re: Wheel of Time - Season 1 - Amazon - NOW A BOOK READERS THREAD

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Some of Egwene's comments and reactions feel a little self-delusional but that parallels how I felt for her character in the books. (for lack of a better word)

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I think people need to take a step back and remember things like this. Egwene sucked in the books. She’s full of herself and sniffs her own farts. I honestly hated her character until the last 3 books.

It’s going to be hilarious when Elayne shows up and people complain about wokeness because she’s a self-righteous, uppity bitch who thinks she can do things better than men despite that being exactly how she is in the books.

Full Disclaimer: I cannot stand Elayne and is by far my least favorite character. She’s an entitled brat.

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This is where it is interesting looking at people reacting to the shows IMO. Book readers see that Lan has more emotional reactions while lots of show watcher only people I have seen onlinr feel that it is wooden acting and distracts from the immersion.

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That's because there's a contradiction between the character written in the books and the one written for the show. The show character is still reacted to (by other characters) and reacts as if he should be the stoic character from the books. Lan should be played more like Cavill plays Geralt in The Witcher with maybe a hint of Amos from The Expanse (generally speaking, that "someone may be about to die" sense any time they enter the scene).

Such a shame Jordan didn’t give Egwene an early death, this actress makes me hate her more than the book version ever did.

My biggest concern is they’re going to frick up Mat. Mat should end up being a fan favorite and a must watch anytime he’s on screen.

But from what I’ve read and seen Rafe and his cabal of all female writers are much more concerned with any female character and character they can make not white, as well as any spending 60% of every episode on romance.

There are cool moments every episode, but the overall vibe is such a miss because of Rafe.

Dude relax, I’m enjoying the show for what it is.

Is it mandatory that I like all actors/actresses cast? I hate the actress playing Egwene, ban me.

Agree with most all of that.

I think they could even work around where Faile and Gawyn are cut and Perrin busts outta the friendzone in season 6 or 7

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Egwene would be one of Rand's 3 beautiful women

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no frick Egwene hate that Kunt
not the Actress she plays Egwene very well
but I just hate the Egwene from the books
and the actress is playing her how I had her in mind from the books A selfcentered count

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Stop commenting

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take your arse to the non book readers thread or take you own fricking advice and stfu

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but if I were an outsider just reading this thread without any clue of what it’s about or any context to place it within…

I would be overwhelmed by the misogyny. So much hate directed at the females.

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Only by someone already looking for misogyny everywhere they go.



Even then they would have to remove the context of all the other posts bitching about the male characters as well as other aspects of the show.

The characters that have had the most focus have been the females (partially due to what stage of the story we're in, partially due to the showrunners focusing far more on the character growth of the females than the males) so naturally there's a focus there.

For example, Rand is the Dragon Reborn and they set this first season up to be a guessing game as to which of the 5 it could be, right? They've spent the whole season thus far pushing and pulling viewers into wondering about all the characters, they spent an entire episode on a Warder's death but Rand... the big reveal as Rand the Dragon Reborn? The reason for the whole show? A couple of minutes.

Context matters.