So far the casting is great and it seems like all the actors have a solid grasp of the source material. Lan and Moiraine stand out in particular.
I'm only on the second episode so I can't say much more but from the dialogue and portrayal of the Two Rivers village to the climactic battle scene in the first episode I'm pretty sold so far.
Some mild book spoilers ahead, about the possibility of a 'female dragon'
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I'd love if their justification was, basically, trans people. Cause the dragon basically has to be able to channel saidin, and we've seen in the books how a person's soul being moved to a body of the opposite sex doesn't change the version of the one power they use. The books never went one step farther to make the 'trans people have a different gendered souls', but it'd be in line with the book's lore. Obviously, that explanation would be pretty gender essentialist and gender binary enforcing, but the whole WoT series already is very 'men are like this, women are like this', so like, the core premise of the series is already pretty queer unfriendly unfortunately, as much as some gay and possibly bi characters do exist.
The most important part of this being the explanation the show goes with is, of course, angering chuds though. And it least it'd mean showing trans people existing in a big fantasy show. Also recognizing a trans-man The Dragon being possible, and therefore essentially guaranteed to happen in some turnings of the wheel, is pretty badass.
It was never really explored thoroughly because he died, but if you read the little of the background he left a well as some of the inferences in the novels it was clear he intended for there to be a female Dragon to be the counter point to Rand.
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Agreed on how gender binary enforcing the premise of the story is. And it will be interesting to see how they handle that baddie who was given a different sex in their reincarnated body.