https://www.reddit.com/r/whitecloaks/comments/rgewm2/this_means_that_wot_has_made_herstory_tvs_heir/
I really need to stop browsing WoT subs, I’ve been feeling liquified bits of my brain leaking out through my nose and ears for the past few days, it’s like staring directly into highly-radioactive material and just feeling your body start falling apart on the molecular level.
I thought the people on that sub hated the show? Also, why is it reactionary? I’ve only seen the first two eps
Edit: sorry totally misread your comment as “like” instead of “dislike”
The people complaining are reactionaries, not the show itself. A lot of the whining is the typical “muh SJWs with their agendas” bullshit, like “they’re sidelining male characters and making Egwene & Nynaeve into Mary Sues because feminism”, or “they’re going to have the dragon be Egwene because feminism”, and “the male characters are weak & emotional because feminism”, and various other bits of bullshit.
Honestly, I don’t even think the show is actually great or anything, but these people are insane. Someone “logical” ought to assume that the faults are the result of classic Hollywood hackery, not the secret Amazon SJW agenda (yeah, Bezos and the other Amazon execs are TOTALLY concerned with pushing a feminist agenda, just look at them, such progressives).
making Egwene & Nynaeve into Mary Sues
Isn’t that basically the source material already? Like there’s this premise of “oh all the inbred hill folk from this one region are just crazy magic for some reason” and a bunch of stuff about how the main characters are all the first fReE-tHiNkiNg ViSiOnaRiEs in the past thousand years where they just intuitively discover a bunch of lost magic and revolutionize logistics and manufacturing a priori.
the male characters are weak & emotional
I remember at least two of the thousand plus page books had Randal Thor’s entire arc as “he’s depressed and has PTSD cause all this shit that’s happening is actually really traumatizing and bad.”
It’s been a long time since I read the books, I don’t think I read any past book ten or eleven, and I vaguely remember them as having a bunch of problematic themes and commentary to them, but it did definitely make all the female main characters basically super powered compared to any male character other than Rand and have all the male main characters actually have emotions and respond to trauma, at least in their internal monologues.
I remember at least two of the thousand plus page books had Randal Thor’s entire arc as “he’s depressed and has PTSD cause all this shit that’s happening is actually really traumatizing and bad.”
I mean, Rand goes through some shit. Chronic and sever mental illness for a few books. Then he’s betrayed, several of his friends are killed, and he’s viciously tortured for months on end.
“Why is Rand such a pussy?” is such a nakedly reactionary take, you really are telling on yourself by making it.
Yes, the people from Emond’s Field all benefited from magic eugenics, but it’s also confirmed in the books that the Aes Sedai have been gradually getting weaker, and there are two main theories given for this:
- Killing all male channelers has fucked the magic genepool
- The Aes Sedai becoming more insular and elitist over time meant they skipped over many potentially talented recruits because they didn’t think they’d find anything of use in tiny villages, and refused to train women over a certain age
Having finished the series,
spoiler
Theory 2 is correct
ShowRand so far seems quite a bit less emotional than in the books, but he’s also been aged up like 5 years and we don’t get any internal monologues. ShowPerrin is more emotional but that’s because they changed it so he accidentally axes his wife, which, yeah.
