I really enjoyed this episode. I am happy they've improved over season one. But I just was woken up with an odd thought. Perrin is writing a letter to Egwene and Nynaeve...a letter? I didn't know the Westlands had a postal service lol. However did he get the letter from Arad Doman to Tar Valon? It just seems sloppy writing to me .   I really hope they either explain the process or stop doing it.  Am I being ridiculous about this ? I'd love to know if anyone was confused as me about this. Thanks,otherwise a good starting episode.

44 minutes ago, Elder_Haman said:

Did you entirely miss the point of that scene? The trollocs are undeniably evil. Ishamael is convincing the little girl to ignore what she intuitively knows to be true about the nature of evil.

Which is, in and of itself, evil. 

I really enjoy your take on the show, EH.   Are you going to give your review of season two  episodes?

What about episode eight when Lan needed Nynaeve to give him Moiraine's "tell". 

I've never liked that or that Lan seemed particularly under-used. 

Mat and Nyneave had the least of the main cast. I can see it more in Nyneave's case since she was absent in an entire episode but I'm always surprised that Mat has the least. That means he needs much larger time in season two. 

3 hours ago, Scarloc99 said:

More so than Verin? 

I'd say that Verin had already begun her redemptive arc when we meet her. By joining the Black Ajah, I'm sure she's had to do despicable things, so her entire quest to "out" the Black Ajah is her redemptive arc. 

In the clip with Alanna teaching the novices, Nynaeve states that, "No one should have that kind of power" or something similar and it struck me that that's the exact view of Whitecloaks! and in fact Valda said something similar to Egwene when she and Perrin were captured. 

I wonder if after that scene, Egwene tells Nynaeve about Valda. It think that would make for a powerful moment and maybe help Nynaeve 

25 minutes ago, king of nowhere said:

indeed, that scene could salvage the whole thing with amalisa, which wasn't a great moment otherwise.

 

gives me more hope that season 2 will be better than 1

You say season 5. I'm nervous we won't even get a season 4

5 hours ago, Mailman said:

First of the new clips that I really disliked. Fairly neutral about the others.

Makes Nynaeve look like an obstinate child. 

That's because she IS obstinate and full of pride at this point in the show. 

RE: damane collars and the lack of a leash. 

Perhaps the lack of a leash is an indication that in the show there isn't a need for a leash because the damane are happy in their situation?  Certainly in the books, there weren't any damane that didn't freak out initially after being "freed" from the control of the a'dam and crying out to the suldam for "protection". 

Also after some time of being free they are basically, "de-programmed by Aes Sedai, to become independant individuals. 

I loved Ingtar and his redemptive arc in The Great Hunt. I hope the show does it justice

20 minutes ago, DojoToad said:

Did they have new writers?  That could be promising.

Yep, I checked. I believe 3 new episode writers for season two(according to Collider-Updated today)

Rafe, Katherine McKenna and Dave Hill return from season one. That's two short but Id guess as before Rafe will have written two episodes as in season one. We'll see in 8 days 😄

1 hour ago, Scarloc99 said:

I think it depends what your issues where, for instance if like me it was production values, effects, dialogue and some of the script where the main issues then this is all easily fixable, or at least improvements can start to be seen. 

Ugh the writing was the big thing for me about season one. So much hoping the new writers do a better job 

Then what in your opinion should BS have done with Gawyn ?

Gratuitous naked scenes ?  Lol.  RJ was no GRRM.   

Even where there was nudity, it was never exploitive and all of the actual sex acts were all "off screen" .

I remember people getting all up tight with all the nudity and sex in GOT, they shouldn't have that issue with WOT TV show

16 hours ago, DreadLord31 said:

Since Perrin doesn't know Rand is still alive, it will be cool to see him be in awe of Shadowkiller and then ultimately realize Shadowkiller is the new badass Rand when they finally meet up. 

I like that prediction. 
I do think that Hurin with be cut and replaced with Elyas & we’ll get some Wolf Training pretty early on. Ep3 maybe? 

About Moiraine telling the rest of the EF 5 that Rand is "dead".  I am interested in seeing how that plays out in season two. Will she even see any of them to tell?

Personally, I hope she doesn't tell them Rand's dead.

I'd prefer her to them the truth.  

If I was able to ask the actors a question it would be, "What part(s) of the season have you personally seen ? If not do you plan on watching it when it releases?

I've heard that many actors don't watch the shows they act in, and I'm curious about the WOT cast. 

I'm re-reading The Dragon Reborn and reading Mat's first chapters after his healing from the dagger. 

I was taken by how different his character seemed to me. 

How his luck seemed to burst into being that one night he began exploring Tar Valon.

It seemed out of the blue and I wondered if it was an just an aspect of his Ta'veren nature coming to fore

Does anyone else have thoughts on this ? 

18 hours ago, Guire said:

Pretty sure he is replacing Hurin as tracker for Shienarins with Perrin being EF5 member on horn hunt.  

I can't recall but is Elyas seen in any other promotional stills, videos etc aside from when Perrin and the group find the Myrddraal pinned to the door?

I wonder if he just joins the group temporarily because the wolves tell him about Perrin and he's only travelling with them a short time to get Perrin on the wolfbrother track. 

18 hours ago, DaddyFinn said:

I looked up how old Kae Alexander is based on my initial impression that she looked way too old to be Min.  I was actually surprised that she is as young as she is (ie. she looks older to me). 

I think she looks older because of her tattoos but then that's just my impression. As someone without tattoos, I'm probably biased. 

Narg dead lol

34 minutes ago, DojoToad said:

I like the Whitecloak 'redemption'.  

Well, if they are going to explore, "the humanity of Trollocs" anything is possible LOL. 

Someone please give me reasons why Galad and Gawyn are necessary at all. 

I mean do we need the Whitecloaks semi-redemption arc ? If not, then why is Galad needed. 

Do we need Gawyn at all ? I think if you take him out of the series entirely, there's nothing that is lost. 

He literally does nothing of importance. 

19 hours ago, Sir_Charrid said:

Perrin has already long given up the axe by this point, he gives up one hammer to make a new one. 

True, he's given it up internally and the scene in COT is his physical act to reflect that internal choice. 

Further, he also is accepting leadership and acknowledging that he is a leader and embracing his destiny. 

Yes, thanks for using that GOT example showing how it can be done well. 

It seems that in condensing the books to tv, you can remove wholesale  Crossroads of Twilight from the equation. If they did choose to do that are there any threads in that book that Rafe could utilize ?

Aside from the Perrin story where he finally gives up the axe and creates his power wrought hammer would be awesome to see, what other parts of COT would be cool on TV ?