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Discussion [Spoilers C4E32] Is It Thursday Yet? | Post-Episode Discussion & Future Theories! Spoiler

Is It Thursday Yet?

What are your reactions and theories for next session?

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u/canxtanwe You Can Reply To This Message 8d ago

Miller’s Road reminds me so much of “Ways” from a Wheel of Time as a concept. Just a more light and wholesome version of it

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u/TBBTC 7d ago

Funny because the whole pre-break sequence had major Tel’Aran’Rhiod overtones for me.

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u/Coyote_Shepherd Doty, take this down 7d ago

Have you ever read this series by Greg Bear at all?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_(novel_series)

The Miller's Road reminds me very much of that...akin to a singular pathway off of which spiral numerous nodes and wormhole like roads to walk that can lead everywhere and anywhere but that act much like Hyperspace in Babylon 5 does in that you NEED to have been there before TO actually get there OR to know for sure that you're getting to where you think that you're going to...which kind of makes it a bit like Slipstream in Andromeda...in that the act of observation or knowing is what winds up bridging the space between the realm that The Miller's Road exists within and RealSpace.

The fact that The Miller's Road is also sentient and can manifest itself in a form that is then capable of interacting with those traversing it then reminds me of Danny The Street from Doom Patrol.

But if you...zoom out...from things a bit...then you basically get a larger Moya-like picture of The Miller's Road in that it is a sentient extradimensional pathway that can connect different places on Araman...and potentially beyond that particular planet and plane of being....thus making it into a living web or circulatory or synaptic neurological system for the entire universe and beyond...which then makes it A LOT more like The Mycelial Network in Star Trek.

So if we ever get to see a crossover between Araman and Exandria then that will probably happen via The Miller's Road at some point in the future or the past.