Book notes: You were correct in how Aviendha originally met everyone, it was her meeting the girls on the way to Carhien and one the other Maidens was wounded etc... (I loved Perrin meeting her vs Gaul, and I love Gaul but this fit the tv series) And we may see Gaul down the line anyway, there will need to be more "named" Aiel anyway.
Agree best episode. Hopefully we’re done with Lan moping and Mat and Min will join in the action soon. Thought Lanfear was excellent along with Ishy, their interaction in TAR was great and that zinger rattling off the other Forsaken was great. Perrin and Aviendha worked well together and thought Rand and Moiraine reunited and essentially being lured into the Game of Houses environment in Carhien is exciting. Feel like Moiraine is almost like Rand’s warder at the moment 😂. Rand can learn to master TAR through Lanfear like he does in the books
I believe we'll keep seeing more closer nods to the books, book 1 was always going to be the toughest but once that is done, once a lot of the story groundwork has been settled... it's going to be more like Ep 5!! This was.... amazing. Seeing lines like "Your water is mine" "Far Dareis Mai" etc from Aviendha is.... just wow.
Yeah the whole season one debacle with covid and actors leaving put them at a disadvantage but I like where it is going now and hopefully it keeps improving
Yeah I think that also boils down to bad decision making. If they didn't cut moraine off from the source then Lan wouldn't be pouting. For mat the actor left mid show so I will give them the benefit of the doubt on that one. For perrin having him have a dead wife made his character have one emotion but he is slightly improving. Rand they just ignore him early on. We are barely getting proper time woth him now.
Let me give you two scenes and illustrates what I don't like about the writing/directing of this show: 1 - the lanfear chase scene: - why have moiraine kill the horse instead of taking it with them ? - why _immediately_ make the above trick moot with random victim #1? - Why were they hiding behind the rock if they weren't expecting Lanfear to have a horse (since... Moiraine killed it)? - Why go back to Cairhien when they known that Lanfear has a base there? 2 - The Liandrin / Suroth scene: - horses in the ways OK now? - channeling in the ways OK now? - why/how were the girls unconscious on arrival? - why was that huge palanquin dragged to the forest? - why did the Seanchan soldiers not directly take the girls and instead dropped them on the floor right besides Liandrin? - why were the girls not chased into the forest ? I could pick stuff like that for all the other scenes, in all the episodes since season 1. None of it has anything to do with the books. The amateurism of it all just drives me nuts. That stuff would not fly in _any_ other TV series either. But for some reason, this show gets an extraordinary amount of leeway. Moiraine's characterisation continues to baffle me: Her style is apparently to throw Rand unprepared and confused at Forsaken, and hope for the best. I honestly don't understand how this is "good". But it wasn't all bad. The antagonists are interesting (expect Padan Fain whose job is just to be there and look creepy since season 1). Verin was fun to watch. This episode was a 6/10 for me.
There is definitely plenty of issue like you pointed out I would say it's only an average show right now, but it is better than season 1 so far. Hopefully they can keep improving as they go but we will have to wait and see.
Best episode yet! I love how much information was thrown in! The Forsaken, Tel’aran’rhiod, Aiel culture, Saa, Lanfear!!!!
Book notes: You were correct in how Aviendha originally met everyone, it was her meeting the girls on the way to Carhien and one the other Maidens was wounded etc... (I loved Perrin meeting her vs Gaul, and I love Gaul but this fit the tv series) And we may see Gaul down the line anyway, there will need to be more "named" Aiel anyway.
Yea it was Gaul he freed in the books. Best episode yet and I'm a critic, had me wanting more!
Same here!
Agree best episode. Hopefully we’re done with Lan moping and Mat and Min will join in the action soon. Thought Lanfear was excellent along with Ishy, their interaction in TAR was great and that zinger rattling off the other Forsaken was great. Perrin and Aviendha worked well together and thought Rand and Moiraine reunited and essentially being lured into the Game of Houses environment in Carhien is exciting. Feel like Moiraine is almost like Rand’s warder at the moment 😂. Rand can learn to master TAR through Lanfear like he does in the books
Yes, in the books Nyneave and Elayne both escape while Egwene gets captured. Same as in the show.
I believe we'll keep seeing more closer nods to the books, book 1 was always going to be the toughest but once that is done, once a lot of the story groundwork has been settled... it's going to be more like Ep 5!! This was.... amazing. Seeing lines like "Your water is mine" "Far Dareis Mai" etc from Aviendha is.... just wow.
Yeah the whole season one debacle with covid and actors leaving put them at a disadvantage but I like where it is going now and hopefully it keeps improving
Notice how all of the week storylines usually revolve around the men in the TV series but most people have good storylines in the books
Yeah I think that also boils down to bad decision making. If they didn't cut moraine off from the source then Lan wouldn't be pouting. For mat the actor left mid show so I will give them the benefit of the doubt on that one. For perrin having him have a dead wife made his character have one emotion but he is slightly improving. Rand they just ignore him early on. We are barely getting proper time woth him now.
My fave episode so far, roll on episode 6
Let me give you two scenes and illustrates what I don't like about the writing/directing of this show:
1 - the lanfear chase scene:
- why have moiraine kill the horse instead of taking it with them ?
- why _immediately_ make the above trick moot with random victim #1?
- Why were they hiding behind the rock if they weren't expecting Lanfear to have a horse (since... Moiraine killed it)?
- Why go back to Cairhien when they known that Lanfear has a base there?
2 - The Liandrin / Suroth scene:
- horses in the ways OK now?
- channeling in the ways OK now?
- why/how were the girls unconscious on arrival?
- why was that huge palanquin dragged to the forest?
- why did the Seanchan soldiers not directly take the girls and instead dropped them on the floor right besides Liandrin?
- why were the girls not chased into the forest ?
I could pick stuff like that for all the other scenes, in all the episodes since season 1. None of it has anything to do with the books. The amateurism of it all just drives me nuts. That stuff would not fly in _any_ other TV series either. But for some reason, this show gets an extraordinary amount of leeway.
Moiraine's characterisation continues to baffle me: Her style is apparently to throw Rand unprepared and confused at Forsaken, and hope for the best. I honestly don't understand how this is "good".
But it wasn't all bad. The antagonists are interesting (expect Padan Fain whose job is just to be there and look creepy since season 1). Verin was fun to watch.
This episode was a 6/10 for me.
There is definitely plenty of issue like you pointed out I would say it's only an average show right now, but it is better than season 1 so far. Hopefully they can keep improving as they go but we will have to wait and see.
@@TheMarshMediaBetter than season, wholeheartedly agreed. But worth a 80+% on RT? I don't think so.
Perin freed Gaul from the cage , the scene is literally same except they swapped him with Aviendha
That's who it was!
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I felt like it definitely had some cringe CW moments
Yeah there is still a few of those 😂