They made a point of making clear that damane aren't considered people in Renna's dialogue later, but yes.

Definitely coherence in any form is a long way from being a priority. I think they do want character development for the main characters, but aren't very good writers, have simplistic ideas, don't give a damn if they adhere to the books and certainly don't think things through the way you do.

I was wondering the same thing about Egwene's cell specifically, but true, it applies to many other rooms we've seen too...

There's no way these writers would want to depict Lanfear as a clown like in the books.

That certainly didn't much follow the 'plan' they'd made before he went into the dream, did it? Though odds are the writers already forgot about that by now anyway.

Probably because she's supposedly awesome and the Tower in this series is utterly inept, with the exception of Liandrin for some reason?

A very good question. Every time Tom comes in to complain that the wokeness has ruined the series, I think that firstly, it would've been perfectly possible to make it woke but a lot better than this, and secondly, between the random nonsense like the fridging of Perrin's wife, the utter nonsense that is their worldbuilding and their terrible judgement in the changes made to Moiraine and others, it's doing a pretty poor job at being woke in the first place.

I'm pretty sure it already was at Mary Sue levels in the books.

That whole plotline has sucked for a while, but the part where Alanna's warders suddenly accused him, without even the slightest basis, of being a Lanfear worshipper was when it truly jumped the shark...

Yeah... as we see later on, just about everything in the Ryma plotline is, once again, terrible.

Time is an illusion to these writers - as is geography.

At times like these I regret not knowing what exactly you're talking about - but I'm not going to rewatch it just to find out and anyway from last time I did try that, I recall that my timestamps seem to be different than yours anyway...

Indeed, this is just a physics fail more than anything else...

Yeah, the implication seems to have been that she was frustrated because she was sure the tree thing would've persuaded Egwene somehow... which firstly makes no sense anyway and secondly, indeed, if her frustration tolerance is that low, she'd never have made it to that position in not only the books but any halfway decent show worldbuilding.

Agreed.

In case you missed it, earlier this season it was established that on this show, Tar Valon, Cairhien and that random cabin somewhere in Kinslayer's Dagger are all in sufficiently close proximity that you can travel between them in just a matter of hours - or at least, without having slept and without looking like you've pulled an all-nighter in the process. Rand and Moiraine made it to Cairhien from the cabin, Lanfear/Selene made it to TV, then there were even several more scenes in Cairhien before Rand finally went to sleep and met Lanfear in TAR.

I suppose in fairness, Lanfear could and would just have Travelled that distance in the books, but that's not a thing yet on the show where she did actually need to get a horse.

Not even killing so much as pointlessly torturing, looks like... or killing in a super inefficient way, anyhow.


In fairness, there are scenes in the later books where Egwene is praised by Sitters / prominent Aes Sedai in almost as idiotic a way as here - but yes, at least there she had already developed as a character and as a leader, however annoyingly so.

Liandrin took the girls through the Ways to get to Falme - but these writers are perfectly capable by having Rand go there simply on horseback and arrive in a day or two, and never mind that someone actually did mention just how far Falme was from Tar Valon.

Indeed.