I am completely new to this world, I had never even heard of the book series, before I saw the trailer on Amazon Prime. That looked promising.
After watching 6 episodes, I have to say: it's not very original, is it? A lot of things that happen, people, places, etc, I've seen it all before in other stories. Channeling for instance, looks to me a lot like 'bending' from The Last Airbender, The Dragon Reborn goes by many names, doesn't he? The one who will bring balance to the Force, the Kwisatz Haderach (Dune), The Prize (from Higlander, the film), etc, etc. The same goes for the Dark One: Melkor, Sauron, the Sith Lord, need I go on? Or that character Thom the gleeman, he comes across as just another Aragorn. And what about that last episode? the exiling of Moiraine looked an awful lot like the discommendation of Worf in Star Trek the Next Generation.