7 hours ago, Elendir said:

 

The first meeting of Dragon and Amyrlin seat:

 

Book:

Show stubborn dragon who don't kneel before stronger opponent.

 

TV show:

Dragon kneeling in front of Amrylin would kneel in front of far stronger Forsakens. Very bad for champion of light.

 

And that is just the more impactful change of this scenes. It change other aspects of story too, like Siuan character.

Well that falls right in line with the “evil patriarchy” narrative where a strong man can’t be a good man. The only useful man is  one that is weak enough to control or a cheating bastard who we can sneer down on.

1 hour ago, king of nowhere said:

so, you clearly are a serious fan; let's assume that you are given a big bunch of money to adapt wot.

oh, but you have to fit everything in no more than 8 seasons of 8 episodes of 50 minutes each - meaning you've got three hours for each book. 100 millions for the first season seems a lot, but once you start hiring all the actors and the troupe and work on the set, most of it has already vanished. and you've got to replace all the info dumps and internal monologues with something that works on screen.

 

rafe's job was far from perfect, but all the changes were caused by immense external constraints.

You’re right his job was far from perfect. Along with it being an afront to interpretive integrity it is loaded with external elements that reeks of all the buzzwords that would keep this comment from being approved on here.
I resent that someone did that to a story that I love.  You would think that with the limitations he had (as you mentioned) that he would have spent less time completely changing entire personalities of characters and more time working with what was already there and was good. 

1 hour ago, Elgee said:

Are you also from South Africa, Wynand?

I am/was- Cape Town. Been in Nebraska since 2013.

How far out of the realm of possibility would it be for a serious fan to acquire the rights to the screen adaptation and recreate the tv series in a way that portrays the book as the author intended, rather than how the screenwriter thinks their "improved and politically corrected version" should portray the story? 
Seriously.