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.

I had not heard of those guys or groups before so know very little about them but from what I know about amazon and bezos I don't have any sympathy for that side of the desk either.

Actors getting new contracts depending on show success I can understand, especially considering a lot of the actors started out as no names. I would have assumed that the studio would have included ratchet clauses that increased the return to the licensing partner depending on the shows viewing numbers but to lose control of actually being able to continue to the licensing partner feels reckless. Especially considering the length of the acquired material.

It feels very strange to me that Amazon would have allowed production to begin without ensuring that they had the ability to control the series through to completion. I am not saying you are wrong but for Amazon to have allowed itself to fall into this position feels incredibly stupid.

Would people not wonder why her fingers look like they are diseased? Not great for someone cleaning and cooking for you. I had assumed that it was not always visible.

I think they will work out a deal to at least do a short season 4 that will have a rushed conclusion at the very least. Having an entirely unfinished series makes it very difficult to get any traction or returns on reruns and no matter what the series will be content on a streaming platform for years to come.

The Wheel of Time's Taylor Napier takes us inside filming the Battle of the Two Rivers (Exclusive) One of the answers from an interview with Napier you would think he would be in a good position to have some inside knowledge. WiC: I'm so curious to see how the show navigates, the stuff that the readers know, may or may or may not be coming for Alanna and Maksim, we'll say. Obviously a lot of us are rooting for the show to get more seasons. If The Wheel of Time is renewed, what's an aspect of Maksim that you'd really like to explore more in the future? TN: You know, I got to do so much of it this season with the fighting. That was one of the things that I really wanted to explore. I think moving forward, I'd love to see kind of what we start in season 3 blossom a little bit more. Alanna is such a leader, and she's such a badass, and I want to see Maksim step into that more. Not that he's not kind of a badass, but it's sort of like a painful crawl to get him there. And so I'd like to see him just step up as much as possible going forward and be the number two she needs, or the general that she needs in her army.

Just finished season 1 earlier today thought it was pretty good. Had a few problems with some stuff in the middle. Won't spoiler it though. Will be very interesting to see were they go with the second season.