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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8475148" data-attributes="member: 16814">Darkfriends are an interesting lot in the books.  For a long time, they were a secret cabal devoted to the Dark One (who they call the Great Lord of the Dark but who is a Satan stand-in) and organized into a cross between a cult and a gang.  As the events of the book begin to unfold, however, the prison that has held the Dark One away from the world is weakening, and some of his very powerful lieutenants have gotten out or are able to reach into the world again (the Dark One and his Forsaken (the lieutenants) were sealed away by the last Dragon).  The darkfriends in the books are routinely people who thought they were getting in with a club of people to get ahead in the world but are finding out that their oaths have serious teeth now that the Forsaken are loose again.  In the books, the darkfriends after Rand and Co are directed by their own leaders and the Myrdraal, not driven by dreams.  However, as more Forsaken are loosed, many have abilities to affect the dreams and even utilize an entire dreamworld and this becomes more common.  It appears they smashed this into the earlier episodes.Personally, I found the darkfriend to be pretty terrible, especially the part where she ran after them through the streets waving a sword and no a single person said boo.  That the darkfriend just happened to be skilled with the sword Rand brought was a bit far for me.   I stopped at episode 3, which apparently I felt was atrocious and others seem to like.  It was plodding, the character development was weirdly paced and not clean, and the horror show they turned the Tinkers into was just a bridge too far.  I mean, why?  Why naughty word with the Tinkers?  It strongly undercuts a large section of story for the Aiel and just makes them look pathetic.  And, honestly, in story terms, if you're looking for things to cut I struggle with including the Tinkers in that form but cutting Elias for Perrin's story development.</blockquote>

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