Hello, new to the forums. Read the series twice. Love it. Browsed the forums a handful of times foe info on stuff. I am just so upset and almost insulted by how poor the show is I need to vent so a place where people might understand. The way they ruined so many good characters just hurts me. I have no problem with adaptation and changes no show can be exact to a series and truthfully it rarely should be. They are different mediums and require different approaches. This being said, their writing of Lan, Mat, and even Nyneve to a point is infuriating. Mat is just.... awful, where is our playful trickster with insane luck? Instead we get a cowardly kid who has none of the traits of Mat. Also Ta'veren being not spoken of is a huge mistake to me. Lan went for hard, badass cold swordsman to all the feelings sad puppy pining over his lost relationship to Moraine after her stilling. Like wtf... Nyneve instead of strong willed and bull headed seems just petulant and perpetually stressed out. Thom? Gone. Elayne? Her introduction was so awful.... I hate so many things they have done in this show. They take major plot points and just ignore them. 0 context for the seanchan. Hardly a whisper of what Artur Hawkwing was even in the conversation about the genesis of the 3 oaths. So much is glossed over in a throwaway line only to be noticed by a reader. At this point I'm watching it just to see how much worse it can get My only positive comment so far is that the actor who plays Logain is amazing. I want him to be the whole show at this point.