Noneofyourbusiness

I don't understand this modern trend. Buffy and Angel had lots of night scenes and they were well-lit enough that you could see what was happening.

That would be nice, but I don't see Kristina going off the rails as a sign she's going to take over the business, and even running Charlie's is too benign to be a sign of that. I have my hopes up that Michael will have a new attitude when he comes back, recast or otherwise (he if is recast, his previous actor Drew Garrett would be my choice).

I'm aware, hence my unpopular opinion on the previous page saying Michael would have been more interesting if he had successfully done that instead of bonding with A.J. I would have liked Michael to tell A.J. definitively that he wasn't his father and that hanging him from a meat hook was awesome and send him packing, if A.J. had to turn out to be somehow alive at all. I know from context "the SLS" means Michael, but what does it stand for?

I want one of them to fully follow in his footsteps and take over his business. It's weird and frustrating how he's a mob boss and none of his several children are in the mob or have been declared heir apparent.

Yes, but Rand didn't dream up Lanfear, she was really there inside his dream and Rand knew she was really there, so they were really having sex together. It's not like fantasizing, it really happened, it doesn't make it less cheating because it happened on another plane. It's functionally the same as sneaking off to a secret room to do it.

Well, as twins, linking could come naturally to them.

My possibly unpopular opinion: it would have been more interesting for Michael to follow Sonny into the mob like Michael originally wanted than connect with the Quartermaines. I hope he comes back edgier. And for Charles Shaughnessy that takes a lot of effort. He was very good in 2023 as the villain in the The Winchesters (Supernatural spinoff about Dean and Sam's parents hunting monsters in 1972) episode "Suspicious Minds".

The Gray Man could potentially have found Joiya and Amico in the 13th Depository without following Elaida. I think the arrows were mostly in Alanna's armor rather than her flesh.

You're welcome! And apparently they were originally posted on Instagram ("Lanfear and the Dark Ones. Album not dropping soon."): https://www.instagram.com/p/DHeclejNmre/?hl=en&img_index=5

Someone helpfully posted clear up-close pictures of all the Darkest Timeline looks on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/WoTshow/comments/1jgsk79/clear_and_upclose_photos_of_the_8s_outfits_from/#lightbox And the thread includes this anecdote: "The general vibe from Rafe [the showrunner] on the Dusty Wheel made it sound a lot like he went to Sharon [the costume designer] expecting to be told to fuck off [for wanting to make evil costumes for each of the main heroes to be used in only one brief scene], and she instead was like 'obviously, we have to do that' and proceeded to dial it up to 1000. Because she's a legend."

Well, except the ones where Lanfear strangled her in bed, stabbed her through the chest with a sword in the desert, and strangled her in the desert. The Wise Ones said the visions were possible futures, so presumably anything Moiraine had done up to this point was still part of those timelines. In case any non-reader is wondering, the names in question are Da'shain Aiel for the originals and Jenn Aiel ("true Aiel") for those who kept going towards the Waste and kept the Way of the Leaf while being protected by the ones who took up the spear. The evil makeovers on the gang in the Darkest Timeline! Somehow I'm most struck by Rand's ear piercings even though they were less elaborate than Egwene and Nynaeve's bling.

Like Dureena in Babylon 5: A Call to Arms when she comes through Customs. I got a kick out of that, too. I've gone over them a few times now, and there wasn't one where Egwene kills Rand. There was one where Moiraine is Amyrlin and kills Rand while Egwene, who is Keeper of the Chronicles, watches. Yes, that felt very in-character for him.

And they discover that's because they were healed by someone of the same sex (as I suspected after Moiraine having been shielded by Ishamael is show-original. If then she'll go through something similiar again on the show, but this time not completely unable to channel.

Thank you.

The previous seasons' episode threads were tagged "nobooktalk", although the creator of them seems to have forgotten to do that this season, so I think we should have a self-imposed rule of using spoiler tags for book discussion in Season 3 episode threads as well like you said.