Siuan’s main purpose after being deposed was to serve as someone for Nyn to heal and thereby demonstate the effect of woman healing woman and to serve as an experienced political ally to The Wonder Girls in Salidar so as not to give them Mary Sue level political savvy (though I’m sure fanboy Rafe will have no problem giving that to Egwene). Loial was a stand in for RJ himself and while he made his contributions to the plot, he largely served as the eyes through which a larger story was witnessed. Sammael’s ultimate purpose was to get Rand back to Shadar Logoth so he could make his big connection with Moridin. Once this was accomplished RJ just unceremoniously fed him to Mashadar. I always thought this was an underwhelming death for him but perhaps RJ just wanted to demonstrate how powerful and deadly mashadar really was. That being said RJ did have a bit of a problem with giving characters their big moments and then not knowing quite what to do with them after. Once he abandoned Taimendred I’m not sure he ever quite figured out what to do with Demendred as I’m fairly creation that Boa the Wild was all Sanderson.

Maybe not, have you ever heard Brandon Sanderson speak on the true fate of Lanfear?

What was the deal with the voting scene? Why did so many of the sitters stand for Suian only after they asked who stood for Elaidia?

What about Taim/Black Tower/Asha man. Need that before Dumai’s wells

Fair enough

Now if there is anything that’s irrational it’s thinking you’re just going to wrap up an internet argument 😄

So is Loial, so are the trollics but they didn’t look so ridiculously cartoony as to pull me out of the moment. So if a creature is nonhuman it doesn’t matter how fake or ridiculous it looks? Fine, why not just have Cookie Monster in there then?

Frankly, I would have been more satisfied if this guy had turned up on the other side of the archway

That’s a fair point and I too am concerned that this may be WOTs one and only shot at an adaptation and I struggled with the question of whether it’s better to have this adaptation than none at all. On the other hand, reboots really weren’t a thing until relatively recently so that ups my hopes that WOT may get a second shot. I mean the 2002 Queen of the Damned pretty well put Vampire chronicles adaptations on hiatus for a while but now we have a pretty decent AMC show.

Well perhaps I’m qualified to join the writing staff then. I certainly could not do a worse job and I might just be able to fix a few things🤔

For a second I thought Mat had stepped through a portal to the musical, Cats. I will say that the Eelfin sequence was better than the Cats movie that came out a few years back🤷

This show has had its moments but after this episode I’m officially pulling for no green light on season 4. The sooner this mess is shit canned the sooner we might get a decent reboot. Sure it will likely be 5-10 years down the road but that beats the 20-25 it will be if the show is completed. Furthermore, if this show is completed and thereby is considered a success and becomes definitive it will make a reboot less likely. It’s not that I haven’t enjoyed parts of it, but it’s best if this show is cut down early and forgotten.

When Nyneave was in Egypt land, let my people go😉

And I hope that something is teaching him how to act😉

Yes, everything about this was lame. Sammael replacing Asmodean, Lame! Moiraine shielding Sammael, Lame! Sammael not actually replacing Asmodean, Lame! At the very least they could have had him say, You? Noooo! When Mogedian showed up 🤷