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Television series. ... Andrew Cunningham and Lee Hutchinson have spent decades of their lives with Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's Wheel of Time books, and they formerly brought that knowledge to bear as they recapped each very first season episode and second season episode of Amazon's WoT TV series. Now we're back in the saddle for season 3along with insights, jokes, and the occasional wild theory.These recaps will not cover every aspect of every episode, however they will contain significant spoilers for the program and the book series. We'll do our finest to not spoil major future events from the books, but there's constantly the threat that something may slip out. If you wish to stay totally unspoiled and haven't read the books, these wrap-ups aren't for you.New episodes of The Wheel of Time season 3 will be published for Amazon Prime customers every Thursday. This article covers episode seven, Goldeneyes, which was launched on April 10. Lee: Welcome backand that was nuts. Theres a ton to talk aboutthe Battle of the Two Rivers! Lord Goldeneyes!but uh, I seem like theres something massive we need to resolve right from the jump, so to speak: LOIAL! NOOOOOOOOOO !!!! That was some out-of-left-field Game of Thrones-ing right there. My spouse and I have both been anxiously talking about how Loials death might or might not alter the shape of things to come. What do you thinkis everybodys favorite Ogier dead-dead, or is this simply a fake-out? NOOOOOOOOO Credit: Prime/Amazon MGM Studios NOOOOOOOOO Credit: Prime/Amazon MGM Studios Andrew: Standard sci-fi/fantasy storytelling guidelines apply here as far as I'm concernedif you don't see a corpse, they can constantly come back (cf. Thom Merrillin, The Wheel of Time season 3, episode 6). For instance! When the Cauthon sisters fricassee Eamon Valda to avenge their mother and Alanna chuckles joyfully at the sight of his charred corpse? That's a death you ain't coming back from.Even presuming that Loial's plot armor has fallen off, the method we've seen the show shift and consolidate stories means it's impossible to say how the presence or absence of one character or another couple ripple external. This episode alone presents a lot of relatively major shifts that might play out in unpredictable ways next season.But let's back up! The show takes a break from its usual hopping and skipping to focus completely on one plot thread this week: Perrin's experiences in the Two Rivers. This is a Big Book Moment; how do you think it landed? Fain appears to be leading the combined Darkfriend/Trolloc army. Credit: Prime/Amazon MGM Studios Fain appears to be leading the combined Darkfriend/Trolloc army. Credit: Prime/Amazon MGM Studios Lee: I would call the Battle of the Two Rivers among the most essential events that occurs in the front half of the series. It is definitely a specifying minute for Perrins character, where he grows up and becomes a Man-with-a-capital-M. It is potentially done much better in the books, however only because the book has the benefit of being staged in our creativities; Ill always see it as larger and more impactful than anything a show or film could give us.Though it was a hell of a battle, yeah. The enhancements in managing big set pieces continues to scale from season to seasoncomparing this fight to the Bel Tine fight back in the very first littles season 1 reveals not just much better visual impacts or whatever, but simply flat-out much better composition and clearer storytelling. The show continues to prove that it has discovered its footing.Did the reprise of the Manetheren tune work for you? This has been sticky for meI wish to like it. I see what the writers are attempting to do, and I see how this is a tune all of us just sort of grew up singing is provided new meaning when it springs from characters bloody lips on the battlefield. However it simply doesn't work for me. It makes me feel cringey, and I wish it didnt. Its probably the only bit in the entire episode that I felt was a swing and a miss. Darkfriends and Trollocs pour into Emond's Field. Darkfriends and Trollocs pour into Emond's Field. Andrew: Forgive me beforehand for what I think is about to be a brief essay but it is worth discussing when assessing the program as an adaptation of the initial work.Part of the point of the Two Rivers area in The Shadow Rising is that it helps to support something we've seen in our Two Rivers expats over the course of the first books in the seriesthat there is a concealed strength in this mostly neglected backwater of Randland.To the level that the books are worried about Themes, the two big overarching ones are that strength and resilience originate from unanticipated places and that heroism is what occurs when routine, flawed, terrified individuals step up and Do What Needs To Be Done under terrible situations. (This is pure Tolkien, and that's the distinction between The Wheel of Time and A Song of Ice and FireWoT wants to construct on LotR's styles and ASoIaF is mainly focused on overturning them.)To get back to what didn't work for you about this, the strength of the Two Rivers is meant to be more impressive and unexpected due to the fact that these individuals all see themselves, mostly, as quiet farmers and hunters, not as the exiled heirs to some famous kingdom (a la Malkier). They do not go around singing songs about How Virtuous And Bold Was Manetheren Of Old, or whatever. Manetheren is as distant to them as the Roman Empire, and those stories do not put food on the table.So yeah, it worked for me as an in-the-moment plot device. The show had actually already played the Perrin Rallies His Homeland With A Rousing Speech card one or two times, and you wish to blend things up. I doubt it was even a blip for non-book-readers. But it is a case, similar to the Cauthon siblings' Healing talents, where the show has to take what seems like too brief a shortcut.Lee: Thats a good set of points, yeah. And I don't hate itits simply not the method I would have done it. (Though, hah, thats a terribly simple thing to state from behind the keyboard here, without having to own the real creative obligation of dragging this story into the light.)In amongst the huge minutes were a bunch of great little character bits, toothe kinds of things that keep me coming back to the show. Perrins glowering, teeth-gritted exchange with Whitecloak leader Dain Bornhald was excellent, though my preferred bit was the almost-throwaway moment where Perrin catches up with the Cauthon sisters and provides an upgrade on Mat. The 2 kids absolutely kill it, changing from sober and traumatized young people into giggling little sis immediately at the sight of their older brothers sketch. Not even blowing the Horn of Valere can save you from being teased by your siblings. (The other thing that scene highlighted was that Perrin, seated, is about the same height as Faile standing. Shes small!)We likewise close the loop a bit on the Tinkers, who, after existing in flashback a couple of episodes back, finally reveal back up on screencomplete with Aram, who has somewhat of an uncomfortable role in the books. The guy appears to have a fate that will take him far from his family, and that fate grabs securely ahold of him here. Perrin is high. Credit: Prime/Amazon MGM Studios Perrin is tall. Credit: Prime/Amazon MGM Studios Andrew: Yeah, I believe the program is leaving the door open for Aram to have a better ending than he has in the books, where being ejected from his own community makes him single-mindedly obsessed with securing Perrin in a way that ultimately curdles. Here, he may a minimum of discover community amongst good Two Rivers folk. We'll see.The entire Whitecloak subplot is something that stretches out interminably in the books, as many side-plots do. Valda lasts up until Book 11 (!). Dain Bornhald holds his animosity versus Perrin (still unsolved here, but on a course toward resolution) till Book 14. The show has jumped around before, but I think this is the very first time we've seen it pull something forward from that late, which it almost certainly requires to do more of if it wants to get to the end in whatever time is allotted to it (we're still awaiting a season 4 renewal). Lee: Part of that, I believe, is the Zenos Paradox-esque time-stretching that occurs as the series gets further onwell keep this free of specific spoilers, obviously, but its not truly a spoiler to say that as the books go on, less time passes per book. My unrefreshed off-the-top-of-my-head recollection is that there are, like, four, potentially five, bookswritten across practically a decade of real timethat cover like a month or two of in-universe time passing.This enters into the location of time that book readers frequently refer to as The Slog, which slogs at maximum slogginess around book 10 (which basically retreads all the occasions of book 9 and shows us what all the inferior characters depended on while the starting players were off doing big world-changing things). Without doing anymore criticizing than the implicit slamming Ive currently done, The Slog is something Im hoping that the show anticipates or otherwise does away with, and I think were seeing the ways in which such slogginess will be shed.There are a couple of other things to conclude here, I think, however this episode being so concentrated on a giant battleand doing that battle well!doesnt leave us with an incredible total up to wrap-up. Do we wish to enter into Bain and Chiad attempting to steal kisses from Loial? Its not in the bookat least, I do not believe it was!but it feels 100 percent in character for all involved. (Loial, of course, would never kiss beyond marital relationship.) A calm minute before battle. Credit: Prime/Amazon MGM Studios A calm moment before fight. Credit: Prime/Amazon MGM Studios Andrew: All the Bain and Chiad in this episode is greatI value when the show chooses to subtitle the Maiden Of The Spear hand-talk and when it lets context and facial expressions communicate the meaning. All of the Alanna/Maksim things is fantastic. Alanna hiring a storm that rains spikes of ice on all their opponents is cool. Daise Congar discarding her flask after touching the One Power for the very first time was a strange vaudevillian comic beat that still made me laugh (and you do get a bit more, in here, that programs why people who have not officially found out how to channel generally should not attempt it). There's a thread in the books where everyone in the Two Rivers begins describing Perrin as a lord, which he hates and which is deployed a whole lot of times here.I discover myself starting each of these episodes by taking fairly in-depth notes, and by the middle of the episode I capture myself having actually not composed anything for minutes at a time since I am just delighting in enjoying the program. On the topic of structure and pacing, I will state that these episodes that make time to focus on a single thread likewise make more room for peaceful character minutes. On the rare occasions that we get a less-than-frenetic episode I simply want we might have more of them.Lee: I find that Im running out of things to state herenot since this episode is lacking, however since like an arrow loosed from a Two Rivers longbow, this episode speeds us toward the upcoming season finale. Weve swept the board clean of all the Perrin stuff, and I do not believe were going to get anymore of it next week. Next weekand at least up until now, I haven't cheated and viewed the final screener!feels like were going to deal with Tanchico and, more significantly, Rands scenario out in the Aiel Waste.But Loials unforeseen death (if indeed death it was) offers me pause. Are we simply eliminating folks off left and right, Game of Thrones design? Has particular characters plot armor been eliminated? Are, shall we say, alternative solutions to old narrative issues suddenly on the table in this brand-new turning of the Wheel?Im thrilled to see where this takes usthough I genuinely hope were not going to need to say goodbye to anyone else who matters.Closing thoughts, Andrew? Any moments youd like to see? Things youre afraid of? Perrin being led off by Bornhald. Things didn't precisely exercise like this in the book! Credit: Prime/Amazon MGM Studios Perrin being led off by Bornhald. Things didn't precisely work out like this in the book! Credit: Prime/Amazon MGM Studios Andrew: For much better or even worse, Game of Thrones did help to produce this truth where Who Dies This Week? was a major chauffeur of the cultural conversation and the main reason to remain caught up. I'll always remember having the Red Wedding delicately ruined for me by another Ars staffer since I was a next-day watcher and not a day-of GoT viewer.One way to keep the point of views and plotlines from constantly proliferating and recreating The Slog is just to eliminate a few of those people so they can't be around to slow things down. I am not saying one way or the other whether I think that's in fact a series wrap on Loial, Son Of Arent, Son Of Halan, May His Name Sing In Our Ears, however we do probably need to concern terms with the fact that not all fan-favorite septenary Wheel of Time characters are going to make it to the end.As for fears, mainly I'm afraid of not getting another season at this moment. The show is getting sufficient at revealing me huge book minutes that now I want to see a couple of more of them, y' know? Economic Uncertainty + Huge Cast + International Shooting Locations + No More Unlimited Cash For Streaming Shows feels like an equation that is eventually going to stop including up for this production. I really hope I'm incorrect! But who am I to question the turning of the Wheel?
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