'Wheel Of Time' Showrunner Admits He Intentionally Made The Show As LGBTQ+ Propaganda Aiming To Normalize Sodomy
Rafe Judkins, the showrunner of Wheel of Time, recently admitted in an interview that he intentionally turned Prime Video’s Wheel of Time show into LGBTQ+ propaganda with the intention of normalizing sodomy.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Judkins declared that he devoted his entire life to turn the show into a piece of gay propaganda.
While discussing why he turned Moiraine and Siuan into sodomizers, Judkins said, “It felt essential that their relationship be textual. It is one of the most important relationships in the books for how it drives plot. It’s almost like the inciting incident of the show is contained within the relationship between these two. To me, the show didn’t make sense without that relationship being explicit because we are also putting more of the emphasis certainly on [Rosamund Pike’s] character, Moiraine, than there is in the books.”
“You’re also always looking as an artist for, ‘Why am I telling this story? I have to devote my life to this for years and years.’ It was worth devoting my life to telling this beautiful story, but also that the lead was a queer character. I’ve never seen a fantasy show where our lead was just casually a queer character that wasn’t only directed at the queer community. To have that was an important part of why I wanted to tell this story and why I fell in love with the books in the first place,” he added.
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Earlier in the interview, he justified denigrating Jordan’s work by claiming the books were coded as gay. Ironically, he also admits that they were not gay.
He said, “A lot of it also — this is the ’90s and early 2000s — was very coded. It’s always, women are pillow friends. They’re not lesbians. But it’s all there. When you’re reading it, it felt like big billboard signs of: These are queer stories; these are queer characters, especially in comparison to all the other fantasy I’d been reading.”
“For me, it was very important to find that in the show today. I feel like part of our job as artists who are adapting something is to bring it to life, not just word-for-word but to also bring its context to life,” he continued. “And the context of Wheel of Time in the ’90s is very different from the context of reading the books today. I wanted to infuse that into the show and hopefully let people who weren’t seeing themselves in other fantasy shows see themselves in Wheel of Time.”
Judkins went on to admit one of his main goals with the show is to normalize sodomy, and he attempts to justify it with an alleged quote from Robert Jordan.
He said, “That’s something that we’ve tried to infuse into the world of the show and is something that comes from the books. Robert Jordan once famously just said casually, ‘I would say 30 to to 50 percent of people in the world of The Wheel of Time are probably not straight.’ That’s a huge thing that he was doing. We’re trying to infuse that in the show and not make it feel like the exception to a rule, but make them feel like a natural and central part of our world.”
As for how he’s normalized this, he admits he did it by twisting the Aes Sedai to fit into his homosexual vision of the White Tower as well as making Aviendha and Elayne sodomizers.
He explained, “In the White Tower, we have this place that is almost exclusively a female domain, and there are a lot of conversations about the different kinds of relationships that women have within it. One thing that I was very interested in was the idea of these pillow friends or, quite obviously, loving relationships that happen within the tower amongst women. That was one thing I wanted to lean into with the show because often with single-gender places, you see a lot of homosocial and homosexual behavior. That idea of this place where only women live was very interesting to me.”
Next, he admitted to twisting the Aiel’s First-Sisters, “Then in season three, there’s this world that we go into. One of the most fully formed cultures in the books is the Aiel, and in the books, they always had this very fascinating idea, which was called First-Sisters. Two women sort of marry each other first and they may have relationships outside of that with men, they may not, but that core relationship in their life was with their first-sister. You see we have three first-sister relationships in season three, and they’re all different from each other.”
He then declared he did this with Aviendha and Elayne, “We have two main characters Aviendha (Ayoola Smart) and Elayne (Ceara Coveney) who eventually become first-sisters in the books. Justine Gilmer, who’s an amazing writer, was a big part of pulling it up. How we pulled it up was to forefront that relationship and the loving nature underneath it early in the show, so when they eventually become first-sisters, it’s based on this relationship they already have with each other. I love that. I like having a multiplicity of queer relationships and a multiplicity of how different cultures approach queerness in the world of the Wheel of Time.”
Judkins’ interview comes following the release of Wheel of Time Season 3 and the show appears to be quickly losing viewers.
The three-episode premiere on March 13th did not chart on Luminate’s Streaming Originals: Television chart for the week of March 6th to March 13th.
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It also did not chart for the week of March 14th to March 20th.
Samba TV reported the show’s season three premiere saw a 6% dip in viewership compared to season two’s first episode.
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The total number of reviews on IMDb has also seen a significant drop. Season 1 Episode 1 had over 13,000 reviews. Episodes 2 and 3 had over 11,000 reviews.
Season 2 Episode 1 only had over 4,900 reviews. The second episode only has 4,600 and the third episode just 4,800.
Finally, Season 3 Episode 1 has just over 3,300 reviews while the second and third episodes have just over 2,800.
Google Trends also indicate the show has seen waning interest between the three seasons.
It is good that people have stopped watching the show, but what Judkins and Prime Video have done is an act of evil. They are normalizing and promoting disordered lifestyles and acts that are never to be approved.
The show should be boycotted and condemned by any decent, upstanding person.
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"I would say 30 to to 50 percent of people in the world of The Wheel of Time are probably not straight.’"
Fake RJ quote. Nothing like that "famous" quote anywhere on Theoryland.
Glad I never got into the books with Sanderson turning out to be a woke clown. The series is out of the question.