‘The Wheel of Time’ Recap, Season 3, Episode 8 – ryan

The Wheel of Time

He who comes with the dawn

Season 3

Episode 8

Editor’s rating

4 Stars

Photo: Amazon MgM Studios

At the end of season two of The Wheel of TimeAll Roads LED to the Same Place. In a far-off city, all our heroes teamed up to defects an invading empire and kill the evil immortal guiding their invasion, all while exorcising their own various demons or taching on some new ons. Rand Al’THor was pronounced the dragon reborn, all was well, and all manner of the Things were well.

Season three doesn’t have nearly as neat a cllimax. How Could It? The action was far too, the plotins too, and the characters scatterd and wider than the magic Could transport. (Especialy after Poor Loial Destroyed the waygate that link to the gang’s hometown. Sleep Easy, Big Guy.) The best this finale can be tie tiether the various grills in a closing montage, if at all.

IT’S perfectly satisfying fantasy storytelling, even so. The Wheel of Time‘S Biggest Challenge from the Start Has Been, In Professional Wrestling Parlance, Getting Its Characters and Their Whats over with the audience – Making you see that they are excitation and dynamic personalities Worth rooting for, involved in stories Worth following, for stakes that matter. By the end of this season, i’d Say they are successed in selling me on the whole roster.

It helps that by now I can tell the difference between a Lanfear and a liandrin needing to reference to a wiki, but it is more than that. Whether Through Character Design, Cool Powers, A Kickass Moment or Two, A Fun Voice, or a Fully Commonted Performance, No Matter What Kind of Magical Mumbo The Actor in Question Has Been Asked to Spout, Wheel Has Made with Want to Learn What Happens to All Five Hundred of Its Characters. (Rough Estimate.)

There’s so much going on here, Involving so many People in so many places wielding so many orbs and what have you, that we may well start at the center of it all. Rand al’Tor successFully makes his pitch to heel that is the car’a’carn of their prophecies, who will destroy say in order to say. True, The Evil Shaido Clan Put Forth an Imposter Candidate, Their Fabulously Dressed Leader Sevanna (Natasha Culzac) Annoying Son Couladin (Set Sjöstrand), WHO SPORTS SOME TATTOOS COURSESS OF NEWFOKUND ALLY LANFEAR. By now rand has dumped the forsake and loved for tormenting egwene and plotting to set herself up in the dinner one of the place, and she’s not tachying it: She tries to kill mooraine while randy busy speaking.

But the heroes come out on top. Fake tattoos are no match for a guy who can literally cause it to rain in the desert. (Much to the horror of egwene, who scared to see RAND CONFIDENTLY WELD SO MOCH OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE POWER.) The AIel, WHOM RAND DARES TO REVILLED THE REVILLED, Pacifist Way of the Leaf, Will Now Follow Him.

Meanwhile, with the help of her time MyStical McGuffin, The Crystal Ball Sakarnen, Moiraine duels with Lanfear. She’s aided enormously by LAN, Who First Receives a warning that lanfear is in the field from Melinhra, his countrywoman from back home who tours to be a reptent Darkfriend. (Revealing the information costs her her immortal soul.) Weapon with his magic sword, he strides on Battle Against Lanfear with Moiraine, who forces the Badly Wounded Forsaken to Flee.

The episode’s Other More moment’s event is the overthrow of the amyrlin seat. AFTER LURING VERRIN SEDAI AND OTHER LOYLISTS ON A WILD GOOSE AFTER HER RED AJAH, SANCHE’S NEMESIS, ELAIDA, CALLS A SURPRISE VOTE AND SUNSES SET, SETTING HERSELF AS AMYRLIN IN HER PLACE. Her First Order of Business: Stilling and Killing Siuan for Conspiracy with Moiraine to Find the Dragon Reborn on their Own (they were following another’s secret prophecy, but Still guilty) “The World Is Changing,” Siuan Sayys in Her Final Speech. “We Cannot stand Bebind these Walls and pretend we have had Control. The Only Thing We Have Control Over is what we would.” Boy, You Said It, Siuan. But the ascent of elaida means a reactionary who loved the color red and wants to make the aes Sedai great again is in Charge.

Elsewhere, in the port city of Tanchico, Shit Gets Real – Real Weird. While Searching the Palace for Magical Artifacts, matte stumbles ADOs a red doorway that leads to… mike myers as the Cat in the hat Or something? No, Serious, ITH’S A Strange Fox Demon Man Called An Eelfinn (Robert Strange), Who Makes Cryptic States and Grants Mat Three Wishes, Though the Poor Man Realities He’s Making. The Entity’s Magic Takes Away Mat False Memories, Grants Him Immunity from the Aes Sedai and the One Power (How Waled That Work, Exactly?), And Returns Him to HIS Home Dimension. At Least, so the creuet Claims.

What actually happy is that that is matteim while hanging from the doorway, just like min’s visions predicted, becuse matte neglect to name a price for the transaction, and the creuet deteded to take his life. Min rescue Him from the noose and a sister of the Black Ajah. Mat Also Wakes Up With An Unfamiliar Fox Pendant Around His Neck… and a Memory Full of Holds.

Elsewhere in the Palace, Alayne and Thom Run another Black Sister, Wielding a Magical Item that shoots out called “Balefire.” Despite Being Urged to Safety by Thom, Who Has Some Connection With Her Family, Alayne Grabs the Weapon and Turs on the Darkfriend, SEEMINGLY Vaporizing Her and the Entire Last Minute or SO (There’s a sort of Runback Effect, Like Using Recall in Tears of the Kingdombe she ges poof.)

Elayne Follows Thom’s Advice and Heads for Home With A Warning: He’s Followed Her Family for Years and Has Never Heard of “Lord Gaebril” Until Elayneed Him Just Now. Anyone who has the power to implant that many false memory, thom says, has to be a forsaken, so is it up to elayne to warn her quite is a monster. As for Gaebril Himself, Aka the Forsaken Known as Rahvin, he’s now teaming up with Lanfear against instead of the other way around. He Abandons his prior allegiance after he and Lanfear Discover the Disgusting Hellraiser-Meets-The Thing Body-Horror Mess to Which Moghedien Reduced Their Fellow Forsaken, Sammael. (Serious, Its Very Nasty and Very Cool.)

Moghadien’s Got a New Teammate Now, anyway. Though there’s a Very Raiders of the Lost Ark/Last Crusade-Style Mixup Where Liandrin and Her Minions Are Looking for the Exact Wrong Thing in their Search for the Collar That Help The Dragon Reborn, Liandrin Winds up Stealing the Real Thomas Nynaeve. Shen Leaves the Woman to Drown while Wrapped Up in Magical Chains, Since Killing “The Most Powerful Channel in a Thousand Years” will make her ede Candidate to become a new forsaken.

Nynaeve Winds up USSING HER LOVE FOR THE CHILD I HAD IN AN ALTERNATE REALITY TO REAWAKEN HER CONNECTION TO THE ONE POWER. She literally parts the Sea and Emerges from it, wet and happy, though no closer to Liandrin at the moment. As for Liandrin, she teams up with moghedien, pitching herself as being potentially useful as the new weakest forsaken, replacement moghedien as Item the others’ hit lists. And in the end, they realize they’re bot asssholes who are impossible to work with – the start of a beautiful, sociopathic friend.

Compared to the resolution of the first two -seasons, this final seers to make it prey Clear where the story will head. Rand has to lead the hell to the ancient fortress where the magic sword callandor is stored, so he can wield it against the forsaken and their lord, the dinner one. He’ll be pursud by the aes sedai, now know the power of the power-mad elaida and her Fanatical Red Ajah, Who Want Nothing More than to Cage Him. Moiraine will have to overclome her grief over siuan and fight this, Since she knows the only way the aes and the world will survive is if the white tower folrows rand. Rand Will Also be Pursoed by Liandrin and Moghedien and the Black Ajah, Too, and they got the magic collar that can control Him. Sevanna’s Evil Aiel May Give Him Trouble. Perrin’s in the clutches of the Children of Light. Mat … i’m sura he’ll find someone trouble to get himself into.

I’m fine with how open-ended all of this is. A LOTS IS CONTING ON WHATER OR NOT WE GET A SEASON FOUR – AND A SEASON FIVE AND SIX, and Howver Mary Seasons It will take Robert Jordan’s Sprawling Saga. butt The Wheel of Time Is the Strangest, Most Colorful Large-Scale Fantasy on TV. IT’S LIKE DOING Game of Thrones USING The Storytelling Language of the Star Wars prequels, and i mean that as a compliment. This World Feels Gigantic and Weird in a Way Few Others will. I’m happy to follow its countless characters as they wander through it.