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Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That Renna–Egwene scene was satisfying and frustrating at the same time. 😅 So the show has established that sul’dam are just very weak in the Power instead of lacking the “spark” as they are in the books. I guess we’re not getting the micro-arc later in the books where some sul’dam get trained to channel?
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Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 OK. So many things happened in the last half of the episode.

Yup, Hopper did get killed, setting up future Perrin arcs.

Didn’t care for Perrin *actually* killing Geofram, but I guess that doesn’t really change a lot if we’re not getting Byar. But I wonder if we get the LCC Galad arc.

Uno becoming bound to the Horn was weird.

We get our first look at Birgitte Silverbow! But is that the permanent actor playing her? (The X-Ray cast list doesn’t say so.)
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Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I don’t know. The Heroes of the Horn looked really cheesy. Well, they’re epic in the books, but I really can’t see how you can depict them on screen in an epic way too.

Ah, so that’s how Rand gets his wound.

Egwene holding her own against Ishamael’s attacks just wasn’t realistic.

Moiraine weaving fantastic weaves in the sea: didn’t care for that at all.

Rand killing (?) Ishamael in that manner: didn’t care for that too. Moiraine couldn’t kill Lanfear but Rand could?
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Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That dragon that Moiraine wove. Meh. Then again, you really can’t depict the epic fight in the clouds at the end of Book 2 in any satisfying way.

That epilogue with Moghedien and Lanfear was very satisfying though and sets us up very nicely into future seasons. Also, Lanfear’s intentions are now very ambiguous. Will she be playing both sides?