The Last Jedi is an apt analogy for what we want to avoid. Half the movie felt more like a feminist screed than a Star Wars movie. There are plenty of strong female characters in WOT if you just focus on the story.

But it's also not terribly concerning that a major actress has been cast as Moraine. Moraine is a very important character in the first few books. If anything, Pike's casting indicates that she'll be largely out of the picture after the first couple of seasons, just like the books, similar to Sean Bean's casting in GOT.

Some of what I’m hearing is good news. The showrunners def need to take a page from GOT and make the characters less one-dimensional. One of the biggest failings of WOT. We need to see more of the Forsaken and actually develop those characters! That’s worth cutting about 100 dumb Aes Sedai. Also would like to kill off some big characters earlier, and perhaps chop

down that rather silly Rand-Min-Elayne-Avi thing.

I really don’t care if they change a few ethnicities or even sexualities of the characters. My bigger concern is the *feminism* bit. WOT has plenty of strong female characters, but the SuperGirls get more than a little annoying at times. Not to mention the interminable Aes Sedai nonsense that made Books 7-10 such a horrible slog. I am VERY worried this series is going to play up Moraine and the SuperGirls and downplay Rand. Rand is THE CENTRAL CHARACTER!!!!

If they stray too far into the woke weeds, that’s going to ruin it for me.