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Saw LOVE right before it closed. Don't like the Beatles very much - went with a fanatic friend to keep company. It's still Cirque. Didn't expect to find myself crying (there was a very, very moving section), but there we were.

She was trying to babytrap someone into marriage or responsibility who wasn't her brother, based on her actions with Jamie.

Awwww....Pepper!!

Well that first episode ended on a real downer. :-(

May 3 for season 3 premiere! Can't wait. I don't know why, but I love this show. Even when it's scripted bits.

Bahahahaha. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. -SNORT!- OMG, I was such the sweet summer child...

I never actually found the Seanchan to be evil per se. They were likely as close to the Old World Order as possible, and they had pretty strict codes and directives that traced all the way back to the voice of authority. Like, for real and without doubt. Renna kind of hit on it in the last episode, they were, ultimately, fighting for the most noble cause of the Light.

YAY! 4th Season announced! No dates yet, but confirmed for renewal. https://www.instagram.com/p/C0Q__PUNquj/

My favorite scenes so far are Renna and Egwene - those two actors are nailing some really intense work and taking it to the next level. The way the actor plays Renna is..disturbing, perturbing, and stunning. And the actor playing Egwene is very, very good. I think she said all of 5 words in this episode and yet, that's all that was needed. I'm loving Lanfear. It's like Puck x Cruella DeVil x Glinda. Much less fun in the books. Ishy's interesting too. The books didn't really develop the forsaken as much as the show seems to be able to, from a character standpoint, and I'm rather enjoying the way the medium is fleshing them out. In the books they were just "Evil with Historical Facts".

This show is a freakin' abomination from casting to storytelling. Unless you've read the books nothing makes sense, and if you've read the books, what they're doing is infuriating. It's pretty critical that Morgase be Elayne's mom FFS! I'm watching it just to find out how bad it can really get. Perhaps to wash the taint of Game of Thrones from my memory.

Aiel are very purposefully described as tall, light skinned (though tanned from exposure), and often red haired or blond. Throughout the entire series, Rand is repeatedly mistaken for an Aiel, including by the old veteran from last episode, because they universally look like that. This remains an important plot point throughout the entire series.

I can't imagine anyone else as Jenny, and I'm already greatly disappointed. She was _perfect_ from head to toe.

There is absolutely zero chance that plot point will not make it into the show.

The military of the time usually had 3 men working every rifle, though it's not depicted properly in the show. The shooter would shoot, and then drop the gun. The middle man would hand it back to the powder men who were loading as fast as they could while the middle man picked up the reloaded one they'd primed and get it to the shooter. Sometimes they only used 2 and the back guy did double duty. It kind of worked like a bucket line for fires back in the day.

MIdge's monologue was incredibly boring, failure to launch. We're supposed to believe this started her career? The Bob Hope joke was the only funny thing in it.