While I'm guessing my take and Elder_Haman's takes on the show are wildly different. I have not personally seen any kid of moderation that has been bad. In fact I think this website is a lot better than the official Reddit areas where you get banned for anything but effusive praise for the show.

That would have been a great idea. I think people would have been a LOT MORE forgiving if they had done something like a prologue explaining that this was a different turning of the wheel and introduced us to Band, Pratt, and Gerrin a trio of Ta'Veren from the 3 rivers.

Sorry to hear about your vehicle. It is never fun when that happens. I wouldn't want to speak for others and their enjoyment of media. We all have things we like and dislike and what we enjoy is a personal thing. If people enjoy this adaptation that is great. Having said that for me this is a very poor adaptation. In my opinion they missed the boat completely and wandered into insulting territory. It is also fairly poorly written and produced. Their chief problem is that the writers missed the entire spirit of the books and replaced it with cheap cliches, manufactured drama and their own life experiences. That seems to be a problem with a LOT of writers nowadays across much of media. Lots of movies, or books have multiple 'remakes' and 'adaptations' with each having their own dedicated following. Lots of people like to dump on the Bakshi Lord of the Rings movie, but it is what got me interested in the books and the cartoons when I was a kid. I absolutely loved the LOTR cartoons when I was a kid, but they aren't exactly masterpieces. They did however have the spirit of the books in them and hit their target of making easy to digest LOTR content for kids.