I saw it as foreshadowing (if certain events come to pass) - showing that Alanna has no respect of personal space/boundary.

I don't believe I've come across Meera Syal much. The only show I can think of is the movie Beautiful Thing where she played a very caustic sarcastic teacher. I like her as Verin though.

Interesting - this is the first time I've come across Min given the maiden and Aviendha given the crone. Usually I've seen people made reference to Min being the crone as she is the only one of the 3 whose aging cannot be slowed down. And Aviendha was a Maiden of the Spear (hence maiden).

Yes, they were among my favourite too. And I love a lot of the minor characters POV

There is no need for apology!

It looks like there were 3 POV by RJ (1x CoT and 2x KoD assuming the Wiki isn't in error) . Also, I'm surprised someone diligently wiki-ed POVs (fan award to that person (https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Point_of_View_Characters). : Pevara Tazanovni: Crossroads of Twilight, Chapter 22; Knife of Dreams, Prologue, Epilogue; Towers of Midnight, Chapter 53; A Memory of Light, Prologue, Chapters 2, 3, 4, 21, 37, 41, 42 I completely understand - I do like their relationship as I said. But would have loved it even more if it didn't have the baggage of the change in tone.

Yes, I am pretty sure that is correct. It could be only 1 PoV. The scenes I sort of recall are Pevara interacting with Tarna on Tarna's return from Salidar. Then later the Highest (forgot her name). And later one with Yukiri as they were trying to be discrete (though maybe that was Yukiri's point of view).

I do agree that I found it frustrating - but I recalled enjoying RJ's Matt's arc in the later books because there was a lot of humour in it

Oh! that must have been her 2nd POV - arriving at the BT! That would have been in book 11. Ah yes, I get what you mean. A strange coincidence they had 1 in each Ajah (with the green turning out to be black) minus blue (rebel) 😂

I remember struggling with Pevara's change of tone from RJ to BS. I think she only had 1 or 2 POV with RJ, but I quite liked her POV - I can remember one with her meeting with the Highest. The other... hmmm might be Seaine's POV. Part of me wished BS just had her turned and picked another unknown Aes Sedai as Androl's love interest, but the other part did find Pevara/Androl cute, albeit turned in a different way.

I was actually going to disagree at first - because there are a lot of details in channelling. But thinking about it - you are right. Power levels get skewed by talents - which in itself is quite fudgey: Channelers can be strong in one or a few flows of the one power (eg. Egwene/Leanne with earth) which then translate to good at certain other weaves (eg earth leads to good at ability/speed in making cuendillar). Or Channellers can be strong in a specific weave (healing/gateway/shielding).

Not any more - once upon a time. I had move on from WoT, but the TV series brought back lots of nostalgia. Dunno if I will ever re-read it. A few times I had re-read a book/series that I used to like a long time ago, and I find it falls short of my memory of it, and in some ways ruin the memory of it.

I apologise for my quip in relation to harems. I do have this thing against harems (but not polyamory) as presented in a lot of novels as they generally either fetishized, or with misogyny undertones or other unhealthy situations. It was completely unfair to compare TV-Alanna and Book-Myrelle in terms of their warder relationships. I actually do like how Alanna and her warders are presented in the TV series. Book-Myrelle - there are a lot doubts in my mind as to the healthiness of her relationship with her warders/husbands.

I would say it was an error on RJ's part to miss out dark friends since the Aes Sedai had to battle dreadlords before. In the TV series, when Moiraine recited the 3 oaths to Egwene S01e02, it does not include the exclusion to both darkfriend or shadowspawn. Moiraine:Exact verbiage. Words are important, and how we use them is important. Egwene:I don't know. Moiraine:One, to speak no word that is not true. Two, to make no weapon with which one person may kill another. Three, never to use the One Power as a weapon, except in the last extreme defense of her life or the life of her Warder or another Aes Sedai. These oaths are bound by the One Power itself. It's not that we do not break them, it's that we cannot break them. I did not kill that ferryman. He wasted his own life on a foolish cause. Transcript copied from: https://wheeloftime.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow's_Waiting/Transcript Granted, she may have missed the exclusion in error, but it is rather odd to talk about "exact verbiage" and then miss a very important exclusion. There is no exclusion to harming collateral though. Scene with the ferryman returning to his vessel being sunk and he died in the process established that to some extent. In the books tGH, it was perfectly fine for Aes Sedai to summon the wind to speed their ship down the Erinin and cause floods & damage crops along the way. Maybe RJ pictures floods differently or the types of floods he experienced in his geographical location were different from where I live. Where I live, floods from rivers kill even when the weatherman predicts the flood, much less one where Aes Sedai makes an impromptu trip down the river. I do agree it isn't particularly convincing about why Moiraine was able to sink the ships - sure there are a number of explanations and possibilities, and I accept a number may at a stretch be plausible because it all depends on Moiraines point of view as to what breaks her oath, but they don't feel satisfying to me as a viewer. If they explained it in S3, great, but it isn't a particularly big deal to me if the show does not explain it either.

Also, for being made a warder without consent, Lan's case is more interesting IMHO because, while it was done without his consent, it was done to save him and keep him alive. Doesn't make it any less a gross violation. Rand's case was just a gross violation