New user, came to vent.

[Goathill]

Here is a thought experiment.

 

Change all the names, the characters, the places, the titles of people, ei: the one power = the source, aes sedai = wiccan, anything with a name is changed.

 

Now do you think RJ's estate would be able to sue Amazon and win for stealing the WoT story if they did not own the rights already?

 

I do not, the story for the show has no real connection to the books without the names, it could be argued it was based on any number of badly written fantasy stories.  

[HeavyHalfMoonBlade]

Aside from the general start of the story being incredibly Tolkien-esque, to say the particulars of the story do not match up - the female only magic wielders living in a great white tower on an island, the militant pseudo-religious order in white, etc, etc, - is twisting the facts completely. 

 

Many people don't like the changes, fair enough. But to represent their opinions as actual objective fact and to claim that all "true" fans agree with them, including the Jordan estate, his widow, Sanderson, etc, all secretly agree with them whatever they say in public is just wrong. 

 

The fact is that with airtime allotted to the show, no matter how faithful to the story it had tried to be, it was never going to be able to do so, especially not with the standards that some want to hold it to. 

[Goathill]

Doesn't the Witcher series have a tower on an island with female magic wielders, as for pseudo-religious military orders in white, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a half dozen of those.

[Andra]

10 hours ago, Goathill said:

... as for pseudo-religious military orders in white, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a half dozen of those.

All of which can be said to be based on the real-world Templars.