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Why sink money in a failed show none really cares about?
I made it through like 2 episodes and I get that diversity is important but wtf this show wants to make me believe there’s medieval villages with all ethnicities everywhere? I hate that I hate this so much.
... the wheel of time is a post-apocalyptic setting, not a medieval one. They have high literacy rates, printed books, and, yes, the Emond's Fielders being diverse would be accurate, since they're the remnants of a powerful kingdom that was, itself, diverse.
Here's the real issue with the show. Any change they made replaced good writing with stale or outright hurtful tropes (they made up a character just so they could fridge her in the first episode). The End of season 1 was shot by covid and a lead leaving. And they were only just recovering the story from that in season 3.
The Two Rivers was not very diverse until after the Seanchan invasion at Falme.
... them being all Two Rivers folk before then. Show me in the text where that meant they had no diversity.
The characteristics they all share in the Book is "dark of hair and eye", shorter than Rand, and without the Aiel style of tanning that Rand shows.
Guess what features the cast of Emond's field all had?
That’s my point why spend hundreds of millions on a likely loser?