That if was only when she saw Mat, Perrin, Rand, Egwene together, was it an if. Which is clearly the Last Battle, before Rand entered the Pit Of Doom, which easily could have gone either way. Rand, Nyneave and Moiraine alone showed certainty, enough to know that what those three were going to do was important. She just had no idea that sealing the Bore was that important a thing to do. All the spark viewings fighting the darkness were their actions from the Merrilor meeting, to the Last Battle, to the sealing of the Bore, and only when Moiraine, Nyneave and Rand were together did the viewing show the sparks winning.

It was foreseen. Min saw that she had a part to play, as far back as Book 1. She saw sparks of light fighting the dark when it was just Moiraine and Nyneave alone in the room, and they exploded when she saw them both alone with Rand. What she saw in images, was the full sealing of the Dark One. Withour Moiraine or Nyneave, Rand fails his mission. Egwene and Elayne would both betray him for their positions and the entities they lead.

The highlight for me was the Rand stuff. All of that was scary to read the first time.

That is politics for you. It is boring if it works right. If it does not, then it gets VERY messy very quickly. Those pages also showed a totally different boon: one of the two Forsaken manipulating both sides of the White Tower, specifically Aran'gar working the Salidar Aes Sedai, did not catch what Egwene was doing either. It was the Dark One that specially ordered Egwene to be removed from the board, once he saw what she was doing.

The three duels occured, because Demandred was as powerful as Rand at Merrilor, except he needed a circle of 72 to get to that power level. Which made him an army unto himself. The duels happened, because each time Demandred came close to shattering one of Mat's battle fronts, and a sign of Mat's Ta'veren nature throwing random things to change the outcome, and it did it by throwing three men that made Demandred drop his focus on the greater battle. The main thing, is that the third duel finally worked. The main issue, is that the battle with Demandred was not the prophesied Tarmon Gai'don. That was about to be fought at Shayol Ghul, AFTER Demandred had fallen, and needed Perrin and Mat to fight the two threats coming to battle.

Got to disagree on that. If Judkins did not want the story done and did not love it, Rhuidean, and Mat with the Eelfinn would not exist. If he did not think that Siuan deserved a better send off than the off page death she got, and a better look at her character than even the books gave, she would not have showed up at all. She would just be name dropped the entire time. If Judkins was like DnD, Mat would have been killed off at the end of season 1, and would have done a stupid story to say Liandrin, or Lanfear did it. His story would have been totally cut out. Perrin if he was like the director of Last Jedi with Luke? He would be a drunk wife abusing hobo. The fact his favourite character is Egwene, we got her exactly how she is in the books character wise, as Rand was. Then, we got Faile, which is pretty much as I viewed her from the books.

That is my thinking on this as well. WOT will not get another shot at the screen in live action. Maybe video gaming is an option, and maybe an animated series. But, those two mediums are its last chances, and after this cancelling, even those two options become far harder for anyone to justify the effort in trying, both in numbers and in word of mouth. It is a real shame. I was really enjoying it, and looking forward to what came after.

The Age Of Legends did not have Aes Sedai in all positions of power. For example, the government structure, from the global form to the local ones, did not have Aes Sedai in it's representatives; even the Tamyrlin, whom could be summoned by it, was not involved in the day to day governance. Not all Healers were Aes Sedai, and not all engineers, manufacturers and farmers were Aes Sedai either; we just know that there were many that did all of those careers, on top of their Aes Sedai duties, which seemed to be utilised only at the request of the wider population, or the Hall of The Servants itself. It seems also that the only Aes Sedai that operated constantly as Aes Sedai, was the Hall, and it was to govern and discipline the Aes Sedai, and also to conduct teaching of new students. Everyone else was only active when needed for a project or situation that required them to be used; they always returned to their previous roles once that need was fulfilled. The only time the Aes Sedai were given full control of the world, was when the War Of Power erupted, and it was to Lews Therin specifically it was given to. If it was anything like our world, I doubt the Aes Sedai would convince it of trust to handle that responsibility before that point.

Yes, because Semirhage is both on the same strength level as Lanfear, and totally hates her, to the point Semirhage wants to torture her.

There is really only one change, and it is the last one. Instead of yelling at him to go to Rhuidean, they are going to yell go to The Fields Of Merrilor instead, or wherever the show is going to plop the Last Battle fight at. With the same result, that Mat is going to be Mat and fight and scrape every which way NOT to do that, but end up doing it anyway. I suspect the reason Mat has not done that yet, is because they do not know quite yet where the Last Battle will be fought in the show.

I agree, SinisterDeath. It is wrong to want that. But, at the same time, I get why some do. I have been there myself at least once.

If not Juilin.........was that Jain Farstrider?!?! He....seems to know what is going on.

That was due to WB not giving Peter the time to do the story after Guillermo left the film, and after WB deciding to split the thing into three. We are lucky he had the balls to come up with the White Council fight at Dul Guldur, which took place in the books the same year of The Battle Of Five Armies, and chose to use Gandalf's story absence for a large part of the story for all of that from the Ringwraith graves to that moment. Even his report to the White Council on that issue was after the Hobbit book was done, and Bilbo was back in the Shire in the source material. For me, Rafe gets plenty of slack from me, considering he has far too much source material to explore, and source materail he is huge fan of. Which, after other shows I have seen over the last 10 years, is a breath of fresh air.

That is like me. 8 small paperback novels, and 6 in the full size paperbacks. The only thing with mine, is all of them are British Orbit books.

I love that as well. It makes a great way of showing how the Dragon Reborn affects things, as the Shadow starts acting to weaken its biggest foe's chances later on.

I got the sense at first it was an epileptic seizure. I then thought it was due to no alcohol consumption. That is what I thought, anyway, since I have seen the signs of both in my life from family members, and both look identical. Or it is entirely possible Rahvin used compulsion on her, she is fighting it, and the battle is displaying that physical sign. Alice could be Aran'gar. We will just have to wait and see if Alice is part of Elaida's backstory, or is in fact something else altogether.

I loved Rahvin there, and seeing Sammael for the first time is great. The split beginning as a result of his presence makes much more sense now. Book Rahvin would not go near them in any way.

Oh, that is what I missed!! Thanks. I totally forgot about Jain.

Ishamael was actually spun out twice. It was in the Trolloc Wars that he earned the title Ba'alzamon. That was actually him in the flesh going around the world and launching Trolloc invasions in all three continents. The next time he was spun out, he acted as Wormtoungue tried to Theoden. Only here, he fully achieved his aims with Hawkwing, when the King sent his two heirs to the other continents on Ishamael's first word, then turned him on the Aes Sedai and his subjects with the second.

I know. The thing is, I never remember the really awful stuff once I watch it.

Go Titanic for worst film. The song alone dooms that thing. 7 times in one hour switching radio stations when that film released is insanity on full blast. There is an awesome Cage Match on here that totally redeems Twilight, in the Bela vs Bella match that is hilarious to read. I giggle every time she shows up now when I watch those films in the rare occasion I can stomach them for a little time.

Yes, Machin Shin is the corruption of saidin given physical form, but not as the madness unfolds in male channellers.

Damane do not die when their suldam does. We have multiple POVs of dead suldam, and their damane either unconscious, which we were told so by either a Wise One or and Aes Sedai, or reacting no different to an Aes Sedai with their dead Warders. Ryma's battle actually showed a suldam dead, and her damane alive.

It was because they were both powerful, and in Moiraine's case, had a link to a powerful Cairheinen House, which was just on the throne, before Laman was killed. Siuan was simply because of her power, and possibly sticking it to Tear, considering that nation's attitudes to the One Power, and Aes Sedai. But, the most important reason, is she tried to get them to choose the Red Ajah once they passed their tests. Myrelle did nothing, because Accepted are expected to stand up for themselves, and that includes standing up to the kind of coercions Elaida was using. If this was their time as novices, then Myrelle would have behaved totally differently to what Elaida was doing.

It is a good question. The answer, is that the Dark One is incapable of developing beyond what his nature is, and cannot change how he gathers followers. They will always be selfish, and always fail him at the toughest hurdles, as humanity resists his activities. On top of that, he will always be suspicious of any one of his followers either being too weak for him to use, too powerful to use, or to willing to switch to the Dragon's allegiance for their survival, even if it is a temporary allegiance. As Rand says, the Dark One cannot inspire loyalty to his cause, and the only soul that proves as an exception, out of all the countless souls that have declared for him at some point, is Ishamael himself. He is the only soul that will stay loyal to the Dark One, because he truly believes in the Dark One's victory, however the Dark One wants it to manifest.