Wheel of Time Discussion - Spoilers(with book spoilers)

[Maxperson]

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

I thought Min just said that Tam was the first vision she saw. She started young, so should could have been 6 or 7, making her not that much older than Rand.

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?

That's what I was wondering. He should have been the one to open the ways.

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.

More than one scene technically. In the ways when Machin Shin was talking to the group before they got out, Perrin hears the voice telling him that he loved another more than his wife. It's not much, but I'm pretty sure that was connected to that scene.

 

[Maxperson]

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”.

And that the forsaken were still used even after all this time as bedtime stories to scare children into behaving. "You'd better not do that again or Lanfear will come and get you!

 

[Parmandur]

And that the forsaken were still used even after all this time as bedtime stories to scare children into behaving. "You'd better not do that again or Lanfear will come and get you!

Maybe they are trying to make the main characters a but none of viewer surrogates than they were in the books, to justify exposition? The novels can digress into lengthy interior monologs exposition, the show not so much.

 

[eyeheartawk]

And that the forsaken were still used even after all this time as bedtime stories to scare children into behaving. "You'd better not do that again or Lanfear will come and get you!

Which is why I was really taken aback by that one scene where Sad Warder Man was praying at a shrine he made to idols of all the Forsaken. In the books people even dreaded saying their names. The fact that somebody would do this was really weird to me. They're not really selling that aspect of how dread and fear of the Forsaken have inundated the culture. At least, the more or less folklore versions of them, anyway.

 

[Maxperson]

Maybe they are trying to make the main characters a but none of viewer surrogates than they were in the books, to justify exposition?

I don't understand this sentence. Could you clarify?

 

[Parmandur]

I don't understand this sentence. Could you clarify?

They seem to have made the Two Rivers brigade more ignorant of the wider world and history than they were in the books. Perhaps this is to allow thebshowrunners to have other characters explain things in dialogue, thst the book could handle in third person narration?

 

[Maxperson]

They seem to have made the Two Rivers brigade more ignorant of the wider world and history than they were in the books. Perhaps this is to allow thebshowrunners to have other characters explain things in dialogue, thst the book could handle in third person narration?

Gotcha. That's clearer!

 

[Zardnaar]

The funny thing is over on Reddit, while most people have liked the episode, there are still those who are screaming "Worst episode yet! An Aiel killing while not veiled?" And, no, this isn't satirical, there are actually posts saying this (as well as saying the same over equally nit-picky things). You know, maybe cut a bit of slack for a woman in labor and being ambushed?

Well they haven't told us what an Aiel is yet. I had my suspicion but it's been 21 years since I read the book.

 

[Maxperson]

Well they haven't told us what an Aiel is yet. I had my suspicion but it's been 21 years since I read the book.

We know that they have red hair.

 

[Bolares]

We know that they have red hair.

And they are bad ass fighters