Good worldbuilding and writing is not having logical inconsistencies riddled throughout your story be it in an action scene or not.

How sad that the story, world building and good writing just mean nothing as soon as an action scene starts. How do you enjoy something when the stakes of a fight are so meaningless so as to not require some logic to govern them.

I have to say doing a fan event early screening that you have to register for is potentially a great move for shows. Especially in latter seasons you will almost always get a massive majority of early season fans being the ones to register and detractors will not want to register thus allowing you a good chance to set up a seemingly good wave of talk and reviews deserving or not leading into the official release. Tricky but I suspect probably effective.

The blacks clearly seeing Alanna and not bothering to set up any shields to stop an attack. We know from the Tower battle scene how effective the blacks are at combat and yet it is now their turn to do nothing. You don't have a problem with 2 warders just running up and stabbing the blacks. We saw how effective a whole corridor full of warders were when confronted by just 2 blacks with 2 Aes Sedai to support them. Why did Allana warders choose to just stab Liandrin when they were going to perform a beheading afterwards. She was defenceless with her back turned and 2 warders are unable to complete a killing blow. Healing now seems to be insta cast with zero recovery time for the injured. Why are we worrying about Ivhon I'm sure he will be healed and fine in a minute. Alanna pausing in the middle of the fight to do her chessy I'm kicking your arse grin allowing the blacks to regroup. The flip is just embarrassing, and I did not see any effects indicating channeling to aid it. Now the biggest issue unless Alanna is shown to have a Angreal at some point then how did the woman who had a 4 to 1 advantage in the Hall and fail to win do so much damage when outnumbered 6 to 1. Why on earth would Liandrin bother to use the sword to kill Alanna. I will tell you why because instead of simply using a thread of air or another fireball to kill the helpless and exposed Alanna the story wanted to kill her warder instead. The massive number of jump cuts made the scene hard to follow. This scene was just terrible.

I have not seen the full episode yet but someone linked what appears to be the fight between Alanna and the black ajah and if that has not been altered it is some serious CW level crap.

Those swords are not blunted look at the tips. Fully pointed. I'm also willig to bet blunted steel swords are used with people wearing armour and not just bare chested.

Why the hell are they fighting with real swords. Why is it out of all the promotional material we have got are the swords that are in a clip showing training the most realistic weapons? Why are the warder training grounds one tiny area inside the tower? Interesting choice to have Gawyn win, I am assuming the light-haired one is Gawyn. Also have to question the thoughts on the backflip section unless Galad knew that Gawyn was going to do a backflip off the column, in which case why did he throw the fight, was his plan to actually cleave Gawyn in 2 with his back turned? On a lesser note did not think much of them playing up to the audience liked how they were more serious in the books about it.

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But didn't she get Aes Sedai healing for that and also get hit by Nynaeves healing explosion. Even if scarring tissue is not healed during those I'm not sure it would have had to time to scar over by that point as the wound was still infected and not fully healed over.

More money is not in anyway the answer unless you mean give them another 8 episodes a season using the extra money. This is already one of the most expensive shows in TV history.

You have to consider some of that is probably unreliable narrator. Ishy was often trying to break Rand and so boasting of his abilities plays hard into that. Ishy also was not spun back out into the world after the bore was sealed as he was imprisoned there alive but trapped. He was imprisoned closer to the world than the others allowing him some contact that grew over time.

Thats along way for a borderland army to go and any nations army but Andor would be considered an invasion I would think. Elaida would have to get at least Hall permission to take an army. Would also assume a green would lead a tower force. If Elaida went i would think it most likely she went with Andoran forces. I doubt Elaida will go to 2R. If Andor were to lift the siege it would impact Perrin becoming lord and the 2R considering itself sovereign. Not that they couldn't do away with that thread just assuming they would want to keep it.

Thats better than a Chode Kaleidoscope at least

My only thought is if they are going to bring in an outside force I could see them bringing in an Ogier force based on Loial speaking at a steading or them coming to save Loial. I am not that much of a fan of this but if they were to use an outside force to save the day then I could see them doing this. Alanna going super Aes Sedai maybe? Don't like it though. The fact that the whitecloaks are fighting with the 2R seems to indicate a fairly fundamental shift in that dynamic from the book.

If thats the case it will be interesting to see if they rework his reasoning to move on Tear from proving he is the dragon to something else. Because if they keep it that would put it at the end of season 4 unless they are going to do away with any build up surrounding Callandor and halfway through the series is quite late for him to accept that he is the Dragon. His sense of finding out who he is does not feel like it has been built up massively in the show either.

Possibly it could have done those things I just don't think they ever had the time to develop it.

I already said i find it unlikely that Rand after the training he had should be able to defeat a blademaster. I was simply saying we actually have zero indication of just how good a swordsman Turak is. The only point of reference is Rands POV. If for example they do not use the flame and the void as part of sword fighting in Seachan then I think he would have a good chance as it is an amazing advantage. Turak is certainly arrogant enough to also overestimate himself remember he thinks the armed men in possession of the horn will simply hand it over without question or a fight. And the fact that Rand is being beaten until he enters the void is maybe a slight possible indication that Turak does not use it.

I get that but thats black and white. Trying to convince yourself that you are not killing someone when you push them out a window or causing a fiery serpent to crash down nearly on them is entirely something else.

What a load of rubbish you are comparing a sword fight where they actually fight back and forth with the underdog having been trained by the best swordsman in the world with no indication of the opponents true skill level. To a scene in which 13 of the most powerful Aes Sedai in the world tested and trialled to be resolute to remain calm in the face of unbelievable pressure stand around as useless as pieces of furniture. The equivalent comparison is Turak standing shocked by Mat's dagger killing his guard till Rand walked up and stabbed him. There is no arc so far in the show that is better than the books. The very best arc of the show so far was Egwene's time as Damane. As TV it was good, very very good performance from Madeleine and the arc was strong apart from her using the A'dam to kill. However the book arc for the same section is better. Some of this is having more than just 1 episode to develop it but i also think the decision to leave her stranded in the A'dam is if anything darker and colder than killing her and improves the closure.

I don't know about making the oath that vague could you then say I made the metal explode in the armour but that's armour not people or I used air to push them out the window, but it was gravity that killed them.

The truly important battle in this scene is not actually the fight between swords it is Rands fight with himself. The risk to enter the void and the temptation of Saidan waiting within vs the risk of Egwene and the horn being taken is the true heart of this scene. This is all completely missing from the showthat is why it has no meaning apart from key jangling for book fans. Do i think it likely that Rand could defeat a true blademaster probably not but we never get any indication of Turak's true ability do those in Seachan have different levels for a blademaster, do they use the void. I don't know we have people here arguing Rand got skills from the flicker stone do I know if thats true no, personally I doubt he got skilled up in that. Personally if i was leaning towards a skill or learning advantage i would go for a Lews angle. Even if you say the reworking to use the power in the show solved a potential issue in sword abilities the scene lacks any of the subtext that made the scene in the book fantastic. Turak is not developed enough in the show either.

That scene meant less than nothing in comparison to the books.

The only possible thing that I have managed to come up with is the access keys bringing some form of variation to the equation as every other Angreal that we learn about is used simply by holding the actual Angreal.

I don't know about merging Messana and Moggy. The spider and the black Amyrlin does not feel like a very cohesive mix. Semirhage and Mesanna. Gifted doctor and black Amyrlin to mine feels more natural mix.

It's very much a political move as well. Because Siuan and Moiraine where so strong in the power they were always going to be incredibly influential in the Hall and Tower for centuries to come so engendering some good will or relationship with them would ultimately give Eladia more power