The number of doorways and their locations don't really matter because they would all lead to the same place and outcome (a meeting with the Eelfinn).

I kind of feel like it's necessary to point out/clarify that the Eelfinn and Aelfinn aren't distinct in the show, which makes me wonder if Elaida met one of the fox-like ones (like Mat did) or if she met one of the snake-like ones instead.

I've read some of the books, but stopped because I didn't find them to be enjoyable. Regarding the Eielfinn, I was expecting the design of the one we saw to be more obviously fox-like., but when it comes to their actual inclusion in the story, I already knew they were coming and,therefore wasn't surprised.

There's not really any equivalency here because the WoT adaptation's existence doesn't and cannot cause actual harm or detriment to anyone, either societally or culturally, which is very much not the case when it comes to the other things you mentioned.

No, for two reasons: 1. Not everyone agrees that the source material is being 'mishandled', 'bastardized', or 'mistreated' 2. Those who dislike the TV adaptation are, to borrow words from the Aeiel, 'a remnant of a remnant' of the target audience

Actively pushing for a show that you don't personally enjoy to not be renewed doesn't demonstrate rational thinking. Having now slept on this episode, I can sit back and try to comment on it somewhat coherently: * I was surprised that Siuan had only been the Amrylin for 10 years * There's a part of me that wishes that I hadn't learned about the Eielfinn being the source of Elaida's bracelet ahead of time * Speaking of the Eielfinn, I didn't think their design was fox-like enough, which was disappointing * Was anybody else weirded out by the Channeling effect they used when Nynaeve un-Blocked herself? * I officially hate Lanfear and Liandrin now * I can't remember if it was here, on Facebook, or in the Wheel & Chill Show Live Chat from one of the other episodes, but somebody in one of those places predicted Siuan's death and I want to congratulate them for being right, as heartbreaking as it was * Somebody else in one of those places also called Thom and Elayne conversing with each other and Thom exposing Rhavin's tied-off Compulsion and false memory Weaves * Rand being completely unattached now romantically sets the table for him to bond with Avi in that way, which is good * I came into this episode expecting a bunch of stuff to either happen or not happen, but didn't get the payoff, which left me feeling kind of 'meh' to 'grr' about it last night, but upon further reflection, my reaction has tempered a bit. I'd still challenge the assertion that it's a better episode than either The Eye of the World and/or What Was Meant to Be, though

I'm preliminarily throwing a Challenge Flag on this statement. Future reflection might change things, but my initial reaction to this episode is kind of 'whelmed' veering towards 'underwhelmed'.

You are conflating a distributor (broadcast network or streaming service) with a Production Company. In the case of Buffy, the Production Companies behind it were Sandollar Television, Mutant Enemy, Kuzui Enterprises, and 20th Century FOX Television. Warner Bros. Television bought the broadcast rights to the series, but had no involvement in it outside of distributing it via The WB. The reason that the series moved to UPN is that WBTV didn't want to pay more to Sandollar, Mutant Enemy, and Co. to keep the broadcast rights.

The television industry doesn't work the way you think it does. Contracts between production companies, license holders, and distributor networks are not permanent, which is why you will see shows be cancelled by one network and then picked up by a different network (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Brooklyn 99, 9-1-1, to name a few examples).

Neither Amazon or Sony Pictures Television own the rights to WoT. SPT signed an apparently non-exclusive licensing agreement with the company that does own the rights, iWoT/Red Eagle, and then came to Amazon as a production partner and distributor, signing agreements that are now up for renegotiation, a process that, at last report, was at an impasse. It should be stressed that we don't know the exact purpose or subject of the negotiations between SPT and Amazon, but it can be inferred from reporting that viewership numbers are not at issue.

Just watched the first 3 episodes of Star Wars: Andor.

How, exactly, does the comment you quoted state or imply that you are somehow a 'lesser' fan of the Wheel of Time if you don't have positive feelings towards the TV show? People who do not like the TV series are absolutely entitled to hold that opinion; however, holding that opinion does not entitle them to disparage any differing opinions or immunize them from having that behavior commented upon negatively.

I have never once made disparaging arguments or claims against the legitimacy of the show haters' fan cred, so, no, comments about the demonstrated attitudes of those who dislike the show (both here and elsewhere) towards those whose opinions on it differ do not in any way, shape, or form fit into the definition of Gatekeeping.

Not according to the 'haters' both here and elsewhere online. In the minds of those people whose only purpose in engaging in online discourse is to tear into the show and the people making it, you either agree with their contempt or you're not a 'true' Wheel of Time fan. I responded to a person on Reddit who was using gatekeepy language, and the only response I got was from somebody else who tried to argue that the person I was responding to wasn't being gatekeepy by typing a screed that was in and of itself incredibly and demonstrably gatekeepy.

The books are not the show. What, in the show, makes Egwene fighting through excrutiating pain to collar and torture Renna impossible?

Why should it have been impossible? And from whose perspective are you making that judgment?

I can't go back and check for 100% confirmation right now, but my remembrance of the scene where Egwene collars Renna is that Madeline Madden's movements and facial expressions were meant to be an indicator that the act of picking up the collar, sticking it on Renna, and then hanging her up by the collar was causing Egwene pain but that her anger was driving her forward anyway.

@Mailman is actually right here. Renna was still Egwene's Sul'Dahm after Egwene collared her, but she also simultaneously became Egwene's Damane.

'Temporary Peril' is not the same thing as 'faking' death. Viewers were not meant to think that Loial and Nynaeve were dead at any point during/after the S1 finale, although the 'law of unintended consequences' ended up applying when that's exactly how people interpreted those two scenarios.

The narrative shortcut of 'temporary peril' is not in and of itself, 'lazy writing', but if it does start to be overused, it becomes a symptom of what could be construed/seen as 'lazy writing'. I do want to clearly specify that WoT is not the first (or last) series to rely a little bit too heavily on 'temporary peril', but it's more common in Episodic/Procedural TV, and the pitfalls of it becoming a crutch can be more easily exposed in Serialized TV, as is becoming the case here.

After this episode, I'm going to agree that the show is starting to rely a little too much on 'temporary peril' (characters being put in mortal danger that gets quickly resolved) as a writing crutch.

@Kaleb The show explicitly cut the 'Wolf Dream' aspect of Perrin's Two Rivers story (per Marcus Rutherford himself), so the Hopper in Perrin's dream wasn't the real Hopper.

Opinions about the decision to do so notwithstanding, the show established that the main signifier of an Aes Sedai Sister being a Darkfriend/Black Ajah is being able to break the Three Oaths, which is something that Liandrin - having come to the White Tower already Sworn to the Shadow - would've been able - and likely incentivized - to do almost immediately upon being 'raised to the Shawl'. So even if Liandrin swearing the Three Oaths of the Aes Sedai did override her Dark Oaths, she would've been almost immediately incentivized - likely by Ishy himself in her dreams or by anyone in the Tower who was likewise Sworn to the Shadow already - to break or otherwise find a way to subvert the former, thus rendering her unbound by them.

Because she was already a sworn Darkfriend when she came to the Tower.

I was listening to some podcasts yesterday and realized something that is kind of significant but that nobody has really yet commented on: Liandrin was never actually bound by the Three Oaths of the Aes Sedai despite swearing them.