Sure, but again Rafe's post was in the context of Season 2. We have currently seen 5 episodes of Season 2. What content have we seen from book 3 so far? So far almost everything is based on the Great Hunt. About the only thing I've seen so far that might be from book 3, is Rand's story line is similar to how he went AWOL in book 3 when he traveled south. Rafe said: "We are trying to get a fair amount of what's done in book 1-3 (large parts still being held for later), by the end of S2 so that S3 can be a much closer adaptation of TSR." That "and later" comment IMO implies Season 3 and beyond... Making S3 a closer adaptation to TSR IMO doesn't mean making the entire season TSR. If they play their cards right, we can have Rand/Mat/Perrin and Company take the Stone in the first couple of episodes of S3. Honestly, we don't even need to spend an entire Season on that plot... (specially depending if Season 2 sets us up for a cliffhanger ending that involves them breaching the stone...)

Yep you're right. I was conflating Groves as Steddings. Every stedding has a grove but not every stedding is a grove. https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/Stedding

Lets look at what's in the () "Large parts still being held for later". Followed by "So S3 can be a closer adaptation to TSR". That doesn't mean S3 = a 1:1 of TSR. That can literally mean, S3E5thru8 = TSR.

Having just got through that section of the book not to long ago (again), I never took Avi to be shy. I took her as someone who didn't want to be forced into a relationship with a man because a bunch of old crones decided it was her duty to.

Waygates were always outside of Groves, because they were creations of the one power.

Lmao

This was a measure put in place to stop spam bots. It'll go away in time. It was also posted about here, which is a topic you should have read.

I don't know that we have any real confirmation from Rafe that Season 3 is explicitly and wholely book 4. It could very well be a mix of books 3 and 4, like a S2 is a mix of Books 2 & 3. We could get the last half of book 3, and the first half of book 4 in S3. Just imagine a S3 season finale with Mat on the Tree, and Perrin in the Two Rivers facing off against Trollocs, and the Girls fighting Moghedien...

The only thing I can say for certain, is that they have probably changed the mechanics of the bond in ways that we do not know yet. Once they resolve the "mystery" of whether Moiraine is "stilled or shielded" (like the who is the dragon mystery from season 1), that will help clarify what's going on with their bond. There's a few possible ways they could have changed it, and we can speculate until we're blue in the face, so I'm just going to WAFO.

I don't know that they'll introduce Gaul or Rhuarc this season, but It's entirely plausible that they'll be introduced next season when they become integral to the series plot next season and the foreseeable future.

He's awesome in this show, I haven't watched the Last Kingdom.

One Piece also shares a lot of the same international Market share as WoT. The bad news about One Piece doing well, is it eats watch hours away from WoT. The GOOD news about One Piece doing well? It tells studios they don't have to be afraid to give fans a story that resembles what was written, no matter how strange...

100%. Which is why I hope we get some extra stuff from Verin trying to verify Liandrin's story. 😉

https://winteriscoming.net/2022/12/14/thom-merrilin-will-not-be-in-the-wheel-of-time-season-2/ Like many of us have said... He is returning.

/sigh Here's some more tweaking

And that's why I'm holding out hope that we'll get that as part of Verin's investigation. We had part of it with Sheriam being under a "weave of compulsion". That alone has me asking. Wait, how the bloody hell did she have time to get back up stairs, do that, then go down?! She had to have had help... Help... like a network of Friends. Dark Friends... If we don't get something like that, then it feels like a cheap cop-out to the more astute viewer to have not at least got a mini scene where she at least pays off a guard as she leaves the tower with 3 covered horses... or using a secret Way Gate in Tar Valon... *edit* added last paragraph

Yep. Now if the future episodes with detective Verin explain how Liandrin secreted the girls out of Tar Valon by ferreting information out of Guards, tracing her path through the city, figuring out the secret Dark Friend network in Tar Valon? Yeah, I'll be happy as a Clam. But right now, I have questions for Liandrin!

And my POV is from someone who watches TV Shows and Movies. Believe it or not, Writers may not understand audiences... And again, I think you're highly underestimating the intelligence of the average viewer. Right on point for the intelligence of the average Investor/Producer though...

And I believe you are wrong. This is something that is going to have people watching the show look sideways and go, wait how the hell did she get them out of the city? The whole Verin subplot, speaks of a larger conspiracy. So maybe we'll get that answer in a later episode.🤔

Cause and Effect. Have you seen Final Destination?

I think you're undervaluing the intelligence of the non-reader here when it comes to TV show escapism and continuity. Little details matter. Remember when Liandrin snuck out of the White Tower to see her son? That conveniently shows Nynaeve how to sneak out of the tower. They didn't need to show Nynaeve going to that secret panel in the wall with Egwene to show her how to get to that secret tunnel. They can simply do that jump cut of them walking down that tunnel... That showed non-readers and readers alike that Nynaeve now knows how to sneak out of the tower. That's continuity. What's not clear, is how on earth Liandrin managed to sneak 3 girls out of the center of Tar Valon in the middle of the Night past the Tower Guards and the City Walls to the way Gate outside the City that they used in Season 1... That they made a huge deal about in... Season 1...

Faking out and misdirection are "near-synonyms" Faking out is basically defined as "to deceive, bluff" Misdirect means "to give wrong directions". When we say "fake out deaths", that's the same thing as saying the writers are misdirecting the audience by making thing believe the character is dead, when they are not. A perfect example of this is in the Walking Dead, when they made everyone think Glen got killed when he was overrun by zombies near a trashcan and left for dead. Seeing Lan's throat cut in Season 1 was a fake-out, that was quickly remedied by Nynaeve nova-healing. Had they faded to black and made us wait a week, people would have been yelling at the screen! Lanfear's "death" was another "fakeout" that was quickly resolved. We see things like this happen all the time on tv to create suspense.

It's worth mentioning. Aes Sedai in the books Didn't even know that stilling someone broke their oaths. That knowledge was effectively lost... because stilling a sister was so... incredibly rare and the mechanics of the oath rod were... bound in secrecy to future generations. That it was Tradition and nothing more. Hence, Moiraine wouldn't know and shouldn't know that being stilled SHOULD break her oaths...

Disagree. We've seen usage of T'a'R since Season 1 (remember the Bat Scene?). The writers never mentioned T'a'R until last episode. So again, the book lore holds true, until the show, shows us otherwise. Lanfear isn't a vampire. Until the show outright has her grow fangs and starts sucking blood in reality.