>>212200954- Budget was too small for an epic this large
- Cosume design often looked like a mish mash of time periods, materials, and way way way too modern. I know it's a fantasy world that eschews time periods insofar as we understand them, but it's hard to become immersed in a world when a character is wearing a furry vest that looks like something a Kardashian would wear.
- VFX were insanely cheap looking. I really hated any time the any of the aes sedai used their power. It looked horrible.
- The aes sedai having a threesome with her two gay warders was unnecessary and smacked of fan fic. And the several occasions when the aes sedai would start clucking about sexual stuff in general felt out of place.
- The soundtrack was fucking awful. It didn't seem to fit the world at all. It called a lot of attention to itself (which is not really a compliment since the score should support the narrative, not detract from it), and the sound itself reeked of burning man hippyisms. I was way too electronic for a show with medieval type vibes and the vaguely "eastern" female vocals that were peppered throughout (seemingly randomly) sounded like what a white chick does when she tries to sound "exotic". It surprised me since Lorne Balfe has a reasonably good track record. It makes me wonder how much of those decisions were being imposed by the director/producer. Without initially knowing who scored it, I had imagined that this was some burning man trance DJ's first crack at scoring media.
The show did seem to suffer from a sense of tokenism too. I don't know why that was. I'm not the type of person to get upset over actor skin color by any means and I generally find those types of grievances eye-roll inducing, but the implementation specifically in Wheel of Time felt like they put more effort into ensuring diversity than they did into creating a universe that felt real.