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shallownessBeing able to hear what Logain (formerly Crazy Eyes to me) heard meant hearing some worrying content, although he seemed to resist the urge to kill the king. At the time, I thought he was being influenced by no-good beings, but I could be persuaded they were delusions. (The effects for his black strands of magic were less effective than for the Aes Sedai’s white whisps.)
Rand was suddenly quite paranoid about the Gleeman, although he then showed some decent negotiation skills in getting them a place for the night, so I stopped automatically huffing at him. But the Gleeman had a pretty grim theory for why Mat was acting funny (and I presume it was picking up that box and the weapon within in that dark place that did it,) heartbreaking encounter with a little girl who reminded Mat of his sisters or no. Rand had another nightmare, noticed Mat was gone, found their hosts dead (including the kids. Grim.) But it was because of a Fade (?), who the boys left the Gleeman (also….A Historian) to fight.
Having said that, who’s going to fight the next thing that comes after them?
Meanwhile Perrin and Egwene were being proselyted pretty hard about the Way of the Leaf, which still accepts reincarnation and the Wheel of Time, but is all for pacifism. Perrin and his trauma didn’t like the notion at first. Egwene made a fair case that in their music for dancing, these people hadn’t forgotten The Song (which was a lovely idea). Beautiful Aram was smart enough to notice Egwene’s heart was taken, but made it known that he was still available as they literally stargazed together.
But the main action was at the Aes Sedai camp, where we met some of Moiraine’s sisters and learned a bit about their colours (tying into the title sequence). So greens are their soldiers, reds are their internal affairs, while the blues are spies? Like/through Nynaeve, we also saw more Warders, as she learned they and the Aes Sedai weren’t what she thought, although her interaction was mainly with Lan. We also learned that she was of the Two Rivers’ original stock. And they lampshaded the actress’s accent.
I thought Moiraine and Lan needed to do more talking than they ended up doing, and I suppose I was wrong. The viewers knew that at that point the four kids were heading towards the White Tower too, although if Rand thinks Mat is channelling the One Power, he might decide that’s not the best place to take him.
Liandrin (who’d been Blue Eyes to me) wanted to just kill Logain outright, because she thought was the Dragon, but Moiraine and Lan didn’t (and neither did we because he wasn’t one of the characters we’ve been invested in since the pilot.) Turned out his army was coming for him and he was even more powerful than they’d known, but Moriaine is badass. Nynaeve could just about protect herself as she saw Aes Sedai and Warders in action against a mightier army (good action too). And then Logain took his best shot, and it was nightmarish, but Nynaeve, left standing, was having none of it and certainly made herself the no. 1 most likely Dragon Reborn right now, as her braid got loose. Liandrin got her excuse to remove the power from Logain (which would doom him to death) and her sisters had to go along with it, while Stepin grieved for Kerene, who’d been killed before Nynaeve tapped into the One Power, and who I’d liked.
Lots of tantalising developments and a bravura ending to this ep.
Rand was suddenly quite paranoid about the Gleeman, although he then showed some decent negotiation skills in getting them a place for the night, so I stopped automatically huffing at him. But the Gleeman had a pretty grim theory for why Mat was acting funny (and I presume it was picking up that box and the weapon within in that dark place that did it,) heartbreaking encounter with a little girl who reminded Mat of his sisters or no. Rand had another nightmare, noticed Mat was gone, found their hosts dead (including the kids. Grim.) But it was because of a Fade (?), who the boys left the Gleeman (also….A Historian) to fight.
Having said that, who’s going to fight the next thing that comes after them?
Meanwhile Perrin and Egwene were being proselyted pretty hard about the Way of the Leaf, which still accepts reincarnation and the Wheel of Time, but is all for pacifism. Perrin and his trauma didn’t like the notion at first. Egwene made a fair case that in their music for dancing, these people hadn’t forgotten The Song (which was a lovely idea). Beautiful Aram was smart enough to notice Egwene’s heart was taken, but made it known that he was still available as they literally stargazed together.
But the main action was at the Aes Sedai camp, where we met some of Moiraine’s sisters and learned a bit about their colours (tying into the title sequence). So greens are their soldiers, reds are their internal affairs, while the blues are spies? Like/through Nynaeve, we also saw more Warders, as she learned they and the Aes Sedai weren’t what she thought, although her interaction was mainly with Lan. We also learned that she was of the Two Rivers’ original stock. And they lampshaded the actress’s accent.
I thought Moiraine and Lan needed to do more talking than they ended up doing, and I suppose I was wrong. The viewers knew that at that point the four kids were heading towards the White Tower too, although if Rand thinks Mat is channelling the One Power, he might decide that’s not the best place to take him.
Liandrin (who’d been Blue Eyes to me) wanted to just kill Logain outright, because she thought was the Dragon, but Moiraine and Lan didn’t (and neither did we because he wasn’t one of the characters we’ve been invested in since the pilot.) Turned out his army was coming for him and he was even more powerful than they’d known, but Moriaine is badass. Nynaeve could just about protect herself as she saw Aes Sedai and Warders in action against a mightier army (good action too). And then Logain took his best shot, and it was nightmarish, but Nynaeve, left standing, was having none of it and certainly made herself the no. 1 most likely Dragon Reborn right now, as her braid got loose. Liandrin got her excuse to remove the power from Logain (which would doom him to death) and her sisters had to go along with it, while Stepin grieved for Kerene, who’d been killed before Nynaeve tapped into the One Power, and who I’d liked.
Lots of tantalising developments and a bravura ending to this ep.
