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I'm on the last book literally right now. So yeah, I'll have read it either way. But I was kinda sorta thinking that a nice way to celebrate finishing the books would be to jump over and watch the show. I've heard mixed reports on how good (or bad) it is though, so I dunno.

Anyway, WoT in particular aside, the basic principle is the same: if you're going to take on producing an epic work, I'd really prefer that you commit to actually finishing it. That's true pretty much regardless of what franchise/property we're talking about.

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There might be fans of the show but I’ll never understand how, it’s god-awful. 0 respect for the source material and far more interested in winning diversity points in a story that was already quite interesting in its gender dynamics. That reads like an anti-woke critique but it’s just my genuine feeling.

If you haven't read the source material it's a fine show. Yes, just like all other shows nowadays diversity is the most important feature, but once you look past that it's not bad. Certainly better than rings of power in my opinion.

Unfortunately 49% of America are closet racists and can’t look past black people on tv. It’s really quite mind boggling. I consider myself an extreme nerd and yet I don’t have knee jerk reactions when I see a brown elf. I can only point to racism, possibly subconscious for most of the whiners.

I don’t mind diversity in my work, I’m a non-white person in America myself, but the decision to have everyone from the Two Rivers be different races (other than Rand) is just silly and destroys worldbuilding.

Not to mention the changed plot beats that I won’t spoil that rob Rand of his big moments and give them to all the female characters, when they already all have major plot moments in EoTW!

I've read roughly half of the books over two decades ago. I remember absolutely nothing about the story, and I'm enjoying the first season of the series just fine this far.

So sure it's sad to hear it's not authentic to the books, but I wouldn't have known without reading this discussion and honestly learning that now doesn't affect my viewing experience at all.

For what it's worth the last episodes were by far the worst and the biggest blows dealt to the characterizations.

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