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My biggest gripe about season 1 was how sparkling clean their clothes looked.
Rand's woolly jumper was shining, no balling, freshly woven, from perfectly spun threads - they're all supposed to be mediaeval farmers in a remote village who's only contact with the cities was an occasional travelling merchant, everything should have been old, had a layer of grime, clumps etc.
Other than that I thought it was pretty good.
They're actually specifically not in a medieval fantasy setting. That doesn't mean that their clothes should be pristine, but most people seem to simply have a problem with this not being LOTR style.
Yes, agreed. I've read the books.
Should have skipped that phrasing. My point was in regards to the goods availability setting, not era, that is: Remote, mostly self sufficient, agricultural village, mostly dirt roads, in a setting were as far as they knew or was practically used, the fastest form of transport was horseback, with 0 automation.
It doesn't give a lot of room for "pulled the clothing from the shelf".
Perhaps a stretched argument could be made for the main characters, in that they were special, but then it's not mentioned in the books, other characters don't remark on it, and all characters are dressed like that.
(Except for the aes sedai, and especially Moiraine who is continuously singled out for how she always looks pristine in almost all circumstances)