If you go by the books it was easily Demandred, at the end of book six he even asks the DO hasn't he done well or something like that. A lot of Dem's success was offscreen, freeing Taim, getting Taim accepted by Rand, uniting Shara etc. The chaos at Dumai's Wells was even suspected to be Dem's doing as to spread chaos which it did.

Gaul was more embarrassed letting his guard down and getting captured then shame. There is no shame, just like an Aiel would never "touch" a wetlander in combat and expect them to surrender. Spanking was usually seen as an embarrassment/ humiliation. Novices were spanked becuase they were viewed as children and that was how one disciplines a child. It was rare for Accepted. It wasn't something the Aiel went right to, it was usually something someone asked to be done. When *forgot her name" was punished by the maidens for stealing, they welted her all over so she would itch, they didn't spank her as punishment.

When people talk about how it makes no sense experienced Aes Sedai would be in awe or even let her take charge are forgetting how important strength in the power is to Aes Sedai. You see again and again in the books how they defer to the strongest. To me Egwene is the worst character, but she does see how Aes Sedai are too into "well this is always how it's been done" so they are pretty easy to manipulate.

The rumor I read said there wasn't much writing started for season 4. maybe they suspected there might not be a season 4 so didn't bother. It would be interesting to see whatever they had started or discussed,

Early in Two Rivers she shows no respect to the village council and I think and even hits Cein Blue with a stick. She was the show me respect as Wisdom but never felt she had to show others. I ended up liking her but early on she was a bully.

Because early on she is simply a bully, throwing tantrums, talking down to others, and using threats to get her way. Later she is much more likeable as she grows, but early in the series she is simply someone who tries to bully her way through things.

It would be too hard to simply pick up where the last show left off. You would need all the same actors etc. I think someone would have to start over from the beginning.

You have to remember with streaming it's about how many new members did they add, if WOT wasn't really boosting subscriptions then it doesn't matter. It's great if current members are watching it, but they need new people to join.

They might not have known but my guess is they at least suspected it was coming. The person at Amazon responsible for signing WOT was fired, so that's never a good sign. Not to mention the longer the delay is agreeing to a new season the more worry there should be. Finally, Amazon was already talking about cutting expenses.

I honestly don't see someone picking it up. Is it worth the cost? Look at how much 3 seasons of this cost. I don't think season 3 costs have been released. But the production costs for the first two was something like $260 million. Season three had to be at least $130 million. Not to mention if someone else picks it up, do they start where this left off or at the beginning? How many seasons would be needed to finish this? Supposedly the rights have gone to /WOT Production Limited, and they do not have a very good history with things.

It was RJ, Brandon might have put his own spin on it but it was RJ's idea. It also couldn't take place until Mat was ready. Which would've rushed his story. She couldn't show up too quickly or would've ruined much of why Rand needed Casudane. Rand would have immediately gone back to Moiraine and pretty much made Cas pointless.

Since certain things need to happen like last battle, DO prison being opened, people forget DO exists etc. But nothing saying the same thing has to cause it, As @bringbackthomsmoustachestates it doesn't have to be identical events. Maybe the Seanchan cull the ability by capturing too many women who channel, imean they capture the women and men who will channel regardless. If all they leave are the people who need to be taught, then would stand to reason in time channeling would be rare. Or maybe it's a sickness etc. So many men are suddenly about becuase before no one was crazy enough to go about testing to find men who had the ability to channel. As described in the books Taim would basically go town to town and gather up anyone who even showed an interest in his offer.

I also remember Verin talking about the whites were discussing if gentling the men was the reason the Aes Sedai were finding fewer and fewer women. Something about someone recommended if the Whites were so concerned maybe they should breed with the men. It was mentioned how the Aiel find almost all the women who can channel, I'm guessing the Sea FOlk do also. So there are still channeling women out there that are having babies. The Aes sedai also don't allow those too weak or too old.

The last episode had its good moments, but the confusing Lanfear/Moiraine fight sort of ruined it.

Seanchan capture any woman who will channel, the women controlling them are ones who could channel if ever taught. If they are never taught and the women who can channel die out, then you will only have women who might channel if taught but they would never know it. Randland would have wise ones, kin, wind finders etc women who can channel and still have relationships. If the Seanchan ever took Randland then these women would also be forced to stop having children. The ability to channel would never die it would just become women who are clueless they could channel. The interesting thing is Shara uses their male channelers as breeding stock, and channelers were only allow to sexual relationships with other channelers.