Wheel of Time Discussion - Spoilers(with book spoilers)

[TheSword]

Yeah it was a great episode. Tam’s confession revealed in flashback was great to see. Tam finding Tigraine in the snow and the fight before was very cool.

I can’t help feeling the series is doing a very clever job in showing book readers things they never got to see in the books but that happened in the story … capture of Logain, Rand’s birth etc. I watch it and find myself wondering what’s going to happen which is no mean feat!

Loved the ways, very eerie. Loved Rand’s reveal with the door and the trollock. Like Lan’s backstory reveal. It was all done very very well.

very excited about the last episode and whether we will see the forsaken. Beyond Baalzamon.

 

[Bolares]

 

[TheSword]

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[TheSword]

My prediction is that the next episode will start with the original prologue. Introducing the original Dragon and Ishmael. Alternatively it might be saved for the start of season 2.

I’m really looking forward to watching the series through in full after Xmas day

 

[eyeheartawk]

Not sure I really get making Min so much older than Rand if they plan on shipping them. Like, that'd be weird, right?

That anticlimactic Dragon reveal.

Where's Loial? Why is he even on this trip? If they didn't need him to open to the ways why is he along?

The forced romantic triangle between Egwene, Rand and Perrin. Not only was it completely unnecessary it showed up and ceased to exist within the span of a single scene, really strange.

All that aside, I quite like the episode and considering they had to pick up the pieces with Mat's actor not coming back from the COVID pause and are only working with 8 episodes to adapt the entire first book I think it's going reasonably well.

 

[eyeheartawk]

very excited about the last episode and whether we will see the forsaken. Beyond Baalzamon.

Good question, we've only seen him so far. It looks like they are keeping the thing where they all think he's the dark one for awhile. That aside I wouldn't be surprised if they cut out Aginor and/or Balthamel from the show. Which Forsaken are which is hard enough to keep track of in the books (much less with the reincarnations and name/gender changes that happen later on). If I were running the show I would really cut the number of Forsaken in half if not more.

 

[TheSword]

Interestingly the reason the forsaken had impact at the end of book 1 was that they had been built up like a catechism by all the characters. “The Dark One and all the Forsaken are bound in Shayol Ghul, bound by the Creator at the moment of Creation, bound until the end of time”.

There was one brief mention of this in an earlier episode iirc but little else. I don’t think the forsaken will have the impact at this point. Unless they give a lot of exposition at the start of the next episode I can’t see them using them.

 

[Bolares]

So, the shifty merchant guy that is following them, he's giving me sooo many creepy vibes.

 

[Parmandur]

So, the shifty merchant guy that is following them, he's giving me sooo many creepy vibes.

As well he ought. His POV chapters are massively disturbing.

 

[Maxperson]

Was going to watch the witcher today, but got tickets to see spiderman today sooo.....

Don't do it! 9 out of 10 people who go to that movie can't get home.