Sure — but I think it’s more complicated than your description: Wheel of Time had elements of a message within it, but they didn’t take pre-eminence over the s

Sure — but I think it’s more complicated than your description: Wheel of Time had elements of a message within it, but they didn’t take pre-eminence over the story… it was used to frame it, but that sexist power structure was a major conflict within the story because that wasn’t right either, even though it was a rational idea at the time it started. Wheel of Time isn’t “The Message” of the 90s, but an examination of the back-and-forth between sexes which casts both extremes as problematic: men can’t shun their potential for ruin, but women-only and shunning men entirely doesn’t work either. The series goes out of its way to frame partnership as the ideal — to the point both sexes are required for elaborate magic. And that complex dynamic was framed within a well told story. I think that stands in stark contrast to modern media — and that’s the difference I’m trying to highlight. Amazon’s telling threw out all that complexity which explored the good and bad within both sexes to instead push a hamfisted ideology.