I had a whole essay typed out and accidentally backed out, so I’ll just say that I love a lot of the changes the show has made but the author is doing a real disservice to the books. Early in the books Nynaeve is comedic at various points with her anger, but her arc is incredible and I hear and read people saying its almost impossible to finish the series without loving Nynaeve. She starts the books using anger to mask her insecurity, and finishes with the confidence that lets her condemn the tower as an institution moments after they raise her to the shawl. She is an iconoclast, a bleeding heart, and she has a CV to make Cadsuane humble.
I’m not sure this article interviews the best person to make its point.
Shohreh Aghdashloo, who portrays the ever-scheming Elaida, talked to us about the importance of the diversity of the show:
Being a part of these shows gives me a chance to prove to all the little girls around the globe, in Asia, Africa, Middle East or elsewhere – when they see me in this series, they would think
They would think… “I can be an incompetent self-interested moron who nearly destroys a centuries-old democratic institution, just like Elaida”?
What a wholesome message for all the little girls around the globe 🥰🥰🥰
Interviewing any actresses who play Aes Sedai is a bad idea. So far in the show, there’s been maybe one who hasn’t been shown to be a narcissistic, manipulative, selfish idiot. And she keeps getting impaled.
Spoilers?
Uhh, I don’t think so. I’m not even up to date on the show yet. It’s more talking in generalities about the overall direction of the show.
edit: it looks like the comment was removed because a mod thought it was racist. It’s definitely not, but it doesn’t seem like the reason was because the mod thought it broke a spoiler-related rule either. If you want to see the comment, you can check the modlog.
Lmao
