Dumping food because she can't keep her temper?! All she did in the second encounter was go passive-agressive and bait a psycho into digging her own grave. Note that she still failed to achieve anything. If not for the Seanchan attack, Elaida would still be on the Amyrlin Seat and Egwene still an imprisoned novice, if not a corpse. No matter what kind of an impression she made, all Elaida would have to do is brandish the Tower law, and down she goes.

Only because of the circumstances. And it was not rare, since ALL votes have to be unanimous, she just had the Ajah heads ramming her through because they didn't want anyone who was actually of an Ajah.

So she did not go along with an actively stupid and immoral idea. Big F***ing deal! Execution is the known and prescribed punishment for being a Darkfriend for over three thousand years! And she had Verin's magnum opus so she did not need to interrogate them. You don't get credit for refusing a temptation that is not actually tempting.


That is the most glaringly obvious tactic imaginable. Hell, I said years ago that she should pick a Red after the Tower is reuinted! Any American would have known this right off the bat, after having seen a single presidential election. This is how you deal with your most reluctant faction - you toss them a bone.

In the first place, the phrase "using a sa'angreal" transforms defeating an army from a heroic feat to an expected action. She should have done no less, and she did NOT single-handedly defeat anyone. Stop commenting on battles, because you always end up looking stupid. Everyone fought, Saerin actually showed leadership, rather than simply using people as batteries, and in order to singlehandedly defeat someone, you have to actually WIN. Which she did not. She did NOT destroy them all, as she herself states, noting that despite her efforts, more escaped than were destroyed. They left because they never intended to stay. You say "amazingly" regarding the obvious move of using angreal to prevent any damane from matching, but the idiots who never thought of it in the first place are the useless lumps whose part Egwene will be taking against the world, and planning to punish Rand for his remote, indirect association with things not going perfectly for Aes Sedai.

Yes it is. They're idiots. Lelaine set herself up, and it was Egwene's timely return that forced her to support Egwene. A timely return for which she's been behaving horribly towards Siuan.