That_Fan_Girl

I’m having the same issue. It was working fine up until this evening.

My son is also mixed. I feel you there. I can see he aches to relate and see himself represented in his media which is why I think he loves anime so much. You’re doing a great job simply by being willing to have a frank & honest conversation with your kids about a very hard subject! Thank YOU for taking the time to comment and encourage. It means a lot to have so much support!

(also complete personal feelings here but the desire to have & the execution of representation in media is not an agenda it’s just not)

I’m who folks on the show production used to call “that fan girl” - basically I’ve been a fan of the books for over 20 years and actively worked to be apart of the production if and when it ever happened. When I was 17 or 18 after I saw LotR’s I realized that Wheel would be turned into something eventually, I moved to LA to develop a skill so that when eventually came I’d be ready! I became a special effects makeup artist and worked in that profession for awhile. Through many many years of paying attention and not being shy in expressing my hope I was given the opportunity to have a coffee with Rafe. It so happened to be on the same day he was pitching the show to Amazon. We had 20 minutes together and later that day after the pitch he called me, said “I think that was the one” (after they’d pitched to a few other studios) and he asked me for a quick lunch…we talked for nearly 7 hours at the restaurant about The Wheel of Time. He hired me that day. It was about 4 years ago this month that happened. I was the first hire for the show and haven’t looked back since!

Edit: Eventually I stopped working in effects. I got hired because even though Rafe had been reading the books he needed someone who knew the books ;) I came on board initially as a researcher but that quickly grew into a more creative position.

I see you :)

Hey! Thank you! I’d like to say I don’t think any of us are forced to deal with the negativity. I could very easily have kept my mouth shut here and on Twitter ;) It’s something that needed to be said. If members of Team Jordan or Harriet can justify and support casting then I feel like that’s enough! It’s also like people don’t think we went through how the world would look in a few millennia, consider all of the elements everyone is talking about re: homogeneous populations or out of the way villages. Or take into consideration the area’s history. It’s not like I didn’t write an essay about population, the region and potential outside influences to help inform certain decisions. Or that I personally talked with an anthropologist when writing that essay..all of the points everyone is making were discussed at length. Including all of the points I’m seeing in this post. No flippant decisions are ever made and any deviation is throughly gone through to be sure it fits..