I find it funny how rhorle is just out here defending the garbage that Amazon has been churning out recently in the fantasy genre. Just like in the Rings of Power thread. Why do you care so much about defending corpo media garbage? If they wanted their own Game of Thrones type of smash hit, maybe they should have put people in charge who actually had the vision to produce and properly adapt a series like The Wheel of Time faithfully in order to make it a smash hit that people would want to watch. Instead they gut so many core aspects of the story, hamfist diversity into the main cast where it doesn't belong in a world that is diverse and is a matriarchal society where women predominantly hold the most power in many nations. WoT is a far more respected fantasy series than Game of Thrones ever was before the TV series got popular, so there's no reason to not be faithful to the original works for it to be successful.
Prime Studios has put out some great shows, but clearly they have zero interest in putting creators in charge of two of their biggest budget projects who will actually ensure that they succeed. That is why Jennifer Salke should have been canned. After the flop that was the first seasons of Rings of Power and WoT, there is zero reason why she should continue being the one in charge of managing who the creators are of these shows because she clearly has zero understanding of what it takes to make an adaptation work properly.
There's so many glaring issues with the WoT show, from the characterization, the misrepresentation of what the actual narrative is supposed to be, cutting out core aspects of characters stories, cutting out core characters right from the get go like Elayne and Morgase, trying to hamfist in a love interest between Rand and Egwene that doesn't actually happen. Neither Egwene or Nynaeve at any point in the first like 3 books, are capable of channeling the One Power like they did at the end of the last episode of season 1. Not to mention taking away that entire pivotal part that defines Rand as the Dragon Reborn was absolutely fucking asinine. And the costume work is garbage tier. Why the fuck do so many men have fade haircuts? Travelers tend to have long hair because you aren't going to see a barber every week when you are traveling hundreds of miles between towns, and your clothes are going to look worn out so why do their clothes always look pristine? The Whitecloaks too, who always try to look as neat as possible, would have some sort of wear in their clothes and wouldn't be perfect.
If I had to guess, they are going to rush the story as much as possible because they won't get renewed to finish it properly.