Of the big group who started watching only one person finished the series and he's like 'what the hell have I actually been watching? So much stuff doesn't make sense.' He probably won't continue with season 2.

The others just gave up along the way because either of it not making much sense and/or the bad quality.

Good:
Illianer armour.

Alanna's dress has some good points going for it ? 

Decent:
Cadin'sor. Not exactly gray and brown if I remember correctly but good enough.

Lame:
Tinkers. Too drab, what's up with that?
Shienaran soldiers would look good if it all wasn't so fake. Like a plastic knight set you got when you were a kid. And the one with his arms bared made it even worse. I'm wondering why the Illianers looked better.

Nope, nope, nope:
Sian Sanche's Amyrlin Seat dress (appears she only has the one?). Too much going on with it.

Moiraine's only dress. The shoulder pads. The goddamn shoulder pads.

Agelmar's birdsuit. KA-KAAAAaaaaaawww man, good thing you died.

Not a fan of the diaperpants.

So incredibly bad it leaves a bit of vomit in my mouth:
Whitecloaks.

Seanchan.

Everything else just wasn't memorable enough to comment on. Background stuff is background stuff.
Oh, and some stuff looked like you could buy it in a store but I guess you just don't have to look too closely.

11 hours ago, Sir_Charrid said:

If the TV series gains wider appeal

then the books. 

That's not hard in this idiocracy age.

7 hours ago, DojoToad said:

Where was this scene?  Shadowspawn is always on the menu for Aes Sedai.

For some reason he's thinking the fight at Dumai's Wells, where that actually happened, was against Shadowspawn instead of humans.

21 hours ago, RextheDog said:

 

Lan did nothing. thats my point.

 

he let the lads waltz around town without a proper induction to the point where the EF taunted the WC, playing pranks and inciting confrontation(hand on the sword) and then left Moiraine to clean up the mess at the gate.

 

its not as blunt as all of that, but if 'failing' (he didnt even fail at that, he saw them and told Moiraine, its only a 'fail' becuse M decides not to run) to forward scout WC in the show when his main task is to watch and cover tracks behind him is  then what do we class Baerlon?

 

Ah, got it now.
Never understood the complaint about him failing to spot the Whitecloaks miles away. It's like people just ignore the surroundings. All those hills and twisting paths. Not like he has a dozen drones flying around keeping track of everything. 

Silly comparison with Baerlon though ?

7 hours ago, RextheDog said:

 

Book Lan did a bad boo boo at Baerlon,  until Moiraine HAD to reveal herself to deal with just six whitecloaks because book lan couldnt

 

Wait, what? Baerlon? What did Lan do?

19 hours ago, templar7 said:

This was before the breaking..

I'm not referring to the episode 8 flashback obviously.

On 12/24/2021 at 2:45 PM, TheTuna450 said:

I don’t think that they can combine Tear and Falme if the Seanchan are still landing in the West. I could see the two arcs running something in parallel, but I don’t think that they’ll be completely combined. 

Why not?

All other geographical stuff we've seen is just outright wrong. So Tear could easily be out in the west.

Noticed.

So I guess the Breaking wasn't that bad after all. Nothing happened, that's just 3k years of vegetation doing its work.

8 hours ago, 7th age said:

 

So what dwn said is only true later on?

 

LOL@myself I just realized how much I missed this theorizing, thx for helping me to come to that conclusion Skipp.

Also, as much as anyone can be disappointed about the show, certainly we can all agree that this bringing loads of people to the books and being able to discuss it with our nonbookie friends is a massive upside. If  I hate every minute of every episode that is to come, that alone makes the production of it worthwhile.

Non of my friends are still watching. And they certainly aren't going to read the books now, no matter how much I jump up and down screaming the books aren't so shite as the show.

*shrug* Read the series too many times, nothing left to discuss anyway.

5 hours ago, JenniferL said:

I understand. I live in Atlanta. Snow is a terrifying thing for us. 
 

Anyways, let’s get back on topic. What did everyone think about Amalisa? She clearly trained enough to make Accepted if she knew enough to make a link. But the lack of discipline that led to her losing control of the circle is clearly why she didn’t go further. 

I think it was poop. I have a very hard time believing Aes Sedai teach Accepted, who aren't going to make it to full Sister, how to call down lightning from the sky.

But..., if they do teach that, and how to link with others, it's somewhat believable that she loses control I guess. But then it's still poop the others are killed. There simply is no reason to poop all over the lore like that.

And like others have already pointed out, why, in the name of the Light, would you go stand there in the field? Totally unbelievable. Then again, her brother is a total tool as well so I guess it runs in the family.

7 hours ago, bringbackthomsmoustache said:

 

I find the massive facial tatoos to be particularly bad, suggesting they are combining the Seanchan and Shara cultures. 

Tattoos? Children's face paint is what we thought of it.

19 minutes ago, Mailman said:

Did not catch that I thought they where speaking about the creep of the blight being closer to the Gap each year not that the eye itself had moved.

 

I cant stomach a rewatch to check at this point maybe someone else can confirm

It goes like this:

-What are those?

The Seven Towers of Malkier
-Malkier? That's where Lan said he was born. It looks like it's been that way a thousand years.

Forty at most. Three years ago it was miles from Tarwin's Gap. It's just another sign that the Dark One's strength is building.

*they then continue to touch everything around them even though just before Moiraine said not to touch anything*

47 minutes ago, Daenelia said:

Yes! I actually read through all of your posts! Thank you! Even the ones who did not enjoy it, because I really do feel bads for peoplewho feel cheated out of their version of the books.

 

 

Our version?

You mean, the version that Robert Jordan wrote? The same version that you yourself have read because there really only is one version. That version?

Of course it is compatible.

You just have to have deep pockets, a committed crew and keep your silly personal views to yourself.

On 12/19/2021 at 12:07 PM, notpropaganda73 said:

A small character moment I think we might see, is Nynaeve being unable to heal someone because she isn't angry enough to reach the OP - which makes her angry and so she will heal that someone. 

Fixed that for you.

5 hours ago, VooDooNut said:

This is the way.

Now that is a show worthy of bingewatching ?

3 minutes ago, FanofKnotai said:

I agreed with most of what you said except this. How can you not see the difference in their importance in the show. The women have definitely been thrust to the fore front of all the episodes. And in the books the women were just as awesome as the men and needed no changing. Show me a male badass from the books and I’ll show you his female equal. But it’s not so in the show (admittedly only “so far” we don’t know what the future holds) because again going back to small unnecessary changes like Marin leading the Two Rivers instead of Bran. Was he even the mayor in the show? 

That guy didn't even have anything to say in his own inn, Navy Seal Super Saiyan Nyn did. He surely is no mayor.

2 minutes ago, DaddyFinn said:

Why do people complain about Tigraine actually fighting? That's book canon, right? Pregnant women are different even in real life. Some can barely move in the last month or two and some can do yoga and other physical activity right until labor day.

 

I think the love triangle is not as bad as Nynaeve and Rand think. Egwene sure seemed baffled by them even imagining it exists.

Is it? I don't recall that.

I know she joined the Aiel and was at Dragonmount but I really don't recall her fighting up until the point she pooped out little Rand. 

In my opinion it would've been better to see an actual battle with the Aiel and Wetlanders, have Tigraine run off because she's about to have Rand, die and then have Tam find the baby.

But at least they're consistent with the girl power trope so I guess we could give them points for that.

3 minutes ago, Ralph said:

 

I wouldn't be surprised if they do it. It makes the impact on Rand tremendous. And i wouldn't be surprised either way

 

But I don't understand the people who keep saying this is like Perrin killing Laila, pregnant or not. She was an enemy combatant who chose to enter battle despite being pregnant. In real life what should somebody do if their comrades are in danger from this person? 

3 minutes ago, MasterAblar said:

She’s 23 actually. How old is the actress?

31

35 minutes ago, Jaysen Gore said:

The blight they travel through is Fetid Swamp hot, but not as damp. IIRC, they even comment on the transition from the cold clear air around FD to the heat of the blight. And the Gap isn't blighted, just devoid of plants due to being, as has been mentioned, a high desert.

Actually;

 

"You must forgive me. Stedding Shangtai is in the mountains, and cool." His broad nostrils flared, drawing in air that was becoming warmer by the minute. "I don't like this heat, and damp."

It was damp, Rand realized. It felt like the Mire in the depths of summer, back in the Two Rivers. In that boggy swamp every breath came as if through a wool blanket soaked in hot water. There was no soggy ground here--only a few ponds and streams, trickles to someone used to the Waterwood--but the air was like that in the Mire.

It is damp ?

38 minutes ago, dwn said:

And while I'm one of the few who like Cadsuane as a character, her role could be merged with Moiraine's, should Moiraine return sooner.

Heresy!

58 minutes ago, NetNightmare said:

 

And await 2 years to convey an information it is not highly impractical ? being on the road is ardous and dangerous, though for an AS end a blade master  who can fight off a contingent with 300 hundred Trollocs and a fade I would say it is a tiny bit less dangerous... and to add that the tactical advantage to be able to communicate would overwhelm any kind of impracticability imho.

 

If the Ter'Angreal cannot be moved, I would say that either there is one in every AS quarter, which make it basically Traveling possible (to some extent) for all AS or for a cosmic happenstance Siuan and Moraine got assigned the only quarters with such a powerful object of magic.....

 

This imho is a simple case of careless and bad design they should have taken counsel from Perrin and thought this thoroughly

If you pay attention you'll notice they got assigned the same room.

They just move the furniture around when one of them is gone.

?

The tzigata or whatever that dance was called the Tinker women performed for Perrin.