I've read the whole set of books. It used to be one of my favorite fantasy series. However, recently I began rereading them. Upon rereading I can see all the satanic like references so I'm kind of puzzling out feelings for the source material.
That being said, the show was more SJW shit. The only show character who resembles the book character would be Rand. Emmonds Field is supposed to be a village cut off from the rest of the world. So the genetic lines should be pure white. Every main character is supposed to be white. There are only supposed to be 3 ta'veren...the 3 best male friends. Mats parents are not white trash but good people. Perrin is not married, and is a blacksmiths apprentice. I could keep listing huge discrepancies from the book but this post would be far longer than I want to make.
The main arc of the story is that the Dragon(a powerful magic welding warrior) is constantly reborn as the pattern needs him. This is his story of how he defeats the dark one and reseals him in his prison made by the creator. There are male magic users, but 3000 years in the past, during the last battle with the dark one, the male half of the power was tainted by the Dark One. The taint causes men who channel the power to inevitably go insane. The women in red are group of the female magic casters who hunt down men who can channel before they can go fully mad and destroy the world again. One of those men aren't real in the beginning.
All in all, the show was a HUGE disappointment and very little like the books. I will not waste my time watching them ruin one of my favorite stories from yesteryear.
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