I'm sorry that is extremely circumstantial at the best. The DO power increased across the entire series because the seals weakened. The wound was hot to the touch because that is what happens with an infection that is not under control linking it to the weather conditions without proof is drawing an extremely long bow. The weather conditions do not change after Fain alters the nature of the wound or after Damer locks the wounds inside with each other and away from Rand. Rand becoming zen does not change the wound it does not heal it the wound remains. The weather overall to the best of my knowledge does not change after Rand becomes Zen he affects a small area around himself (which contains the wound) which pushes back the decaying power of the DO. Unless you can provide some direct proof this feels very much like an unproven theory with very little support.

Landmark confirmed 8th forsaken. Lol

Maybe? Although having never seen it that's not much of a starting point.

Lol i am assuming that is an autocorrect. If it had been Landmark taking Sammael away from Rand would have been the first thing i did after he rejected me.

We still have no idea how she learned to tie off the shield.

I'm not sure about this. It certainly has no effect on the never ending winter at the start of the series as he did not have the wound. I also don't remember anything linking the wound to the long summer either. The only thing pertinent I can think of is a conversation between some of the forsaken in regards to the effort the dark one expended to freeze the seasons in place and that he would be displeased if it was undone (convo was in relation to ter'angreal and the fact that sea folk had greater weather abilities than AOL)

Lanfear can though.

Judging just about anything against GoT S8 is going to give you a positive result. I mostly judge it against the source material which leads to a very disappointing result.

It was not that it was more powerful it was that its addictive feel was much more potent than the addictive feel of holding saidin.

Not a bad summary although it is more generous than I give the show credit for.

The whole episode was basically confusion on steroids. I'm not even sure of exactly what happened in big chunks so some of my queries are going to be all over the place. Firstly Moiraine knows how to tie off shields now. The only tied off weave I am aware that she was in proximity too was a saidan one so it was no help to her. If the shield was a gift from Lanfear as soon as Rand broke with her the first thing i amagine she would do is take Sammael away from Rand. Sammael left behind totally unguarded? Why would you have not taken him with you? Is he dead? Elaidia accuses Siuan of being a DF is this a violation of the 3 oaths does she truly believe this. What was the purpose of the Elaidia being healed by Siuan scene with a grey man a couple of episodes ago now. Lanfear wanting to physically kill Moiraine I can understand but the woman obsessed with power not taking possession of the most powerful Sa'angreal at the first opportunity is ridiculous. Moiraine a strong channeler in possession of the strongest Sa'angreal in history is not stronger than Lanfear seems unlikely. Did we ever get an in show reveal that Thom had told Elayne about his history? The whole Gaebril reveal felt amazingly rushed. Elayne has instant and perfect control of the unpredictable balefire rod? Liandrin actually held the box with the collar in her hands and threw it away but is then able to track it to Nyn out the front of the building? Nyn not even bothering to hide a little bit just stands out in the open waiting despite knowing that the BA was present. Nyn not even out of breath after exiting the water? Lan willing to be stabbed my Melindrha staking his life on a DF not stabbing him seems incredibly risky. So DF's now insta die on changing sides. While this is the most extras we have seen in the show it hardly looked huge. Rand unaided seems to have affected scenes across the world. Losing the clan chiefs one by one stepping forward to declare for Rand is almost a criminal choice. I don't want to watch it again but honestly trying to follow what the hell happened is nigh impossible.

Thanks.

I mean you can either join the conversation or not sniping from the sidelines is hardly productive. Why are you not telling Elder to stop? hmm I wonder.

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Ok then The facts Perrin kills Bornhald Snr Perrin then decides to travel all the way to Tar Valon on a month-long journey by boat to apparently sit in an inn for 3 days. Approx 3 days after arriving in Tar Valon Perrin decides to go home for no other reason than he wants to. He decides this trip should be taken in the incredibly dangerous ways despite no apparent need for speed. Everything else is pure guess work. Your theories. Moiraine wanted him there. Well she seemed to actively want them separated once in Tar Valon so seems a bit of a push. He wanted to go with his friends. Again only 3 days after arriving he splits from them so a bit of a push especially when he could have got off the boat at Illian and continued by boat straight to the 2 rivers after spending weeks with them. He thought it would be quicker to boat to Tar Valon and then waygate from there. Extremely unlikely considering the locations of Falme, the 2 rivers and Tar Valon and also the proximity of the waygate to Falme and still does not explain the sudden need for speed. The whitecloaks had horses. Perrin was able to get travel on a ship I don't really see why he could not have got a horse instead. There would also have been numerous horses left by the Seachan and the dead whitecloaks. Maybe he had a tinder date with a warder in the tower barracks?(not yours) You can keep filling in the blanks with what I would consider poor options as much as you want, it does not change that on the pure facts his travel, the means of his travel and the reasons for his travel seem to make no sense. If you can provide some hard facts from the show I am willing to reevaluate my position until then I am not.

Perhaps sailing into the ocean where the Seachan might be was a sub optimal choice. Yes people can make poor decisions writing off every mistake in the show as people are incompetent is not good storytelling. As I said you can continue making up implausible explanation after implausible explanation if you want or we could stop.

Maybe Perrin could not get a horse, maybe. Why did he not take the Waygate from Falme then? Look you are going to continue to come up with implausible reasons on the why lets just stop.

Not everything has to be spelled out but you can't also just ignore everything that does not make sense. It cannot be possible that travelling to Tar Valon and then waygating was faster as the whitecloaks from Falme beat them to the 2 rivers by a significant margin.

Unhinged was a fairly reasonable reaction considering his father had just died. Also if that was his concern should he have not just returned to the 2 rivers directly from Falme. I mean he really had nothing to do in Tar Valon at all.

But in this case Amazon is both production and distributor and does not have the IP rights locked down. I understand that a distributor if displeased with return would move to drop a show and thus allow the production to look for another landing spot. But when you are both production and distribution to lose control of the IP especially considering the size of this IP feels very short sighted.

Quickest is not really valid as the danger of the ways outweighs usage without dire need. Avoiding the eyes is a bit strange as he is heading to a place they would definitely look for him after losing him.

Why did Perrin need to use the ways?

Did we get reports in the show that the two rivers was under attack?

Oh I don't have any inside knowledge. I thought Buffy was not wanted anymore by the original studio. If the controlling studio wants out I can understand another studio jumping in and taking over it just feels wrong that decision is not in the control of the original studio.

LOL he changed his name.