Another one, can't wait for Thursday! https://www.tvinsider.com/1186398/the-wheel-of-time-season-3-finale-liandrin-cuff-sneak-peek/

Praise for this episode and especially for the whole show in this review: https://www.polygon.com/impressions/557477/wheel-time-episode-7-battle-episode-fantasy

They're definitely pulling forward the whitecloak trial and pushing back the Slayer/wolf dream arcs for Perrin. Would like to have seen some more explicit foreshadowing for those and I do consider it a miss at this point, but I'll be fully on board if they are able to make those sing in future seasons.

This is not true. There is no stedding in Tar Valon, and there is a waygate. They were built by the stedding AND the great Ogier-built cities with Ogier groves. Same for Manetheren

I hope we see this starting ASAP

Yes, exactly. It wasn't TAR, it was his own dream. Edited to what I originally typed, "dream" Hopper.

Yes, I wish there had been any wolf moments other than dream Hopper this season. A big miss for Perrin's arc, despite a lot of quality character development for him in other areas.

I don't see a red doorframe in the E8 preview, but agreed

WAFO! I'm with Digific, I think they're planning to go there. I don't foresee Rand and Min interacting in the show at all until well into S4 (knock on wood) at the earliest, but I love not knowing what happens.

I mean, what do you think the point was of Thom talking to Mat repeatedly about how the boys are tugging on the Pattern and he wants no part of it -- and then he finds himself completely swept up in it? It's not "luck" exactly, but it is explicitly the theme of ta'veren getting what the Pattern needs.

As Ali on the Wheel Takes podcast is fond of saying, unanswered questions are the lifeblood of television writing. Answer a question definitively and any plot points related to it can quickly become far less compelling. Leave people to wonder and speculate instead, and they get really interested.

Hills Boobs Bracelets I love that Thom followed up the song with the history lesson on the shackled man to connect it even further.

Totally agreed with this. A big issue is that WoT doesn't have a consistent tone the way LOTR does (haven't read ASOIAF). Jordan was just so good at writing different perspectives, and a Mat chapter feels different from and Elayne chapter which is different from a Graendel chapter, etc. Even in TEOTW, we'll have legit horror scenes with Ba'alzamon terrifying Rand in a dream chamber built of human skulls, and then Rand will wake up and be grumpy with Moiraine or something really mundane and silly.

Not sure where to post this, but here's a teaser clip from episode 6 of Lanfear and Moiraine having a conversation. https://awardsradar.com/2025/03/31/exclusive-wheel-of-time-season-three-clip/

I liked that part of the interview too, where Rafe described how excited Pike was to be able to play a character who doesn't wear "gay" or "straight" or other identities as a defining trait. And I disagree on the second point here. In my opinion, the show follows through on the idea of presenting queerness as a normal unremarkable thing. The characters DON'T view each other's sexual attraction as a defining trait, it's simply a personal preference that is barely remarked. For the most part, the show expands on Jordan's proposal for a largely sex-positive world with minimal homophobia, and we - the viewers - are the ones bringing our real-world baggage where it's not really appropriate.