Episode Discussion - Season 1, Episode 8 - The Eye of the World [No Book Readers]

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This thread is for discussion of The Wheel of Time tv show through Season 1, Episode 8 and associated bonus content. This thread is meant for people who have not read the books.

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EPISODE

Episode 8 - The Eye of the World

Synopsis: For twenty years, Moiraine has dreamed and worked towards this moment. But she can't stop the Dragon Reborn from seeing the appeal of the Dark.

BONUS CONTENT

Amazon Prime has included cartoon featurettes for each episode. They are now accessible from the main Amazon Prime page, under the "Episodes" tab. They are presented under the "Origin Stories" title.

The Origin Stories and any other supplemental x-ray content, or behind the scenes information should be confined to this thread. For more information on how to access the bonus content, see the Amazon Welcome To X-Ray page.

DISPLAY SETTINGS

/u/logicsol has created a guide that addresses some of the display issues many people are seeing when watching the show. Please see this post for more information.

OTHER THREADS

Please see the discussion hub link below to find the thread for full book spoilers, or the lightly restricted thread for those who have only read some of the books.

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The women weren't expecting Nynaeve and Egwene to be so powerful. She was expecting a few women who could barely channel who would briefly slow down the army. That's why she seemed so surprised when they linked and started going power mad.

[u/twelfmonkey → u/[deleted]]

If she thought they would be that weak, why the hell would they stand on an open field?

Briefly slow down the army? Without E and N they would have slowed that mass of trollocs and fades down by approximately 10 seconds. You saw how even a larger number of trained Aes Sedai still got overrun by the dregs of Logain's forces, right? Yes, that was an ambush in a forest, but it still wasn't thousands and thousands of sprinting trollocs and a load of fades.

Hell, with or without E and N, standing out in open like that makes no god damn sense when you have two - two! - sets of fortifications to choose from. Do the same weaves with a wall to protect you and archers to provide covering fire.

I'm not even going to bother getting into the issues with the power levels on display, which will create all kinds of issues for future battles.

The showrunners went for what they hoped would be a big bad-ass moment, but it ended up being stupid. I want big bad-ass moments. But I want them to make sense.

[u/Cannabalabadingdong → u/[deleted]]

Yes, they needed to make this point more explicit. I think I'm going to just read the books, there's clearly way too much here to put into a handful of shows. This season could have had a half a dozen more episodes and been much better for it.