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If not Juilin.........was that Jain Farstrider?!?! He....seems to know what is going on.

That was due to WB not giving Peter the time to do the story after Guillermo left the film, and after WB deciding to split the thing into three. We are lucky he had the balls to come up with the White Council fight at Dul Guldur, which took place in the books the same year of The Battle Of Five Armies, and chose to use Gandalf's story absence for a large part of the story for all of that from the Ringwraith graves to that moment. Even his report to the White Council on that issue was after the Hobbit book was done, and Bilbo was back in the Shire in the source material. For me, Rafe gets plenty of slack from me, considering he has far too much source material to explore, and source materail he is huge fan of. Which, after other shows I have seen over the last 10 years, is a breath of fresh air.

That is like me. 8 small paperback novels, and 6 in the full size paperbacks. The only thing with mine, is all of them are British Orbit books.

I love that as well. It makes a great way of showing how the Dragon Reborn affects things, as the Shadow starts acting to weaken its biggest foe's chances later on.

I got the sense at first it was an epileptic seizure. I then thought it was due to no alcohol consumption. That is what I thought, anyway, since I have seen the signs of both in my life from family members, and both look identical. Or it is entirely possible Rahvin used compulsion on her, she is fighting it, and the battle is displaying that physical sign. Alice could be Aran'gar. We will just have to wait and see if Alice is part of Elaida's backstory, or is in fact something else altogether.

I loved Rahvin there, and seeing Sammael for the first time is great. The split beginning as a result of his presence makes much more sense now. Book Rahvin would not go near them in any way.

Oh, that is what I missed!! Thanks. I totally forgot about Jain.

Ishamael was actually spun out twice. It was in the Trolloc Wars that he earned the title Ba'alzamon. That was actually him in the flesh going around the world and launching Trolloc invasions in all three continents. The next time he was spun out, he acted as Wormtoungue tried to Theoden. Only here, he fully achieved his aims with Hawkwing, when the King sent his two heirs to the other continents on Ishamael's first word, then turned him on the Aes Sedai and his subjects with the second.

I know. The thing is, I never remember the really awful stuff once I watch it.

Go Titanic for worst film. The song alone dooms that thing. 7 times in one hour switching radio stations when that film released is insanity on full blast. There is an awesome Cage Match on here that totally redeems Twilight, in the Bela vs Bella match that is hilarious to read. I giggle every time she shows up now when I watch those films in the rare occasion I can stomach them for a little time.

Yes, Machin Shin is the corruption of saidin given physical form, but not as the madness unfolds in male channellers.

Damane do not die when their suldam does. We have multiple POVs of dead suldam, and their damane either unconscious, which we were told so by either a Wise One or and Aes Sedai, or reacting no different to an Aes Sedai with their dead Warders. Ryma's battle actually showed a suldam dead, and her damane alive.

It was because they were both powerful, and in Moiraine's case, had a link to a powerful Cairheinen House, which was just on the throne, before Laman was killed. Siuan was simply because of her power, and possibly sticking it to Tear, considering that nation's attitudes to the One Power, and Aes Sedai. But, the most important reason, is she tried to get them to choose the Red Ajah once they passed their tests. Myrelle did nothing, because Accepted are expected to stand up for themselves, and that includes standing up to the kind of coercions Elaida was using. If this was their time as novices, then Myrelle would have behaved totally differently to what Elaida was doing.

It is a good question. The answer, is that the Dark One is incapable of developing beyond what his nature is, and cannot change how he gathers followers. They will always be selfish, and always fail him at the toughest hurdles, as humanity resists his activities. On top of that, he will always be suspicious of any one of his followers either being too weak for him to use, too powerful to use, or to willing to switch to the Dragon's allegiance for their survival, even if it is a temporary allegiance. As Rand says, the Dark One cannot inspire loyalty to his cause, and the only soul that proves as an exception, out of all the countless souls that have declared for him at some point, is Ishamael himself. He is the only soul that will stay loyal to the Dark One, because he truly believes in the Dark One's victory, however the Dark One wants it to manifest.

The failure of the Dragon comes with a condition though. It requires the Dragon to recognise the Dark One is right in its motives, and to do that, he has to be broken and give in to the Dark One, and even in his insane state, the Dragon did not give in, and will not give in. Not with all of his past lives and previous battles with the Dark One for experience, which is always the Dragon's insanity manifest.

After all of the issues, there is only one thing I would change with it, and it is my biggest dislike of the show..... More freaking episodes to the season from the beginning would have been nice!!!

I sure did know of The Great Hunt, but for all of these years, the only part of the comics I possess, is The Eye Of The World, Volume 1. I have never seen any other Volume or title featuring The Wheel Of Time where I live, and when I brought that, it was at least when The Great Hunt was actually announced to be coming as a comic.

That is a good idea, actually. Having seen that film plenty of times, I feel the show is equivalent to that film. That being said, I do have one issue with the film, in hat it had Merlin being Mab's son, when he is her grandson in myth. His parents are a human mother, and a certain Fairy King from Avalon, called Oberon. However, this discrepancy I get, since it has been at least almost 2000 years, and that is not very well known about now. These days, Merlin is Satan's son instead. You could say it is legend fading to myth in real time.

It is not impossible that Rahvin did not know of the medallion. He did have spies in Rand's camp, and knew of his movements as well as the others he was working with. Rahvin was weaving Fire and Air correct, he set it using Air, and most likely triggered the Fire in an electrical pulse, like I described with my previous post. We also know from Lord Of Chaos, that Halima tried to kill Mat using a direct weave. Rand did not know much of the One Power until his epiphany. Until that happened, the male Forsaken would always be vastly more knowledgeable than Rand, or the Ashaman in this capacity. This vast gap in knowledge is far less in the Aes Sedai for obvious reasons.

Mat's amulet did not protect him, because the lightning drawn against him was basically electrical energy that was taken from the environment, and thrown at him in a bolt of energy. The closest examples of this in real life is a model railway and the electric fence on a farm. The electricity that allows the locomotive to move is done in pulses along the track and the farm fence is exactly the same, but a far stronger pulse. If you put your finger on the model track it will get a shock just before the locomotive touches it, and it will tingle. The pulse from an electric fence, by comparison, will throw you a few meters from it in a shock. Exactly how Elyane will throw rocks at him on the way to Ebou Dar, and as you said, Adeleas and Vandene threw horse manure. What they were all discovering, Rahvin already knew what was happening, and knew ways of how to counter it. His expertise in the One Power allowed him to do that. Mat's amulet will only protect from direct weaves trying to do something at the touch of his body. It will not protect Mat from any elements that weaves generate before triggering the process.

Yes, LTT is the only other named Dragon. Rand is connected to LTT only because he was prophesied to be born where he died. Which is kind of the point of that soul when fulfilling the role as Dragon, though that soul was reborn between those two lives. That the soul was born more than once after LTT is a huge can of worms for the story, and one with an ongoing debate of the implications, and which lives they lived.

The answer, is the Chosen were all bound in the Pit Of Doom. LTT faced the Dark One in the exact same location that Rand did, except it was fire.

The implication, is that RJ decided after New Spring that darkfriends would be mentioned in the exemption, but was never outright spoken until Nyneave's full Oath taking. He may have decided to show the change in the Oath is most likely an implication of the Black Ajah working to undermine the White Tower since their first appearance. Changing that particular Oath in that fashion would allow that kind of corruption.

The third Oath clearly states, word for word: Never to use the One Power as a weapon except against Darkfriends or Shadowspawn, or in the last extreme defence of her life, the life of her Warder, or another sister. As far as I can tell, all Oaths in the show are the same ones. What we saw Moriaine do in Falme in the show is consistent with her knowledge of two Forsaken being in the city.

The Oath in the books named both shadowspawn and darkfriends as exempt from being protected from direct attacks by Aes Sedai. It also states that an Aes Sedai can channel to defend herself and her Warder. and can channel to defend another Aes Sedai and her Warder if attacked by others, like the Whitecloaks. These are the only exceptions. Going by how Moiraine behaved in the show so far, this Oath is unchanged.