Another point in favor of gender not being a factor for the Dragon Reborn in the show, from the new Explore feature:
Four young people, not three!
I'm really excited to see if/how they go about this.
Oh, I think its 100% certain that Rand will still be the Dragon Reborn. I didn't mean to imply otherwise! But, it seems like they want to make viewers consider that it could be Egwene. Whether that's just marketing for the show or will extend to the actual universe, I'm not sure.
It seemed to me from early on that they wanted to suggest to people who hadn't read the books that Egwene might also be a candidate for being the Dragon Reborn, and this seems to confirm that.
It's interesting to me that it's so explicit here, though! Moiraine's narration, referring to the...