04-17-2025, 03:38 PM
Spoilers for the finale abound:
THE SHAWLS!!
Elaida, her bracelet, and the Finn – interesting.
So Sammael wasn’t dead. I guess he has indeed been merged with Demandred if he was the one to rediscover the art of war in the AoL, so Asc was right. I was a bit meh about Lanfear’s surprise being setting Sammy up as Rand’s teacher, and now she did Couladin’s tatts, so what role is there for Asmo? I still think he will be the last Forsaken though. I guess potentially he still will be Rand’s teacher given Sammy didn’t last the episode haha.
Talking of, Moggy is killing it. Literally. She steals every scene she’s in.
What game is Leane playing? Do we think one of the Forsaken is masquerading in the Tower? Because she told the Reds to send the 8 sisters after Taim but then seemed surprised when 8 Red sisters left the Tower? I realise they said they didn’t know why, but it just seemed off for a minute. At the time it confused me, but by the end I figured it was simply me misunderstanding and it was different Red sisters, since they were aiding Elaida’s coup (I wrote this as I was watching)
The Panarch’s palace seemed creepy and abandoned despite having guards, which was weird, else I just remember it wrong. The squat little child statues were creepy.
The red doorway! The Finn! The foxhead medallion! I have to say though that the finn looked like if the Grinch and a Catz castmember had a baby lol. I would have loved something more Del Toro but I guess it was fine with a TV budget. The Finn clearly getting off on Mat's emotions was creepy as fuck, and I thought they did the scene well.
Loved Thom and Elayne. Nice way to introduce the effects of balefire.
Interesting to see consequences for breaking the dark oaths.
Rand and Moiraine’s moment had FEELS.
The coup! As an irrelevant aside, Siuan’s outfit in this episode was beautiful. Leane is fierce and I love how much Green Ajah energy she puts out – even if it doesn’t go that way in the show, you can totally see how she would switch to Green as a character.
Elaida is wonderful, I love and hate her at the same time – and you could literally see her doubts during Siuan’s speech (which was a great speech). I think they’ve done an excellent job weaving in Alviarin and keeping her under the radar. Also thought it was a nice touch to illustrate that Moiraine was the political powerhouse behind Siuan’s rise by juxtaposing how she became Amyrlin with her fall in the same ep.
I couldn’t quite figure out why Lanfear chose to attack Moiraine in that way at the end, it just felt like plot. I know we have all the death scenarios from Rhuidean as set up, but why then? Even if Moiraine was just being bait, she already slit Lanfear’s throat once. How was she planning to kill a Forsaken? Even with the sakarnen? Was it just to distract her while Rand declared himself? Since the viewer already knows Lanfear is using Couladin it felt disconnected to me, else I missed something somewhere (quite possible, haha). The more I think about it, I guess Lanfear was just being cruel after being rejected. She sent Mel after Lan so she could pick Moiraine off easier? I dunno.
Either way the fight itself was epic, and I loved seeing an AS and warder work together. They did a fantastic job of raising the stakes by raising the expectation over the entire series that this would be Moiraine’s death scene.
Did Moiraine and Siuan share a bond? Because it totally seemed like they did. I wasn’t surprised to see Siuan die and didn't expect to much care tbh, but the way they did it was actually heartbreaking.
I guess we will still be getting Moiraine and Lanfear fall through the red door.
Hands down the best finale so far. I found the end portion very edge of the seat. Hope they announce confirmation of season 4 soon.
THE SHAWLS!!
Elaida, her bracelet, and the Finn – interesting.
So Sammael wasn’t dead. I guess he has indeed been merged with Demandred if he was the one to rediscover the art of war in the AoL, so Asc was right. I was a bit meh about Lanfear’s surprise being setting Sammy up as Rand’s teacher, and now she did Couladin’s tatts, so what role is there for Asmo? I still think he will be the last Forsaken though. I guess potentially he still will be Rand’s teacher given Sammy didn’t last the episode haha.
Talking of, Moggy is killing it. Literally. She steals every scene she’s in.
What game is Leane playing? Do we think one of the Forsaken is masquerading in the Tower? Because she told the Reds to send the 8 sisters after Taim but then seemed surprised when 8 Red sisters left the Tower? I realise they said they didn’t know why, but it just seemed off for a minute. At the time it confused me, but by the end I figured it was simply me misunderstanding and it was different Red sisters, since they were aiding Elaida’s coup (I wrote this as I was watching)
The Panarch’s palace seemed creepy and abandoned despite having guards, which was weird, else I just remember it wrong. The squat little child statues were creepy.
The red doorway! The Finn! The foxhead medallion! I have to say though that the finn looked like if the Grinch and a Catz castmember had a baby lol. I would have loved something more Del Toro but I guess it was fine with a TV budget. The Finn clearly getting off on Mat's emotions was creepy as fuck, and I thought they did the scene well.
Loved Thom and Elayne. Nice way to introduce the effects of balefire.
Interesting to see consequences for breaking the dark oaths.
Rand and Moiraine’s moment had FEELS.
The coup! As an irrelevant aside, Siuan’s outfit in this episode was beautiful. Leane is fierce and I love how much Green Ajah energy she puts out – even if it doesn’t go that way in the show, you can totally see how she would switch to Green as a character.
Elaida is wonderful, I love and hate her at the same time – and you could literally see her doubts during Siuan’s speech (which was a great speech). I think they’ve done an excellent job weaving in Alviarin and keeping her under the radar. Also thought it was a nice touch to illustrate that Moiraine was the political powerhouse behind Siuan’s rise by juxtaposing how she became Amyrlin with her fall in the same ep.
I couldn’t quite figure out why Lanfear chose to attack Moiraine in that way at the end, it just felt like plot. I know we have all the death scenarios from Rhuidean as set up, but why then? Even if Moiraine was just being bait, she already slit Lanfear’s throat once. How was she planning to kill a Forsaken? Even with the sakarnen? Was it just to distract her while Rand declared himself? Since the viewer already knows Lanfear is using Couladin it felt disconnected to me, else I missed something somewhere (quite possible, haha). The more I think about it, I guess Lanfear was just being cruel after being rejected. She sent Mel after Lan so she could pick Moiraine off easier? I dunno.
Either way the fight itself was epic, and I loved seeing an AS and warder work together. They did a fantastic job of raising the stakes by raising the expectation over the entire series that this would be Moiraine’s death scene.
Did Moiraine and Siuan share a bond? Because it totally seemed like they did. I wasn’t surprised to see Siuan die and didn't expect to much care tbh, but the way they did it was actually heartbreaking.
I guess we will still be getting Moiraine and Lanfear fall through the red door.
Hands down the best finale so far. I found the end portion very edge of the seat. Hope they announce confirmation of season 4 soon.
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