It hurt me on so many levels. The ONLY good thing about the entire episode was the reveal of Moghediean, that scene was amazing. Was s2 better than s1? In some ways. But that's like saying getting punched in the face is better than getting hit with a sledge hammer. Neither is good. I want to focus on two of the most awful parts, at least to me. The worst of the worst was Mat blowing the horn. He runs into a line of soldiers just standing on a rooftop waiting for no reason while the city is in chaos? That might be one of the laziest pieces of writing and direction I've ever seen in my life. Rand still feels like a side character, and his lame dragon reveal with moraine was so awful and cringy, his "fight" with ishameal was equally as cringy. Where is the battle in the sky? The clash of thousands year old forsaken with a legendary dragon reborn to proclaim his rebirth. It was just fireballs. Grand forsaken with thousands of years of one power knowledge and all he can think to do is throw fireballs at egwenes shield and wait? Sweet Jesus that was painfully dumb. They should have had a battle, a real battle where rand actually shows a little power and the finale should have been the culmination of power interacting to light the sky up when Ishmael loses illuminating rand and the fire falling down in the vague shape of a dragon. Not moraine making some lame dragon out of fire for him. Rand still hasn't done a damn thing. At this point I think I have to be done with the show. This is not just a case of its a different turning of the wheel. It's not just because it is divergent from the books. It's just bad writing, and it hurts me cus the source material is so rich and vast that it took some serious effort to make it so lame. Rafe should be ashamed and any fan of the books should be outraged at how poorly this was done. Doubt I'll bother with s3. I think I need to reread the series again to get the sour taste of the show out of my mouth.

Hello, new to the forums. Read the series twice. Love it. Browsed the forums a handful of times foe info on stuff. I am just so upset and almost insulted by how poor the show is I need to vent so a place where people might understand. The way they ruined so many good characters just hurts me. I have no problem with adaptation and changes no show can be exact to a series and truthfully it rarely should be. They are different mediums and require different approaches. This being said, their writing of Lan, Mat, and even Nyneve to a point is infuriating. Mat is just.... awful, where is our playful trickster with insane luck? Instead we get a cowardly kid who has none of the traits of Mat. Also Ta'veren being not spoken of is a huge mistake to me. Lan went for hard, badass cold swordsman to all the feelings sad puppy pining over his lost relationship to Moraine after her stilling. Like wtf... Nyneve instead of strong willed and bull headed seems just petulant and perpetually stressed out. Thom? Gone. Elayne? Her introduction was so awful.... I hate so many things they have done in this show. They take major plot points and just ignore them. 0 context for the seanchan. Hardly a whisper of what Artur Hawkwing was even in the conversation about the genesis of the 3 oaths. So much is glossed over in a throwaway line only to be noticed by a reader. At this point I'm watching it just to see how much worse it can get My only positive comment so far is that the actor who plays Logain is amazing. I want him to be the whole show at this point.