Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Wheel of Time this is not. This is some bizarre, amoral soup of casual sex, blood and gore spattering everywhere, profanity, girl power/woman warrior fantasies, and post-modernist, leftist approved caricatures of men and women. Men are either arrogant or adulterous or thieves or petulant, immature whiners. Women are all commanding, powerful, authoritative leaders and ninja warriors. Even a bunch of old and middle aged women in Emond’s Field are street fighting badasses who take down Trollocs with farm implements. Egwene’s father is not the mayor of Emond’s Field’s, but his place as village leader is filled by his wife here. There is no Town Council of men but the Womens Circle is apparently all the women of the village who, when they reach a certain age, get their hair braided and are thrown into the white water portion of the river in some kind of bizarre coming of age, coming into leadership ritual, which is not difficult at all for them to deal with here, barely an inconvenience. Perrin has a wife who is the town blacksmith (this idea, if you have even the slightest notion of the physiological and anatomical differences between men and women and any knowledge of the level of technological sophistication of the Wheel of Time world, is soooooo idiotic and laughable, I can’t even…rofl!) The leader, spokesperson and Seeker of the Tinkers is now the wife of the Seeker from the books. The owner of a rough bar in a made up, nasty, filthy mining town is a hard bitten woman on her own who chucklingly approves of the idea of Rand and Mat being homosexual lovers. Gah! Mat’s father is an adulterer and his mother is a drunk. Mat is a thief. None of the Emond’s Field youngsters have a scintilla of the innate honor and sense of duty, endearing innocence and awkwardness toward the opposite sex that made us really care about them. The village has no sense of the upstanding character and work ethic that made it so appealing. The women swill ale with abandon, right along with all the men and the whole town is a bunch of raucous loud mouths. I wanted the Trollocs to raze the entire place and drop them all into the Winespring. Lan and Moraine bathe naked together with the insinuation that they are lovers and we get to see Lan naked from behind. The Red Ajah murder in cold blood a man who can channel the One Power. Shadar Logoth looks like it was deserted a couple decades back, it’s not the tumbled down ruin from the books and as it should be, since it fell several thousand years ago. The turning of the wheel becomes wholesale reincarnation and New Age-y lighting of lanterns for the dead in hopes they’ll come back again in a new, better life. Not that certain central characters who change the weave of destiny are repeated every several thousand years or so, with some of the memories of the previous characters who filled the same role eventually emerging in them. Nope. Everyone is reincarnated. Did anyone besides Brandon read the books and did you few all decide to just ignore what you read? And the worst sin in this travesty is that the Dragon Reborn can be either a man or a woman! Oh, we mustn’t allow men to have exclusive rights to being the central character and savior of the world who can undo the Dark One’s tainting of the male half of the One Power that caused the disaster the world is in, even in a long running, well established and beloved fantasy series known the world over. We’ll just dismissively knock down that tyrannical patriarchy stuff in the first two minutes of the series with a casual voiceover that undercuts the entire system of magic and the whole basis for the series, because a woman must be president or some such asinine nonsense. The only redeeming change from the books is that the women aren’t constantly sniffing, tossing their heads, and insulting and nagging the men, which made me eventually want to throw several of the main female characters off a cliff after a few books. But they made it even worse in this film adaption with the women centric universe stuff. Don’t these Hollywood idiots realize that a lot of women are sick unto death with the woman good, man bad dichotomy they shove down our throats constantly where women must be the central heroic figures in every single, solitary piece of film and literature they produce? It makes me want to scream! Brandon Sanderson is guilty of making his heroes/central figures in hid own books nearly all women and girls, so he contributes to this bilge. I love his writing except for that one freaking, supremely irritating, modern fantasy iron clad diktat that he uses in nearly all of his books, so I guess I shouldn’t have expected any better of him here. Brandon, who likes to turn fantasy tropes on their heads? How about being brave and turning this one on its head? How about defying the leftist, feminist, woke monopoly on publishing and film production? Women (and men) are SICK of this!!! STOP IT!!! JUST STOP!!! The first three episodes were so bad and I am so disgusted. Why did you fools do this to such a great fantasy series? -500 respect point for Brandon Sanderson. And two thumbs down for Amazon. Badly done.