Before anything, I am about a quarter into the 10th book of the Wheel of Time series. I came across an article with the showrunner of the upcoming Amazon Prime adaptation and he was answering questions from Twitter. I guess the changes are to be expected, but one person asked if there will be LGBT representation in the show and he said yes. They also asked about the "problematic" aspects of the book regarding treatment of women (due to torture and punishment).
Those two were the most annoying. The books have a lot of women in power and honestly so far women seem to be more competent than males. I notice the constant whining by some female fans if a female character has the least bit of adversity but men are routinely tortured and beaten ( saw this on the game of thrones reddit). As for the LGBT representation that just goes to the annoying trend of fans who have to "see themselves represented". Goes for everyone men, women, LGBT, etc. I would say you can always write your own story or only read stories written by someone that looks like you. I'm a black male and have read plenty of books where the characters were white and I never once thought about how diverse the characters were because I enjoyed the book. Same goes for books I ready by black, Asian, or Hispanic authors. Like I said, people who obsess over a diversity checklist need to write their own stories.
I remember Peter Jackson said that his goal was to show Tolkien's vision and not his. I guess nobody does that when adapting a book now. I'm undecided if I will watch it. Maybe wait for what they say here or what some of the youtubers I follow say.
Which is bullshit since it flat out ignores the lore dealing with the Red Ajah and The Vileness
https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/The_Vileness
And also everything that happens in the books because of the Reds including Rand being kidnapped, the subsequent Battle at Dumai's Wells, the Tower splitting [oh look an all woman group with massive infighting and backstabbing, who ever could imagine such a thing?!].
Some of the worst characters in the entire book are the women.
Of the Forsaken, the men are very straightforward when dealing with an issue, flat out killing someone with a weave or engaging them in combat be that channeling or swordplay.
The female Forsaken?
Lanfear is consumed by jealousy and insanely power hungry. She cares more about being with Lews Therin as a point of prestige than actually being with him and becomes extremely petty and vapid when she is left for Ilyena. Also she opens the fucking Bore that ends up breaking the fucking world!
Graendal is described as one of the most beautiful women to exist [although still not as much as Lanfear], and is extremely decadent controlling. Literally. She wears the most revealing clothes physically possibly and literally mind controls anyone she can with Compulsion.
Semirhage when considered against the other Forsaken is described in the lore as
Mesaana went from being a teacher [who was only a teacher because she was rejected as a researcher, something that likely directly lead to her turning to the evil side], to brainwashing children
And Moghedien was literally named for a spider due to being
Because of her behavior in acting behind the scenes, use of passive-aggression, and general avoidance towards direct confrontation as is again a fairly common behavior in women when acting in a hostile manner.
The show is going to be a complete shitshow for so many reasons and the characterisations of so many major characters are going to be flipped for whatever agendas the producers have stuck in their heads.