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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8494523" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!I was just going to post my thoughts about this myself. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I binge watched the season on the 23rd/24th. I also was expecting to see a wide variety of human-types (in every way), and was looking forward to seeing how the producers saw various people. But when watching it...I was honestly confused and couldn't keep track of who was who, who was from where, who was who's wife/husband or mother/father. Quite distracting, taxing and really REALLY pulled me out of the suspension of disbelief.This continued for a good 4 or 5 episodes (about half the season) until I at least had a grasp of who the 6 or 7 main characters were.Agreed! That threw me for a loop. I had trained my brain at that point to accept that there was no "actual people/cultures with shared characteristics"...then BLAM! "Well, except for the Asians. They all look alike...mostly..." LOL! As someone with the last name Ming, I found that amusing (even though I don't really look Asian; my dad does when he laughs; my grandpa, great grandpa, etc...yup...definitely Chinese). Probably wasn't supposed to be though... I have a bit of a dry/dark sense of humour I guess. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Yup. Confusing and jumbled. More like a haphazard conglomeration of survivors from a world-apocalypse forced to live together than a tight-nit community with a shared history. I just didn't buy it I guess.Again, I concur. As I stated above... "not a location of people with a history....more like a rag-tag fugitive fleet of people forced to settle in some area".Maybe they could have done some explaining as to why Two Rivers was so 'multicultural'. Maybe we'll get something like that later. They had an opportunity when they did the 'flashback' to the last Dragon (Ep 8 ), with a thriving city with flying vehicles and everything.That said... I did enjoy it overall. I don't think anything stood out to me as "...ugh... why...?". Then again, nothing stood out to me as "...ooohh... cool...!" either. Probably because everyone seemed to be haphazardly tossed together, mixed up, then thrown randomly to the winds...then the DM just rolled some random dice and looked on a "human races" table for each character, regardless of any consistency. So...hmmm...I give it a solid 6 / 10. Entertaining, some neat stuff, but nothing very memorable or surprising. I mean, Nynaeve dies...but that's ok, she gets better 2 minutes later. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🙄" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" title="Face with rolling eyes    :rolling_eyes:" data-shortname=":rolling_eyes:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> They had a chance to make it at least memorable...but they chickened out.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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