The main reason GoT became such a phenomenon was because non readers never knew what to expect, and readers loved watching them react to the shocks (Ned, Red Wedding, Mountain duel). WoT could never have that. There aren't really any "shocks" in the whole series.

maybe horses can see things we can't. there are Fades in every shadow

yup

Elayne used something similar for the thief I think

https://www.nielsen.com/top-ten/ 423m would be surprised if next week (ep 6) doesn't see a jump

we have strong inferences he will in s3

They attacked before it though. agree was quite weird. maybe they can recognise a warder and AS and therefore knew they had to take the warder out so. someone can collar the marath'damane

I think they will still get to PF being the other evil. the whispering voices started when Ishy told him to give it to Mat.

Question: (maybe should be a poll) Did you 1) expect Rafe to distort the story based on his misandrist and otherwise revolting (maybe even woke) views, and have been pleasantly surprised to discover that he has not done so? 2) not expect so, but have been distressed to discover that he has? or 3) is every person who thinks one way or the other following exactly and only their preconceived expectation based on their understanding of Rafe's statements before S1 aired?

but we are arguing whether it fits with the book lore also...

then it will really never have existed

I liked about half of s1e7 and half of s1e8. can I drop half episodes from my canon?

how many seasons of WoT are there so far?

The Elayne one is a good comparison. but even Verin disagreeing is only saying because it is intended to harm them. without intention to harm she would have agreed. to me the only question is can you argue the harm is unintentional when she clearly wanted to disrupt their channeling, and that may only be possible by harming them.

in the books he went out swinging because they were attacking the wolves. not self defense. if it were, he would have used that as a defense in the silly trial. it was defend his friend Hopper. I liked this change - just would have preferred it was quicker so it could be seen as an instinctive reaction not planned revenge

https://www.wotseries.com/2023/10/10/wheeloftime-two-rivers-role-recast/

lan interview

https://www.cbr.com/wheel-of-time-better-than-game-of-thrones/ 😂😂😜

And Rand… there’s so much to dig into, but I want to ask about his confrontation with Turak. Instead of engaging in a swordfight with a blademaster, he uses the One Power against Turak. How did you develop this scene? Judkins: For us, we haven’t really told the story of Rand and Lan training together yet. It is coming. But we hadn’t told it yet. But we still needed to pull off this Rand/Turak confrontation. I think it’s just one of those scenes that’s etched into your mind from the second book that we had to do. What we tried to do is combine it with a scene in the third book with Rand where he kills all these men who are attacking him and they all fall to their knees with the One Power. It’s a very disturbing, unsettling scene in book three that puts a question mark in your mind of what path Rand is headed on and gives the audience its first real glimpse of the amount of power he wields, which I think is really important. That’s what we were trying to do with that scene. We wanted to deliver the iconic scene from the books. But Rand hasn’t had that storyline with Lan yet, so this is a way we could bring it to the show. from https://nerdist.com/article/wheel-of-time-season-two-finale-showrunner-rafe-judkins-interview-forsaken-dragon-reborn-prophecy/

I don't believe we saw anything remotely similar from any AS. Moiraine had to take out individual Trollocs at the beginning of S1. Lan mentioned in an interview that in S3 he spends time doing sword forms with "a certain other character" and Rafe said recently that they put off Rand's sword training to S3 because he was alone throughout S2. will try to find the links

I am not Rafe Judkins

killing turak and his soldiers perrin has not shown skill with the sword, which we have already been told is coming for Rand in S3. Rand has not been involved in any of the fights with multiple fighters, whereas Perrin has. and that is not unlike the books at this stage tbh

or this would also depend on how the one who swore the Oath understood the word

https://nerdist.com/article/wheel-of-time-season-two-finale-showrunner-rafe-judkins-interview-forsaken-dragon-reborn-prophecy/ what does he mean about Traveling?

https://www.tvinsider.com/1107366/the-wheel-of-time-season-2-finale-book-moments-moiraine-lan-mat-seanchan/ confirmed Aiel waste