The dragon is one with the land. The strange weather in the books, is correlated to Rand's wound as much as it is to the DO's touch increasing as its seals weaken. Rand's corruption from the wound, and the taint from Saidin allows the DO a direct connection to the Land, which allows the DO to better manipulate the weather, and further affect things like weather and rot in the land effects in chaotic ways.

This is likely merging several characters and tossing them in front of Lan. One which is that DF character from New Spring, and Intgar's redemption arc that we didn't get in season 2 all rolled up in to Melindhra as an exposition vehicle to tell the audience more about Lan's background and culture to potentially drive the scene we better get that involves Nynaeve dropping Lan off in the middle of nowhere... People be shipping Mat and Min because of this, but dudes... that wasn't a kiss, and Mat just be horny. I don't think we're losing Salidar. Or rather, Salidar may become the Fish Hut. Note: We see the Mirror in the Amyrlin's room get moved, and we know that links to said fish hut. I think what we're going to lose, is Egwene getting captured on the boat turning the chains to Cuendillar. I think instead, she's going to get captured inside the tower, after going through the mirror. She might be trying to turn the chains from inside the tower, I don't know. Or some other purpose, but this could be a Season 5 thing. I honestly would have liked it better if they decapitated Moiraine. Not a big fan of losing Valda, Loial and Siuan all in one season. There's lots of people going on about how Rand being in a relationship with Elayne, Aviendha, and Min is all kinds of "icky and wrong", but it's "fine" if he's in a relationship with Elayne and Aviendha, and that's totally not a Haram either, but it is if Min is there. So now they're shipping Mat and Min. So here's an idea. Min = Jain Farstrider. Way back in Season 1, when Egwene was talking about her favorite book, she referred to Jain Farstrider as a she. Min is apparently already far travelled. She's been to Tanchico already apparently. Given that, why can't she be Jain Farstrider? And why can't Jain Farstrider be a Pen Name? And why can't it be a Pen Name that can be passed down from one Jain Farstrider to the next? Look at Jain Farstrider's "arc" in the books, and compare it to Min and her connection to Ishamael and Liandrin? There's a case here to be made that she can replace Jain Farstrider... and now you have your 3 for if Mat and Thom ever go into the Tower. Now we just have to push Moiraine and Lanfear into the doorway in tear next season...

It definitely was attached to a weapon.

On that front... It's hard to say? Merchandise existed before the show came out, and I think they had existing contracts with the Jordan estate not with REE. After show came out, SPT and Amazon entered the fray and they somehow or another were able to cancel everyone's pre-existing merchandising rights for whatever reason. I don't know if REE would get any residuals from merchandising, or if they'd just get a flat check from SPT/Amazon for each merchandising effort. (That's all in the contracts we'll never see). But given everything we might know of the situation, is that SPT and Amazon, were likely arguing over who/what/where and how much of the pie each got of the merchandising share. Amazon being Amazon, likely wanted the biggest pie, since they could control the entire supply chain, while SPT likely wanted a bigger chunk since they had the licensing rights... And if REE had any say, they likely wanted a cut because they want to fund their side hustles.

Thanks for that, I totally forgot to make this last night

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I think we agree on something there, lol. But I think you have to imagine, a guy who changed his name to "Larry Mondragon", sitting across from you, with contracts and at some point, you're probably not going to take him very seriously. RJ probably didn't either, much to his chagrin.

REE/iWoT are two guys, Rick Selvage and Larry Mondragon. They probably took one look at the guys, and felt that they, being Amazon and backed by Bezos were the biggest dogs in the room and could get what they wanted, and would have all the leverage. They completely underestimated the sleaze of those two.

I did you one better. https://dragonmount.com/forums/forum/94-dm-mafia-games/ You can probably get @Verbal32 to help you move games from "Community Games" to "DM Mafia Games", and other random setup stuff over there.

Here's Adam Werthead's breakdown from back in 2020. What likely happened is that REE "optioned" their "IP Rights" to the TV Series to Sony/Amazon for a set number of years/seasons, and it's possible that contract has expired and it's time to renegotiate their "IP Fee" with Sony/Amazon... It's also possible that whatever contract Sony had with Amazon or vice versa has expired, so they're trying to renegotiate... or EVERYBODY is trying to renegotiate. Now, this is my own personal opinion and is NOT the opinion of Dragonmount, but I think if this hold up rests squarely on the shoulders of REE/iWoT, it's because they are ultimately Greedy (pissing in the soup again), and that they're just trying to renegotiate/siphon some absurdly stupid amount of money out of Amazon/Sony to fund their dumb AI projects... but again, this is just my opinion/speculation based on their past decisions and shady practices.

Myrddraal Dan is the fan name for the fade seen during Season 2's marketing.

Should be fixed now. I've fixed that damn spelling on Myrddraal and Shai'tan like 6 times. I think Discord is gaslighting me.

I'm just going to put this here. Pay attention to who the camera focuses on when Moiraine mentions Children, and Queen Eldrene. So if you're really going to put money on that... Consider the Season 1 foreshadowing that they laid into this episode just through Moiraine's speech, and their camera work.

Believe it or not, these are consistent. The fact that you can't see that, is because you don't see that you are the one that is constantly pestering everyone and won't stop beating a dead horse, until others believe what you do. So DROP IT.

What's the over under on Maksim making it to the series finale with Alannah?

Since it wasn't obvious enough, and y'all keep going on about it. Anymore posts about the a'dam bull crap will henceforth be removed from this topic.

The way they're going, of the 3 boys, I can see them Kill Perrin.

Remind me, why exactly are ya'll derailing this topic, which is explicitly about the events of S3E6, to debate once again... how a'dam may or may not work in the show?

Even the writers, casters, directors, actors, and producers directly involved in the product have their own biases that they very well may not know they have, and may even be blind to a type of criticism because they are too close to it to see it. E.g. there's a reason shows hire "Intimacy Coordinators" for sex scenes, because writers/directors are often blind to their own issues to determine what is acceptable on set for actors. E.g. it's clear this show lacks any type of Historical War Coordinator like you'd see on the show Vikings or Game of Thrones, but the Writers/Directors think they're experts on warfare, so "they've got it", and it shows in the final product.

He was absolutely fantastic as Valda, and I really can't imagine anyone else playing him. (I still wish they had given him one more season to really hate him!) That's also why I say I'm not an expert on that line of criticism, and I'll always defer to the experts on it. I've just seen things this last season that look like things that have been pointed out in the past and they have me wondering, "Is this that thing you're talking about? Cause it looks like it?"

Aye. I dunno either. I remember that stuff being brought up in season 1. I'm seeing a lot of the same stuff the people from those communities brought up back in season 1, happening in season 3. I'm also seeing a lot of the same horror movies tropes with shots lingering on POC getting killed, and I don't know if that's intentional, or just a side effect of the diverse casting. So it's more that I'm aware that I'm seeing similar stuff, and I'm not going to be shocked if people from those communities criticizing the show about it for those reasons, but I'm not going to make a big social media stink about it on Twitter either.

I don't know if anyone's touched on it for this episode or not. But the CGI for the Trollocs, particularly the one Hunting Aram sucked. Quite honestly, (Rose tinted glasses) I feel the CGI used in Underworld for the Werewolves was better, then that. While I feel it was important for Aram to kill and get shunned from the Tuatha'an, I don't know that they really did his shunning any justice. I'm going to be rewatching the episode here tonight, but As far as I recall.. we never see him get shunned like Rand's ancestor got shunned. So we lose that emotional connection for Aram's character. It's implied it happened... but he was just offered a job as the town's blacksmith, so everything's okay, right? /s Some of the Trollocs throughout the episode looked fine some just looked off and I can't quite put my finger on why. As much as I liked Valda finally getting his karmic retribution... The graphics of that scene... were really cheesy. The fire looked like really crappy vhx fire. Maybe my stream quality went to crap when I was watching it on my laptop, but it did not look like a real fire at all. The post fire effects were decent enough. He looked quite crispy. Seriously. Stick to practical effects... Setting people on fire is... incredibly easy to do. And he wasn't even on FIRE That long as far as stunts go! (Seriously, this would have been CHEAPER then a CGI fire that looks like shit!) Criticism wise. Killing off Valda and Loial isn't something I practically liked. I wanted Valda to stick around and make us really hate him, and I think Loial could have done some more in the show had they let him. Next week we're expecting them to kill off Lanfear and Moiraine, only Lanfear and Moiraine aren't "permanently" dead, even if they "say" they're dead, they very well may be returning in future seasons until the series ends and proves other wise. One ongoing criticism? I have with the show... if you want to call it that. Is that I don't know if the writers/directors/producers of the show have handled "POC" in the show very well, both in how they're killing them off, or in how they've handled them as villains/heroes, and other ways when it comes to various tropes and other things.. and I say this knowing full well that the show has an extremely diverse cast and crew, including the writers, directors, etc. In S3E1, Leane merced a certain Black Ajah member with her staff very violently. In S3E7, they choose to kill off two "black" cast members, who have been with the show since season 1, in the same episode to "Balance" out the hero and villain ratio. People will obviously say... It's okay! They're killing Lanfear and Moiraine next! But as I mentioned above, I don't think that's permanent. (until proven otherwise in the series finale) I don't know, as I've said before, it's a hard balance to strike... I'm not an expert on that particular topic; But I also don't think it's helping the show's case when they kill off Hammed Animashaun and Abdul Salis in the same episode. But hey, I thought this show was ultra woke, ya know?

Tor published the power rankings here https://reactormag.com/the-wheel-of-time-companion-strength-chart-of-major-channelers/ The only real column you have to pay attention to is the furthest left, the + value ones are the old system that became invalidated after he restructured it at some point in the series. The wiki (link below), combines the official chart (above) with what people have said in the books about how powerful people are (like the aforementioned Bode Cauthon). There's likely some errors in this one, since those added to this versus the official are based on what people in the book are saying about how they compare with others. https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/Strength_in_the_One_Power_rankings

And Rand was able to ripple the ground, create lightning, gateways, fire swords, all without being able to "see" his weaves or "know" what he was doing as a "wilder" and that was "before" LTT was ever in his head. 😉