Wheel of Time - TV Show on Amazon Prime

Here’s a better example:

Steppin goes to Nynaeve for tea to help him sleep. They joke about it being sheepstongue root. Sheepstongue root a) doesn’t help you sleep and b) tastes awful. That would be fine - and we could all know that Nynaeve thinks Steppin is acting the fool

This should be the moment where you realize you're making excuses (or others have, and you believe them), but maybe it won't. Here's the big problem. Goatstongue root is a canon sedative, mentioned in Winter's Heart, and in fact the herb (per show and transcript) that Nynaeve gives Steppin.

I call that an “unforced error” - they could have made up any name for the concoction and we would have accepted it

...by you. They picked an herb mentioned and used in the books, and it exhibited the symptoms formally assigned to it.

To reiterate... They got goatstongue root correct in the show and you are the one mistaken.

And I'm trying to be charitable to you, but I'm not going to lie. In the last 2 years, I have debunked no fewer than 2 dozen lore-adherence accusations by people complaining about the show. About half the time, it devolves into the other person hating on diversity or the role of women. It is really hard for me to see people who simply have a flawed grasp of the lore accusing the show of these utterly non-issue things and not see them as making excuses to hate the show. I'm sure you're in the 50% of haters who aren't whitecloaks, but can you see why someone on my side starts to take issue with all the silliness? I was back theorycrafting about in the mid 90's and never stopped being a diehard, yet I seem to think they did a bang up job with the show and it easter eggs.

Don't like Wotshow? Don't watch it. Seems fair to me.