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'tis but a scratch 😅

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Mat: we've been on this boat for two weeks

Elayne, later: we've been on this journey for 14 days

Wheel of Time weeks are 10 days, show ruined/ joking

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Siuan: so there’s one more, at least

Verin:

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Latra Posae Decume Tamyrlin Seat // The Wheel of Time S1 & S3

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the wheel of time:

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remember when they said more WoT origins in August…

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Natasha O'Keeffe as Lanfear // The Wheel of Time S3E5

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Dónal sir please

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The thing about Randfear “going on this long” is it’s actually book accurate. Lanfear DOES stalk him into the Waste. She doesn’t stop stalking him until [redacted]. She’s just in a baffling disguise in the books and still, somehow, unable to connect with him. It’s laughable in the books because Lanfear only seems to talk about glory which is the last thing Rand wants so it’s very easy for him to reject her, and for some reason she just keeps trying the same line. Since the show has given a major competency upgrade to all the Forsaken, but Lanfear in particular, she’s very in tune with what would actually work with Rand. There’s a reason she’s still coming into his dreams as Selene, while being more her usual self with the other Forsaken, Egwene, or even Moiraine. Like, even the lighting is literally different when she’s alone with Rand, her look and manner is totally changed, and apparently this trick has worked on some viewers too. Don’t forget that he spent, what, at least six months in Cairhien with her as Selene, and she groomed and manipulated him the entire time. His greatest fear is going mad and killing people he loves, and this is the *one* person that’s at the minimum said “I’m not afraid of you and you can’t hurt me.” I mean she also said she’d kill him if he left her again so I don’t know how more clearly it can be spelled out that she’s abusing him. Until maybe next episode where it comes crashing down on her. Call me crazy but I don’t think it counts as cheating OR being stupid when a 3000 year old demigod literally won’t leave you alone, even in your dreams.

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The thing I also haven't seen anyone mention about Rand and Lanfear is...... he's doing the same thing Latra Sedai did. He's trying to hold on to something good from the past because his world is falling apart.

He's trying to do it with Egwene, too, but obviously that hasn't worked out very well. He has lost his childhood and his life in the Two Rivers. He has just witnessed the loss of the original Aiel and the tragedy of it. All that was good in the past is escaping him, so when Lanfear shows up, making him think, here, finally, is something good that can be salvaged, something he won't and actually can't break...... yeah. There's gotta be some hope to hold on to. He's just looking for it in the wrong place.

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I feel like the E5 are much closer on the show than in the books and I really like that, it makes me root for them more

What made me think this was that the first time we hear Mat speaking in Old Tongue on screen everyone just ignores it because it's been going on for months and it upsets him/makes him uncomfortable, and they don't want to do that so they don't bring attention to it

It's a really small thing but it really caught my eye

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"average aes sedai mentions fish 3 times a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average aes sedai mentions fish 0 times per year. Fishes Siuan, who grew up in Tear & mentions fish over 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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ugh, i hate how much i love alanna because i suspect we're headed directly toward her bonding rand without his permission. but they're showing what leads to that decision, which i appreciate, but still, ugh. i like her way more in the show than i ever did in the books, which is going to make that arc even more frustrating (if it happens, obviously. but they're doing a pretty good job of setting it up with her speech about not being ready for the last battle.)

also, random aside, but Melindhra = darkfriend who tries to kill mat, right?? this friendship she's got going with lan & making her malkieri is going to make that even more of a bummer.

also i would be incredibly amused if rand or egwene decided to make fun of melindhra's obsession with lan and wonder what nynaeve would think about it, just for fun.

damn i just really love this show.

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I honestly feel like if the show was allowed to have 20 episodes most of its issues would be gone. Like how do you expect people to adapt a 13 length book series that the average page count per book is 700 in 8 episodes? How???!!! Just disgusting to me give shows time to develop and grow cowards