BTW, for non-readers, E4 is a very important episode. There’s a lot of worldbuilding info given about Aes Sedai and warders, the different branches of Aes Sedai, the danger of male channellers, how female Aes Sedai can link together to achieve more, the Tinkers, etc. It was a great ending to the episode.
I also really liked how they show the blackness of saidin being weaved by Logain (and male channellers) and the potential madness through the black figures speaking to him.
I think the whole weaving visual is one of my favourite parts of the show. I think when I read the books I kind of just imagined them chucking spells at each other but this fits the theme so well
I actually imagined weaving as being more literal, like weaving thin to thick strings of glowing light together into a cohesive shape that defines the magic being done.
What they’ve done on the show looks more like electricity or smoke, so not quite matching what I imagined, but that’s ok.
Yeah, agree it didn’t become “official” until the end of book one, but it was pretty obvious early on who it was going to be when you read the book.
@FuriousGeorge you mentioned that you were going to give the series a read. The first book is pretty derivative, very LOTR-like. The series becomes unique only from Book 2 and 3 onwards, when there is more explained about the Aes Sedai, the saidar/saidin system and how it works, and the more evil characters are brought into the story. Just a heads up.
I disagree…I think they’ve given him way too much screen time already…he’s not a major player in the overall scheme and yet they are setting him up that way.
He doesn’t really get portrayed positively until he gets healed in Lord of Chaos (book 6) which is also when the Ashaman first appear…there’s just no need this early
Everything doesn’t have to happen in the first few damn episodes…I feel that the writers are rushing to get things out that don’t need to be revealed so early.
In a visual medium, how do you show the threat of gentling if you don’t show it happening to Logain? You can’t stop the show for a few pages of explanatory text.
That threat is huge for the future of the story. It is one of the biggest risks the dragon faces. In the story timeline, it happened to Logain around this time. I don’t see how you do the tv show without using Logain as an example in season 1.
And in the books, Logain was more threatening in the eyes of those watching than he was in his own actions. Because the characters interacting with him were terrified, Jordan deliberately slanted his portrayal.
It certainly wasn’t by breaking the weaves of Aes Sedai and killing some of them. They could have done it without the over the top method they used. The way they did it has also impacted how other characters will now be portrayed.
Lan did not almost die…he was always depicted as a larger than life, almost invincible, figure. But no, Logain smashes through a weave and Lan get’s his throat cut…cue, bullshit scene where Nynaeve somehow taps into the source at some incredible level and saves him. FFS, there was just no need for that