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Maybe. By the way I giggled about the word compulse.

@A Memory Of Why Thats the end of the first meeting with Moggy

Still does not seem to give us much information of the limits of the Ter'angreal how did the destination get set can it be set somewhere else. It's a pretty incredible bit of equipment considering travelling is not around.

The start of the season is stained by the battle sequence. It's fine if you just want to watch what is admittedly pretty good CGI and turn your brain off as too it's logistics. The whole two rivers group and 3 Aiel just wandering around Tar Valon is just madness. The boys sitting in a tavern and yelling words like the two rivers and the dragon across the room after being warned that spies were everywhere just makes them morons especially for the male channeler. Moiraine and Lanfear working together I'm not sure just how much this would bother me without the books but it just feels totally wrong. Rand bragging about sleeping with Lanfear without any even seemingly mixed feeling, this is a creature of legendary evil used to scare children. Healing abilities are insane and have no consequences for the healed or the healer. Episode 2 is more difficult as a lot of the things I find objectionable are impossible to spilt from the books. Morgase is just an entirely new character and the whole opening to me just seems to be an attempt to be like GoT. Gaebril/Rahvins compulsion is massively OP especially with having a totally needless 10-year backstory. Time jumps and character locations are very hard to track. People are just immediately in the next location. The ways are just being used don't really feel super dangerous. The tower having a strange training ground inside and the princes just banging novices. The princes fight was silly and needlessly dangerous using real swords. Episode 3 had less going on and the damage was hence lessened. Too much focus on tower politics still. Could also be my dislike of the first 2 episodes of this season numbing me a bit. I have not started watching the new Daredevil as yet. I am not currently in a good place with marvel, since around Homecoming they have fallen off a cliff in quality to the point i am not watching either cinema or TV show releases, I am planning on trying new Daredevil. The original first season of Daredevil was great with 2 and 3 being worse Jessica Jones first season was very good with season 2 being a disappointment. The first season of Arcane I really enjoyed however the second season not so much I think partly because of the huge wait between seasons. Good Omens is excellent. Older stuff. Buffy, Angel, Expanse (early seasons) Firefly, Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me, Stargates, TNG Taskmaster UK I know not right category but if you are not watching it you are missing out. There would be others i am forgetting i'm sure.

I don't watch a lot of outside media stuff what did judkins say it was? I also don't think it should be mandatory for people to watch outside things to explain internal show material.

I don't have my copy as it was destroyed but I am on a reread myself so I am looking out for all the compulsion scenes now to check them. I assumed that he would have to deal with the room because if I was an Ajah head the first thing I would be doing after I left the Hall would be going to my spy network and saying why I have got no information on the royal consort of Andor. And then when my spies start to get information from those close to him and I find out he has been there supposedly for 10 years then things really start to stink. I probably don't jump to the conclusion of it being a forsaken but I maybe start to think a rogue female channeler or especially now maybe a black sister doing something in the background. Morgase could have killed Rand if she thought him an assassin, something Elayne did not believe. Some would also consider imprisonment a hurt or punishment. Morgase could be ruthless but only with cause. Morgase tells the story in the books of an execution she ordered that was later proved false and that it affected her.

That would be a lore change from the books then the Seachan were descendants of Hawkings empire which spanned basically the entire world and they did not have A'dam till after they arrived across the sea. That does not mean it could not be there but the reason for searching there is wrong though.

The nattins barrow they layer the weave but I thought they told him the information at the same time there is also a time when the pov is away from the merchant. The additional layers of compulsion were simply to cause Rand to question why so much. I can't bring the other to mind atm. If it's the candle boy then i don't believe we have an indication that she has not built up the memories by telling him. Well there was 23 sitters in the Hall so would have to assume that he dealt with them all, no way for him to be sure who had knowledge of Andor. I would think anything more than 5 or 6 separate compulsions at the same time is big it's more complicated than just simple weaves especially if you are implanting knowledge. The answer was there Elayne was pleading for his freedom as she believed him innocent, Bryne only suggested beheading if it could be proved he was an assassin so it was never on the table without that confirmation and none of that is unreasonable. I don't see how any of this is a slight on Morgase especially as she choose freedom.

The ability to be able to implant directly with the power feels wrong just not sure how you would craft up to 10 years of memories and then implant them. It's certainly not how it is done in the books where compulsion is basically super hypnosis and the weight of the weave and it's finesse is what remains in the mind. Speculation yes and I am not 100% sold on it being so just something others have suggested, but if its single weaves then he must be producing vast numbers and again with little seeming cost to himself or his concentration. Elayne knew that Rand had fallen in and that he had attempted to leave, I think that she truly believed he was innocent and it was only after it was suggested that he may face some consequences that she pleaded for his release on the basis of that belief, which Morgase then followed in the same vein. I saw no mention of Byrne in the show intro.

Using compulsion like in the book where you struck out with it and then told the victim the story is one thing. Having the power itself implant the memories is on another level, and for it to be this apparently tied off weave that effects channelers and everyone in a large radius is a huge ability. The power also does not seem to take any physical effort to use in the show nobody seems tired no matter the amount they use. I actually think the actor playing the role of Rahvin seems pretty good I just don't think the material he is working with is. He would only basically have called for the headsman if Rand was an assassin which would be a capital offence in Andor and actually just recommended a short hold to ensure protection for the heirs before a release hardly a massive over reaction. In the books Morgase, Elayne, Gawyn and Galad are depicted as what you would describe good rulers who believe in equal justice for all and the belief they are ruling for the good of the people. A belief that Elayne passes on to Rand (allthough Rand already lent that way). It's going to have to take an amazing amount of effort for the show to get any way towards that path after that introduction scene.

It's not easy to exactly assess individual power levels. However an ability that is able to rewrite whole crowds of peoples memories in the range of a decade almost instantly would have to be considered as pretty insane. As for being picked apart you don't think that people who have friends or family in the Andoran court would find it incredibly surprising that they suddenly found out that the queen had a consort for 10 years that they had never heard a word about? People on this site and the general community love to pick apart stuff from costume easter eggs to background lore drops but you want to drop this because it has story damaging issues. This did not need to be a problem if they did not go for the consort of 10years silliness and simply had him as a new addition that had caught the queen's eye it would not be an issue.

A weave of that power and scale is insanely overpowered. I am not saying that it could not happen just that it changes just about everything. You are talking about a weave that is not directed at a specific target that can not only make you seem familiar but implant memories into a crowded room of people that includes 10 years worth of memories and backstory. Bloody hell is that OP. And it still does not deal with the ripples of people outside whatever range this weave has.

You speak with such certainty in every post you make and you claim that I am unbiased. I have listed the things I find bad about the episodes and the few things I find good, debate me on the content instead of yet again attacking me.

The whole Gaebril compulsion thing makes less and less sense. He had never met Leane and Siuan before so how did Leane manage to get his name? Does this form of compulsion actually allow the power to impart knowledge to it's target as well as open up to believing. In the books you had to tell the compelled the information that they were to believe after casting compulsion. Why tell the massive lie that he had been in the family for 10 years? How does he create the massive backstory for those supposedly close to him? Why is the Aes Sedai spy network not wondering who exactly this person is who just appeared out of nowhere, the range can't be that far.

I'm 100% sure that if there is a season4 they will say it is based on the numbers, it's the truth of that statement I question, we all know that the desperation to have a GoT was strong in the development of WoT and RoP and clearly they have got nowhere near it at this point if the numbers are still not there does the studio and Bezos cop the hit to their pride caused by cancelling it or just plow on.

It could, removing such a huge number of people from a local community would cause waves. Friends, family and business connections may come looking. They could just use compulsion on everyone that investigates I suppose, but that actually assumes they can use compulsion the weave they use on the girl seems to be a memory wipe instead.

Maybe? Just maybe if I did not have the books would I think it was a CW level show, having them I stand by my assessment. I have listed the things I find good and bad about the show and am more than happy to debate them on their merits?

You have read this wrong. Bryne says that if he had more information that Rand was in fact a danger to Elayne and Gawyn then as a possible assassin he would call for the hangman, but simply to avoid any possibility of risk to hold him for a few days till they are out of range. Morgase denies even this. Claiming this is purely Tar'vareen influence does not hold any weight either as she is shown to value impartial justice in other scenes. As does her values passed onto her children also bear out on her justice views which in turn play some part of Elayne teaching Rand.

It depends if it's just the studio it will mostly relate to numbers which who knows what the hell they are. If it's Bezos is it ego padding or does he have more important matters going on such as getting his feet under king trumps table.

I would actually love something like that to have been shown.

I get the different turning of the wheel argument but when the changes become so pronounced at what point is it no longer an adaption but an entirely different story just using names to bait interest. I would say at the moment Moiraine is the most important character followed by the tower storylines and Nyn and then Rand and the others after that.

Less damage in this episode than the train wrecks of the other 2 still too much time spent on the tower politics though. Mats arc is not bad and out of all the characters he by far feels the most like his book persona at this point. The fight between Mat and the princes was one of the better ones in the show I still dislike using steel weapons and I think the fact that Mats part looked awesome show you could have you wooden swords, but apart from that the only criticism I have is the super strange holding hands move the princes use in the middle, I mean seriously who thought that was a good idea. So few extra in the Aiel scenes. Why so small looks cheap.

I could not care less what the actor has a history of playing. My only concern is with the competence with which they portray the character in question. I have not watched Westworld so i cannot comment. You are not a hero if you murder children under a truce setting simply to make your reign easier. You are not even a good ruler you have just made 4 lifelong enemy houses with a valid reason to hate you.

Executing someone for a crime is one thing. Executing people including a child in a truce situation is something else entirely. Executing someone just to make your reign easier is something else entirely. Do you think book Morgase would have executed a child under truce?

Just managed to get through ep2 and I'm not really sure what I am watching anymore. 100% gone is the good ruler for all Morgase straight out murders children to cement her leadership. For mine this is just an attempt to grab a GoT feel for the show. Morgase looks too old in the cold open which is a bit jarring when Elayne says latter that she took the throne when younger than herself. Morgase also does not feel like the mature beauty of the young Elayne. Gaebril? Another character or is going to be replaced? Not sure the hypothesis that it is some kind of active constant compulsion is right. Whats the range? It must be permanent on those that it affects but what about the ripples to those outside that he does not meet the sheer number of people that know the royals and suddenly people are talking about a royal consort that does not exist must be staggeringly confusing. I mean what if Elayne meets Galad before Gaebril and he starts talking about the royal consort? Galad and Gawyn just banging through the novices it really feels like they are going to make them absolute prats rather than considerate and thoughtful characters they were in the books. Really don't understand Nyn's comments about them she has never met them before as they arrived in the tower that day. I have already gone through the stupid sword training scene. Tower discipline and logic seems amazingly loose. Very hard to track the time jumps. Walking to the waste? Why not at least take a horse? Mandrab where are you. Who the hell did Avi think anyone in that group could have possibly told among the Aiel that they were coming? Alanna making it to the TR before Perrin? The ways don't feel very dangerous at the moment. Rand says he is not afraid then seemingly to me spells out exactly why he is afraid of embracing the source. No one is the TR saying hello to Perrin or taking any notice of Loial or the maidens. The maidens offering greeting to defend the hold to Mistress al'vere when they have no idea who she is and they are in the forge. Smacks of a key jangle for book readers. Pretty much the only thing I liked was Lanfear messing with Egwene's dreams