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I noticed her expression and the pause, but they don't 'read' as surprise or hesitation to me; they 'read' as a needed pause in the song to catch a brief breath and to watch for performance cues.

I'm apparently the only person who doesn't understand the notion that Elayne was ignorant of what The Hills of Tanchico song was about and/or who didn't 'read' surprise or hesitation into any part of her performance.

That's not how age works.

17-to 19-year-olds aren't 'kids' in any jurisdiction anywhere on this planet.

Season 1 already established that Ishy was repeatedly touching people's dreams whilst still Sealed, so why is it suddenly an issue in this episode when nobody objected to it earlier?

Isn't wasn't physically in Tanchico. Liandrin fell asleep, and he touched her dreams.

Alanna was made as hurt as she was precisely to raise the stakes, and to heighten the drama. If she wasn't riddled with arrows, the Whitecloaks' threat level would be diminished and they wouldn't be seen as credible or competent foes. At the same time, though, Alanna still has to be involved in the upcoming story... hence the utilization of Mat's sisters being able to Heal her It's not inconsistent writing or inconsistent depiction of the limitations of the magic; it's adapting the utilization of the magic to fit specific plot requirements.

Did you likewise find Leanne beating people to death with her Keeper's Staff or Alanna almost stabbing Liandrin with a dagger made of Air Weaves 'silly'?

Episode 6 pretty much just broke everybody's speculation about the identities of the 8 Forsaken because the presumption had been that we were getting both Sammael and Asmodean, but the statue that everybody thought represented Asmodean actually represented Sammael and the statue that everybody thought represented Sammael actually represented somebody else, which throws the floodgates of speculation wide open again. Edit: Never mind. Asmodean is still very much 'in play' as a possibility.

From Fantasy Literature, I love Nest Freemark and John Ross from Terry Brooks' Word/Void series (the Prequels to his Shannara Universe) and Merriman Lyon and Jane Drew from Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence. In the Fantasy Television sphere, I'm a huge fan of Matthew De Claremont and Diana Bishop from A Discovery of Witches and Kirito and Asuna from Sword Art Online.

There was absolutely no chance that Rafe and Co. were going to go that far. Any magic system in Fantasy - even a 'hard' one - is going to be utilized ('function', wasnt the right term to use) at the 'requirement of plot'. It's just a fact of the genre. Alanna needed to be Healed, so Mat's sisters were able to instinctively Channel the required Weaves to do so. It doesn't 'break' the magic system in any way because the narrative explanation can be the same one used for Egwene and Nynaeve: that they're incredibly strong due to the Blood of Manetherin running deep in The Two Rivers (both the village and the region).

I honestly think that the show actually has far less story to 'get to' than some people might think. Based on where the narrative focus has been, we've got 4 big 'events' left: 1. The Battle of the Two Rivers 2. Mat and the Eelfinn 3. Alcair Dal and whatever is supposed to happen there 4. Moiraine's death All four of these plots can be isolated in pairs, with the first two happening in Episode 7 and the last two happening in Episode 8, with an 'epilogue' that gets the story headed towards Tear and also 'keys up' other things like the introduction of the 8th Forsaken and the culmination of Elaida's machinations.

First. Some thoughts: * Everything that I thought about Show!Liandrin has now been proven to be thoroughly wrong, but I'm okay with that * Rand is a massive idiot, but he's still my second-favorite character * Ceara Coveney singing is not something I thought I needed, but now that we got it, I want more of it * A certain scene sequence involving Elayne and Nynaeve in this episode is really going to traumatize LezbiNerdy * Being the Spoiled Show-Only fan that I am, I was expecting a bad end for Alsera, but I also knew, instinctively, that, if it went there, the show wasn't going to go nearly as far with what happened to her as the books did with the random 'NPC' that she served as a stand-in for * I'm pretty sure that the show has made both of Mat's sisters into Channelers instead of just one of them * I can't figure out what Lanfear gets out of 'siccing' Sammael on Rand, and it's going to bug me * I knew it had to happen, but, man, Egwene and Rand's breakup was super harsh; Madeline absolutely killed the scene, though

Although I used to be certain that Moiraine would die but then return 'Gandalf'-style, I'm now becoming more and more convinced that she's not going to be Gandalf at all, but is instead going to be Ned Stark and die permanently.

If you are the Series Lead on a TV series, your #1 obligation is to that series, and everything else becomes secondary, with the obligation to resolve scheduling conflicts falling on any project other than the one of which you are the primary star. Sometimes the producers of a TV series will take the initiative and be willing to work with their Lead(s) in order to accommodate other projects, but they technically don't have to do so and can assert their 'priority rights'.