Well, the length of this video got away from me. But what a complete abomination of an episode. From laughable scenes, to the ways which I even began to like....until that was swiftly destroyed. To the worst Fal Dara love triangle mess I've ever seen. By the time the Dragon Reborn was revealed I was well past caring about the absolute state of that reveal so it was left to make literally no impact. But now Rand is revealed as the dragon reborn, the question becomes, will they allow him to be? Or will he be hamstrung, tamed, and kept. With all of his actions never due to his own decisions, always undermined or "helped" by Moiraine, Egwene and Nynaeve. I will not be surprised if Rand only becomes responsible for a load of mistakes and bad things. While all the good deeds and prophecies are actually, just other people doing the work for him. How do you think they'll handle Rand as the dragon? Do you think they will finally let him become a main character?
Love the length because so much to talk about. Even though this episode is shit I still think it is the best so far. That tells me how bad this show is.
Man like... I like the show and it’s fun but... it’s not WoT I’m (unfortunately) comparing it to Witcher season 2 and it’s not even close imo Every time I like a new thing they’ve done they throw something I don’t like at me. Oh and on Rand... yeah. I get it’s supposed to be a mystery who the Dragon is but the MAIN CHARACTER feels like the most side character in the show.
That whole "demand " thingy: pretty sure I was the first to question it. Also, Twitter of Time is pretty active. The WOT fandom as a whole is. Even I am. Doesn't mean I enjoyed the show. At all. Amazon doesn't give their numbers, and there's a good reason for it... This is so, so disingenuous. (Probably half of the watchers are watching out of interest and curiosity. Doesn't speak at all about their enjoyment of it. Or if they'll follow through with season 2...)
Absolutely epic rant. I expect at least a 4 hour video for episode eight. Surely the 5-headed dragon is inevitable? That will stick it to the patriarchy!
The reason why Rand was crying in that conversation with Egwene, is because he's thinking about how terrible it is that the writers have subjected him to the horror of being with Egwene, and he can't do anything about it.
We can all imagine the horror of such a fate.... I think they forgot if you to care about a relationship the people in it have to be nice, otherwise you just think "why are they with this person".
It is so unbelieveably sad what Amazon did to this great fantasy saga. The story changes, the cast, the oversexualization, the strife for wokeness are just making me sick! 🤮 IMHO they have just burned the legacy of Robert Jordan to ashes. After watching season 3 I couldnt stand it any longer and quit the torture. Nevertheless, I have enjoyed your reviews very much...even though they have horrified me at the same time! Thank you very much for putting us thru this mental and emotional trauma! Somehow life will go on! 😉
2:39:15 not only does it assassinate Agelmar's character, it downplays the danger of the Blight. It downplays the danger of being a borderlander. They're supposed to be fighting a war they know they can't win, the best case scenario is maintaining what they've got. Instead it looks like the Blight is an inconvenience on the border.
And the Aes Sedai fought the dark one. Borderlanders respected and welcomed ANYONE who would join in their mission. As they knew who the enemy was. Aes Sedai were judged because they were Aes Sedai, nothing so frivolous as them being women. What's worse is there are even very good reasons for leaders to have scenes where leaders don't like Aes Sedai, just not Agelmar or this reason. But that wouldn't fit into the writer doing a whole seen about being annoyed because her boss interrupted here doing a meeting at work.
That cold open actually fully explained the Rand we have been given... all that fighting caused brain damage while he was trying to come out, it all makes sense now!
Tv show runners need to remember the old saying: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. AKA, write your adaptation for the audience you do have, not the one you think you can get.
The issue is that only works if you have someone who is writing in order to get an audience, to make a profit. You need to only hire capitalists. When you hire someone who doesn't care about these things, then they instead use it not as an opportunity to make money, but to lecture and denigrate. And that takes priority for them.
I found the fighting delivering woman pretty insulting too. What about recognizing the pure agony instead, and giving it some respect? It doesn't seem "impowering" to most women, at all. Like, "why aren't you stronger, a bad ass fighter?"
@@ChristmasLore This just shows how insane everything has become, Xena, the warrior princess, godslayer, ect. Was not able to stand while in labour! Let alone fight. So, this random woman who was a queen and had not much physical training in 5-6 years she was superior to Xena?? If that is major BS nothing is!.
I'll never accept any complaints about it now. We've seen how easy it is and they can do anything. So off they go. Time to end all the payments and time off, straight back to work folks, Rafe's let the cat out of the bag!
@@disparutoo I’m so grateful to Rafe. If I ever have a child it will be 3 pushes and done. Home for dinner and back to work the next day 😂 It was harder to not keep shouting “you know nothing Perrin” every time he was on screen.
The main problem (and yeah, that's saying something) with the Blood Snow scene is that it was filmed to feature Tigraine and her GRRRL POWER virtue, when the book scene doesn't discuss any process if hers at all. She isn't even really Aiel and has only been pretending to be one for 5-6 years. So she doesn't even have the lifelong combat training a real Maiden has. No the real problem is that it was written to feature her and her Wonder Woman virtue and superhero ability, instead of who the book scene actually centers on, which is Tam Al'Thor. In the books, Tam has risen to the max rank allowed to a foreigner in the Illianer Companions, which are loosely modeled on the Foreign Legion. He does so because he is a smart, gifted leader, and oh yeah, a freaking Blademaster. This scene is about how he finds a defeated (not victorious but in labor) Tigraine , and he makes a momentous decision in the moment. He decides to take this baby and raise it as his own, and in doing so, he resigns from the Companions and puts away his sword and his entire soldiering career to become a farmer. The moment is about him tiring of war and death and choosing to foster life instead. It's a pivotal moment in his character and informs us of the kind of human being he has at least become. But no, that's not what Rafe thinks is important here. This is about how no man will stop this YASSS QUEEN from being supreme above all men. And forget the veil (shoufa) stuff - Tigraine also violated Aiel / Maiden honor code by fighting in an Aggressor war (not a necessity , like if she was attacked at home), while pregnant. Maidens typically give up the spear when they become pregnant. The books don't go into depth about it, but she basically is just so stubborn no one dares tell her no, so she gets her way. So she is not virtuous at all. It's all so effing stupid that it makes me spit.
I couldn't remember much about her or her reasoning. There are several of the later books I'm VERY hazy on and only remember the general plot points of rather than explanations of side characters. My memory was basically just Tam found the baby and the woman was already dead, or he never even saw the woman, just found the baby in blankets. But if you think this is bad, dude, the next episode turns these themes up to 20.
@@disparutoo I just read. I have effing had it. Rafe has murdered the source material. He has taken source material that was already extremely gender balanced, the characters, themes, and even the # of POV chapters, and he has decided that he needs to push it way past that into some kind of toxic feminity - it's not just that all the women are Mary Sues, it's that he has to denigrate, emasculate, and steal from the male characters to do it. It makes no sense to me. Why "fix" something that wasn't broken? This book series was all about gender equality and cooperation and was landmark for that. I loved it for that. It had some of the coolest female characters I had seen or read since Princess Leia in the original Trilogy. BTW, she was a great archetype... She was a fully realized character who didn't take crap from anyone but also showed compassion and perserverence. She was never a Mary Sue. The women in WoT the show are unbreakable and Uber powerful from day one because they cannot be shown to have any room for growth and improvement because they are all YASSSS QUEENS
Okay, in everything except the part about her breaking their code of honour. She choose to become a spear maide because she had to give birth to the Dragon, if anything she was doing the duty she was ought to fulfill. Not bs fighting, basicaly she was cartoon Mulan and here she is shown as live action Mulan.
Nay bra. You dont have to give up the spear when you get preggers. You can still be a x maiden and the baby is given to someone else to raise. Which is a great honor coz they know that the car'a'carn will be born of a maiden. Thats why they gave Rand their honor and are his honor guard because he's the only child of a maiden known to then and returned to them.
Oh it certainly was. Most of these episodes were not like Halo, where Halos problem is its so boring. But badly written tripe is still the main order of the day and thats just if you dont know anything about the books.
You are literally the only person I've seen talk about Agalmar. I was livid during this scene. This scene was my I'm out moment. Agalmar a man who respected Aei Sedai and treated Moraine with every courtesy. Agalmar who fucking turned down holding the horn of Valere because he didn't trust himself. I was done. I was broken. You are amazing thank you for your reviews I truly get enjoyment out of them. I'm thankful I'm not the only one feeling this way and you express tye exact opinions I have so perfectly I'm very thankful.
@@iamgroot4063 , same, Groot, same...none of the wonder gurls. I'm a woman, and couldn't stand most of the female characters .... very disappointing. I loved Siuan and Min, sometimes Verin. And that's about it... (And of course, how can I forget, Birgitte!)
She's totally insufferable in this for sure! I can't remember disliking Egwene too much in the books though. Although there are many of them I read as a teenager and I'm hazy on, so maybe going through them again now as I am. I'll come away with a different idea of her. I'm interested in seeing if I change my opinion of any of the main lads relationships though on my new read through. I've definitely changed a lot since I read through those the first time. So I'm interested in finding out if I see what happens between them differently.
@@disparutoo i like it when you wrote "insufferable"...indeed, you must be an Englishman! All those Jane Austen novels "insufferable". Sorry, i know it's off the topic!😆
Can anybody explain to me how Rand knew that mountain? Did he literally remember the moment of his birth?? If he is remembering from the last dragon (as I have seen mentioned), Lee’s Therin should never have seen Dragonmount either - he literally created it by dying!
No idea. Had someone on reddit try to explain it by claiming there was some kind of resonance because (1) Lews Therin created it, and (2) he was born on the mountain. But it sounds like copium to me.
*SPOILERS* That's a good point. Yes in my head I'd assumed it was a Lews Therin moment, but you're right, he never should have seen it. You could even argue that he could recognise the land surrounding it, but not the mountain himself. And I really don't like this idea of a literal new born baby having a memory of it's own birth. That doesn't strike me as a nice line to go down thinking, especially as I'd assume getting born is not a nice experience lmao.
Maybe you could argue that there is some residue from when lews made dragonmount. He used enough saidin to burn himself out when he could channel more than anyone else and completely reformed the land.
I can absolutely understand why. I always liked Rand the most, I think I could associate more with various stages of how he saw the world than the other characters at the time I read them the first time. But Mat would easily have been my second, all the dice rolling in his head stuff was gold.
It's becoming painfully obvious that they aren't going to let Matt lead the army at the end. It'll definitely be one of the women. I'd also bet that rand won't lose his hand before the last few episodes so they don't have to erase the lost one in post. Just like Rick from the walking dead
Possibly, it's very easy to remove a hand though you just have to wear a jacket at all times then you can put a prosthetic false cap ontop of the hand to grip. I'm not overly sure it's necessary to the story although it does show hardship. And it would also be a weakness and he LOVES doing that to the men in the show. He would likely use it as a way to make him give in and give up. Rafes already said hes making Rand an entirely different person with a different personality. So anythings on the cards. If you assume the men will be useless and fail at everything, while Nynaeve etc will do everything easily. That's the show.
@@disparutoo is definitely hardship. While I read the books the first time, I was worried when it happened. For me at least, I started to worry that he wouldn't be able to fight at all against the dark one, because at that point I still thought it would be a physical fight as well.
Technically we don't even know if they're making Rand the Dragon Reborn in truth. So far he's just a man who can channel, and even in the books at this stage Rand is still trying to deny himself as the Dragon Reborn. He doesn't accept it until he holds Callandor. A major sign of the Dragon being reborn is ONLY the Dragon Reborn can touch Callandor. Does anyone here think they WON'T have Rand racing to get Callandor, there's fighting everywhere, then just when you think he's going to get it, EGWENE lunges to save Rand because he can't save himself ever, she knocks him out of the way of some Balefire, and then SHE grasps the sword that isn't a sword, kills Ishamael for real this time cause Rand can't do anything, and is then proclaimed as the Dragon Reborn, the true savior of the world? I don't THINK they'll do that, I think they'll keep Rand as the Dragon but they'll make him a total bitch. But I can't say there's NO way they won't do that, which pisses me off. I've seen people who have read every book, are fans of the series Robert Jordan created, and they call this bastardization GOOD.
I love that someone finally mentions how easily Nyneave would get handled by Moiraine in the books. Thanks for that. This idea of untrained magic users, standing up to Aes Sedai, is insane. How are any of these characters going to progress? It seems like the only story arc they can still do is Matt’s.
Yes I was re-reading the books during these and so it was fresh in my mind at the start of book 2 where Nynaeve starts taking on Suian and brute force beats her with the power. Only for Suian to very easily shut Nynaeve down leaving Nynaeve STUNNED because she didn't even know it was possible to do what Suian could do. So I was thinking of a very specific scene when I talked about that. It's not theory, any Aes Sedai could have done it as you cannot defend against what you don't know is possible.
Should be fun watching the show runners try to walk back Nyneave’s power level when she first encounters a forsaken. She’s supposed to spend entire books getting whipped by them and running away (seasons), it’s supposed to be a major source of character growth that leads to power growth. Either that, or I suppose she can just snap her fingers and win immediately (or even more ridiculous, they can present the forsaken as even more ridiculously OP, which would be hard to do, imo). We shall see, or perhaps we won’t, because I’m probably not going to watch, lol.
@@DJ0045 unless I'm remembering wrong, that is exactly what does happen when Nynaeve encounters Moghedien. First meet-up and they have a single Wizard's duel, and the Forsaken only loses because she gets interrupted. Been about 10 years since I read the series, but i thought Nynaeve was just OP right from the start...
@@dedf15that duel is in Book 4 I think, before that she is scared of the Forsaken, partly because she can't channel unless she's angry and partly because she's been beaten by them before. Yes, She's very strong in the One Power from the very beginning, but it's unskilled and uses it like a sledgehammer. She has to learn how to refine her use of it and not rely on uncontrolled emotion.
Imagine setting up a mystery that the viewers had no chance to figure out on their own. It's like setting up an Agatha Christie's murder mystery whodunnit, only to reveal the criminal based on evidence not presented to the audience.
When you do a reveal that even readers of the book the before are saying "it's looking like they're not even going to have Rand be the dragon". Then you've set it up very badly. And this was a mystery that wasn't needed. The books didn't use it as a mystery either, because the writing stood on it's own, with the characters and the plot. It didn't overtly tell anyone but it was VERY obvious from very early on. Whereas in this, they're still trying to make out they had hints in the SAME EPISODE. And they're not hints, if what happened was invisible to the viewer and they had no chance to realise.
@@disparutoo - agreed on episode 7, Rand has no way to know for sure he's the dragon, from what they did put in (MachinShin is supposed to be lying, according to Moiraine). That "mystery" was childish and absolutely not needed.
The entire point of the "mystery" wasn't to make it a mystery. The sole purpose of the "mystery" was to bring in the "dragon can be a woman" plot change.
PREGGY SUE. They wanted to 1-up Mary Sue cause that isn't ultra-fem enough. Not that I have a problem with that but... ...they TOTALLY BUNGLED the scene. It would be believable if she was put in that situation unexpectedly because her party was ambushed and she was forced to fight as last person sof the party. Her fighting would be somewhat believable if she went into labour cramps AFTER the fight, to be surprised by one more soldier whom decides to help instead of killing her. But no, the hack writers decided to ruin a good story. PREGGY SUE is now part of our reality.
Yes this was entirely a pregnant woman who knew she was near term going to battle lmao. Easy solution was another Aiel trying to defend her, fails, and she takes the final blow, veiled, and gets revenge on her attacker. Then Tam comes across the aftermath. It fits all the lore, you can do EXACTLY the same thing as this scene, and no bouncing baby fighting. This is why I think it's done badly deliberately, the solution MUST have been proposed to them already.
@@disparutoo I’d watch it even if it was 5 hours long as I’m sure all of us here would just to feel sane among those smoking copium and buying into this fan fiction.
Tarwyns Gap is at least a day's march away from Fal Dara. And I always imagined the Blight to be this continually rotting garden of mutated plant and animal life turned into horrid monstrosities.
Yes me too, I imagined it as a twisted, tainted, dark and deadly version of a normal environment. So there would be plants and trees etc, but they would be rotting, and deadly mutations of what would be normal. And thank you for the distance info. In this show everything seems to be "about a days walk away" except for Tarwins Gap, which actually should be lmao.
@@mewre2062 context clues. The op said he imagined, as in that was his "take/interpretation" of what the blight was like. My comment merely stated that his "interpretation" of the blight was explicitly described, as such, in the books. Basically there is no way someone with a brain could think what was shown on screen in any way brought to life what was written in the books.. The showrumners are morons.
Lmao quite honestly I'm amazed anyone even made it to the end so thank you for that. I think these reviews have gotten to the point now where it's just me documenting my descent through the bowels of hell as I watch them. I'm realising why I normally just cut and run on a show that would ever get this bad. At this point I'm genuinely impressed Rafe keeps finding new and original ways to make the show worse after a point I can't see how he could possibly do it.
While Egwene wasn't my favorite character in the series, I didn't particularly dislike her in the books, as annoying as she was at times. But in this episode, I really disliked TV Egwene. Not sure if it was the showrunner's intention or not, but it made me rethink my views of book Egwene.
I agree in the books I didn't really dislike Egwene or Nynaeve. In fact my least favourite scenes were Perrins, just because I felt they were a bit slow, not because of Perrin himself. And you can even get away with behaving a certain way if you have an excuse, you don't have time, you have bigger issues to deal with. But these 2 act horribly to everyone, then demand the other person apologise after they've treated the person badly while everyone tells the 2 how amazing they are. It's bizarre. I think a few of the writers are putting themselves into the characters. Rather than making the characters respond to situations and events how they would as an individual.
@@disparutoo I'm different, Perrin is my favorite character, and I like his story arc. I agree it does get slow, but he also has the least plot armor. But the dumpster fire of a show, takes great characters, and a great story and craps all over it, because the writers think they can do better and no one ever told them they weren't that talented.
It seems like Wheel of Time fans are going through what I and many other Star Wars fans went through with the last jedi. My condolences. It sounds like there is no turning back from the garbage for you guys, but I hope the show can get turned around
I think there is a lot of similarities for sure. Although at least when it came to Star Wars it was an original story that was bad. For adaptations, you have an objective level of quality you can compare the adaptation against and judge the changes better or worse. So when they destroy them, it becomes VERY obvious that it's being done deliberately, rather than through lack of talent. So I think it carries a weightier impact.
“Why don’t you not?” ------------ “Just a minute,” Rafe protested. “What’s this about me butchering Robert Jordan’s stories? Are you all-?” “You just don’t tell them as well as Robert Jordan,” Disparu cut him off hastily, and Shad hopped in. “You keep adding in things, trying to make it better, and they never do.” “And you get it all mixed up, too,” /r/whitecloaks added. “Best leave it to Robert Jordan.”
Man, I gotta thank you for all the laughs. There were multiple points at which I had to pause. I think the Black Wind = UA-cam comments was my favourite. But maaaan, what did they do to Mat and Perrin?
I appreciate you hitting on the weird interpretive dance stuff they're having Moiraine doing constantly. You were exactly right about it being a crutch; there's literally a part in one of the books where some of the Aes Sedai are talking about being able to tell who taught who which weave based on the hand movements they use. I think it's especially strange that they had that scene with "Valda" talking about channelers not needing their hands and then Moiraine dances like this.... They've spent all this time making her a badass. Why would she handicap herself?
From memory when they say crutch it's more that it aids in their concentration. So they CAN do it without the hands, but it's just easier not to. So I don't see a problem with Aes Sedai doing it generally when there is no storyline reason to make it a downside. I see it a lot like, I can talk without moving my hands, but the more enthusiastic or passionate I get while saying something, the more animated my hands get. Seems reasonable. BUT, when that scene had them bending around weirdly in slow motion like the one power itself was somehow stopping them? It was just bizarre, I don't know if they thought it looked better on screen? But that's a hard no. Especially Moiraines weird backwards bend to look at Nynaeve. That looked so out of place. I actually think it would look better if they showed the moving faster, so you can see that proficient skilled channelers can create the weaves faster and with less thought than newer channelers with less practice. But this would mean that you would have to admit than Nynaeve and Egwene can do nothing at this point in time because they haven't been trained and are not perfect. And they can't do that.
from the books; there was also the part when the suldam threatened to cut off someone's arms, if they didn't behave, because they weren't needed to channel.
What I found really silly were the perfect beer glasses in Fal Dara. The entire inn looks like it was a real one and was just made it look a bit older but the whole thing looked like something of the 19th century.
These reviews are so good. I’ve watched all of them today including the LotR ones. I watched Amazon wheel of time, months ago when it came out. I hadn’t read the books but two things jumped out to me very early on (1st episode maybe). Who the dragon was and that the story was set in a universe where women were the bosses and men were all the also rans good at rutting and protecting the more important women…. Which is why I picked the dragon reborn very early on. The second class mere man had to be the Dragon. Enjoyed seeing how the novels were so how different, might even read them lol
I was actually happy when egwene channeled in the ways because it finally showed her screwing up and putting everyones lives in danger. Of course, i should have known better. It was rands screw up, not the supremely perfect egwene.
Exactly. When I first saw the reveal, it definitely fell flat. But the Rand channeling instead of Egwene I was like, huh, they got me on that one. Didn't figure that out. Then I realized, oh wait, he's the one that summoned Machin Shin then. LOL.
@@PrinceofRavens64 Would you say it's power trumps that of any magic user then? You think a fully realised Dragon reborn could hold it at bay for a little amount of time?
We should all be grateful that the dragon is in love with Egwene because if not the world would end. Rand doesn't give AF for anything in the show except simping for her.
Can you imagine the outcry if any show had a guy stalk a female around a city because he has a crush on her? The same writers who wrote this crap would be putting out hashtags against it. It’s ridiculous.
Dude as this was happening I couldn't believe it. That a group of people had gotten together, written and filmed this. And not thought there was anything creepy or wrong about it. The scene where she walks in his room would have been bad switched around too, but that whole city scene is unbelievable no matter whose doing it.
I'm glad to have found someone who reviews this who actually understands the books. All the other reviewers I've seen don't seem to understand the books at all or they just make excuses for the screenwriters/director.
If you look hard enough, there are about 5 channels doing some more objective reviewing of the show, among them, Knight watch and Read with Bianca, Salty Texan (and then some two more I forgot the names right now)
Thank you, I just say it how I see it. I'm very glad people enjoy it. I remember after my first review I went off to look at other peoples and was shocked to find universal praise presented to me by the algorythm. Virginie is right though, I've seen all of those 3 and especially enjoy Knight's watch and "Books and Bianca".
@@disparutoo , there's also Prophet of the Dragon, and the last one has a weird channel name with letters and numbers, but appears in someone else (Salty Texas?) Livestream, they teamed up once or twice. It's always interesting to watch different takes, I always value the time taken to make the videos. Books with Bianca is the most balanced, and she can't be accused of...,well, you know, anything. If my health permitted it, and if I had an iphone to make a floating head, I was very close to put some video out myself (I'm somewhat in the middle, few people like me, it's either high praise or strong dislike)
Dude, great many of these "reviewers" haven't even bothered to read the books lol. They were making PREDICTIONS on who the Dragon will be. PREDICTIONS for fucks sake! LOL
Gotta love how Disparu mentions things I have overlooked, missed or couldn't put my finger on. For example Padan Fain, yes I love the actor portraying him, but something was nagging at me for some reason and Disparu nailed it on the head. He looks too chirpy! We all know how Padan Fain ends up being, the guy completly lost himself to the dark side. He looked and acted more like bum and feral like by the time they got to Fal Dara. With regards to how he got in and out of the ways, I've seen people mention Padan Fain twiddling with a leaf like object in his hands. Not sure if true cuz I didn't see it myself when I watched the episode, but that would it explain it. Although if that is the case, then how did Loial not know about the leaf? Either he did not know or Moiraine wanted to specifically channel to open the waygate. Which is absurd, Moiraine would never do something like that. Weird all around I'd say which ever way it is.
There is a still pic of Padan in front of a waygate holding a portal leaf. I guess they took that out in editing... if you can call this show edited at all...
@@marcel7077 Lol I hear ya. Such a mess this show, mixed bag really tbf. What could have been. We all love WoT so much. Shame these hacks only care about money and their agendas. If they'd care about WoT it would have shown through. All I see watching this show is greed, laziness, woke agendas and their distaste for the source material. Not even sure where all the 90 mil dollars went.
@@Sleepless4Life if only they would prioritize money... then maybe they would look at what makes the WoT a 15 books success series and don't push in "modern politics views of a minority" in a beloved franchise. If they had hired Brandon Sanderson as the creative director with a competent screen writer, they would have gotten a show worth more than the 2, max. 3 saisons we will get with this trash...
As terrible as Loial looks in the tv series, they could have taken the opportunity to develop his character by utilizing his knowledge to open the way gate, like they do in the books. Sadly, he's so far a cameo puppet that follows everyone around.
If a male character did what Nyneave did with Lan it would have been blasted for being predatory. Don't even pretend it won't because the hypocrisy of such a claim would warp space time and create a singularity ending all life on earth.
It was absolutely predatory. Doesn't matter whose doing it, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. That entire city scene was absolutely stunning anyone thought that should be put in a show.
she's basically stalking and sexually harassing him. Cause you know ... PEAK ROMANCE. 🤦♀This is what happens when the woke rules dictate that men can't court women anymore but that women also need to be sexually assertive. You get women characters that are one step away from raping their intended. All in the name of EqUaLiTy.
They should have made the one who is the wisdom (can’t remember her name and don’t care about her character) pregnant. Then it would have been explained she is the bestest ever and completely explains she can do everything.
Oh that's a good point. Although if they made Nynaeve pregnant she wouldn't just have been able to fight off a creature made up of the literal pure taint of an evil god. She would have likely cleansed the ways in their entirety.
Regarding Rand knowing it all along: I don't even buy that, despite what they show, because the way he has acted in every other scene up to this point doesn't fit him knowing all along. He doesn't even react properly to Loial saying he looks like an Aiel, because in the books this revelation that Tam and Kari aren't his parents, is a huge puzzling trauma for him due to how much he loves them as his parents, especially Tam (Kari having died early). It should be "OMG Dad wasn't just crazy from fever???" instead of amused blank amazement at how odd Loial's inference is.
When Loial was talking to him he kept saying "I'm from the 2 rivers" everytime Loial rephrased it. You're right about how Rand reacted, and should have reacted. It was a far bigger deal to him. But I think that was them trying to write Rand as if he was trying to put it out of his mind and quickly change the subject from Loial. Obvioulsy though, poor writing. Because it's so badly done no-one can be sure. And this is from the people who think Aiel trained women wont put their veils up because the camera needs to see emotion. But they can't even make anyone understand Rand. Maybe if he'd had more than 3 lines in that episode it would have been easier to get across.
@@disparutoo i always thought, the aiel cover their faces to hide emotions and so be a more inhuman opponent. The show reversing this to show Tigraines emotions is another tell, the showrunners have no idea of the books... so disappointing... amazon is throwing away so much revenue with just choosing the wrong "modern feminist showwriter" instead of letting Brandon Sanderson be the creative director and giving him two sane scriptwriters at his side... another beloved franchise killed by wokism after Star Wars and the late Marvel movies...
@@marcel7077 I agree. The whole book has a theme that controlling your emotions (Aiel, aes Sedai, lan etc) 1) gives you control over yourself and hence be able to work better for others 2) As Cadsuane mentions in her POV that showing temper gives people power over you as h thy eh know how to get you to lose control. That was why she was trying to teach Rand to control his temper. But here - it’s cry every two minutes unless u are okay fighting over Egwene
@@marcel7077 I think the covering the face thing was shame of having their face exposed while committing violence, because you know, their true history that only wise ones and clan chiefs know.
Finally someone is speaking the truth about that ridiculous chart. Every week a number people spread this chart as if it were gospel, when it's just an arbitrary measurement of some nebulous factors which say nothing about how well any show is doing and are completely based on bullshit. All that matters is that WOT is on top of the chart. But we are to ignore that shows which aren't even running right now and which are about to be canceled due to lack of interest are having similar numbers to what is supposedly the greatest hit amazon prime has ever had.
I'm terminally on twitter (I know, its a problem) and I literally haven't see a soul tweet about WoT in weeks. Not saying it isn't happening, but if the collection of Nerds and weebs I interact with aren't talking about it, I seriously doubt it isn't getting that kind of traction....certainly not organically.
That's because it's the only chart of its type that shows up on a quick google research. I called it up (and their methods, the meaning of these numbers...), two weeks ago. Some attentive people on Twitter and UA-cam seem to think alike, and that makes me glad. At least some people are still thinking more objectively.
@@ifonlyicouldstop , people on Twitter of Time spend their days& nights on that hashtag, and the official Twitter of Chaos. It's around a core of two thousand people, tweeting all the time, all positive about the show... But that's Twitter. On FB and Instagram, it's mostly the opposite. Reddit: has two camps. Countries speaking about it for real: US, Turkey, India. That's about it.
Look at this chart of left handed capricorn pitchers and their respective RBI vs head diameter! Obviously the longer their arms, the more frequently they contract the flu!
Just Watched the Knight’s Watch review and those guys were hilarious. Now I get to complete my day with Disparu’s review. All those folks trying to hype up this show and critics on rotten tomatoes giving this 85% critics choice is pure BLOODY BULLOCKS!!!
@@ChristmasLore I’m a big fan of the books and due to this disappointing show, I started to listen to them again. I’m not over zealous on making changes for the show but what the show runners did is complete rubbish.
Rafe's headcanon. Dixit Sanderson himself around 3omn in his podcast about the "adaptation". He had to literally "switch his whole mindset" to even be able to work on it. "Another turning of the wheel", is not nearly as positive as most people seem to think.
Thanks for explaining about Rand, as I have not read the books, and I was confused about what he knew, or didn't know, or thought he knew about himself. I didn't understand the archery bit either, so thanks for that too. As a newbie, there seems to be a lot of confusing plot points, sometimes I have to really concentrate to try and make sense of it all (or perhaps I am just a bit dumb).
LOL yes he better meet those 3 ladies fast aye?! I totally missed that one. It was such a cheap cop out to just walk off too. So they can go "well I never said yes!". Just adds to making her even more insufferable as a character I guess.
The blight in the books looks NOTHING like the show. It’s not just a collection of brambles. It’s a poisonous hell pit where brushing against the wrong leaf with kill you. The trees reach out to attack you, there are horrifying creatures around every turn, there’s lakes, open air sections (you know so that the Trollocs can move about, not having to squeeze between a set of brambles) and poisonous boys. It’s nothing like the show.
Yeah in my head I imagined it as basically a normal environment, but twisted. So you'd have open spaces, trees, plants, but they would all be tainted, twisted, poisonous, deadly. An evil parody of the rest of the world. I imagined the blight growing as more just, the taint spreading and twisting what was already there into a mutated version of itself. Not....a tree root.
57:45 further to the shenanigans The Ways, we can disregard Moiraine's interpretative dance routine when she channels as the bs that it is, what I find completely disjointed is that The Ways were created for the Ogier by the Aes Sedai before The Breaking, as a thank you and a means for them to traverse great distances easily. The doors were activated by re-locating the trefoil leaf on the Waygate carvings. The Aes Sedai did not need The Ways themselves, as they all knew how to Travel. Why is it then that Moiraine is the only one able to open the doors, that she needs to channel to do so and Loial is seemingly only there to read the wayguides? The very species that The Ways were created FOR, is relegated to the status of a GPS, while Super Sayyin LGBT Moiraine does her Last Airbender impression every chance she gets. Bah!
That's all Loial was there for in the books...to read the guidings. Moiraine knew how to use the leaf to open the door already. Yeah, channeling to open it annoyed me as well tho.
I'm less than 45 seconds into your review and already laughing. Keep up the reviews. I look forward to the season finale, and hopefully series final, review.
I was thinking about it and the flecks of lights and the glowing beam around them looked kind of familiar to me at the time and I couldn't think of why until just now, to me it looks like they took the teleporter scene from the Star Trek series and slowed it down drastically to give that affect around them.
It's funny because there are actually a lot of things that I like about the show, and most of them are the more peripheral crew. Like whoever built the two rivers, I like a lot of the backing music, those sound effects. I love Rosamund Pike in the role (not her fault what she has to work with). There are talented people on the team. It just seems none of them are in the main lead roles around controlling what's being said.
I suppose they could have Matt go to Rhuidean and do the whole, 'Oh look he died and has come back without darkness'. Hmmmm, on second thoughts there is no woman saving him so that won't work.......
The way they pluck out keywords from the source material and then mangle them, I wouldn't be surprised if they made 'Rhuidean' just be an Aeil woman's name just so that she could kill him and then bring him back.
Yeah there is plenty of things they could do to magically have him cleansed. But now they have said this is MAT and not the dagger at all. If they remove that from him, it wont be Mat anymore. Mat was the culmination of all of his life experiences. I think you can have periods of your life forgotten and it wont change your character, like recent memory. They would have to strip Mat's from his very young childhood. And that would be a foundational part of his personality you could never seperate.
Trying to add some optimism. Min not telling rand he will live is not wrong in the story. Remember what min does for the last 2 books. It seems misplaced here, but she knows the ending.
I don't like this Min hiding visions from people. Most of the time she doesn't even know what they meant herself, it's like oh I see a crown and a sword. Could mean anything. And Rand CLEARLY asks her about the Eye of the World. Now admittedly, this whole season has replaced "last battle" with "eye of the world" for some reason. Which I assume is because they wrote it to wrap up in case they only got 1 season. But my issue is, once you have someone who knows the literal factual future telling you you wont survive. You HAVE to end that character or destroy everytime prophecy is ever mentioned forever into the future. And obviously, they can't do that. And I think the "oh im just not going to tell you and keep you worried then when you come back and complain I'll say "well I never answered" seems like a cheap cop out to me. But I think that's where they'll go.
@@disparutoo That would be so ironic if they do a 1 season ending the same way Jordan had to. At least that is my understanding; that RJ had a prototype encouragement to do one book, and make it look like Tolkien. Then oh RJ you have a never ending book deal and btw good luck unending the story. Book 2 This is awkward, but turns out the rascal Ishamael was just pretending to be Shai Tan.....
Careful, the video isn't worth your liver. I remember after the episode 2 review I realised how often I said "in the books" lmao. But thank you for the kind words.
Some said that Rand had the 2nd most screentime of any character... if that is actually the case than I am impressed how little impression he made, and it can't have been an accident.
When you're in labor, u have contractions, that come & go. Maybe when it was time to raise the veil, she was having a contraction, & time to fight, they stopped.
I do agree that it is suspiciously "convenient" that she doesn't get contractions when she needs to fight, & only gets them during unimportant moments, like the veil
I cant wait to see the red haired black and asian Aiel. It will be the most ham-fisted example of forced diversity in history of cinematic adaptations.
Of course we will. Don't you know that the entire world is 100 diverse after the breaking? Just look at Foldara. 100% diverse (asian). And Tier will be 100% diverse (black).
@@D3G4355 Idk. Imperial conquest.. Slave owners.. Seanchan may well become white, or at least the slaves will be. Im almost sure if they get to the end of the series, the sharans will be white..
the cloak grab doesn't work at all. as a non-book reader, this is a world with super powers. Rand knocking down a door with magic. Seeing her do that jump and cloak grab, made me think she had super powers. the spear going through armor as well. the logical conclusion was, she had super strength. so, this is very much an internal consistency problem. if Aiel are not supposed to have super powers, you can't show them doing things everyone else uses magic to do. how the heck do I know what is or isn't magic at that point?
To be fair to the show, Egwene really does think her shit does not stink, and that she's better than everyone, especially Rand. She's also not super loyal to him. She spends all her time with the Tinkers dancing with Aram and responding to his flirtation, laughing when he mocks Perrin and taking his side when he insults Perrin. Later on, when Egwene is getting annoyed at him because Mat says Min was staring at Rand, Perrin comes to Rand's rescue by mentioning Aram. Instead of apologizing, Egwene demands Rand not hold it against her just for dancing with some boy she will never see again. In the next book, she goes to the White Tower as a student and meets MIn, and another girl who also met Rand and got cut out of the show, because the writers are morons and she is awesome, and both of them ask about Rand, him being the one other person they know in common with Egwene, and Egwene thinks he is a monster, literally! She even has the nerve to complain OUT LOUD about Rand getting upset because she "danced a few dances with a nice boy" whereas Rand actually had the GALL to MEET other women and even TALK TO THEM. Never mind that both women spoke to Rand first, and that Rand did not flirt or dance or do anything romantic, except try to get away from both of them. Rand is completely innocent, but Egwene blames him, because she realizes from their conversations that both girls like him. In a future book, there is an incident where Rand & Egwene go with several other people to meet a group of barbarian witch doctors. Rand is the prophesied leader of the barbarians. They know this, because the barbarians found them, hailed Rand as their leader and started acting as his bodyguards and following his orders. At some point, Moiraine shows one of the barbarian girls a letter in Egwene's presence, saying that the witch-doctors wrote this letter to her, months in the past, correctly predicting the place she would be on a certain date. In the letter are orders they want Moiraine to relay to the girl, telling her the witch doctor will be waiting for her at a certain place. Meanwhile, Egwene had a dream where she talked to one of the witch doctors who told her she could teach Egwene to use dream magic, and if Egwene wanted to learn, she should come to her home. The witch doctor said that she would return home after she was done with her business in a certain place. The same place that she told Moiraine she would be waiting. So Egwene, hearing that Rand is going to the barbarian lands, decides to travel with him, since she is going to the same country. Moiraine & Lan tag along, because Dragon stuff. They go the place called Rxxxx, which is where the witch doctors told the girl to come. When they arrive, Moiraine tells Egwene that the witch doctors in their letter predicted the day of their arrival. At this point Egwene knows: 1. Rand is important to the witch-doctors, because he is the leader of their people 2. Her barbarian friend is of particular interest to the witch doctors, so much that they wrote a letter saying they are waiting for her at Rxxxx. 3. They have magical ways of predicting things, and thought Moiraine is important enough to send a letter too, predicting the day Moiraine would arrive at Rxxxx 4. They told Egwene they would look for her after they finished up at Rxxxx Rand, Moiraine and the barbarian girl are in the group with Egwene and the barbarian chief. Yet, when the chief goes up to the witch doctors and they greet him, they say "There is someone who came with you." To any rational person, you would assume they are talking about the member of their people, whom they summoned to this place, or the Aes Sedai they wrote a magical letter predicting her arrival at this place or their prophesied leader who must fulfill a prophecy in this place. The answer of course, is they are talking about Rand, whom they want to test for the prophecy. But Egwene thinks they are talking about her. She actually starts to get mad when they keep ignoring her and deal with all the more important people who are part of their people or in their prophecies or both. The two most in-character moments for Egwene on the show, are when she walks into the inn at the festival in Episode 1, with that look on her face like she is the queen of the Two Rivers, and when Siuan is talking to her and Nynaeve and talks about how strong Nynaeve is, and we see Egwene swelling with pride at the compliments, until Siuan says "Nynaeve" and she realizes it's not her.
I hate Egwene so much in the books. She's defo a whole human cunt in the books. Out for power, but she sickeningly licks arse fir it then when she gets it will never let you forget shes superior. She's a self important bully. I Hate what she did to Nynaeve in Tel'a'rhanriod. At the same time i love how Jordan wrote her, i understand the necessity of her character. She was born to be a war time general and she got shit done i guess. And this is what is so grating about the show. Its so half assed. Like if it looked terrible the acting shit ect but kept to the lore and focused on characters in the spirit of the book, like I'd take it fine. It was never going to be perfect. But this show is shit all over
33:00 ish I don't think Lan was describing the destroyer of the guiding stone when alerting to being followed. Padan Fain was back there, I think you even see him lurking in one shot. Apparently he can channel now.
Funny thing about that, i deliberately didnt watch aftershow stuff or pictures or videos during these so that I made sure everything that should be known was in the series. After the episode showed they posted pictures of him holding a REALLY AWFUL looking leaf. Like they realised theyd messed up so tried to retcon it. What a mess.
@@disparutoo I haven't seen any of the extra material either, aside from whatever images (including that ridiculous leaf one) made their way to the FB groups or other reaction videos. Needing to add extra content to pretend they didn't fuck up the whole story is certainly an implicit admission they have made one of the worst adaptations most of us will ever see. Lan's line where he thinks they're being followed is really badly done though as it was put in right at the moment of finding the guiding stone, which made your assumption that the two things were directly related a natural one to make. I hate the show so much, and I hate it more since it feels like I'm almost defending parts of it from your perfectly astute analysis.
Congratulations on a hundred subscribers Disparu, you definitely deserve it, Thank you for being honest, about all of this! Also I wonder how much it must annoy all those bigo- I mean journalists by your success, I mean you’re not even a a girl!
Prepare for Rand to be 'damsel-ed' and protected by the 'good women' in his life to the point where even if he does anything impressive it will be at the behest of a woman, probably talking him out of doing something that would have otherwise failed spectacularly.
This is definitely his future now he's been revealed. But for the finale, I have a feeling they're going to do something worse. Because there are 2 sides to it. Everything good wont be his fault, but everything bad....will be. He'll mess up, destroy things, cause massive issues. And everyone else will have to fix them for him. He'll be the moron stumbling around .
Oh jeez, I just got horrors thinking about Dumais Wells in this show...either the writers will decide the White Tower plot will actually work and change the story to have him as the White Tower's pet, or he will get saved and HE will be the one to kneel to the Aes Sedai who will have inevitably been the actual ones to save him and pledge to do whatever they tell him to do.
To my memory, Moiraine only intentionally leaves the party once to manipulate Rand was in 'The Great Hunt', when she left Rand expecting to meet him in Illian and declare him the Dragon Reborn.
They probably thought they were BRILLIANT for leaving the "reveal" to so late in the season and without any real lead up. It's subverting expectations everybody! WoW! So UnExPeCtEd
I wouldn't be surprised. We know literally nothing about where they get their metrics, like microblogging sites? What if they just google "wheel of time" and see how many google results come up, then do it next week and compare the difference. That would include everything with the books in. And even if they DID just use good sources, they still say they "weight" them. Which basically means multiply them by whatever numbers they want, to whatever they think is arbitrarily the most important, or gives them the numbers they want. All in all, I'd consider their entire chart as fantasy as the source material.
Oh my gosh, what did they do the Blight? That's not even a 5% match to how it's supposed to look. It's terrible. No subtlety, seeing the land slowly become corrupted as you go further in. Just an abrupt and solid wall of briar patch.
Yeah this is true. I meant more his personality and traits as a man, and a good father than anything else with that comment. But you're absolutely right that he should have been easily capable of fighting off a whole mob of them. The defence would be "he's not used the sword for a long time so he's rusty", but it never stopped him in the books.
You know that meme where Mr. Incredible becomes more uncanny for each picture slide? I can now understand that feeling. The more I listen to your review of my absolute favorite book-series of all time and how the heck it is being actively ruined? The book-series whom shaped my teenage years and made me into the person I am today? I am saddened, mad and quite frankly - ANGRY. Thank you for your sacrifice, Disparu, for subjecting yourself into this fan-fiction - so that I don't have to watch this horrendous murder of one of THE greatest fantasy book-series ever made. *EDIT: spelling*
This is like a lesson in how not to write a story. Who is writing this garbage series? No wonder Mat actor left the show. He's made a very smart move. You are brilliant for speaking up about this hot garbage show. Machin Shin is actually twitter comments, just saying
Twitter is certainly awful. Although I think twitter comments might actually even be a bit harsher than Machin Shin was itself lmao. Like twitter would say you were awful at everything. But Nynaeve just told "you're not perfect" and she went ape over it.
I sure did, even now you mention it I can't remember how he acted. I think I remember him more from Knights Watch review mentioning him even at the time so I don't think he made a large impact on me lmao.
Actually the King of Ghealdan was not in power anymore, when they showed him with Logain already walking towards him in a calm stroll. At least he did try to kill the invader, but then just followed him. Another man in power was the white cloak lord commander in e2, thats the only one, they showed as a competent and humane character, even refering Moraine to the Aes Sedai for healing ( what for me was complete out of character for a child of the light ) .
Enjoying your Wheel of time review series. I'm on book 12 and half the time it doesn't even sound like wheel of time that you are talking about. The other half the time you are talking about the books.
The veil part is more evidence that the creators are intentionally being evil. First they give a villains plot to siuan. Now tigraine is doing what the Samma n’sai (I don’t remember the spelling exactly) do. These are male aiel who can channel. Their culture tells them to go to the blight and do as much damage as possible before they go mad and die. It turns out that for years they’ve been captured forced to turn to the dark side. They file their teeth to a point and wear their veils all the time and only pull them down to kill. Rand has the green arrow from smallville syndrome. Your super hero name is green arrow and it’s inspired by Robin Hood yet you only keep 3 arrows that look more like toys than real arrows. If Padan fain is following them, is he now a dreadlord? I guess he could have a forsaken or aes sedai helping him. I’m curious if they’ll bother addressing this or if next the ways are shown, anyone will be able to open them.
@@xyr3s technically I spoiled the epilogue of book 13 but my bad. I didn’t mean to give up such a huge plot point from book 14. Since I’m talking to someone familiar with these books, I never know, I wish they’d have been used more. If I recall they’re sort of a scary scene at the end of towers of midnight and then mentioned a couple of times in AMOL. It’s such a cool concept, I wished they’d have been used more in the last battle.
@@xyr3s yes it was. It worked well especially in context of that epilogue. There were several things that showed the last battle had finally arrived. All the dark friends and dread lords coming out of the blight, steel turning to rubber, severe wind storms. It was awesome. Also the meta context of waiting 20 hrs for that. For so long it felt like this sort of future event that may never actually happen and it finally did
In the book, they never even mention that one of the boys might be the dragon until basically the climax, and even then, it's more forcused on the fact that Rand can channel than anything else
Never read a book of this series but Mat makes no sense to me. We first see him being kind, sensitive, tender, understanding, compassionate and a loving, care-taking brother and son. Yet somehow he has so much evil in him the darkness can feed off it. Instincts all good and decent, but then we are to believe he's actually something else. The two young girls, shown to be untrained, unlearned, annoying, selfish and moronic, yet we are continually told how especially wonderful and superior they are. All this show does is "show" one thing but "tell" us another. Ugh. It's called bad writing. And I want my girls to be more ACTUALLY smart, humble, intuitive, courageous, i.e., heroic than this.
On the Aiel viel thing, given who Rands mother actually was, she might not prioritise raising it in these moments as much as the rest of them would. This probably was moslty likely an oversight by the show but they will absolutely claim later on that this was entirely on purpose as a clue. Im calling it now
I appreciate that your other reviews were less ballistic and more balanced because when it comes to this video you being mad actually brings weight to your point
Well, the length of this video got away from me. But what a complete abomination of an episode. From laughable scenes, to the ways which I even began to like....until that was swiftly destroyed. To the worst Fal Dara love triangle mess I've ever seen. By the time the Dragon Reborn was revealed I was well past caring about the absolute state of that reveal so it was left to make literally no impact. But now Rand is revealed as the dragon reborn, the question becomes, will they allow him to be? Or will he be hamstrung, tamed, and kept. With all of his actions never due to his own decisions, always undermined or "helped" by Moiraine, Egwene and Nynaeve. I will not be surprised if Rand only becomes responsible for a load of mistakes and bad things. While all the good deeds and prophecies are actually, just other people doing the work for him. How do you think they'll handle Rand as the dragon? Do you think they will finally let him become a main character?
Love the length because so much to talk about. Even though this episode is shit I still think it is the best so far. That tells me how bad this show is.
Man like... I like the show and it’s fun but... it’s not WoT
I’m (unfortunately) comparing it to Witcher season 2 and it’s not even close imo
Every time I like a new thing they’ve done they throw something I don’t like at me.
Oh and on Rand... yeah. I get it’s supposed to be a mystery who the Dragon is but the MAIN CHARACTER feels like the most side character in the show.
That whole "demand " thingy: pretty sure I was the first to question it.
Also, Twitter of Time is pretty active. The WOT fandom as a whole is.
Even I am. Doesn't mean I enjoyed the show. At all.
Amazon doesn't give their numbers, and there's a good reason for it...
This is so, so disingenuous.
(Probably half of the watchers are watching out of interest and curiosity. Doesn't speak at all about their enjoyment of it. Or if they'll follow through with season 2...)
They'll make him "toxic" so they can break him and teach him, with there great perfectness, to be "a better man".
Absolutely epic rant. I expect at least a 4 hour video for episode eight. Surely the 5-headed dragon is inevitable? That will stick it to the patriarchy!
The reason why Rand was crying in that conversation with Egwene, is because he's thinking about how terrible it is that the writers have subjected him to the horror of being with Egwene, and he can't do anything about it.
We can all imagine the horror of such a fate.... I think they forgot if you to care about a relationship the people in it have to be nice, otherwise you just think "why are they with this person".
It is so unbelieveably sad what Amazon did to this great fantasy saga. The story changes, the cast, the oversexualization, the strife for wokeness are just making me sick! 🤮 IMHO they have just burned the legacy of Robert Jordan to ashes. After watching season 3 I couldnt stand it any longer and quit the torture. Nevertheless, I have enjoyed your reviews very much...even though they have horrified me at the same time! Thank you very much for putting us thru this mental and emotional trauma! Somehow life will go on! 😉
2:39:15 not only does it assassinate Agelmar's character, it downplays the danger of the Blight. It downplays the danger of being a borderlander. They're supposed to be fighting a war they know they can't win, the best case scenario is maintaining what they've got. Instead it looks like the Blight is an inconvenience on the border.
And the Aes Sedai fought the dark one. Borderlanders respected and welcomed ANYONE who would join in their mission. As they knew who the enemy was. Aes Sedai were judged because they were Aes Sedai, nothing so frivolous as them being women. What's worse is there are even very good reasons for leaders to have scenes where leaders don't like Aes Sedai, just not Agelmar or this reason.
But that wouldn't fit into the writer doing a whole seen about being annoyed because her boss interrupted here doing a meeting at work.
That cold open actually fully explained the Rand we have been given... all that fighting caused brain damage while he was trying to come out, it all makes sense now!
That was the funniest scene.
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Tv show runners need to remember the old saying: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. AKA, write your adaptation for the audience you do have, not the one you think you can get.
The issue is that only works if you have someone who is writing in order to get an audience, to make a profit. You need to only hire capitalists. When you hire someone who doesn't care about these things, then they instead use it not as an opportunity to make money, but to lecture and denigrate. And that takes priority for them.
"Poor people from broken homes are the most evil things in existence!" - Amazon's The Wheel of Time
I found the fighting delivering woman pretty insulting too.
What about recognizing the pure agony instead, and giving it some respect? It doesn't seem "impowering" to most women, at all.
Like, "why aren't you stronger, a bad ass fighter?"
@@ChristmasLore Exactly
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This just shows how insane everything has become, Xena, the warrior princess, godslayer, ect. Was not able to stand while in labour! Let alone fight.
So, this random woman who was a queen and had not much physical training in 5-6 years she was superior to Xena??
If that is major BS nothing is!.
Well, it's not wrong.
I could not stop laughing during the opening scene. Never knew pregnant woman could do that 😂
I'll never accept any complaints about it now. We've seen how easy it is and they can do anything. So off they go. Time to end all the payments and time off, straight back to work folks, Rafe's let the cat out of the bag!
@@disparutoo I’m so grateful to Rafe. If I ever have a child it will be 3 pushes and done. Home for dinner and back to work the next day 😂
It was harder to not keep shouting “you know nothing Perrin” every time he was on screen.
The main problem (and yeah, that's saying something) with the Blood Snow scene is that it was filmed to feature Tigraine and her GRRRL POWER virtue, when the book scene doesn't discuss any process if hers at all. She isn't even really Aiel and has only been pretending to be one for 5-6 years. So she doesn't even have the lifelong combat training a real Maiden has. No the real problem is that it was written to feature her and her Wonder Woman virtue and superhero ability, instead of who the book scene actually centers on, which is Tam Al'Thor.
In the books, Tam has risen to the max rank allowed to a foreigner in the Illianer Companions, which are loosely modeled on the Foreign Legion. He does so because he is a smart, gifted leader, and oh yeah, a freaking Blademaster. This scene is about how he finds a defeated (not victorious but in labor) Tigraine , and he makes a momentous decision in the moment. He decides to take this baby and raise it as his own, and in doing so, he resigns from the Companions and puts away his sword and his entire soldiering career to become a farmer. The moment is about him tiring of war and death and choosing to foster life instead. It's a pivotal moment in his character and informs us of the kind of human being he has at least become.
But no, that's not what Rafe thinks is important here. This is about how no man will stop this YASSS QUEEN from being supreme above all men.
And forget the veil (shoufa) stuff - Tigraine also violated Aiel / Maiden honor code by fighting in an Aggressor war (not a necessity , like if she was attacked at home), while pregnant. Maidens typically give up the spear when they become pregnant. The books don't go into depth about it, but she basically is just so stubborn no one dares tell her no, so she gets her way. So she is not virtuous at all.
It's all so effing stupid that it makes me spit.
I couldn't remember much about her or her reasoning. There are several of the later books I'm VERY hazy on and only remember the general plot points of rather than explanations of side characters. My memory was basically just Tam found the baby and the woman was already dead, or he never even saw the woman, just found the baby in blankets.
But if you think this is bad, dude, the next episode turns these themes up to 20.
@@disparutoo I just read. I have effing had it. Rafe has murdered the source material. He has taken source material that was already extremely gender balanced, the characters, themes, and even the # of POV chapters, and he has decided that he needs to push it way past that into some kind of toxic feminity - it's not just that all the women are Mary Sues, it's that he has to denigrate, emasculate, and steal from the male characters to do it.
It makes no sense to me. Why "fix" something that wasn't broken? This book series was all about gender equality and cooperation and was landmark for that. I loved it for that. It had some of the coolest female characters I had seen or read since Princess Leia in the original Trilogy. BTW, she was a great archetype... She was a fully realized character who didn't take crap from anyone but also showed compassion and perserverence. She was never a Mary Sue.
The women in WoT the show are unbreakable and Uber powerful from day one because they cannot be shown to have any room for growth and improvement because they are all YASSSS QUEENS
Okay, in everything except the part about her breaking their code of honour. She choose to become a spear maide because she had to give birth to the Dragon, if anything she was doing the duty she was ought to fulfill. Not bs fighting, basicaly she was cartoon Mulan and here she is shown as live action Mulan.
Nay bra. You dont have to give up the spear when you get preggers. You can still be a x maiden and the baby is given to someone else to raise. Which is a great honor coz they know that the car'a'carn will be born of a maiden. Thats why they gave Rand their honor and are his honor guard because he's the only child of a maiden known to then and returned to them.
Watching you descend into madness was probably magnitudes more entertaining than the episode itself.
Oh it certainly was. Most of these episodes were not like Halo, where Halos problem is its so boring. But badly written tripe is still the main order of the day and thats just if you dont know anything about the books.
Rand only had like 3 arrows in his quiver but it still would have been just enough to conquer Ghealdan lol
This is why they needed to have the draft available. You're in trouble if only 3 men volunteer to defend your walls.
“We’re about to enter hell” what I say to myself before every episode.
I don't know what's lower than hell, but whatever it is we'll be entering it for the finale.
You are literally the only person I've seen talk about Agalmar.
I was livid during this scene. This scene was my I'm out moment.
Agalmar a man who respected Aei Sedai and treated Moraine with every courtesy.
Agalmar who fucking turned down holding the horn of Valere because he didn't trust himself.
I was done. I was broken.
You are amazing thank you for your reviews I truly get enjoyment out of them. I'm thankful I'm not the only one feeling this way and you express tye exact opinions I have so perfectly I'm very thankful.
They somehow managed to make Egwene even less likeable than in the books!
I never liked her in the books and definitely not in the show.
@@iamgroot4063 , same, Groot, same...none of the wonder gurls.
I'm a woman, and couldn't stand most of the female characters
.... very disappointing.
I loved Siuan and Min, sometimes Verin. And that's about it... (And of course, how can I forget, Birgitte!)
She's totally insufferable in this for sure!
I can't remember disliking Egwene too much in the books though. Although there are many of them I read as a teenager and I'm hazy on, so maybe going through them again now as I am. I'll come away with a different idea of her.
I'm interested in seeing if I change my opinion of any of the main lads relationships though on my new read through. I've definitely changed a lot since I read through those the first time. So I'm interested in finding out if I see what happens between them differently.
Thats an achievment, Egwene and Ninaeve where the worst characters for me, they managed to make them even worse
@@disparutoo i like it when you wrote "insufferable"...indeed, you must be an Englishman! All those Jane Austen novels "insufferable". Sorry, i know it's off the topic!😆
Man chin shin in the old tongue was the black wind, but in woke English it means “mean tweets”
😂
That might be the greatest thing I have ever read. Bravo sir
*scary wind* "oouuuuuuuuhhh.....Starting to thin on top, aren't you mate? When's the last time you washed the shirt?"........"OK, ciao"
lmao
Can anybody explain to me how Rand knew that mountain? Did he literally remember the moment of his birth?? If he is remembering from the last dragon (as I have seen mentioned), Lee’s Therin should never have seen Dragonmount either - he literally created it by dying!
No idea. Had someone on reddit try to explain it by claiming there was some kind of resonance because (1) Lews Therin created it, and (2) he was born on the mountain. But it sounds like copium to me.
*SPOILERS* That's a good point. Yes in my head I'd assumed it was a Lews Therin moment, but you're right, he never should have seen it. You could even argue that he could recognise the land surrounding it, but not the mountain himself.
And I really don't like this idea of a literal new born baby having a memory of it's own birth. That doesn't strike me as a nice line to go down thinking, especially as I'd assume getting born is not a nice experience lmao.
Bad screen writing
I really wish this was the only hole in the plot lol
Maybe you could argue that there is some residue from when lews made dragonmount. He used enough saidin to burn himself out when he could channel more than anyone else and completely reformed the land.
Mat was my favorite character in the books. What terrible fan fiction.
I can absolutely understand why. I always liked Rand the most, I think I could associate more with various stages of how he saw the world than the other characters at the time I read them the first time. But Mat would easily have been my second, all the dice rolling in his head stuff was gold.
Mine too, what they have done to him in this series is an atrocity.
It's almost funny though, it's like the character knows that the show sucks and doesn't want anything to do with it.
Matt was my favorite as well. Rand more in the early books, but Matt took over as the show went on.
Me too. But it took a long time to get there. A very annoying kid at the start, but ends up leading the arm as a man.
It's becoming painfully obvious that they aren't going to let Matt lead the army at the end. It'll definitely be one of the women.
I'd also bet that rand won't lose his hand before the last few episodes so they don't have to erase the lost one in post. Just like Rick from the walking dead
Possibly, it's very easy to remove a hand though you just have to wear a jacket at all times then you can put a prosthetic false cap ontop of the hand to grip. I'm not overly sure it's necessary to the story although it does show hardship. And it would also be a weakness and he LOVES doing that to the men in the show. He would likely use it as a way to make him give in and give up.
Rafes already said hes making Rand an entirely different person with a different personality. So anythings on the cards. If you assume the men will be useless and fail at everything, while Nynaeve etc will do everything easily. That's the show.
@@disparutoo is definitely hardship. While I read the books the first time, I was worried when it happened. For me at least, I started to worry that he wouldn't be able to fight at all against the dark one, because at that point I still thought it would be a physical fight as well.
Technically we don't even know if they're making Rand the Dragon Reborn in truth.
So far he's just a man who can channel, and even in the books at this stage Rand is still trying to deny himself as the Dragon Reborn. He doesn't accept it until he holds Callandor. A major sign of the Dragon being reborn is ONLY the Dragon Reborn can touch Callandor.
Does anyone here think they WON'T have Rand racing to get Callandor, there's fighting everywhere, then just when you think he's going to get it, EGWENE lunges to save Rand because he can't save himself ever, she knocks him out of the way of some Balefire, and then SHE grasps the sword that isn't a sword, kills Ishamael for real this time cause Rand can't do anything, and is then proclaimed as the Dragon Reborn, the true savior of the world?
I don't THINK they'll do that, I think they'll keep Rand as the Dragon but they'll make him a total bitch.
But I can't say there's NO way they won't do that, which pisses me off.
I've seen people who have read every book, are fans of the series Robert Jordan created, and they call this bastardization GOOD.
I love that someone finally mentions how easily Nyneave would get handled by Moiraine in the books. Thanks for that. This idea of untrained magic users, standing up to Aes Sedai, is insane. How are any of these characters going to progress? It seems like the only story arc they can still do is Matt’s.
Yes I was re-reading the books during these and so it was fresh in my mind at the start of book 2 where Nynaeve starts taking on Suian and brute force beats her with the power. Only for Suian to very easily shut Nynaeve down leaving Nynaeve STUNNED because she didn't even know it was possible to do what Suian could do. So I was thinking of a very specific scene when I talked about that. It's not theory, any Aes Sedai could have done it as you cannot defend against what you don't know is possible.
Mate, they dont need character arcs, all the women are alreqdy in their final stages from the get go
Should be fun watching the show runners try to walk back Nyneave’s power level when she first encounters a forsaken. She’s supposed to spend entire books getting whipped by them and running away (seasons), it’s supposed to be a major source of character growth that leads to power growth. Either that, or I suppose she can just snap her fingers and win immediately (or even more ridiculous, they can present the forsaken as even more ridiculously OP, which would be hard to do, imo). We shall see, or perhaps we won’t, because I’m probably not going to watch, lol.
@@DJ0045 unless I'm remembering wrong, that is exactly what does happen when Nynaeve encounters Moghedien. First meet-up and they have a single Wizard's duel, and the Forsaken only loses because she gets interrupted.
Been about 10 years since I read the series, but i thought Nynaeve was just OP right from the start...
@@dedf15that duel is in Book 4 I think, before that she is scared of the Forsaken, partly because she can't channel unless she's angry and partly because she's been beaten by them before.
Yes, She's very strong in the One Power from the very beginning, but it's unskilled and uses it like a sledgehammer. She has to learn how to refine her use of it and not rely on uncontrolled emotion.
I like to imagine the actor playing Mat loved the books and couldn't stand working on the show any longer.
This is my theory as well >< if I was in the show I'd leave too for the same reason no matter what they paid me.
I think it was due to not wanting to get vaxxed. But I hope it was also due to the lore issues
The soul eating Machin Shin would starve to death on these characters...
Imagine setting up a mystery that the viewers had no chance to figure out on their own. It's like setting up an Agatha Christie's murder mystery whodunnit, only to reveal the criminal based on evidence not presented to the audience.
Thing is, actually most viewers only still figured it out, because: the writing was still obvious.
He was so inconsequential it had to be him...
When you do a reveal that even readers of the book the before are saying "it's looking like they're not even going to have Rand be the dragon". Then you've set it up very badly. And this was a mystery that wasn't needed. The books didn't use it as a mystery either, because the writing stood on it's own, with the characters and the plot. It didn't overtly tell anyone but it was VERY obvious from very early on.
Whereas in this, they're still trying to make out they had hints in the SAME EPISODE. And they're not hints, if what happened was invisible to the viewer and they had no chance to realise.
@@disparutoo - agreed on episode 7, Rand has no way to know for sure he's the dragon, from what they did put in (MachinShin is supposed to be lying, according to Moiraine).
That "mystery" was childish and absolutely not needed.
The entire point of the "mystery" wasn't to make it a mystery. The sole purpose of the "mystery" was to bring in the "dragon can be a woman" plot change.
So original Scooby Doo. There was enough to determine the crime but not the actual perpetrator or the motive.
PREGGY SUE. They wanted to 1-up Mary Sue cause that isn't ultra-fem enough. Not that I have a problem with that but...
...they TOTALLY BUNGLED the scene. It would be believable if she was put in that situation unexpectedly because her party was ambushed and she was forced to fight as last person sof the party. Her fighting would be somewhat believable if she went into labour cramps AFTER the fight, to be surprised by one more soldier whom decides to help instead of killing her.
But no, the hack writers decided to ruin a good story. PREGGY SUE is now part of our reality.
Yes this was entirely a pregnant woman who knew she was near term going to battle lmao. Easy solution was another Aiel trying to defend her, fails, and she takes the final blow, veiled, and gets revenge on her attacker. Then Tam comes across the aftermath. It fits all the lore, you can do EXACTLY the same thing as this scene, and no bouncing baby fighting. This is why I think it's done badly deliberately, the solution MUST have been proposed to them already.
Finally! I have been camping your account waiting for your take on the latest episode. Keep it coming, we have one more to go, light help us.
Lmao yes I had intended for this to have gone up early, but the length got away from me so it ended up being as late as the other ones lmao.
@@disparutoo I’d watch it even if it was 5 hours long as I’m sure all of us here would just to feel sane among those smoking copium and buying into this fan fiction.
Tarwyns Gap is at least a day's march away from Fal Dara. And I always imagined the Blight to be this continually rotting garden of mutated plant and animal life turned into horrid monstrosities.
Yes me too, I imagined it as a twisted, tainted, dark and deadly version of a normal environment. So there would be plants and trees etc, but they would be rotting, and deadly mutations of what would be normal.
And thank you for the distance info. In this show everything seems to be "about a days walk away" except for Tarwins Gap, which actually should be lmao.
just wanna point out, you don't need to imagine, it was explicitly described in the books to be this way.
@@claqyagami6914 do u only see words in ur minds eye when u read?
@@mewre2062 context clues. The op said he imagined, as in that was his "take/interpretation" of what the blight was like. My comment merely stated that his "interpretation" of the blight was explicitly described, as such, in the books.
Basically there is no way someone with a brain could think what was shown on screen in any way brought to life what was written in the books.. The showrumners are morons.
2 hours and 46 minutes, and the best line is right at the end. Well done!
Lmao quite honestly I'm amazed anyone even made it to the end so thank you for that. I think these reviews have gotten to the point now where it's just me documenting my descent through the bowels of hell as I watch them.
I'm realising why I normally just cut and run on a show that would ever get this bad. At this point I'm genuinely impressed Rafe keeps finding new and original ways to make the show worse after a point I can't see how he could possibly do it.
Thanks a lot for review! As usual, much more entertaining than episode itself.
While Egwene wasn't my favorite character in the series, I didn't particularly dislike her in the books, as annoying as she was at times. But in this episode, I really disliked TV Egwene. Not sure if it was the showrunner's intention or not, but it made me rethink my views of book Egwene.
Just remember this show has nothing to do with the books, and that Rafe hates TWoT.
I agree in the books I didn't really dislike Egwene or Nynaeve. In fact my least favourite scenes were Perrins, just because I felt they were a bit slow, not because of Perrin himself. And you can even get away with behaving a certain way if you have an excuse, you don't have time, you have bigger issues to deal with. But these 2 act horribly to everyone, then demand the other person apologise after they've treated the person badly while everyone tells the 2 how amazing they are. It's bizarre.
I think a few of the writers are putting themselves into the characters. Rather than making the characters respond to situations and events how they would as an individual.
@@disparutoo I'm different, Perrin is my favorite character, and I like his story arc. I agree it does get slow, but he also has the least plot armor. But the dumpster fire of a show, takes great characters, and a great story and craps all over it, because the writers think they can do better and no one ever told them they weren't that talented.
It seems like Wheel of Time fans are going through what I and many other Star Wars fans went through with the last jedi. My condolences. It sounds like there is no turning back from the garbage for you guys, but I hope the show can get turned around
I think there is a lot of similarities for sure. Although at least when it came to Star Wars it was an original story that was bad. For adaptations, you have an objective level of quality you can compare the adaptation against and judge the changes better or worse. So when they destroy them, it becomes VERY obvious that it's being done deliberately, rather than through lack of talent. So I think it carries a weightier impact.
“Why don’t you not?”
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“Just a minute,” Rafe protested. “What’s this about me butchering Robert Jordan’s stories? Are you all-?”
“You just don’t tell them as well as Robert Jordan,” Disparu cut him off hastily, and Shad hopped in. “You keep adding in things, trying to make it better, and they never do.”
“And you get it all mixed up, too,” /r/whitecloaks added. “Best leave it to Robert Jordan.”
Man, I gotta thank you for all the laughs. There were multiple points at which I had to pause. I think the Black Wind = UA-cam comments was my favourite. But maaaan, what did they do to Mat and Perrin?
I appreciate you hitting on the weird interpretive dance stuff they're having Moiraine doing constantly. You were exactly right about it being a crutch; there's literally a part in one of the books where some of the Aes Sedai are talking about being able to tell who taught who which weave based on the hand movements they use. I think it's especially strange that they had that scene with "Valda" talking about channelers not needing their hands and then Moiraine dances like this.... They've spent all this time making her a badass. Why would she handicap herself?
From memory when they say crutch it's more that it aids in their concentration. So they CAN do it without the hands, but it's just easier not to. So I don't see a problem with Aes Sedai doing it generally when there is no storyline reason to make it a downside. I see it a lot like, I can talk without moving my hands, but the more enthusiastic or passionate I get while saying something, the more animated my hands get. Seems reasonable.
BUT, when that scene had them bending around weirdly in slow motion like the one power itself was somehow stopping them? It was just bizarre, I don't know if they thought it looked better on screen? But that's a hard no. Especially Moiraines weird backwards bend to look at Nynaeve. That looked so out of place.
I actually think it would look better if they showed the moving faster, so you can see that proficient skilled channelers can create the weaves faster and with less thought than newer channelers with less practice.
But this would mean that you would have to admit than Nynaeve and Egwene can do nothing at this point in time because they haven't been trained and are not perfect. And they can't do that.
@@disparutoo The show is anything but consistent, other than a general disdain of its male characters
from the books; there was also the part when the suldam threatened to cut off someone's arms, if they didn't behave, because they weren't needed to channel.
What I found really silly were the perfect beer glasses in Fal Dara. The entire inn looks like it was a real one and was just made it look a bit older but the whole thing looked like something of the 19th century.
YES! They look like they were picked up at Target from the Martha Stewart collection.
These reviews are so good. I’ve watched all of them today including the LotR ones.
I watched Amazon wheel of time, months ago when it came out. I hadn’t read the books but two things jumped out to me very early on (1st episode maybe). Who the dragon was and that the story was set in a universe where women were the bosses and men were all the also rans good at rutting and protecting the more important women…. Which is why I picked the dragon reborn very early on. The second class mere man had to be the Dragon.
Enjoyed seeing how the novels were so how different, might even read them lol
I was actually happy when egwene channeled in the ways because it finally showed her screwing up and putting everyones lives in danger. Of course, i should have known better. It was rands screw up, not the supremely perfect egwene.
Exactly. When I first saw the reveal, it definitely fell flat. But the Rand channeling instead of Egwene I was like, huh, they got me on that one. Didn't figure that out. Then I realized, oh wait, he's the one that summoned Machin Shin then. LOL.
May I ask, Can you actually barrier against the Machin Shin, Or does it in the books go right through shield magic or is it impervious to Magic?
@@RomanHistoryFan476AD You might be able to set up a barrier in the books, but it would take a lot more than just Nynaeve
That is because Machin Shin is a lot more like a literal sentient wind in the books, and Moiraine never even entertains the idea of fighting the thing
@@PrinceofRavens64 Would you say it's power trumps that of any magic user then?
You think a fully realised Dragon reborn could hold it at bay for a little amount of time?
We should all be grateful that the dragon is in love with Egwene because if not the world would end. Rand doesn't give AF for anything in the show except simping for her.
Can you imagine the outcry if any show had a guy stalk a female around a city because he has a crush on her? The same writers who wrote this crap would be putting out hashtags against it. It’s ridiculous.
Dude as this was happening I couldn't believe it. That a group of people had gotten together, written and filmed this. And not thought there was anything creepy or wrong about it. The scene where she walks in his room would have been bad switched around too, but that whole city scene is unbelievable no matter whose doing it.
I'm glad to have found someone who reviews this who actually understands the books. All the other reviewers I've seen don't seem to understand the books at all or they just make excuses for the screenwriters/director.
If you look hard enough, there are about 5 channels doing some more objective reviewing of the show, among them, Knight watch and Read with Bianca, Salty Texan (and then some two more I forgot the names right now)
Thank you, I just say it how I see it. I'm very glad people enjoy it. I remember after my first review I went off to look at other peoples and was shocked to find universal praise presented to me by the algorythm. Virginie is right though, I've seen all of those 3 and especially enjoy Knight's watch and "Books and Bianca".
@@disparutoo , there's also Prophet of the Dragon, and the last one has a weird channel name with letters and numbers, but appears in someone else (Salty Texas?) Livestream, they teamed up once or twice.
It's always interesting to watch different takes, I always value the time taken to make the videos.
Books with Bianca is the most balanced, and she can't be accused of...,well, you know, anything.
If my health permitted it, and if I had an iphone to make a floating head, I was very close to put some video out myself (I'm somewhat in the middle, few people like me, it's either high praise or strong dislike)
Dude, great many of these "reviewers" haven't even bothered to read the books lol. They were making PREDICTIONS on who the Dragon will be. PREDICTIONS for fucks sake! LOL
@@ChristmasLore the last one then should be OBG70 , who has a coop stream with Salty
Well i'm more entertained than even reading the books back in the day so far, great job man!
Cheers dude that means a lot. Especially to even get close to being compared to the books.
Gotta love how Disparu mentions things I have overlooked, missed or couldn't put my finger on. For example Padan Fain, yes I love the actor portraying him, but something was nagging at me for some reason and Disparu nailed it on the head. He looks too chirpy! We all know how Padan Fain ends up being, the guy completly lost himself to the dark side. He looked and acted more like bum and feral like by the time they got to Fal Dara. With regards to how he got in and out of the ways, I've seen people mention Padan Fain twiddling with a leaf like object in his hands. Not sure if true cuz I didn't see it myself when I watched the episode, but that would it explain it. Although if that is the case, then how did Loial not know about the leaf? Either he did not know or Moiraine wanted to specifically channel to open the waygate. Which is absurd, Moiraine would never do something like that. Weird all around I'd say which ever way it is.
There is a still pic of Padan in front of a waygate holding a portal leaf. I guess they took that out in editing... if you can call this show edited at all...
@@marcel7077 Lol I hear ya. Such a mess this show, mixed bag really tbf. What could have been. We all love WoT so much. Shame these hacks only care about money and their agendas. If they'd care about WoT it would have shown through. All I see watching this show is greed, laziness, woke agendas and their distaste for the source material. Not even sure where all the 90 mil dollars went.
@@Sleepless4Life if only they would prioritize money... then maybe they would look at what makes the WoT a 15 books success series and don't push in "modern politics views of a minority" in a beloved franchise. If they had hired Brandon Sanderson as the creative director with a competent screen writer, they would have gotten a show worth more than the 2, max. 3 saisons we will get with this trash...
As terrible as Loial looks in the tv series, they could have taken the opportunity to develop his character by utilizing his knowledge to open the way gate, like they do in the books. Sadly, he's so far a cameo puppet that follows everyone around.
If a male character did what Nyneave did with Lan it would have been blasted for being predatory. Don't even pretend it won't because the hypocrisy of such a claim would warp space time and create a singularity ending all life on earth.
It was absolutely predatory. Doesn't matter whose doing it, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. That entire city scene was absolutely stunning anyone thought that should be put in a show.
she's basically stalking and sexually harassing him. Cause you know ... PEAK ROMANCE. 🤦♀This is what happens when the woke rules dictate that men can't court women anymore but that women also need to be sexually assertive. You get women characters that are one step away from raping their intended. All in the name of EqUaLiTy.
They should have made the one who is the wisdom (can’t remember her name and don’t care about her character) pregnant. Then it would have been explained she is the bestest ever and completely explains she can do everything.
Oh that's a good point. Although if they made Nynaeve pregnant she wouldn't just have been able to fight off a creature made up of the literal pure taint of an evil god. She would have likely cleansed the ways in their entirety.
Regarding Rand knowing it all along: I don't even buy that, despite what they show, because the way he has acted in every other scene up to this point doesn't fit him knowing all along. He doesn't even react properly to Loial saying he looks like an Aiel, because in the books this revelation that Tam and Kari aren't his parents, is a huge puzzling trauma for him due to how much he loves them as his parents, especially Tam (Kari having died early). It should be "OMG Dad wasn't just crazy from fever???" instead of amused blank amazement at how odd Loial's inference is.
When Loial was talking to him he kept saying "I'm from the 2 rivers" everytime Loial rephrased it. You're right about how Rand reacted, and should have reacted. It was a far bigger deal to him. But I think that was them trying to write Rand as if he was trying to put it out of his mind and quickly change the subject from Loial.
Obvioulsy though, poor writing. Because it's so badly done no-one can be sure. And this is from the people who think Aiel trained women wont put their veils up because the camera needs to see emotion. But they can't even make anyone understand Rand. Maybe if he'd had more than 3 lines in that episode it would have been easier to get across.
@@disparutoo i always thought, the aiel cover their faces to hide emotions and so be a more inhuman opponent. The show reversing this to show Tigraines emotions is another tell, the showrunners have no idea of the books... so disappointing... amazon is throwing away so much revenue with just choosing the wrong "modern feminist showwriter" instead of letting Brandon Sanderson be the creative director and giving him two sane scriptwriters at his side... another beloved franchise killed by wokism after Star Wars and the late Marvel movies...
@@marcel7077 I agree. The whole book has a theme that controlling your emotions (Aiel, aes Sedai, lan etc)
1) gives you control over yourself and hence be able to work better for others
2) As Cadsuane mentions in her POV that showing temper gives people power over you as h thy eh know how to get you to lose control. That was why she was trying to teach Rand to control his temper.
But here - it’s cry every two minutes unless u are okay fighting over Egwene
@@marcel7077 I think the covering the face thing was shame of having their face exposed while committing violence, because you know, their true history that only wise ones and clan chiefs know.
Finally someone is speaking the truth about that ridiculous chart. Every week a number people spread this chart as if it were gospel, when it's just an arbitrary measurement of some nebulous factors which say nothing about how well any show is doing and are completely based on bullshit. All that matters is that WOT is on top of the chart. But we are to ignore that shows which aren't even running right now and which are about to be canceled due to lack of interest are having similar numbers to what is supposedly the greatest hit amazon prime has ever had.
I'm terminally on twitter (I know, its a problem) and I literally haven't see a soul tweet about WoT in weeks. Not saying it isn't happening, but if the collection of Nerds and weebs I interact with aren't talking about it, I seriously doubt it isn't getting that kind of traction....certainly not organically.
That's because it's the only chart of its type that shows up on a quick google research.
I called it up (and their methods, the meaning of these numbers...), two weeks ago.
Some attentive people on Twitter and UA-cam seem to think alike, and that makes me glad.
At least some people are still thinking more objectively.
@@ifonlyicouldstop , people on Twitter of Time spend their days& nights on that hashtag, and the official Twitter of Chaos.
It's around a core of two thousand people, tweeting all the time, all positive about the show...
But that's Twitter. On FB and Instagram, it's mostly the opposite.
Reddit: has two camps.
Countries speaking about it for real: US, Turkey, India. That's about it.
Look at this chart of left handed capricorn pitchers and their respective RBI vs head diameter! Obviously the longer their arms, the more frequently they contract the flu!
@@ChristmasLore Yes, Reddit has two camps; The whitecloaks....and everyone else.
It is a "toxic" wind.
“Black wind” is a very problematic name
Just Watched the Knight’s Watch review and those guys were hilarious. Now I get to complete my day with Disparu’s review. All those folks trying to hype up this show and critics on rotten tomatoes giving this 85% critics choice is pure BLOODY BULLOCKS!!!
No one's rating this show fairly, on both sides, people are over reacting.
It's either 1 star or ten, it's ridiculous.
@@ChristmasLore I’m a big fan of the books and due to this disappointing show, I started to listen to them again. I’m not over zealous on making changes for the show but what the show runners did is complete rubbish.
Yes, thanks for the great review. Is this even actual Wheel of Time? They have changed everything so much.
Rafe's headcanon. Dixit Sanderson himself around 3omn in his podcast about the "adaptation".
He had to literally "switch his whole mindset" to even be able to work on it.
"Another turning of the wheel", is not nearly as positive as most people seem to think.
I have had sooo many people tell me that they didn't change much. 🤦
Thanks for explaining about Rand, as I have not read the books, and I was confused about what he knew, or didn't know, or thought he knew about himself. I didn't understand the archery bit either, so thanks for that too. As a newbie, there seems to be a lot of confusing plot points, sometimes I have to really concentrate to try and make sense of it all (or perhaps I am just a bit dumb).
Lmfao! Min: “I see 3 beautiful women in your future!”
Rand: “Do I die at the eye of the world?”
Me?!?!………..🤮
LOL yes he better meet those 3 ladies fast aye?! I totally missed that one. It was such a cheap cop out to just walk off too. So they can go "well I never said yes!". Just adds to making her even more insufferable as a character I guess.
Intressant, rättvist och utan onödiga krumelurer. Tack!
The blight in the books looks NOTHING like the show. It’s not just a collection of brambles. It’s a poisonous hell pit where brushing against the wrong leaf with kill you. The trees reach out to attack you, there are horrifying creatures around every turn, there’s lakes, open air sections (you know so that the Trollocs can move about, not having to squeeze between a set of brambles) and poisonous boys. It’s nothing like the show.
When I first saw that thing I instantly wondered how easy it would be to kill an enemy that had to walk out of that mess.
Yeah in my head I imagined it as basically a normal environment, but twisted. So you'd have open spaces, trees, plants, but they would all be tainted, twisted, poisonous, deadly. An evil parody of the rest of the world. I imagined the blight growing as more just, the taint spreading and twisting what was already there into a mutated version of itself.
Not....a tree root.
They left Rand the Dragon Reborn? Lol I lost a bet. Dammit!
its not over , yet. I have still hope thats one of the girls. ;-)
*spoiler-alert*. Rand transitions in season 2 … to a black trans-woman and can then use both sardar and saidin.
57:45 further to the shenanigans The Ways, we can disregard Moiraine's interpretative dance routine when she channels as the bs that it is, what I find completely disjointed is that The Ways were created for the Ogier by the Aes Sedai before The Breaking, as a thank you and a means for them to traverse great distances easily. The doors were activated by re-locating the trefoil leaf on the Waygate carvings.
The Aes Sedai did not need The Ways themselves, as they all knew how to Travel. Why is it then that Moiraine is the only one able to open the doors, that she needs to channel to do so and Loial is seemingly only there to read the wayguides? The very species that The Ways were created FOR, is relegated to the status of a GPS, while Super Sayyin LGBT Moiraine does her Last Airbender impression every chance she gets. Bah!
That's all Loial was there for in the books...to read the guidings. Moiraine knew how to use the leaf to open the door already. Yeah, channeling to open it annoyed me as well tho.
Brilliant work man. Mauler level analysis.
I'm less than 45 seconds into your review and already laughing. Keep up the reviews. I look forward to the season finale, and hopefully series final, review.
Perrin was so close to Rand's face, that even I could feel the warmth of his breath through the screen. 😂
I was thinking about it and the flecks of lights and the glowing beam around them looked kind of familiar to me at the time and I couldn't think of why until just now, to me it looks like they took the teleporter scene from the Star Trek series and slowed it down drastically to give that affect around them.
Hahahaahha, "the sound effect guys were doing a great job because you know someone has to make up for the... plot"
It's funny because there are actually a lot of things that I like about the show, and most of them are the more peripheral crew. Like whoever built the two rivers, I like a lot of the backing music, those sound effects. I love Rosamund Pike in the role (not her fault what she has to work with). There are talented people on the team. It just seems none of them are in the main lead roles around controlling what's being said.
Thank God for people like this guy-people who have actually read the bloody books and realize this "show" is a criminal abomination.
As the show gets worse but people still love it, I get more bewildered as to how they can even have that opinion.
I suppose they could have Matt go to Rhuidean and do the whole, 'Oh look he died and has come back without darkness'. Hmmmm, on second thoughts there is no woman saving him so that won't work.......
The way they pluck out keywords from the source material and then mangle them, I wouldn't be surprised if they made 'Rhuidean' just be an Aeil woman's name just so that she could kill him and then bring him back.
Yeah there is plenty of things they could do to magically have him cleansed. But now they have said this is MAT and not the dagger at all. If they remove that from him, it wont be Mat anymore. Mat was the culmination of all of his life experiences. I think you can have periods of your life forgotten and it wont change your character, like recent memory. They would have to strip Mat's from his very young childhood.
And that would be a foundational part of his personality you could never seperate.
Trying to add some optimism. Min not telling rand he will live is not wrong in the story. Remember what min does for the last 2 books. It seems misplaced here, but she knows the ending.
I don't like this Min hiding visions from people. Most of the time she doesn't even know what they meant herself, it's like oh I see a crown and a sword. Could mean anything. And Rand CLEARLY asks her about the Eye of the World. Now admittedly, this whole season has replaced "last battle" with "eye of the world" for some reason. Which I assume is because they wrote it to wrap up in case they only got 1 season.
But my issue is, once you have someone who knows the literal factual future telling you you wont survive. You HAVE to end that character or destroy everytime prophecy is ever mentioned forever into the future. And obviously, they can't do that. And I think the "oh im just not going to tell you and keep you worried then when you come back and complain I'll say "well I never answered" seems like a cheap cop out to me. But I think that's where they'll go.
@@disparutoo That would be so ironic if they do a 1 season ending the same way Jordan had to. At least that is my understanding; that RJ had a prototype encouragement to do one book, and make it look like Tolkien. Then oh RJ you have a never ending book deal and btw good luck unending the story. Book 2 This is awkward, but turns out the rascal Ishamael was just pretending to be Shai Tan.....
We need a new term because "Dumpster Fire" doesn't seem to be adequate for this mess...
Woke porn.
@@ignacius8466 , that one is not fair: all 3 love scenes faded to black. We got to see.... nothing.
2 h 46 m long, I didn't expect anything less than that! Thank you for this and keep up the Light's work
I didn't even realize that!!! I came here to write a comment halfway through the video! Wonderful.
you've got the best reviews for this show, well done - also good for a drinking game, every time you say "literally" I drink
Careful, the video isn't worth your liver. I remember after the episode 2 review I realised how often I said "in the books" lmao. But thank you for the kind words.
Some said that Rand had the 2nd most screentime of any character... if that is actually the case than I am impressed how little impression he made, and it can't have been an accident.
When you're in labor, u have contractions, that come & go. Maybe when it was time to raise the veil, she was having a contraction, & time to fight, they stopped.
I do agree that it is suspiciously "convenient" that she doesn't get contractions when she needs to fight, & only gets them during unimportant moments, like the veil
2:15:25
That wart in full display... I am guessing she was hired because she was cheap not because of looks or acting ability.
I cant wait to see the red haired black and asian Aiel. It will be the most ham-fisted example of forced diversity in history of cinematic adaptations.
Triss Merigold got there first
Of course we will. Don't you know that the entire world is 100 diverse after the breaking? Just look at Foldara. 100% diverse (asian). And Tier will be 100% diverse (black).
I bet there wont be a white Tuon though
@@D3G4355 LOL yeah if anything they will probably be annoyed that they cant race swap her to black
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Idk. Imperial conquest.. Slave owners.. Seanchan may well become white, or at least the slaves will be. Im almost sure if they get to the end of the series, the sharans will be white..
the cloak grab doesn't work at all. as a non-book reader, this is a world with super powers. Rand knocking down a door with magic. Seeing her do that jump and cloak grab, made me think she had super powers. the spear going through armor as well. the logical conclusion was, she had super strength. so, this is very much an internal consistency problem. if Aiel are not supposed to have super powers, you can't show them doing things everyone else uses magic to do. how the heck do I know what is or isn't magic at that point?
Literally, the writing at about the two hour mark: "Never gonna give you up, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna (something) and desert you!"
To be fair to the show, Egwene really does think her shit does not stink, and that she's better than everyone, especially Rand. She's also not super loyal to him. She spends all her time with the Tinkers dancing with Aram and responding to his flirtation, laughing when he mocks Perrin and taking his side when he insults Perrin. Later on, when Egwene is getting annoyed at him because Mat says Min was staring at Rand, Perrin comes to Rand's rescue by mentioning Aram. Instead of apologizing, Egwene demands Rand not hold it against her just for dancing with some boy she will never see again. In the next book, she goes to the White Tower as a student and meets MIn, and another girl who also met Rand and got cut out of the show, because the writers are morons and she is awesome, and both of them ask about Rand, him being the one other person they know in common with Egwene, and Egwene thinks he is a monster, literally! She even has the nerve to complain OUT LOUD about Rand getting upset because she "danced a few dances with a nice boy" whereas Rand actually had the GALL to MEET other women and even TALK TO THEM. Never mind that both women spoke to Rand first, and that Rand did not flirt or dance or do anything romantic, except try to get away from both of them. Rand is completely innocent, but Egwene blames him, because she realizes from their conversations that both girls like him.
In a future book, there is an incident where Rand & Egwene go with several other people to meet a group of barbarian witch doctors. Rand is the prophesied leader of the barbarians. They know this, because the barbarians found them, hailed Rand as their leader and started acting as his bodyguards and following his orders. At some point, Moiraine shows one of the barbarian girls a letter in Egwene's presence, saying that the witch-doctors wrote this letter to her, months in the past, correctly predicting the place she would be on a certain date. In the letter are orders they want Moiraine to relay to the girl, telling her the witch doctor will be waiting for her at a certain place. Meanwhile, Egwene had a dream where she talked to one of the witch doctors who told her she could teach Egwene to use dream magic, and if Egwene wanted to learn, she should come to her home. The witch doctor said that she would return home after she was done with her business in a certain place. The same place that she told Moiraine she would be waiting. So Egwene, hearing that Rand is going to the barbarian lands, decides to travel with him, since she is going to the same country. Moiraine & Lan tag along, because Dragon stuff. They go the place called Rxxxx, which is where the witch doctors told the girl to come. When they arrive, Moiraine tells Egwene that the witch doctors in their letter predicted the day of their arrival.
At this point Egwene knows:
1. Rand is important to the witch-doctors, because he is the leader of their people
2. Her barbarian friend is of particular interest to the witch doctors, so much that they wrote a letter saying they are waiting for her at Rxxxx.
3. They have magical ways of predicting things, and thought Moiraine is important enough to send a letter too, predicting the day Moiraine would arrive at Rxxxx
4. They told Egwene they would look for her after they finished up at Rxxxx
Rand, Moiraine and the barbarian girl are in the group with Egwene and the barbarian chief. Yet, when the chief goes up to the witch doctors and they greet him, they say "There is someone who came with you." To any rational person, you would assume they are talking about the member of their people, whom they summoned to this place, or the Aes Sedai they wrote a magical letter predicting her arrival at this place or their prophesied leader who must fulfill a prophecy in this place. The answer of course, is they are talking about Rand, whom they want to test for the prophecy.
But Egwene thinks they are talking about her. She actually starts to get mad when they keep ignoring her and deal with all the more important people who are part of their people or in their prophecies or both.
The two most in-character moments for Egwene on the show, are when she walks into the inn at the festival in Episode 1, with that look on her face like she is the queen of the Two Rivers, and when Siuan is talking to her and Nynaeve and talks about how strong Nynaeve is, and we see Egwene swelling with pride at the compliments, until Siuan says "Nynaeve" and she realizes it's not her.
I hate Egwene so much in the books. She's defo a whole human cunt in the books. Out for power, but she sickeningly licks arse fir it then when she gets it will never let you forget shes superior. She's a self important bully. I Hate what she did to Nynaeve in Tel'a'rhanriod. At the same time i love how Jordan wrote her, i understand the necessity of her character. She was born to be a war time general and she got shit done i guess. And this is what is so grating about the show. Its so half assed. Like if it looked terrible the acting shit ect but kept to the lore and focused on characters in the spirit of the book, like I'd take it fine. It was never going to be perfect.
But this show is shit all over
33:00 ish I don't think Lan was describing the destroyer of the guiding stone when alerting to being followed. Padan Fain was back there, I think you even see him lurking in one shot. Apparently he can channel now.
Funny thing about that, i deliberately didnt watch aftershow stuff or pictures or videos during these so that I made sure everything that should be known was in the series. After the episode showed they posted pictures of him holding a REALLY AWFUL looking leaf. Like they realised theyd messed up so tried to retcon it. What a mess.
@@disparutoo I haven't seen any of the extra material either, aside from whatever images (including that ridiculous leaf one) made their way to the FB groups or other reaction videos. Needing to add extra content to pretend they didn't fuck up the whole story is certainly an implicit admission they have made one of the worst adaptations most of us will ever see.
Lan's line where he thinks they're being followed is really badly done though as it was put in right at the moment of finding the guiding stone, which made your assumption that the two things were directly related a natural one to make. I hate the show so much, and I hate it more since it feels like I'm almost defending parts of it from your perfectly astute analysis.
Congratulations on a hundred subscribers Disparu, you definitely deserve it, Thank you for being honest, about all of this! Also I wonder how much it must annoy all those bigo- I mean journalists by your success, I mean you’re not even a a girl!
Prepare for Rand to be 'damsel-ed' and protected by the 'good women' in his life to the point where even if he does anything impressive it will be at the behest of a woman, probably talking him out of doing something that would have otherwise failed spectacularly.
This is definitely his future now he's been revealed. But for the finale, I have a feeling they're going to do something worse. Because there are 2 sides to it. Everything good wont be his fault, but everything bad....will be. He'll mess up, destroy things, cause massive issues. And everyone else will have to fix them for him. He'll be the moron stumbling around .
Oh jeez, I just got horrors thinking about Dumais Wells in this show...either the writers will decide the White Tower plot will actually work and change the story to have him as the White Tower's pet, or he will get saved and HE will be the one to kneel to the Aes Sedai who will have inevitably been the actual ones to save him and pledge to do whatever they tell him to do.
To my memory, Moiraine only intentionally leaves the party once to manipulate Rand was in 'The Great Hunt', when she left Rand expecting to meet him in Illian and declare him the Dragon Reborn.
They probably thought they were BRILLIANT for leaving the "reveal" to so late in the season and without any real lead up.
It's subverting expectations everybody! WoW! So UnExPeCtEd
So, does reading and writing about the books go towards the show "buzz" as well?
I wouldn't be surprised. We know literally nothing about where they get their metrics, like microblogging sites? What if they just google "wheel of time" and see how many google results come up, then do it next week and compare the difference. That would include everything with the books in.
And even if they DID just use good sources, they still say they "weight" them. Which basically means multiply them by whatever numbers they want, to whatever they think is arbitrarily the most important, or gives them the numbers they want. All in all, I'd consider their entire chart as fantasy as the source material.
Oh my gosh, what did they do the Blight? That's not even a 5% match to how it's supposed to look. It's terrible. No subtlety, seeing the land slowly become corrupted as you go further in. Just an abrupt and solid wall of briar patch.
They have to save the Princess. Yes that is the poor man's blight.
Next time on the CW, whose sleeping with whom in the Wheel of Time!
"I've had to cut out so much of the video" and it still is almost 3 hours long? Oooooh boy this must have been one hell of a banger xD
Thanks, this is timeless 😂 please make more, and enjoy a crispy pint on me 😊
Tam was already destroyed--a blademaster that can't beat one lone Trolloc.
and Nyneave kills one with a single blow.
true
Yeah this is true. I meant more his personality and traits as a man, and a good father than anything else with that comment. But you're absolutely right that he should have been easily capable of fighting off a whole mob of them. The defence would be "he's not used the sword for a long time so he's rusty", but it never stopped him in the books.
You know that meme where Mr. Incredible becomes more uncanny for each picture slide?
I can now understand that feeling. The more I listen to your review of my absolute favorite book-series of all time and how the heck it is being actively ruined?
The book-series whom shaped my teenage years and made me into the person I am today?
I am saddened, mad and quite frankly - ANGRY.
Thank you for your sacrifice, Disparu, for subjecting yourself into this fan-fiction - so that I don't have to watch this horrendous murder of one of THE greatest fantasy book-series ever made.
*EDIT: spelling*
This is like a lesson in how not to write a story. Who is writing this garbage series? No wonder Mat actor left the show. He's made a very smart move. You are brilliant for speaking up about this hot garbage show.
Machin Shin is actually twitter comments, just saying
Twitter is certainly awful. Although I think twitter comments might actually even be a bit harsher than Machin Shin was itself lmao. Like twitter would say you were awful at everything. But Nynaeve just told "you're not perfect" and she went ape over it.
It's interesting seeing that you've really managed to wrangle your length in future videos, but it's always been quality commentary all the way down.
Wait, the whole show popularity thing is complete crap? They don’t provide raw numbers? If true, that’s insane.
57:35 ish - Lan not carrying Nynaeve from the Whys is probably a result of the intimacy coaches banning him from touching her too much
You forgot about King of Ghealdan. He was the 1st person with power.
I sure did, even now you mention it I can't remember how he acted. I think I remember him more from Knights Watch review mentioning him even at the time so I don't think he made a large impact on me lmao.
Actually the King of Ghealdan was not in power anymore, when they showed him with Logain already walking towards him in a calm stroll. At least he did try to kill the invader, but then just followed him.
Another man in power was the white cloak lord commander in e2, thats the only one, they showed as a competent and humane character, even refering Moraine to the Aes Sedai for healing ( what for me was complete out of character for a child of the light ) .
Enjoying your Wheel of time review series. I'm on book 12 and half the time it doesn't even sound like wheel of time that you are talking about. The other half the time you are talking about the books.
@DISPARU the Egwene and Rand warder lines are the exact line reversal from book
The veil part is more evidence that the creators are intentionally being evil. First they give a villains plot to siuan. Now tigraine is doing what the Samma n’sai (I don’t remember the spelling exactly) do. These are male aiel who can channel. Their culture tells them to go to the blight and do as much damage as possible before they go mad and die. It turns out that for years they’ve been captured forced to turn to the dark side. They file their teeth to a point and wear their veils all the time and only pull them down to kill.
Rand has the green arrow from smallville syndrome. Your super hero name is green arrow and it’s inspired by Robin Hood yet you only keep 3 arrows that look more like toys than real arrows.
If Padan fain is following them, is he now a dreadlord? I guess he could have a forsaken or aes sedai helping him. I’m curious if they’ll bother addressing this or if next the ways are shown, anyone will be able to open them.
Dude u just spoiled a piece of book 14 lol.
@@xyr3s technically I spoiled the epilogue of book 13 but my bad. I didn’t mean to give up such a huge plot point from book 14. Since I’m talking to someone familiar with these books, I never know, I wish they’d have been used more. If I recall they’re sort of a scary scene at the end of towers of midnight and then mentioned a couple of times in AMOL. It’s such a cool concept, I wished they’d have been used more in the last battle.
@@joshcowart2446 true. but it was still a nice "wtf" moment lol.
@@xyr3s yes it was. It worked well especially in context of that epilogue. There were several things that showed the last battle had finally arrived. All the dark friends and dread lords coming out of the blight, steel turning to rubber, severe wind storms. It was awesome. Also the meta context of waiting 20 hrs for that. For so long it felt like this sort of future event that may never actually happen and it finally did
Theres a deleted scene of padan fain holding a treefoil leaf. Dont know how that will help nonreaders.
I want to see that fight scene go more the way of my third labor where she's screaming, "GET OUT!" as she's fighting.
In the book, they never even mention that one of the boys might be the dragon until basically the climax, and even then, it's more forcused on the fact that Rand can channel than anything else
Never read a book of this series but Mat makes no sense to me. We first see him being kind, sensitive, tender, understanding, compassionate and a loving, care-taking brother and son. Yet somehow he has so much evil in him the darkness can feed off it. Instincts all good and decent, but then we are to believe he's actually something else. The two young girls, shown to be untrained, unlearned, annoying, selfish and moronic, yet we are continually told how especially wonderful and superior they are. All this show does is "show" one thing but "tell" us another. Ugh. It's called bad writing. And I want my girls to be more ACTUALLY smart, humble, intuitive, courageous, i.e., heroic than this.
"Tam is the only man who hasn't been completely destroyed" ................... yet.
I fully expected them to have done it in that snow scene. When he found her and pointed the sword? I thought that was it, he would just push.
Lol Disparu's Perrin impression is great 🤣 It's like the audio was taken straight from the show!
I wonder why they never got around to mentioning that the first time Lan and Moraine met he threw her into a pond.
On the Aiel viel thing, given who Rands mother actually was, she might not prioritise raising it in these moments as much as the rest of them would. This probably was moslty likely an oversight by the show but they will absolutely claim later on that this was entirely on purpose as a clue. Im calling it now
I appreciate that your other reviews were less ballistic and more balanced because when it comes to this video you being mad actually brings weight to your point
Armor seems less effective than wet toilet paper 🧻