I think it far more likely that in his current state, Rand will manage to convince the world either by words or by ta'veren (or both). Egwene and the AS will probably be left mostly alone to oppose Rand. Either that, or the meeting will be interrupted by something such as the attack on Caemlyn.



Yep. I actually made a post about this once before trying to come up with some reason for why Rand is in such a rush:
http://www.readandfindout.com/wheeloftime/messageboard/172633/

Basically, it makes very little sense for Rand to be so obsessed with breaking the seals right now, when he does not have a plan in place on what to do afterwards. For that matter, even if he DOES have a plan, why break them now? Why not just take the intact seals with him to battle and break them at SG itself, right before he confronts the DO since that would mean that most of the fighting against the trollocs would still take place with the light having the advantage of DO not being able to help in full.

Breaking the seals at Merrilor makes no real sense no matter how you look at it. Either Rand knows something we do not (we only got one very small PoV so this is possible) making it important to break the seals quickly, or he is still insane and acting irrationally (which would be really disappointing after all the struggle about him regaining his sanity) or it is just plain poor writing from BS. I hope there is a good solid explanation.




Which is just retarded.

There is just one book left, if this is all there is to it and Rand is _still_ being a useless moron at THIS point despite having all of LTT's training and experience to draw upon then I think I will be really disappointed. He has apparently regained his sanity so he no longer has the excuse of madness to explain any obviously poor actions.



I doubt Egwene has any real understanding of how the seals work at all. And other than one throwaway line, she knows little about Ferid Hels work that has determined that the rubble has to be cleared.

For all she knows, all that will be required is for Rand to be there and throw blood around or something.




Madness



Complete ignorance



How could Rand/LTT combo fail to understand that THIS is the correct action to take.



Maybe. We know from the one PoV from Rand that we did have that he has every intention of going through with his idea, no matter the opposition.



Maybe. Though its not just female channelers in danger at this point, since presumably the seanchan have the male a'dam too and we know it works even better than the female one. Rand needed TP to escape. But given the situation (huge armies of trollocs advancing), it seems odd that everyone would disagree with the idea that humanity needs to unite, if only for the moment, in order to survive.