Too many deviations to retain a sizeable number of book fans, wayward decisions in the story to earn the right be be called WOT. Elevation of minor characters at the expense of stronger characters. Social politicking.

Pick any of them and that's your problem.

Agree with you. It's not about removing unwanted text, it's about turning that text into a visual. An eerie room with a fire place and a single chair in TAR would take nearly a page of writing but addressed in seconds with a sweeping camera shot.

There's clearly bias surrounding favourite characters and scenes which limits the show landing for me. I liked Egwene, but she wasn't my fav. It feels like she is being elevated more than needed. Show horning in loads of Moiraine to keep the star actress involved derails the show as it leaves Rand isolated and needing to trust in others / strike out on his own. He can't do this in the show.

So many people throw shade on this opinion shouting "you can't do a 1:1 adaptation". That's not what we asked for. We asked for a faithful adaption with great visuals of book accurate events. I don't even mind the fight at EF or the Black Ajah fight in the sneek peek as they were at least mentioned in the books.

It's when they produce outcomes like the 2 season finales that sours the taste and makes it hard to the showrunners.

Rand should have had both those moments, but they were essentially given to Egwene. Just wrong as shows the lack of respect for the source material.

This could be heavily predicated by Amazon but to me, it smacks of fan fiction.

I will the show if it actually realigns to be faithful to the main beats of each character and tell the story as envisioned by the great man RJ.

I've been a detractor as I don't agree with the unnecessary changes that were made to the show. I fully understand a need to condense some stories, drop others and merge characters but I don't like the additional content or presentation of characters and back stories that serve no purpose (to date).

That being said if they do start to show book accurate events and get behind the right characters to the correct degree at the right time, then this show has my backing. I want to see a good WOT depiction, particularly as this is the first time it's been converted to the screen. Honour the story, the legacy of the author Robert Jordan, and respect the fans love for this material and you have my .

To be fair and play devil's advocate, I don't mind if they express activities and events that were not directly observed as a POV but DID take place and were referenced.

There will be things they will show that we didn't directly see (don't want to add spoilers) but what I will say is, should they choose to adopt this strategy, then they have to minimize their own fan fiction and play it out as it should have (e.g. the wasted time on the stepin storyline which should have been contained to the same episode as Logain).

I liked in the main the two rivers attack. I didn't like the fan fiction that followed.