Hell no. Mat is the most trust worthy with secrets. He doesn’t tell anybody anything he shouldn’t. You can trust Mat to the end—guaranteed. He is a scoundrel, but isn’t stupid. They make him as borderline idiot in this series and it makes me a little mad.

“Yo, what is up with plot holes?” “Oh? Well it is Choose Your Own Narrative with a type of magic you can imagine.—err uhm Magic!”

Also regarding Moiraine. She is supposed to be deeply in love with Siuane. How about she is sexually loyal to Siuane—nope, may be I should go do that.

You are right it is culture. The sexuality in WoP changes tone and feeling of the material. No language per se—my example of language was a guy in the locker room at work. Depictions of sexual intimacy are generally what I am complaining about. Allana and her 2 warders rolling around in bed (early S2 episode) is both a ridiculous portrayal of sex and used more like a middle school tee hee hee moment. Not anything to do with the plot, I guess it is character developmemt(?). Such things were not described in the WoT in the slightest—the closest being Avienda and Rand in Seanchan land. Many of the characters depicted in the show really are not who Jordan made his characters to be. No relationship between Rand and his 3 loves, Min prolly doesn’t swing that way(?). We have girls hopping on top girls with no developing of relationships with Elayne and Avienda—it is just titillating girl on girl action IMO. Nynaeve is not her motherly, know it all, school marm prude from the books. I like this Nynaeve, but she is a different person. Galad is not himself either, I would argue neither is Gawyn. Moiraine debating if she is gonna hook up with a Wise One she doesn’t know. Sex with randos at a drop of a hat. I like that they showed the sweat tent, and how they kept the nudity to a minimum.

Sex shown in any movie or show feels awkward to me. In Wheel of Prime it changes the tone and feel of the story in a worse way IMO. I am in the same demographic as Guire. I don’t watch shows that have this type of attitude toward sexuality, but my love of WoT has me here. The idea that Jordan didn’t show STDs means they didn’t exist in WoT is silly. Did he ever mention when a character relieved him/herself? I guess the people in WoT don’t have to sh!t. In GoT it was mentioned (books not TV show for me). I have never witnessed co-workers or acquaintances IRL talk or treat sex as this show does. Except a random guy in the locker room say something vulgar that took him down a few pegs in my estimation of him. Friends groups can be different ofc, but guys who just try to get with every woman they can and treat them poorly are not my kind of friends. And woman who jump from guy to guy seem miserable to me. I know it is different in the LGB community. Are lesbians known as being open and promiscuous as gay men? My limited understanding is generally no. What does a lesbian bring on her second date? A U-Haul (full of her stuff).

He did kill those dark friends in TDR even though he didn’t “know” they were dark friends, but they were there to capture him. IMO it was Lews Therin’s influence knowing these people were after him/Rand. But after more taint than S2 Rand has had.

They sidelined Nynaeve after her testing?—IMO it was an over compensating nerf for the ninja powers they gave her in S1. She can take out a trolloc solo (something a rusty sword master could not do) and sneak up on the best swordsman, legendary warder, king heir of a nation known for its martial prowess.

The orderly from the mental institution—so that he could serve Logain.

I haven’t started S3 yet, but the writers are trying to back fill their omissions by NOW starting Rand’s sword training. Lol—after his battle with Ishmael. Are we going to get some leadership training too this season? If so I will rest my case that they are clueless. From what I remember it was implied that Nynaeve was training regularly with the warders—completely unnecessary, but part of the “woman power” glow up from the writers.

When they made him a murderer and then gave his sword training to Nynaeve for some reason in S2. WTH Nynaeve gets sword training but Rand doesn’t. My message to writers is, “GTHO with that BS. They gave far more time to ancillary characters—taking time from the EF5 which could have been more of a priority.

I feel the show made a mistake by elevating Moiraine’s story to the forefront. Ultimately the writers don’t care about Rand and therefore neither does the audience. Rand’s relevance and character have been diminished in substantial ways. He was clearly the protagonist of the first 2 books and those books are what led to a large enough following for the rest of the series. The writers clearly rewrote the story taking things from Rand like both his mastery of the sword and his elevation to a lord—both of which are critical to his growth and story arc. E.G. Rand’s battle with Ishy in the series was completely lame. The idea that the first 3 books were just a derivative fantasy story little to differentiate itself from others is contrary to what happened with these books. Nobody would read 3x800+ pages books to get to the good stuff. As an example I recently listened to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little house in the Big Woods.” Even though I identify most with Pa I wanted Laura’s story and if someone rewrote the story from Pa’s perspective I feel something would be lost in the story.