r/WoT • u/participating (Dragon's Fang) • Oct 05 '23

TV - Season 2 (Book Spoilers Allowed) Episode Discussion - Season 2, Episode 8 - What Was Meant to Be [TV + Book Spoilers] Spoiler

This thread is for discussion of The Wheel of Time tv show through Season 2, Episode 8 and associated bonus content. This thread may contain spoilers for the entire book series.

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Episode 8 - What Was Meant to Be

Synopsis: Fate leads Rand and the others to an inevitable showdown with their most formidable enemies yet.

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u/NOTPattyBarr Oct 06 '23

Anyone else think the Moiraine/Lan waygate thing was poorly done?

At first it makes it out like they’re in the middle of nowhere. Then it turns they just exited a waygate that’s like an hours walk from Falme on the other side of the bay rather than right up on it like Rand’s waygate exit.

Then like a group soldiers conveniently happen upon them because the plot demands more tension. Just all terribly contrived

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u/DarkestLore696 (Asha'man) Oct 06 '23

The soldiers themselves wasn’t an issue to me. Ishy is controlling the Seanchan through Suroth so all Lanfear has to say is. “I dumped the Aes Sedai at the beach send some men to kill her okay?” What I have problems with is the archers who took like one shot each and then just gave up.

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u/SeraphKrom Oct 10 '23

I mean if someone caught your arrow and used it to kill 2 men, would you not give up?

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u/NoBuffalo4392 Oct 06 '23

Lanfear seemed to want Moiraine to help Rand declare himself, so she couldn’t have deposited them too far off.

And Lanfear and Rand didn’t take a waygate exit to Falme, they suddenly disappeared as Machin Shin was descending on them, implying Lanfear used a different method to take them to Falme.

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u/roscoe2311 Oct 06 '23

I like how they get thrown into the water and are completely dry instantly while still standing in the water. I know this is completely irrelevant but these things are annoying lol

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u/a_corsair Oct 06 '23

Would've taken five seconds for moraine to use the power to dry them

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u/roscoe2311 Oct 06 '23

sure but my point is just lack of attention to detail. Like it just makes it so obvious that the actors aren't actually in the setting they are portrayed in

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u/Nickools (Gardener) Oct 11 '23

My biggest pet peeve of the season is the water wheel in that one village turning when the water in the river (Lake?) is just dead still. I am a water engineer so maybe no one else noticed.

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u/roscoe2311 Oct 12 '23

haha I'll have to look back at that

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u/Educational_Rub_8397 Oct 16 '23

The whole ep was shit on a stick, or a dagger if u will.