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How THE WHEEL OF TIME Series Fixes The Books’ Major Issues with Women Characters (nerdist.com)
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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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 🥰🥰🥰

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Spoilers?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Blxter@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Lmao

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I absolutely loathed the existence of Nynaeve for the longest time. Always wanting to play the parent, bound to the hierarchy of the two rivers and tradition, cold as ice and hard as stone.

Then she starts to change, the children she helped raise start firing back. People smarter or more experienced than her knock her down a peg. She tugs her braid and you truly know someone got to her. She starts to lecture, then someone gives her a look and she stops.

You can't help but smile or laugh at this matronly figure realising the world is bigger than her influence and yet she remains an immovable object stuck in the wake of the Dragon Reborn. Always standing up for what's right no matter the cost.

She went from my least like character to one of my favourites.

[–] rikudou 2 points 1 month ago

According to his point of view, they are constantly conversing about him. Or they are making plans to use him in one way or the other. 

I mean, they literally are making plans to use him one way or the other, presenting it like it's just his opinion doesn't make sense.