Brandon is certainly fit to criticize, but his opinion on what was done correctly or wrong is not necessarily true. Don't forget that Brandon himself assigned so many pages to Androl, and many character interactions took on a two dimensional cardboard tone. So much focus spent on developing how to hack gateways, but what was the point? Just to insert a little action-adventure story arc for Androl and his Aes Sedai

WOT just needs a few clips to go viral. I think Mat's scene or Moggy's scene would work

You know, this whole debate over how Moiraine demonstrates exactly how Moiraine can use the OP to destroy the ships. Moiraine thought of every reason and she chose to believe in the one that best allowed her to justify what she needed to do.

Yeah, I dunno why some viewers just believe everything that Ishy says.

If that The fatal loophole in this analysis is that Siuan shields him with barely any effort just half a day ago. I think the key differences are the horn, and Ishy seeing the horn's effect on Rand and Egwene, as well as the power in that sword weave, so he gives up for this turning

Maybe ter'angreal? Whitecloaks tell themselves whatever is convenient that they want to hear when they want to use something

Stop pretending you decide the gold standard for what characters should be. You are just another reader, more specifically, one who didn't pay enough attention and forgot too much.

Damane can't pick up their own bracelet, only other peoples. Hence why they are kept in separate rooms. Anyway, the show had some weird moments, but not as weird as in the books and I think can be easily explained unlike the books. 1) Egwene has a talent for warding or channelling dexterity, and/or she is a hero too and hearing the horn awakened some channelling skills she had. Being a hero also explains why she said sorry to Rand, and why the script let Ishy comment "How did you...?" and look puzzled how she is suddenly able to fend him off for so long. 2) Rand awakened some LTT memories when he heard the horn, hence him suddenly being sure he had never turned in 1000 turnings, and then using those memories, he invented a form of destructive weaves that can kill forsaken for good. (Although their souls might still be spun out again in the next turning of the wheel.) Maybe he didn't use it on the forsaken during AOL because maybe it disrupts the pattern, but he had no choice this time. Possibly it is what Show balefire looks like, ie for melee combat only, and no special time-undoing effects 3) Moiraine could create a huge fire dragon because it was mostly just an illusion. But somethings are just plotholes that can't be fixed. Like Moiraine being able to destroy an entire navy from several km away. And Maighan and Moiraine both being able to use the OP as a weapon not in defense of their lives or the lives of their warders.

Still think my theory is more solid and poignant overall, but the way EP8 did it is pretty decent too!

Recently joined the forum, came to vent at people venting at the show. Please reread the books to remind yourselves the characters are exactly how they should be at this point in the plot. Also, RJ had to write books 1,2,3 with self-contained climax endings because he wasn't sure if he could find publishers for the next book, hence Rand's unrealistic victory each time even though he was still so untrained and inexperienced. It was only later on when WOT was a hit that RJ felt more free to revise the plot structure of books 4-11 as a continuous flow.

Season 1 had better publicity, but wasn't good enough to retain many audiences. Season 2 had no publicity, the directing and writing was so much better. I notice the videos, viewership and discussion on social media increasing significantly as the season progresses. It will probably have much better longevity than season 1, new viewers will be joining in and there will probably be sustained discussions on social media all the way until season 3. And because it made significant changes from the books, so people have the room to speculate and theorize, whereas the earlier seasons of GOT followed the books closely so people needn't speculate at all, while the writing standard in the later seasons of GOT had dropped so much that people were too turned off to care what will happen. Someone important will die or do terrible things, the show writers are just resorting to shock tactics or exaggerated melodramatic plot twists, thinking that was what made the earlier seasons work so well.

That feels quite like Brandon Sanderson's plot style, I recall in one of his books, a side character became the new god. But RJ's style is epic fantasy, so there is more of a fundamental approach to good and evil and freedom of choice etc. I just wish he had written the Shadar Logoth evil more clearly. Although RJ wrote that it originated from the evil of mankind alone, no darkfriends needed, but the DO has to exist for mankind to choose to become evil, therefore the evil of Shadar Logoth cannot truly be completely independent of the DO's evil. It should be more of a Saidin vs Saidar relationship, opposing but closely connected. Sort of like how the Horn and Heroes are probably not created by the Creator directly, but arose due to unknown mechanisms.

I think my theory that he gets it thru the horn is more plausible on screen than getting them thru drinking potions served by Forsaken, else every darkfriend would be queuing up for this tea to get special powers. Not to mention that there was an awful lot of that wood left in the tray, if it really worked, Mat can stuff them in his pockets to feed to all his friends as well as the whole TR, then the TR army would be the leading force that forces the Seanchan to submit, unites everyone, and leads them to defeat the Sharans and darkspawn in the last battle. I can already hear all the negative reviews threatening to kill me if I were the producer.

Wow, I need to sit down with the person who wrote these 2 articles, we think really alike. Her 2 articles mesh with mine so perfectly https://13depository.blogspot.com/2009/03/horn-of-valere.html?m=1 https://13depository.blogspot.com/2002/03/redressing-balance-and-boundaries-wheel.html

If they had kept it without offering any better buildup to how he gained those skills, the result would be worse. In the books, it was acceptable to just give a handwaving reason that he had always been skilled even though he had never used it even once in book 1 nor had anyone else mentioned it, but suddenly becoming Mary Sue in the show like that would be too much even compared to Nynaeve.