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The last few episodes have been good. There’s actual tension, the seanchan are well done, as is the representation of the collars and forsaken. It ain’t the books, but the last 2-3 episodes have been at least entertaining with few eye rolls.

But god damn, whoever decided Loial should be represented by Mike Tyson dressed up a gay ‘fro muppet should be fired.
 
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In the last episode, I really liked how the Yellow Ajah sister's powers seemed focused on the body of her foes, like how she could remove skin or twist the skeleton of her targets, you could see the healing / medical applications to those weaves but also how they could be used for offense. It's not like in the books but visually they've tried to give a bit of a theme to each Ajah and it's pretty cool I think.

To be fair, almost no one looks like they should but they've handled showing the weaving and powers rather well, the threads weaving around in the air and drawing patterns is really close to how I envisionned it as I read the books.
 
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Runnen said:
In the last episode, I really liked how the Yellow Ajah sister's powers seemed focused on the body of her foes, like how she could remove skin or twist the skeleton of her targets, you could see the healing / medical applications to those weaves but also how they could be used for offense. It's not like in the books but visually they've tried to give a bit of a theme to each Ajah and it's pretty cool I think.

To be fair, almost no one looks like they should but they've handled showing the weaving and powers rather well, the threads weaving around in the air and drawing patterns is really close to how I envisionned it as I read the books.
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Damn dude you might want to get your imagination checked. If you like this representation of weaving then I don't know what else to say.

This show is an affront to fans of the books from start to finish.
 
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Didn't yall say the sand people were white redheads in the books? Well they got 66% of that right, so far!

Which they probably did just to rub it in..."haha book fag: this is the way they could have all looked, but we hired a brown, ugly, wooden actor to play the primary person of this tribe anyway!"

Also, did they use sign language in the books as well?

Chaid:
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Bain:
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Aviendha:
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All someone had to do in order to have all the Aiel be as described int he books was to explain to the showrunners that the Aiel were servants/slaves that became hated by everyone else because they were known to have served the Dragon. If that had happened, there wouldn't be a single brown Aiel in the show.
 
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Which Forsaken, the relevant ones at least (Lanfear, Grendel, Ishy, Dem, Samael or Rahvin) have appeared in the show?
 
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I actually kind of like Ishamael's character. I think the actress for Lanfear is a decent fit, but I feel like they are portraying the character very contrary to the book Lanfear as far as how out in the open she is.

Beyond that, its pretty bad casting all around. So many pointless plot changes.
I was worried that they were going to go all "Dumai's Wells" with Rand shielded in Tar Valon. As it is, they have pitted Moiraine and Siuan against each other now, which is bizarre.
 
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I believe Moiraine & Suian being "enemies" was a staged thing they themselves setup, but if I recall, that schism took place before Moiraine found Rand.
 
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Zindan said:
I believe Moiraine & Suian being "enemies" was a staged thing they themselves setup, but if I recall, that schism took place before Moiraine found Rand.
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Its been a long time since I read those early books. Was that staged to give an excuse of why Moiraine could be away from the tower for so long? It was definitely nothing like them using the power on each other. I mean, they weren't lovers in the book either, so I dont know.

They are going to have to rewrite Thom Merrilen's motivations in later books completely.
 
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Faux said:
Its been a long time since I read those early books. Was that staged to give an excuse of why Moiraine could be away from the tower for so long? It was definitely nothing like them using the power on each other. I mean, they weren't lovers in the book either, so I dont know.

They are going to have to rewrite Thom Merrilen's motivations in later books completely.
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Faux said:
Its been a long time since I read those early books. Was that staged to give an excuse of why Moiraine could be away from the tower for so long? It was definitely nothing like them using the power on each other. I mean, they weren't lovers in the book either, so I dont know.

They are going to have to rewrite Thom Merrilen's motivations in later books completely.
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Yea, their fake schism took place shortly after they witnessed that one old say the dragon had been reborn. Siuan would stay in the Tower while Moraine would be out searching, both using the Blues network to stay in touch.

What is the context of the images posted above of Lanfear and Ishmael (the image of Ishy seems to be when he became Moridin)?
 
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Yea, their fake schism took place shortly after they witnessed that one old say the dragon had been reborn. Siuan would stay in the Tower while Moraine would be out searching, both using the Blues network to stay in touch.

What is the context of the images posted above of Lanfear and Ishmael (the image of Ishy seems to be when he became Moridin)?
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lanfear and rand in the dream world
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they went before High Lord Turak after capturing Loial
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Zindan said:
Yea, their fake schism took place shortly after they witnessed that one old say the dragon had been reborn. Siuan would stay in the Tower while Moraine would be out searching, both using the Blues network to stay in touch.

What is the context of the images posted above of Lanfear and Ishmael (the image of Ishy seems to be when he became Moridin)?
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Those pictures of Ishamael are just him doing his thing. Thats how he looked at the eye of the world and thats he looks now at Falme.
That is Lanfear being Lanfear after she was revealed to Rand. No longer disguised as anyone and not trying to be incognito at all.
 
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Damn, what a travesty. I feel bad for those of you who are suffering through this series.
 
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