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Beyond that 1 scene, I'm happy for the horn to be entirely absent. Given that we need massive MASSIVE cuts to reduce a 460 hour audiobook into a 48 day series, I'm happy to loose that one scene as well. There must be other ways to bring Faile and Birgitte into the story. Strong suspicion that most of books 2 & 3 will be combined into Season 2 as well - so 50 hour audiobook into 8 hour series

For now I'll assume they're not going to bother with the portal stones - even though I thought I saw 1 or two in the previous couple of episodes

It's a change - for reasons not yet disclosed. In the books, you move an avendesora leaf to a different place; and the gate can be locked by moving that leaf to the inside of the gate (IIRC - may be just removed completely). As with most changes I can't see the reason before, I'm hanging fire before deciding on whether it's a good, bad or neutral change.

So you're struggling with it being TOO realistic? You know that people generally don't trust them; but find the explanation to be too good, that you find it hard to swallow?

Being more catty than wise or noble seems incredibly realistic for those at the top of a powerful organisation - especially a political one.

Yep, think of Mat like an addict. Who's just gnenthrough cold turkey. A minute ago. The worry isn't that he's going to stab you in the back, or run away; but that he'll relapse. As for recasting - yes, it happens plenty of times in TV. But I can't think of one where it happened mid-season. We dont know when Mat1 left the show, not do we know when Mat2 was hired. We just (think we) know that Mat1 never returned to film the last 2 episodes, and that Mat2 wasn't there yet. Changing just the last scene, and using existing shots of Mat1 was presumably the least intrusive option, ret-conning him out earlier would have required more work, and possibly pushed production far enough back to miss the Christmas release window. Simply replacing him would still have required a lot of re-shoots, AND require recasting on the hop. I'd suggest it's better to sacrifice 1 awkward scene then write around it with the right actor, than have a different awkward scene, and spend the next 5-6 seasons with the wrong actor.

If they decompress the time line, so that each season is a good year or so, then I'd have no problem with Siuan pairing up again. It would need to be handled more sensitively than in the books though - but so does pretty much ever interaction between the genders, romatic or otherwise. We'd be talking about a time a few years after Moiraine "dies" after all. We don't expect widows to be forever celibate in the real world after all. We saw the yin-yang on Siuan's burned home in this episode - though I expected to see it, or just the flame, in the hall of the tower (possible I just missed it, I've only seen it the once, whilst tired from a long day) "Never work with children or animals" - and I suspect that goes double for indoor sets and green screens. No idea - it's a change I instinctively dislike, but trust there's a reason for it; it may just take a while for that reason to become apparent. Equally, given that change - why do they need Loial in their fellowship? TBF, there are plenty of times in the book where a forsaken gave the impression of being the Dark One in dreams. The question is what happened to Siuan's wards that she was able to be sent a dream? and why would she trust information gained through a dream, seemingly absent any corroborating evidence.

Non-book spoilers

Pretty sure it's whipping marks, probably from an abusive father figure (or possibly a dominatrix). Scars were largely side to side, not up over the shoulder, and not wrapping around the sides; so given by someone else.

They're 17 / 18, so not minors. But either way, yes, you can

Loved Egwene's Tinker shawl - which just happened to be striped with Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Brown and Grey. Did anyone notice any white in there?

Thank you for posting that. Spookily, whilst watching, this came up on my FB feed: https://e-activist.com/page/70936/petition/1

I don't know how true this is, but I'd heard that WoT was originally going to be 10 episodes, and was written and shot for that; but that Amazon cut that down to 8 quite late in the day. Leaving the 2R was supposed to be the end of the 2nd episode. So not a 2 hour first episode, but 2 1Hr episodes. Personally, I think it shows, and explains a lot of the clunkiness in E02 - especially being a late change, that would leave a LOT of stuff on the cutting room floor, and work-arounds needed for virtually every scene. ETA: this seems to be the original source, at 2 hours long, I neither have, nor intend to listen: https://www.theringer.com/2021/11/19/22792149/the-wheel-of-time-premiere-with-zach-baron-and-rafe-judkins

Bandersnatch? Is this the autobiography of Benedict Cumberbatch?

It's excellent, but I'm not sure it's that under-rated, makes regular appearance in "top 20 Christmas films" type lists. But I guess it may be better known in the UK than US?

So what you guys are saying, is that between Easter and Christmas 2019, Disney will... They'll basically own everything. They'll have enough money in the bank to buy America. Not just the USA, but 2 continents

Is he seeing this as his chance at redemption? In which case, expect him to slip back for film 4 and be unworkwithable for 5. Or does he have a huge Potter geek child? In which case, the power of hero-dad could be his salvation.

Damn you Thanos!

As long as he shows better judgment than asking Russel Crowe to sing

First look pic https://mobile.twitter.com/TheLastKingdom/status/1042060740792922112 Mr Bernard Cornwell, in makeup, for his cameo https://mobile.twitter.com/TheLastKingdom/status/1047812618201784325 S03E01 to be screened exclusively at Comicon London, 27/10/18 - so a good chance of release before the end of this year, almost certainly being given dates in 2 weeks https://mobile.twitter.com/TheLastKingdom/status/1044270996331606017

I don't think you can get rid of any of them; but none of the three really need to be introduced in the first season (though Min & Elayne ought to be). Elayne is needed more for Egwene's storyline; so she could drop out of the love-quadrangle very easily; leaving it for Min and Aviendha - which would be fine, and could work if shown as indecision and cheating on each of them; but nothing will work in terms of them all getting together and just accepting it. It didn't in the books, and I can't see a way of that working out okay on the show.

Q&A with the showrunner, after the show had been picked up, but shortly before being green lit http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2018/09/wheel-of-time-tv-showrunner-hosts-q.html Main take-aways: News of the green light, and some specialties here: https://deadline.com/2018/10/amazon-robert-jordans-the-wheel-of-time-1202474485/ https://screenrant.com/wheel-time-tv-show-amazon/

They brought back Cambell-Bower for the mirror scene?