Rosamund is doing a great job. I'm excited to see her Moiraine. 

I love the WoT and am super pumped. 

Shakes head. 

I feel like this... "We're not sure if the Dragon's been reborn as a girl." is basically a manifestation of my worst fears for the show, not to mention many months of DM people predicting (and looks like they may be right) that the show (despite looking cool) might be utterly ruined for many fans due to Amazon & the showrunner vastly changing things to appeal to one (very divisive by the way) segment of popular culture (I.E being "woke"). 

As I've argued elsewhere ... It does NOT work in WoT for the Dragon to even possibly be a woman. 

Because... 

What makes the Dragon as a Savior figure so unique is that HE might save the world, but HE might go insane and destroy it...

Would not be the case with a woman dragon. 

Now...can this particular misdirect/change be forgiven or explained well by the show. Maybe. Maybe we'll see soon. 

But gender and gender roles and male/female unique strengths and weaknesses and sexism and male/female misunderstanding and balance (between the sexes) is pretty core to the whole WoT. 

So if they really are catering to a certain political agenda... I'm worried what else they'll be changing. Not only that, but if they push that agenda in multiple ways with no regard to how it much it changes the core of WoT... I'll be so heartbroken and bailing pretty quick (as will everyone in my WoT fan circle)! 

I simply don't understand why they're doing this woman dragon ploy... I hope I'm wrong. 

On the bright side. Stuff looks cool. And I feel like the actors and actresses are really getting the spirit of their characters down.

Sigh. 

A new turning. The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills.

16 hours ago, Wolfbrother31 said:

Because... 

What makes the Dragon as a Savior figure so unique is that HE might save the world, but HE might go insane and destroy it...

Would not be the case with a woman dragon. 

Not sure why this wouldn't work with a female dragon.

"...that THEY might save the world, but THEY might go insane and destroy it..." Boom. Problem solved.

Besides, it's not like they're going to make someone other than Rand the dragon, they're just adding more possible candidates in the beginning.

I think the most likely reason for the change is to give Egwene a real reason to join them when they leave Emond's Field. The reason in the book is silly and not realistic, and although I understand people who say that is part of her character growth, I also see why they would want to change it. 

They could have just let Moiraine tell her she could channel and has to go to Tar Valon, but they probably want that build up to come later. 

I see this pretty major change and being the reason for Eugene leaving Emmons Field.  If it's for a woke reason, yeah, that will be a problem as it will have major ripple effects through the whole series and I will have to pass on the TV series and just enjoy the books.

Jordan wrote an amazing series, why change and fundamental part of it?

On 11/4/2021 at 11:53 AM, Conanthecontrarian said:

that THEY might save the world, but THEY might go insane and destroy it..." Boom. Problem solved.

Not really, because only males can go insane from the corruption, not female.