Was the "Wisdom" so stupid in the books too?
Terribly boring, but Rosamunde does an amazing job every time
"Is there anything slower than a horse?"
Yeah... you, obviously!
apparently I have to use at least five words where two suffice - Utter tripe.
Did anyone notice that the scene with Lady Suroth and High Lord Turak was shot at the same place they shot the Astapor scene with Daenerys in Game of Thrones? :slight_smile:
This episode was quite interesting too, with lots of happening here and explaining the events so far. There is a new character introduced, a feisty Aiel girl Aviendha, whom Perrin helps escape from a cage and stars a friendship with. She is quite an interesting and likeable character. Perrin leaves Elyas and decides to go looking for his friends when it turns out that Elyas led him back to the village where they were attacked by the Seanchan. It is overrun by the Whitecloaks now. The battle sequence against the Whitecloaks was quite enjoyable, too.
I turns out that Sureth is working with Ishamael and so is Liandrin, who according to her own explanation joined the dark side so that she could save her son, but maybe let's not believe her since she's evil? Sureth and Liadrin obviously hate each other as it is often the case with servants of evil. Apparently Liandrin's task was to deliver the girls to Ishamael, she takes them through the Ways and give them to Sureth and the Seanchan. Nynaeve and Elayne manage to escape and end up in Falme, when a yellow Aes Sedai finds them and rescues them. Egwene, however, is captured and made a damane. The chaining procedure looks quite painful and from what I learnt online damane are slaves who are treated worse than animals in the Seanchan culture so her fate is really tragic.
Moiraine and Rand escape from Lanfear in a quite an emotional chase; Lanfear fixes herself quite quickly after being stabbed my Moiraine and we see her for the first time using her evil powers. Later on, she meets with Ishamael the fates of the friends from Two Rivers. Finally, Moiraine decides that Rand can be a sort of bait/spy so that they can find out what the Forsaken are planning and she encourages him to restart his relationship with Lanfear. According to history, Lanfear was in love with the original Dragon, so she wouldn't kill Rand though maybe she can hurt him in some other way as she's evil. From her conversation with Ishmael, it seems that the Forsaken intend to turn Rand to the dark and make him join them.
As someone who never read the books, I somewhat confuse about characters’ motivations here and there. The jumps between many story lines don’t help me either. Why the wisdom like Nyaeve totally trust a red ajah, who look really suspicious, and act so reckless which cause harm to Egwene like that? She seems to be able to channel her power only when there’s something to do with Lan. The light side somehow has no plans at all when dealing with the dark one who has really convoluted plans.
The black Ajah exist! Good reveal, but the lead up to it had almost made it certain. The Red Srdai was behaving suspicious throughout the season anyway. What kept feeling dumb was the girls - they've not even begun their training and simply decided to go out on their own to find their friends. For her title- Wisdom - Nynaeve sure acts the opposite.
The forsaken sure seems deadly. Good episode overall.
We get to see bit more on Seanchan. The series now stepping up a bit. Liked this episode for it.
Shout by nox32BlockedParentSpoilers2023-09-25T07:29:05Z
Nynaeve has got to be one of the worst characters. She’s been bitter angry and mopey from the time she got to the tower. She doesn’t take her studies or her duties seriously. She thinks she’s better than everyone else. She chooses to follow liandrin who has always seemed like the worst aes sedai while being a bitch to moiraine who has been nothing but helpful. She becomes accepted and she still can’t even channel. So at the moment when she’s needed she can’t channel and can only run meanwhile novices are protecting her and she lets egwene get captured. What also really gets me is that the tv show seems to be trying to paint liandrin as a sympathetic character with her son when in the book she didn’t have one and I don’t believe she helped the kidnapped