On 9/3/2021 at 3:22 AM, Beidomon said:

So in the opening shot, Egwene either has a massive mole on her nose or a third nostril. Then Nynaeve says “be strong” in an accent that’s gonna take a lot of getting used to for a TR native, and shoves Eg off a cliff. Huh.

 

Then there’s some dude crying over a ring and Eg coming up from a pool of paint. Huh. Not real excited so far. 
 

White Tower is super small. Maybe Rafe didn’t want it to be too phallic?

 

Moraine says there’s a “power inside you.” She didn’t say that in the books did she? I mean, it’s not a “power inside” anybody. 
 

Eg and Rand are definitely having sex. That’s a new development. 
 

Maybe my biggest concern is that all the characters look a little too clean. A little too YA. A little too Twilighty. No? It doesn’t look gritty enough. My first thought when I saw the Aes Sedai was “this kinda looks like that shitty Wrinkle in Time movie.” We’re a long way away from GOT, that’s for sure. 

 

Everything else looks pretty good. The fade kicks ass. The trollocs look good. The weaving is just regular old “magic wavy lines” special effects but that’s fine, I guess. We’re gonna see plenty of it in Winternight.

 

 

You said everything I was thinking.  I don't claim to be a WoT expert, but this looks very YA and tries so hard to check all the diversity boxes; going out of its way to make sure nobody feels excluded.  GoT checked diversity boxes without trying to check diversity boxes.  GoT had no boundaries and pushed the envelope; and lets be honest - that's why everyone loved it.  The WoT show should appeal to Shadow and Bones fans, and it has a rating of TV14, which tells me it's too graphic for Disney, but not nearly graphic enough for HBO.  Needless to say the trailer didn't wow me.

So I've watched the trailer once, and immediately it looked PG-13 at best.  Then I see on Amazon's web page they give it a TV14 which backs up what I saw.  I don't claim to be a WoT expert (read the first book 20 years ago) but I'd be lying if I said this didn't turn me off somewhat.  I'd like to here from the WoT experts as to whether this series is in fact a young adult series and the trailer was accurate.