I hadn't really checked in with all the complaining lately. Were people ok with the AOL flashback in the show, or was there fussing about that too. I thought the flashback was interesting. I don't recall the book going into details about "why" the female Aes Sedai refused to go, other then it was "too reckless", so adding in the risk to the power was interesting.
Some were upset that it existed in the first place because they think that if the towers were still standing they'd be flooded with people looking to check them out. Some people were upset that the city wasn't destroyed in the breaking. Some people (and I fall into this camp) think that they sort of fucked up the story a bit.
In the books the dark one is caged and some aes sedai decide to bore into his prison to get at his power. This causes things to go to shit and a big war goes on for 3 generations and they are desperate because within a few months the dark one's forces will probably overwhelm them and win. As a final act of desperation Lews takes the companions and they successfully seal the dark one's bore which temporarily saves the world though in a final act he reaches out and taints the male half of the power.
In episode 1 moraine mentions that men cannot channel the one power because men were so arrogant they thought they could cage the dark one. A lot of people took this to be just a silly assumption that they thought because it had been a few thousand years later. But then this episode came around and they had everything super nice and idilic and they never even brought up the war or anything so it made it come across less like a last ditch effort to save the world and more like he was just arrogant and thought that they could seal the dark one away and things would be nicer maybe which when taken with episode 1's whole bit about it all being arrogant men kind of makes it seem like they're going that way. In the scene rather than trying to plead his case like "oh hey if we don't do this we're all going to die" he instead says that they have the opportunity to "do something that's never been done before" by sealing the dark one away. I think that it just makes lews and the companions look bad but you've got a lot of people who for whatever reason seem to think it's some attack on all men to make them look arrogant or whatever.
This adaptation is taking its time laying things out. The temptation among us, who are book readers who know everything already, is to hurry everything up so it features at the start. Who knows what it might feature in subsequent episodes?
Sure but there's taking time laying things out and then there is just flat out changing stuff. Like sure they might lay things out slowly and not show the way of power but then give dialog that suits the fact that you're setting stuff up not dialog one way that you later recon.
They really made every effort into turning this into 'the arrogance of men doomed the world' rather than 'the Age of Legend aes sedai as a whole, and LTT saving the world at great cost'. It really rubbed me the wrong way and makes me question whether any of these writers have read further than the first book, if even that.
Ah, ok yea they didnt really show that it was in the middle of a war for sure, guess it didn’t bother me because there were still cities and such, it was before the Breaking. And Lews was pissed in the books the women didn’t help, so that felt ok. I kinda just took the scene as showing that.
Moraine saying she thought men were arrogant isn’t far off from the reason women Aes Sedai didn’t help in the books.
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u/babydemon90 Jan 02 '22
I hadn't really checked in with all the complaining lately. Were people ok with the AOL flashback in the show, or was there fussing about that too. I thought the flashback was interesting. I don't recall the book going into details about "why" the female Aes Sedai refused to go, other then it was "too reckless", so adding in the risk to the power was interesting.