#wheel of time 2x08

[shutupineedtothink]

Ohhhh my godddd???

I still believe in you… even when I don’t know the half of it (!!!)

I was only able to say we weren’t equals… because you’ve always been my better (!!!!!!)

LET ME BACK IN (recalling the same moment in 1x08 except now it’s possible???!!!!!!)

The weaves around them looking soooo magical, the foreheads, the 360 shots, them literally standing on a goddamn beach where the water is meeting the earth, the wind whipping around them, sun shining down

Fucking poetry before my eyes. Everything I wanted.

And then they kicked ass together in a way we haven’t seen since the Two Rivers.

Icons. Legends. Now NEVER separate them like that ever again.

[themoonfortress]

Rosamund Pike and Daniel Henney behind the scenes of The Wheel of Time 2x08

[aflawedfashion]

Moiraine & Lan | The Wheel of Time 2x08

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THE WHEEL OF TIME - “What Was Meant To Be” 2.08

[melaan]

“Nynaeve should’ve healed Rand’s wound” “Nynaeve should’ve done something during the finale” like yeah she should have that’s the POINT! she’s gonna have a complex about it next season!!!! it will fuel her thoughts that she is a coward and make her more frustrated with her block!!!! that’s one of her main struggles!!!!!!!delicious

[damnhotmsimmons]

"This braid will remind you that you are a part of us and we a part you. To be a woman is to be always and alone and never alone. So when the Dark surrounds you and you see no Light, feel this braid and know that we all stood before you. We stand with you."

[moirainelan]

The Wheel of Time 2x08 I've known one thing to be true since the first day we met. You have always been my better.

[marvelfanlife]

"Above the Watchers Over the Waves shall he proclaim himself, bannered 'cross the sky in fire." - Karaethon Cycle

THE WHEEL OF TIME | SEASON 2 EPISODE 8 | 'What Was Meant To Be'

[backlandsofbutter]

did they have to make this scene this gay?

[markantonys]

relationship: rand/mat rating: explicit length: 9.8k, complete summary: “You’ve been wearing those clothes for a year, Mat,” Rand said. “Why don’t you want new ones?”

“None of your business.”

“Of course it’s my business. You’re my friend, and I want to look after you.”

The words slipped out before Rand thought about them, and he felt his cheeks heat up. Mat looked pink too as he finally lifted his eyes to Rand’s. For a moment there was something so open and vulnerable in his expression, but it quickly shifted into an eyeroll.

“Fine, if you’re going to be so bloody annoying about it,” he said. “Let’s get this over with.”

[shutupineedtothink]

So plotwise, Nynaeve couldn’t channel in the finale bc if she did she would outshine Rand right? Like she would have just yeeted Ishmael right over the side of that tower.

Also we were clearly being set up for that Elayne Jesus shot and her healing Rand makes sense for that (no I haven’t read the books yet but I’ve heard things)

Anyway I know ppl are upset about Nyn not channeling and I admit it felt a little weird but I’m 100% sure it’s leading up to an even more epic moment when she does

[mashithamel]

I was as frustrated as any every Nynaeve fan in 2x08 when Elayne had to prompt her to remember she was a Wisdom and could heal people without the One Power. Book Nynaeve doesn’t struggle with that, and it felt like the back half of the season just kept working to make Nynaeve look bad.

But then I started thinking about her overall arc, and about how eventually she’s in a cave, unable to use the One Power, and has to save a woman’s life to keep the world from literally ending if she doesn’t. This season, this episode, and this moment in particular could be a fabulous parallel/contrast to season 8 Nynaeve (willing it into being!!).

Season 2 Nynaeve is afraid of the power she could wield and doesn’t have a clue how she fits into the world any more. Like Moiraine said in 1x05, she can’t go back to who she was before, and she won’t be able to relate to the people she knew before in the same way. But she still hasn’t learned to appreciate it for the gift it is. Everyone has been telling her how special she is, but she hasn’t been able to demonstrate any actual results yet. In the arches she watches as everyone she loves is killed or lost because she’s unable to save them, with or without magic. And then in the back half of the season she trusts the wong person and gets betrayed, gets her best friend tortured and enslaved, accidentally exposes Ryma and she gets enslaved, and can’t seem to get back on the right foot from the moment she heads for Falme. Plus the bloody Daughter Heir of Andor got dragged along and gives her zero respect. She’s learned she really doesn’t know anything of this world and that it’s so much bigger than she thought. So when she’s faced with death and injury on the battlefield she’s paralyzed. She’s forgotten what’s she capable of, she’s afraid of failure, and she’s lost her confidence.

But season 8 Nynaeve will have mastered her powers, done the impossible more than once. She will have traveled the world and experienced so much of it. She will have been humbled by powerful women, and humbled powerful women herself. She will have earned her place in the world. And this time, when faced with the literal end of the world she will know that she is more than her magic powers and she won’t doubt or be paralyzed, she will be able to just act. And she’ll be amazing.

So, as a Nynaeve fan season 2 was disappointing in some ways. But I really, really hope that in the context of a full 8 seasons (it’s gonna happen!) it’ll make a lot of sense and make her growth believable. If that’s the way it goes, it’ll be so much more rewatchable and I might come to appreciate it.

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Moiraine Damodred | The Wheel of Time 2x08

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EGWENE + HER BRAID

[melaan]

egwene's expression after renna cuts off her braid holy SHIT dude. madeleine madden emmy when. she's put on SUCH a stellar performance this season I can't wait to see more of her as egwene.

[closetfascination]

Love how Mat comments on Rand's shit hair when he is telling Perrin and Loilal that Rand is still alive.