tl;dr at the bottom.

It's a bit of a mess, isn't it? But I found myself really enjoying it, and there only being a few things that were legitimate letdowns to me. One of them--the absolute absurd lampshading they did with Turak--caught me so off-guard that I started laughing and didn't much mind that I missed out on the fight itself.

Really wish we'd gotten a proper Ishamael and Rand fighting in the skies above Falme. Absolutely adored the wild take they went with on the Forsaken. Even if you hate what was done with them in the show, I think everyone here agrees that the Forsaken in the books are very, very weirdly used. I appreciate that they decided to try for something else. For the most part, I liked it.

Probably my two biggest complaints: The Three Oaths appear to be more like guidelines, really, and I don't know what the hell Ishamael was playing at tossing fireballs at Egwene and somehow getting them bounced off a magical shield. I don't care that the show seems to have gotten rid of the saidin/saidar power disparity, because that was always particularly stupid, but the strongest of the Forsaken should not be struggling against a novice. I would begrudgingly accept him being taken off-guard for a few moments by Nynaeve, but it's very silly from Egwene.

Oh, and Lanfear should have worn more white.

tl;dr I understand why people who adore the books hate the show, but I think it's a pretty entertaining fanfic that's been put on the screen. And, more controversially, I think an attempt at an extremely faithful adaptation would be worse than what we currently have.