Fair question and, since asked, I’ll try to elaborate a bit.

This is such a baffling response that I don’t really even know where to start, but let’s give it an attempt, shall we. First of all, to say that all the other Two Rivers people meet those requirements ignores a rather big issue in that there is no ethnicity that defines them. Actually, there’s no ethnicity that…

Not only is none of this touched on in the show, which is what this discussion is about, but I don’t also really know what this is a response really to?

For the first part, they removed all ethnic constraints on the show when they did the inclusive casting. There’s suddenly defining the ethnic identities of any group of people, so why would there be still a requirement for aielmen to be tall, pale and redheaded?

Yeah, the Rand conundrum really comes up big in this show. As I keep going through the season in my head, I think that is one of the core issues in having that superfan be the showrunner without potentially having not-superfans in critical creative feedback roles. Rand as a character genuinely a huge rewrite for this…

But what makes it even weirder is that based on everything I’ve seen, Amazon threw a ton of money on this show. Yet it constantly feels really cheap.

It genuinely started to drive me nuts in the previous episode. I think a big reason why that started to feel so prominent is that they had all the characters wear pretty strong colors. If you compare to, for example, GoT, their characters usually had muted colors when traveling so that it didn’t come across as them…

I actually respect the concept of the Man’s outfit, but felt it was another instance where the execution of the show crashed hard.

I guess Rand’s possessiveness was a trait and, to be honest, it was the only really distinguish part about his character aside from being unaffected by anything. And your point also makes sense, but it also didn’t feel like the show was ever that interest in examining seeing how easily it was resolved during the…

So what does a regular Two Rivers person look like in the show? And what does a regular Aiel look like? Or are implying that Aiel could only be white people?

I had a coworker who gave up after episode 4 because he said that he didn’t really remember anything that happened in that episode. Which was surprising as that is one of the few episodes where stuff happened, but I think it’s more reflective of bigger issues with storytelling here.

The thing with the books, and I do recommend searching out some more extensive explanations on this, is that they were extremely gendered and relied on a lot pretty negative gender stereotypes in a lot of ways. In addition, the whole magic system was gendered in that the rules were different for male and female…

It’s also kind of wild to list It’s A Wonderful Life as a movie that will shield you from hard feelings as that movie is dark, y’all.

Looking at the series as a whole, my biggest issue is probably with the casting. As mentioned in another comment, I thought the writing bad and lazy, but I also get that writing is hard and there were choices that needed to be made. However the casting approach is something that actually left me bothered.

As a sidenote on bad stuff in this episode, while majority of it was so boring for me that I didn’t really find myself caring at all, there was one scene which was so hilariously bad that I am still cracking up laughing about it even now.

I had kind of a weird realization while watching this episode. On a personal level, this was the first time it really hit me that I think this show is really bad and I absolutely wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. Not just that, but I kind of regret that I suggested it before to a couple of friends to watch.

Carol was a movie that I did not expect to love as much as I did. There was just something there where it managed to have it not just be a love story between two women, but have it portray an efficient character arc for both and say something. It would have been easy for it to bury itself in that sadness, but it…

Video gaming in the Aughts was so weird looking back now and this just encapsulates so much of it. Like you can sense that this was when they started forming that financial momentum and increasing pop culture presence, but all that led to... Stuff like this.

Looking back on the action, I realized that my issue with it is a bit more complicated and that Kate/Yelena fight is actually a great example of what the show struggled with.

And how does the watch proving that Clint’s wife is Mockingbird actually matter? Especially because seemingly it is just a watch that belonged to Mockingbird with nothing allowing it to be tracked to the wife? Why woudl Maya, a person obsessed in finding Ronin, consider finding Clint’s wife to be crucial for that?