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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 8495389" data-attributes="member: 3887">I care a lot out world-building, too -- let me tell you about my latest D&D setting... kidding! -- and I really liked the casting. For two reasons, mainly.Reason #1, intradiegetic - the setting for Wheel of Time is post-apocalyptic. We see this in the first episode with the panning shots over ruins that suspiciously look like some type of skyscraper, and it's confirmed in the final episode with Lews Therin living in a vaguely TNG-era Trek looking utopia city, complete with flying cars. It's the aftermath of an advanced global society.Reason #,  extradiegetic - it's a 21st century TV series. Naturally it's going to reflect the cultural milieu it was made in. That's not bad world-building. That's good art. Or at least honest art, which may or may not be synonymous with 'good'. We might call it 'world-building', but what's really being built is a stage -- and all the elves and ogiers and whatever are merely players.It's not by accident Tolkien's Shire was so Little England. What else are artists going to build their worlds out of besides their lived experiences (and who are they building things for?).</blockquote>