Originally Posted by
Beloren
I admit there is some truth to this, I have found some shows fan communities have moaned excessively about (because of woke culture) to be quite enjoyable, but I have also found a lot ruined, where it is clear the focus isn't telling a good story because it's terrible and all there seems to it is being woke.
These guys wanna make money, so I'm sure they want their shows to be good, but there are certain cases, where going woke about it will destroy it.. imagine inserting gay characters and black" elves along with gender swapping some of the male roles in LotR to make it more woke would feel to a long time fan of the works.
Do you remember how LotR initially put Arwen at Helms deep to make her more visible and and more powerful - but fans were so upset about it they reshot it according to the book , a move that would have destroyed the character Eowyn and unnecessary. Tolkein's works are very very good, there is so much depth in the election of everything he does, you go and start changing it for social agenda reasons, it ceases to become that, your show might be enjoyable still but i can guarantee you, you will lose a lot of core fans.
I feel the wheel of time is similar. LotR/WoT don't need to be GoT - these are globally popular books in many countries amongst both genders, all kinds of sexual orientations for what they are. gender swapping to female and LGBT might make a few female fans and LGBT fans pleased, and gain utter useless accolades from social pressure groups (actually they never really praise a show for inclusion, they just moan about a a show for so called lack of inclusion), but it will piss of far more females and LGBT people who love the original works, i can guarantee you this. It happens every time.
it's one thing to use a new IP and generate stories that have more of these roles which can be good (or not) than it is too take existing IPs and just change everything. She-Ra princess of power is a classic example of how you can complete change and put out garbage for the sake of agenda politics. This is coming from a person that ticks a lot of the so called diversity boxes.
That show was awful, but yet there are some good shows that have been slammed simply because they race swapped, gender swapped or sexual orientation swapped. i watch and enjoy those shows, but i can understand the discontent from long time fans who don't like the change. But this isn't something new.. there has always been controversy when you change characters from how they originally are. sometimes it works well, sometimes it doesn't, but there is always controversy,