge.
The Perrin thing is so bad. One of the most important parts of his character is that he’s slow to act because he had to be careful of hurting the other children since he was so much bigger growing up. Of all the characters to accidentally kill someone, he’s the least likely.
I'm a massive fan of the books, and didn't make it two minutes in to the show, because they immediately fuck up the One Power in the opening exposition.
So I see threads like these, and thank the lord I have no idea what anyone is talking about, because it all sounds insane.
The showrunner gave Perrin a wife, whom he added to the story only so that Perrin can accidentally hit her with his axe during the Trolloc attack on Emond's Field right at the start of the story. I believe he defended this decision by saying that this loss would help explain why Perrin is later so desperate to protect Faile. Because, obviously, it can't just be that he loves her....
Also, Perrin is black in the show, which is why u/Fistmagic is making a 13/52 joke.