re: The Wheel of Time Season three (Spoilers)

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So that is actually a book thing.

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No it wasnt

Mistborn

A number of people want Jenna Ortega from Wednesday to play the lead if made into series. Read the 3-book arch and you will see why that would be a huge miscast.

I have read all of Brandon books, he does keep the pace of the story going strong in most of his works.

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Might not be “wheel of time” as fans imagined it

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More like not might be wheel of time as was written, but the directors imagine a new way is hitting its stride.

Fixed it for you.

Ok.

Weird hill to die on, but ok.

You do you, princess.

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they werent. That was your own perverse interpretation.

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Siuan and Moraine were 100% pillow friends aka lovers in the White Tower. Its not even a question.

However the way RJ wrote these types of relationships was obviously subtle because of the time. But it is a fact. They were described as pillow friends more than once in New Spring, get into bed with each other, caress each other, and flat out kiss each other in that prequel. RJ is on record defining exactly what pillow friends means (lovers).

However both went on to have relationships with men later.



The amount of gay and non-straight couples in the show, while many are alluded to in the books, borders on very amusing because its clearly a reflection of Rafe Judkins sexuality

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they are clearly bisexual and had a same sex relationship while in the tower,

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Not according to OP

Pillow friends were friends who, while Novices though sometimes also as Accepted, in the White tower at a very young age, when they were sequestered away from family and life-long contacts, and who had no interaction with boys their own age and probably only warders if any males at all, developed romantic and at least minimally-physical relationships with best friends struggling through the same difficult experience.

It is mentioned several times in the novels that most AS abandoned those proclivities once they became Accepted and obtained greater access to the world, and most regarded that aspect of their history as childish, to be outgrown

The friendships almost always endured

Relatively few were intrinsically homosexual, and many of those also held an innate hatred for men in general, and became Reds

Morraine and Siuan, especially upon seeing the way they lived the rest of their lives, fell into the former group, I think.

if the show has them in an ongoing romantic relationship, that is entirely inconsistent with their nature in the novels, despite their prior history as pillow friends

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What would you recommend for a good Sanderson series to start with?

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How high-fantasy do you want your scifi? For a more real-world setting you can check out Legion.

For a bit more scifi, but in a superhero form there's The Reckoners

If you're wanting to go full-bore on your scifi but with a space theme: Skyward

If you're looking for a more medieval feel, there's Mistborn (first era) and Stormlight Archives (if you choose either of these, go Mistborn first because... reasons).