I am kinda surprised that we are getting Lord Gabriel. Is he going to be the forsaken we expected or maybe combined with a different one. I think this casting means we could be seeing Matt going on his book 3 arc. It is presumed that most of the cast will be starting in Tar Valon and that Mat will be joining the Wonder Girls in Tanchico. Maybe he is sent to Camelyn first to deliver a letter and overhears a most concerning conversation. Maybe picks up Thom on his way. Also hoping for his double Finn encounter. Doorways in the Tower and Tanchico works just fine for me.

I would not be surprised.

Looks like the article was wrong and they have issued a correction. Luke Featherson will play Gawyn and Callum Kerr will play Galad. Galad will remain the older brother.

The scene is also a visual aide to the audience to show people unfamiliar with the books the versatility of the One Power. And while it would be more efficient to just have Moiraine kill all the trollocs with fire it is boring visually. But as we see in the battle with Logain's followers, and in the new teaser, Alanna seems to resort to an earth weave for attacking. So we get a scene introducing new audience members to the versatility of the OP and then we see that Aes Sedai tend to go with what they know in battle. I suppose this could also be an allegory that unlike most Aes Sedai Moiraine is more open minded in how she approaches problems.

I believe WoT series said that Alexandre Willaume was returning for season 3. Hopefully in a larger role as I really enjoyed his performance in season 1. I don't know if Gawyn's actor has been leaked or not so I don't know if they haven't combined him with Galad. I know that the actor for Galad's CV reports his character as Galad Trakand,. Whether that is to streamline his character or because maybe they did combine characters I don't know. But I believe there was a leaked audition scrip with Gawyns name so who knows!

This is the Mat story we all need.

There are some scenes in this teaser to be really hyped about. I am looking forward to seeing the forging of Perrin's axe and while I hope we get a scene similar to his forging scene in tDR I don't think it is him forging the axe in the teaser. The scene of him raising the axe with a battle cry gave me goose bumps. The entire Two Rivers plot in tSR is one of, if not my favourite plot line in the entire series. I am curious how they are going to introduce Faile, will she meet Perrin before going to the TR. Will she already be there because she thought the Horn of Valere was going to be in the Mountains of Mist? Happy to see Ruidean looking ethereal, not quite what I expected and all but a solid interpretation. As with everyone I am looking forward to Rand's trip through the glass columns.

The length of the spears could be a marketing goof as we have already seen the size of Aiel spears in season 2. I propose the theory that these are ceremonial spears that potential clan chiefs leave outside of Ruidean which they collect them when they leave. These would be the spears that were not collected.

Exciting! I have not been a fan of their past season posters and while I would judge this one better it is still kind of bland. Nonetheless this makes me really excited for the upcoming season. I appreciate seeing, what appears to be, a dragon on Rand's forearm, Book 5 spoiler

While Callandor is unlikely to show up this season there is not a lot reason it needs to be introduced early. Not sure what they are going to do with Mat but it is not out of the realm of possibility to still have him enter the Twisted doorway. Nothing requires that to be found in Tear.

I'm am currently on a bit of a dry spell from having read the books, but Perrin does kill 2 Whitecloaks in EotW does he not? Having him kill a named Whitecloak, Bornhald Sr, in the show different but not that different. The bigger change is that Bornhald jr knows with his own eyes Perrins crime rather than having Byar catch a glimpse of him in a village and subsequently Bornhald Sr's death on him.

Gonna need some source on this claim. Are you talking about this years Emmy's? the ones in Sept? While I do believe WoT has totally snubbed by not getting a nomination in costuming I don't believe I have seen any of this discourse of "rabid fans" saying the show is not good.

I really liked the concept of this scene. I think the execution of it wasn't the greatest but all of my non book reading friends loved the twist of the "friend" disappearing.

Similar to the books I suppose. Despite all of them being released we will only deal with 2 maybe 3 per season. The rest will just be doing their things in the background. Stuff that may or may not be seen on screen. Maybe they will just reference it "Sammael is off consolidating in the South"

Not necessarily true, or rather possibly true for most Aes Sedai. But that bar is entirely dependent on the mind of the individual Aes Sedai. Some will be high or lower than others. Similar to how in LoC, Lord of Chaos spoilers.