As The Wheel Turns

Moiraine infodumping about Manetheren at the worst possible times (literally surrounded by a mob / on the verge of death) my most beloved. Truly THE character

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“It’s unlike you to dwell on the past.”

I love how kind Mat is pre ruby hilted knife. He’s the one who always notices when someone’s feeling bad, or when something has gone wrong. It makes his transformation into the self-centered, petty post-knife Mat all the more stark.

“Oh, you actually tried to kill me” is still such a great line.

I love the songs and I’m so sad we never really got Mat singing. Or the Band of the Red Hand. Or much awesome Mat. (We got so close!)

With a little distance I can see how obnoxious Nynaeve is (my sister hated her). (Don’t get me wrong, Nynaeve can do no wrong in my eyes.) Feels book appropriate.

It doesn’t seem weird anymore that Perrin was married. He married Laila in this turning of the Wheel. That’s just all there is to it.

My niece is impressed by the costumes, and it’s, like, just wait until we get to season 3! (Cries in under-appreciated costume designers done so wrong by the Emmy’s.)

I’m being very good about not stopping the show every two minutes to geek out about some Easter egg of whatever, but I almost did an info dump on the symbolism of the well in the Ghealdan scene.

I love how much detail they put into accents and everything for the different countries and cultures. We never got Ebu Dar or Ilian or so many other places and I’m bummed.

Rand al’Thor. In the glass columns you will walk the footsteps of your blood ancestors. Each step forward, a step backward through time. Sometimes dozens of years, sometimes hundreds. To lead is to know where you came from, to understand the blood in your veins.