Season 2 was a big step up in quality. Unfortunately, the character arcs were overall very weak. Strong moments for everyone but no one except Egwene really had a full character arc across the entire season. 8 episodes per season is not enough but they also need to cut these unneeded side character story lines - like all of the warder storylines with Stepen in S1 and Alanna/Lan/ etc this season. There is not enough room for new unnecessary plot lines - these are just serial bad writing decisions that keep repeating each season