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Can somebody explain 3/4 of Rand's story this episode, please? Because I have absolutely no idea what was going on.

Especially, as was previously noted, said wedding happened inside a private residence that is still likely owned, in some part, by one of those who came in and murdered all of the wedding attendees.

Nothing about what I said was an attack on you. In narrative fiction, there exists the concept of "Word of God, which carries as much weight as - or sometimes more weight than - what is conveyed on either the page or the screen. A good example of " Word of God" story detail from another IP is the last name of the Slayer Faith (Eliza Dushku) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and ANGEL. She was never referred to by anything other than her first name onscreen, and yet if you check any official or unofficial information sources about those shows and their interrelated media, you will see her last name listed as Lehane because that is the name that Joss Whedon provided when asked to contribute information for an RPG reference book. Examples of "Word of God" information for the Wheel of Time TV series include the already-repeatedly-mentioned status of the FFH as an actual physical location, the degendered nature of Reincarnation as it pertains to the TV adaptation, the clarification that Moiraine did in fact sleep with a dog named Jenny - an Irish Wolfhound - during her Novice years (there had been speculation that Alanna was speaking metaphorically or 'in code' about Moiraine's relationship with Siuan), and the specific identification - via Instagram - of Elaida as the Aes Sedai who beat Moiraine with the One Power (which, as I noted, has debunked my personal headcanon and thusly completely upended the way that I have viewed both Liandrin and Moiraine's characterizations through the first two seasons).

A compulsive need to pick apart any one element of a story is, to me, an indicator that some distance needs to be put between the person who is feeling said need and the story itself, as exemplified by a response that Robert Jordan gave to Dragonmount's current CEO years ago at a book signing and that I've loosely paraphrased or otherwise referred to previously, One could very easily go down a rabbit hole picking apart the FFH and the Ter'angreal that are used to travel to/access it, but such obsessive analysis is, IMO, both extraneous to the actual story of the Wheel of Time TV adaptation and not conducive to responding to and interacting with it as a piece of media. Arguing against or refusing to accept the established nature of the FFH itself - which is what prompted me to go off on this tangent in the first place - is also not conducive, IMO, to responding to and interacting with the WoT TV adaptation as a piece of media. Moving on to other things that are both related and unrelated to the point I just made, I just learned within the past day that one of my own personal fan theories about the TV adaptation - Liandrin Guirale being the Aes Sedai to whom Moiraine refers when she's in the Blight with Rand in The Eye of the World - was debunked by Rafe himself, and it's forcing me to completely reorient my thinking about the show and the storylines that it is currently exploring in Season 3 and is,something that I have to struggle to not obsess over lest it completely derail my ability to enjoy the season and the story it is telling.

Aside from one instance of Channeling with it, Leanne actually spent most of that fight using the staff as a melee weapon and beating people to death with it.

Thanks for the clarification. I actually like the idea of a Forsaken dressing in a way that doesn't conform to their biological gender, although I do believe that the statue that likely depicts Asmodean was carved with masculine clothing (which doesn't necessarily mean anything but still bears noting, I think).

The Balthamel/Aran'gar thing is unnecessary because the show already changed the Metaphysics o so that the concept of a male soul being reborn in a female body is 'baked in' to how Reincarnation works.

The "FFH" is not Siuan's childhood hut. It's a new structure that was constructed at some point in the 20 years that followed Gitara's vision of the Dragon Reborn's rebirth. I won't dispute that the questions that can be asked about the "Love Shack" Ter'angreal have legitimacy, but my contention is that said questions are extraneous to the story itself. Also, my point wasn't even about the Ter'angreal themselves; it was about my annoyance at the refusal by some people to accept settled questions about Siuan and Moiraine's clandestine Nocturnal meeting and the location thereof as actually being settled.

Why would I need a source? It's a logical conclusion based on the fact that the only time we see her use it, she is in her room in the Tower, and she left it where it was - on the wall - whilst she used it. That is actually not an issue for anyone other than you.

Simple answer: her half of the Ter'angreal is in her room in the Tower, and she is not.

In the interim between Seasons 1 and 2, Dragonmount conducted a Q&A with Rafe on Twitter and asked a question that was specifically about the "Love Shack" Ter'angreal that Moiraine and Siuan use in The Flame of Tar Valon and the physical location to which said Ter'angreal led, prompting the following response: He didn't hesitate to answer the question or try to correct the presumption that the "FFH" was an actual physical place, a presumption predicated on Prime Video Bonus Material that explicitly identified the "Love Shack" Ter'angreal as being Ter'angreal and the location of the "FFH" itself as a fishing hut in the Fingers of the Dragon River Delta in Tear, thereby confirming that the "FFH" was in fact an actual location. The flashback Cold Open from Daes Daemar (Episode 2x07) later retroactively explained the existence of the "FFH" by revealing that Siuan and Moiraine both wanted to retire to a fishing hut after completing their Aes Sedai duties, and also provided, through its content, the context of and meaning for the "FFH" acronym itself (Fishwives F*ck Hut).

Off-topic vent incoming (sorry): It's really weird - and frustrating - to me that, even two seasons later, there are still people out there who insist that Siuan and Moiraine's "FFH" was Tel'aran'rhiod despite direct confirmation to the contrary from Rafe Judkins himself. Okay, vent over. Back to S3 discussion. I don't think I've said this yet, but I really like Faile; her interactions with Perrin were fun and there's definitely palpable chemistry between them.

It's still hard for me to reconcile Lanfear's comment to Ishy with the confirmation of a 4/4 gender split and the inclusion of Semirharge, but we are where we are. Anyway, the last unidentified Forsaken is most likely Asmodean because all of the fandom's collective guesses as to which statues matched which Forsaken have been proven correct thus far and there's not any reason to think that streak is going to be broken on the last one.

Perrin saw Bain & Chiad before they showed up, but that's because he's Perrin.

One of the items that Nyomi stole was the bracelet portion of a male A'dam; because the Sean'chan use A'dams and Tanchico is near Falme and Toman Head (the Sean'chan's original territory centuries ago), Elayne discerns that the most likely location for the collar portion of the male A'dam that the Black Ajah are looking for is Tanchico. Liandrin being from Tanchico - which they figured out based on the symbol that they found in Aludran's rooms - means that she would know that Tanchico is the most likely location of the collar portion of the male A'dam and is therefore why she (Liandrin) would take her fellow Black Ajah there (in addition to her personal desire to lay her son's soul to rest ritualistically).

Not really. The most recent numbers we have available to us list Netflix's subscriber count at 301.6 million, which is a mere 100.6 million more people than are subscribed to Amazon Prime globally (Prime Video is automatically included for every one of those 200 million subscribers, even if not all of them actually use it). I did just learn that the current hurdle to getting Season 4 doesn't appear to be on Amazon's end, but I still feel confident that things will get worked out positively in the end.

Whatever Weaves,he's cast - and tied - on himself are not only compelling the people around him to behave as if they are familiar with him, but also implanting false memories of him in the minds of those same people. It makes sense if you're willing to let it, but your problem is that you're just looking for reasons to criticize the show and therefore aren't willing to let it make sense.

When you're literally one of the only people acting like these episodes are bad, you're not judging them on their merits; you're judging them on yours, and therefore aren't actually interested in being fair and unbiased.

Touching on whether or not the wedding slaughter would draw attention to the Black Ajah, I would point out that it happened inside a private residence that belonged, in some way, to Liandrin given that the groom was a member of the family of her own (presumedly dead) husband.

Take up the 'Star Wars is an adaptation of Arthurian Legend' thing with my Creative Writing teacher (who, as mentioned, also taught High School English), because that's precisely how she described it. No, there is not (despite some people's attempts to claim otherwise).

It's not "nonsense". I simply do not place arbitrary restrictions on Adaptation as an art form. If you don't like the 'The Lion King is an adaptation of Hamlet' example, you're not going to like the other big example I'm going to use, which is that Star Wars is an adaptation of the Arthurian Legends and myths (something that was pointed out to me by a High School English teacher who also taught a Creative Writing class that I took as an Elective).

The Wheel & Chill Show - which is primarily Livestreamed on Kritter's YouTube channel (on Mondays at 7:30 pm Central) but was briefly on Ta'varen's YouTube channel while Kritter was absent due to pregnancy - is a lot of fun because of the format, which is split into Zero-Book-Spoiler chat (most often with a Show-Only guest) and Full-Book-Spoiler chat (which I stick around for despite classifying myself as a Show-Only fan). My personal go-tos for Show-Only content right now are the Watch Party Wheel of Time and Podcastica Wheel of Time podcasts (in which the commentary is split between/driven by one or two people who are fans of the books and one or more individuals who aren't)_ although only the former has started coverage of Season 3 as of yet.

I love her content. She and the hosts/panelists from the Wheel & Chill Show - KritterXD, Winespring Cafe, and Ta'varen Tavern - are my go-tos for WoT!Show content because they're WoT diehards whose overall positivity about the adaptation stands out as an Oasis in a fandom climate where the haters of the show are literally taking offense at any opinions that don't match their own.

Never. An adaptation will always be an adaptation even if it only has the barest of resemblances to the thing it's adapted from. Case in point: Disney's The Lion King is an adaptation of Hamlet even though the only thing that remains of that work are its underlying themes.

We've already gotten indications that a decision on Season 4 will be made based on views, and while we'll never actually know what the show's 'success threshold' is, I feel confident in its ability to reach/surpass said threshold just because of the prevalence of Prime Video and the general pervasive interest in the Fantasy genre that dominates societal culture.