But thats not what happens at all. Take the opening of the battle before anyone would even be holding the power. Alanna insta casts the shield on Liandrin. The Yellow/black sister insta casts a fireball the white/black sister insta caster whats appears to be a slice of air Leane insta casts a shield to deflect these attacks. So it's clear you dont need a long build up to deal an attack. Then looking back there is the hilarity of just watching them all walk calmly into the middle of the room to defend woman who has outed herself as black ajah with the other Aes Sedai doing absolutely nothing.

That would complicate using him as the hidden teacher role, although you could use a mask of mirrors but that would mean basically a recast of the role. So not sure of that how that changes just killing him.

I think they did it because they wanted the visual. It's a dangerous slope when you start to prioritise visuals over the story. I am not saying that this incident is a super terrible example of it but an example it is.

I was thinking about how I would rework that 11 minutes to make it work better and this is what i have come up with. 1 Completely remove the Moiraine and Lan sections (it is possible that the full episode could change this). The show is already desperately short on time and these scenes provide nothing. 2 I don't like sitting the reds out as it damages Siuan characters reputation as a political master but for this I am going to keep it. 3 Bring the oath rod out when you reveal Nynaeve is present and have the black ajah steal it when fleeing, this fixes the issue of Nynaeve just being there convincing Liandrin she is caught. It also prevents the tower from simply using the rod to reveal all black sisters which would be a high priority following the incredibly public revelation of their existence. 4 Have the battle start with Blacks stabbing a sister next to them giving no warning of the attack beforehand then rushing to defend this would make the numbers more even. Have them on the defensive for most of the encounter slowly being worn down then have the 2 black sisters that turned up outside arrive and start killing all the warders outside which evens the battle as the Aes Sedai react to the deaths. The Reds then turn up and start fighting those outside. This gives you a more feasible reason why the blacks are able to escape allows you to set up that not all the reds are evil angle if that is what they are trying to do. This is admittedly a rough idea but it would I believe fix some issues and enhance some things going forward

Yes for sure but they are to gain an advantage once you have that advantage i would return to my speciality ability as quickly as possible to finish it as quickly as possible.

You are wrong about the numbers every Ajah but the red is present so that is 18 sitters plus Siuan Leane and Liandrin for 21. I am fairly sure that the numbers being mentioned despite it having no relevance to the upcoming scene is to set the stage for Siuans removal latter this season. Obviously spirit is not going to block a physical attack. But a weave that actually cuts a person in half is has a physical component. I have no problem with the initial strike with the staff it is the subsequent strikes that would have been more reasonable to use the power for.

It has to be an inside job because the black sister that was with Verin was specifically on a mission to retrieve an item from the 13th depositry without knowledge that Verin was going to access the depository it makes no sense that she would be tagging along by chance. I am guessing that Verin's pretending to be affected was to preserve her secret from her sister.

Come on there are 21 Aes Sedai in that room with only 5 Black and Liandrin is already shielded so it is basically 4 to 1 and yet the black wins. The acting from Alannas warders is terrible knocking on the door instead of at least putting their shoulders into it was just embarrassing. Not even attempting to try and find another entrance if that door is securely locked. Big change to the warder bond that just because you are Black Ajah now you enjoy the feeling of their deaths. Why would you use the staff to beat a woman to death when you have the power to literally cut her in half with the power as seen in this spoiler. The slow motion was poor. The act of leaving the Red Ajah excluded when the charge was being a dark friend smacks of an amateur political move designed to sow discontent within the tower. She has proof that Siuan met with a man that can channel she can ask her a direct question.

Come on there are 21 Aes Sedai in that room with only 5 Black and Liandrin is already shielded so it is basically 4 to 1 and yet the black wins. The acting from Alannas warders is terrible knocking on the door instead of at least putting their shoulders into it was just embarrassing. Not even attempting to try and find another entrance if that door is securely locked. Big change to the warder bond that just because you are Black Ajah now you enjoy the feeling of their deaths. Why would you use the staff to beat a woman to death when you have the power to literally cut her in half with the power as seen in this spoiler. The slow motion was poor. The act of leaving the Red Ajah excluded when the charge was being a dark friend smacks of an amateur political move designed to sow discontent within the tower. She has proof that Siuan met with a man that can channel she can ask her a direct question.

I always loved getting more information on the forsaken in the books and its certainly an area that could be expanded in the show, time constraints could be a major issue though.

Pretty ordinary. Would be a good add for botox those are some very smooth faces.

Ah ok if thats the case it's better, not great, but better.

Bloody hell I hope not, they have shared what 1 scene in total and you are thinking less than an episode later they could be accused of being in love.

The shields look extremely fake to me. Also not that sure the value of the shields except to block arrows and if you are defending in the town I think it would be more advantageous to cover behind buildings and other structures and use both hands for spears. With the overwhelming strength of a trolloc a melee hit to a shield would be incapacitating especially if holding only with 1 hand.

I think that the 2 rivers battle will be in the last 2 episodes. Simply not enough time to set it up otherwise cannot see how they could get Perrin out of Tar Valon before the end of the 2nd episode at the earliest. Not sure how much Isam stuff we will get again purely based off time. Even if Perrin simply just arrives in the 2 rivers in episode 3 we still have little knowledge of his wolf abilities and dreaming let alone seeing them in action. The time and the movement for this season worries me we have the characters moving over such large distances with so little time to get them all there and flesh out all the stories around those locations, I fear the world is going to feel smaller again during this season. Only 8 approx 1hr episodes to cover so much feels like its going to be a stretch.

The amount of people and trollocs look tiny. The trollocs themselves do not appear to be large Loial is just too small. The barricade looks terrible and appears to have gaps at both ends. Why are the trollocs so spread out when charging a concentrated defence just seems to be an insane tactic to run in that widely spaced out. Archers seeming to be holding bows at about half drawn while the arrows are pointing directly towards the front ranks of their own soldiers. The fact that trollocs when shot with arrows are thrown backwards by the force of the arrows. The standard of the weapons throughout the early release stuff has been questionable at best often looking fake. At 1.46 there is the scene of I think village women holding shields and spears those look truly terrible. I share your distrust of trailers (going back to the original suicide squad movie which I thought looked great from the trailer) what worries me mainly is that the trailers tend now to show the very best footage they possibly have even going so far as to include scenes not actually in the movie/show. If that was the best of the fight scenes that they have I am not hopeful.

It's a little hard to distinguish which things in the trailer are actually going to be real world as opposed to Dreams or visions within the pillars or rings which is a little frustrating from an information point of view. Thought the look of the glass pillars was awesome not so sure of the visual of Moiraine floating in the rings. The battle scenes again look terrible. Really despair the thought of what the truly massive battles from the books are going to look like. Like that we may be getting some of the set up between Moggy and Nyn and that we may also see Rand learning from Elayne.

If that's the case then Rand has now escaped Aes Sedai twice with the assistance of Black Ajah/forsaken at this point I would strongly suspect him of being a dark friend.

He was seen by large numbers of people. He was at the epicentre of a huge display of the power announcing the rebirth of the Dragon. He has met with the Amyrlin so has been seen by others travelling with her. He is known to be a companion of Moiraine. Are you telling me that since him being revealed in Falme as the Dragon Reborn and him then travelling all the way to Tar Valon that he is free to roam uncontested about the streets of the very heart of Aes Sedai power. So much for the extensive spy networks of the Aes Sedai.

With the ending of season 2 being the Dragon over Falme reveal if Rand is in Tar Valon how in the world would he ever be allowed to leave with the rest of the group going to the waste. The only way I can see is if he is freed by the Black Ajah in a full battle but if that is the case how is he reunited with Moiraine and company and taken to the waste?

So to me it looks like Mat will not go the Waste at all.

Well now that I have fully clarified my position do you still consider me to be a bigot as you have pushed for the majority of this discussion.

It's more than that they mix in a whole range of training methods. Something I would equate it too from the real world is innocent people confessing to crimes that they have not committed. Almost everyone believes that under no circumstances would they ever do this but there have been large numbers of cases were skilled interrogators have used a range of techniques (excluding physical abuse) to obtain exactly these confessions, and they do not have the advantage of the A'dam or almost indefinite time. If you can be manipulated into confessing to murder i do not find it remotely unlikely that given enough time people could be conditioned by the A'dam in the manner depicted in the books. John Oliver did a very good piece on this if anyone is interested.

I mean I have stated my opinion on multiple occasions. I will attempt to flesh it out a bit more to try and be as clear as possible. An active inclusion policy should be purely about the innate attributes of a person. Innate being the characteristics that you are born with or are present naturally, and no I'm not arguing right wing garbage here, I believe that sexual orientation and whatever you consider to be your gender to be part of those innate characteristics and that you should be free without reservation and persecution from embracing that lifestyle. Religion is outside this along with everything else including atheism. It does not require an active inclusion policy it can be present within stories when it is required and needed. Construction companies are outside this. It does not require an active inclusion policy it can be present within stories when it is required and needed. A sports carnival is outside this. It does not require an active inclusion policy it can be present within stories when it is required and needed. And so on. This discussion may have started about diverse casting but its not what I have been talking about for most of this discussion. I cannot remember now if I thought it was an issue but the only thing I would possibly have said in a negative light about diverse casting in WoT would have been about an isolated village having a cosmopolitan mix of ethnicity as that is just not how remote pre industrial communities worked. I think i may have had a discussion here in regard to how quickly an isolated community becomes homogeneous. But I cannot honestly remember. And that is not an attack on people of color I would not have cared what ethnicity was used just that it was fairly consistent.

I don't think they can actually read their minds it more feelings I think. However this does extend to being able to sense deception as well which would make avoiding being discovered faking being broken exceptionally difficult.