The show is funded by amazon(Bezos, the greediest person who ever walked the planet). Amazon only ever does anything that makes quick money. So Harriet Jordan sold the rights to her husbands life's work to amazon for a $$$$ check that allows whoever Jeff Bezos wants to let use the WOT world however they want to. And in that simple concept of greed the people Bezos put in charge of a great and complicated story have distilled it down , turned the characters, and storyline not just upside down, but sideways and backwards. The very first episode is so devoid of the most important things. Rand and Egwene are actually kissing? Where is Thom Merrelyn? Perrin has a wife? And a beard? Matt's a POS scumbag? They ruined every character from the word go. And Nyneave is black?

I'll watch the rape of the books only if it's free to me so I can cringe and complain, but never, never, ever will I spend a cent to watch it. I wouldn't have watched the first 2 seasons if it wasn't free to amazon prime members and since episode 1 I was horrified at the artistic abortion of the books. In book 1 alone they left out so much. Not meeting Elayne, Gawyn, the Queen, Bryne, Elaida. Why they bothered with Thom and couldn't even tell his entrance right. They completely messed the whole series from the very 1st episode.