Yes. That's going to be a WAFO. But, that's how foreshadowing, and binary/mirrors work. What happens to Karene foreshadows what people believe happens to Moiraine. Steppin's Fate mirrors what could have been Lan's fate, had everyone not stepped in and intervened. The Karene/Stepping Moiraine/Lan Foreshadow/Mirror is an imperfect mirror because as we know, Moiraine didn't actually die. But, seeing as this is a TV show they can set up similar events to show us the audience something that's similar to foreshadow and mirror future events to give us that AHAH! moment. We have Nynaeve obsessed with healing. That she's the best healer as she uses all 5 powers. She doesn't make the person use their own body to heal themselves. She uses the power to heal the body, so they don't kill themselves in the process of healing... Effectively true healing, not combat healing. But it's Egwene that effectively develops the ability to heal the pattern. She was the one that was able to heal diseases that Nynaeve never could. So the series has always had this thing where someone does something similar (Nynaeve see's someone purifying water), but it could be someone else who actually figures out how to purify the taint...

Yes. See, they show one character learn something to show the audience a concept, only for another character to use that same concept later on to do something completely different on a much grander level...

It's interesting you say this... because there's thing in books and TV called foreshadowing. Where we see something early on that hints at a future event, and it might be a red herring as to who is the catalyst for that future event. Sometimes foreshadowed events mirror future events. Like how Steppin and Kerene mirror Lan and Moiraine. Take Moiraine being shielded in episode 8. Now look at what happened to Liandrin in Fires of Heaven via Moggy. Mogi wove an incredibly complex inverted weave shielding Liandrin permanently... unless she could find someone to remove it. (She never did) Moggy said "You will live, not stilled but knowing you could channel again if only you found someone to untie your shield; Yet that is only the beginning." In the show, Ishy said to Moiraine. "Must be an awful feeling. To know the One Power is there, just at the end of your fingertips... but you can't quite touch it." If they Keep Liandrin's arc intact in the show, where this event still happens. Then her arc was foreshadowed by what happened to Moiraine via Ishy. This series has always been about the binary between genders. About the mirrors between men and women. In the show it seems we're getting binary reflections beyond just the male and female kind.

Wait, so it's sopping wet and drooling? I'm confused...

No, he's just an extremely depressed guy that's barely hanging onto life, and can barely get on a horse without assistance, and would likely starve to death if someone didn't put food in front of him. (Re: That time he traveled with Siuane and Min to find Salidar)

Rage bait generates more engagement, more clicks and comments, than inspiring and uplifting content. If I say something as benign as Lord of the Rings was a great movie, especially that scene were Aragorn tries to strike the ring with his axe, that'll generate a ton of rage clicks from fans shouting YOUR WRONG! That was GIMLI! And then other's will chime in that THEY'RE ALSO WRONG because that never HAPPENED in the books! Which will then also spiral out of control because who gives a flying shit because it was a great scene! So what I'm getting at is... If you're looking at reviews, you really can't go off of just the negatives. If I look at a product online, and I see a lot of 5 stars, I'm going to read the 1 stars to see what their issues were, because that's going to let me know what could go wrong, but these are generally non-typical. Then I'm going to read the 5 stars. Then I'll read the star reviews with the most stars.. (this could also be 5 stars), and get a sense of what the average idea of the product is. But a show like this... isn't a product you "research" online before "buying". The comments we read online for a show... are the bottom of the barrel. They don't quantify a meaningful sample of people who have watched the show... or even read the books. Yesterday I was talking to a used book store clerk about the WoT books, and they were talking about there kids being obsessed with the books and how they weren't impressed with the show, and how it was nothing like the show. I wasn't surprised in the least. They were surprised when I told them that the 2nd season is coming out on the 1st. They didn't know that Mat left the show, which required them to rewrite the last 2 episodes... or the covid restrictions, and a few other things. They were open to watching season 2 even before mentioning these things.

@Elder_Haman in this case @Samt is 100% correct here. Rafe Judkins is the Showrunner, and he wrote the script for Episodes 1 & 8. As the showrunner, he is by and large the primary writer for the show. What that entails, is writing the story boards & plot for the entire season. One way to look at this is... He's the guy who puts together a rough plot. An Outline. Like a very rough draft of a comic book. He presents a rough draft of events, the major story beats for the other other writers (Like a project manager) to fill in the blanks... this is done in the Writers Room... which from the sound of it.. this show actually had. (And it's why they shot down the idea, and why I joke that Rafe probably had to restrain Sara from shanking one writers (or the other way around?) when someone suggested making Perrin a bear brother...)

Yes, if women had joined, it would have meant both haves would have been corrupted. They would have required the True Power + the One Power to seal the DO.

IMO, In the end it doesn't matter how they're "actually" pronounced. Half of them are made up words anyways, and not everyone is even able to pronounce them the way the author intended them to be pronounced. So I say... say it however you want... Hell, change it up every time you say it, just to screw with the people who get anal about it.

Shit, more like non-communication... and most of it's not even considered malpractice... Doctors don't listen to patients. A staggering number of women routinely go 10+ years before getting diagnosed with endometriosis. Some only get a diagnosis after getting a hysterectomy and barely an acknowledgement from their doctors that their prior symptoms were even real. That's just one example of many... You could say I've navigated the health-care system enough to have a bit of a beef with the way things are done. lol I'd say it goes beyond just military history. Honestly, and I've said it before... COVID is a great example from recent history... of a shared experience that all of us reading this lived through. Regardless of our politics, it illustrates how no one can agree what's going on, how to deal with it, or what we should do about it, who to believe, etc. It's unfortunate that COVID came out during season 1, but it's also fortunate for the show that COVID happened, because they can really dial up the miscommunication in the show to the levels in the book and people will probably go, "Yeah, that' sounds about right".

It's funny, because Rand's 19 or 20 at the start of the books. Egwene however is 16-17.

Forgetting about Narg?

If you go by the posters released today... I'm guessing we're having 6 main characters arcs, 1 "villain" arc. (which could be told in the cold-opens?) Discounting cold opens, you can show other-character's "arcs" in the main-arcs by incorporating them in the main-characters scenes. Ala Mat's fight scene with Elayne's brothers. You've hit the nail on the head when it comes to the issue of adapting a book with 2787 named characters and ~148 Points of Views into a TV series. You need to keep it concise or the audience gets lost. If you spread it to thin, the details get lost and the audience gets whiplash from the jump-cutting between characters.

Lol. Either way it's a book... a story, and Time is valuable. I can think of worse things to waste time on then reading a book in a series that hasn't ended yet. Not every story has a conclusion, and that's honestly just a part of life. I honestly believe the idea that not starting a series because it isn't finished is foolish. But, that's your time, not mine. 😉 As an anecdote, I was one of four players in a homebrew game of D&D. The DM crafted his own unique world over ~25 years, and he had a story for us. Around the mid-point of our Journey, and just before starting a big clash with the BBEG, our DM unexpectedly died. The story ended; His family gave us all his D&D stuff; And there wasn't a single note written down. Nothing on the upcoming encounters, no statblocks, no plotlines. Nothing. It was all in his twisted head; his story ended, and new stories began in others. Time is valuable, spend it wisely...

Entirely subjective, but IMO, it's a Book. Reading it is infinitely more valuable then time wasted in WoW.

Yes It's affected by the WGA strike. It's not affected by the SAG strike. Most of the actors are European, and are not SAG members. While many of the European actors would love to join them on the strike, there exists legal hurtles for them joining. I recall reading an article stating it's illegal for UK actors to join the SAG strike due to contract obligations or something along those lines. Long short is, Season 3 might still film depending on how complete the script is. But any reshoots/script work will be delayed until after the strike unless they find a scab.

Visually, a lot of CoT can be boiled down to people from across the world experiencing the same event at the same time. Consider that CoT was published in 2003, and was actively being written between 2000 and 2003. In context, it's no coincidence that RJ wrote about a "major event" from the perspective of people from around the world experiencing the same event at the same time, when 9/11 was literally fresh on his mind. CoT was also the first 3 year gap in his publishing history at that point, so it wouldn't surprise me if he scrapped a lot of early drafts in place of what we got.

This reminded me of this clip from Rodney Dangerfield's "Back to School. *Note: The video does include curse words you're not allowed to say on DM.*

Oh light, that reminds me of.. Crossroads of Twilight? Every single chapter talking about that event from their perspective was just.. oof. Waiting 3 years for that book was just. ouch.

I'm aware of the rumor/leak, but that doesn't make it an official casting announcement. To go back to the post I was replying to, there hasn't been a confirmed casting for Gaul as of yet. That doesn't mean Gaul isn't going to be in the show. Just like we don't have an official casting for Faile yet. Faile hasn't been "officially confirmed" as of yet, there's a strong possibility from said leak/rumor that suggests she's been cast. Which is just another way of saying... There's still time for more characters to be cast.

Just be glad it's not like the Great Gatsby, where the entire book is drawn out, until you get to the ending where the last chapters are actually good.. Mainly because the ENDING is finally in sight!

I think what's trying to be conveyed here is that the story itself is actually short, it just takes place over several chapters, which makes it feel more drawn out then it actually is. Both can be true at the same time. It can be a short story that feels like it is drawn out.

Technically, Faile isn't confirmed yet either, where does that leave us? (Confirmed as in, not from an official casting announcement.)

Are they though? Don't forget that RJ was a Freemason. That has it's own religious and non-religious and political aspects... and apparently the novels are chock full of references if you know where to look...