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WoT Season 3 - SPOILERS - Ascendancy - 03-27-2025
Starting this thread for a Spoiler-discussion of Season 3 of the show. So don't read any further unless you want spoilers.
Ye be warned.
RE: WoT Season 3 - SPOILERS - Ascendancy - 03-28-2025
S3 E5 Spoilers......
Rand playing with the kids was adorable. And Moiraine’s blue silk dress was so pretty. The design of Cold Rocks Hold was cool.
Nice touch having Bair and Chaid running while Faile rode the horse.
It cracked me up that Egwene said she wouldnt enter TAR again without the wise ones and yet like the next day does that exact same thing. I was so amused to see Egwene’s clothes change to her Amyrlin Armor! I loved the ghosties running through TAR, which had this tinkling musical jingle, stuff knocking over, creepy doll… the vibes were scary and awesome.
The scene with Elaida and Adaleas was perfection.
Mat-Nyn-Elayne-Min was just fun times. They are killing the group rapport. The Sea Folk made me jump up out of my seat and squeal. Given the Atha’an Miere are my favorite culture in all of WoT, I was so happy to see them finally introduced! I loved their costumes (thank you Sharon for not making them topless!—that was such a creepy thing in the books). Their jewelry and hair were stunning, and the sailmistress yelling at the sailor. gosh i can’t wait to see more of them. The Windfinder’s channeling was so beautiful. It was like an aurora and so different than the Aes Sedai and Forsaken ways. Loved it. Cant wait to see more! “there are many ways to be a channeler. Many ways to be a woman”
The whitecloaks and everything that happened there was suitably horrific. I was a little on Bornhold’s side (especially since he gave the girls water) until the business with Nattie. Now I hate him again.
So this aiel lady that is chatting up Lan is giving me all kinds of darkfriend vibes. I even get the sense that Lan senses she’s not what she says she is. I will say that if she is like 60 years old, she’s in great shape.
The scene with Moiraine and Lan drinking oosquai was so sweet. I am so glad they were able to squeeze in introducing oosquai into the show. I’ve noticed a few times some book stuff was squeezed in seamlessly. For instance, Mat starting to curse “mother’s milk in a cup” and Min’s “blood and ashes”. Just little sprinkles like that made me so happy. Anyway, them choking on the oosquai made me so happy.
Min’s drawings were like seeing Thalia come to life! Mat’s misinterpretation of the hanging was clever. It reminds you that there are so many interpretations.
The gray man creepy crawling on all fours was chilling.
Alanna’s fog was awesome.
Child Byar! omg he was bone chillingly nasty. Gave me disguised Byron vibes.
Alanna was a BEAST
Faile was a BEAST
Maksim rushing back to save her was pure warder energy. Then Alanna ripping an arrow out of herself and throwing it at a whitecloak with the OP was such Green energy.
I notice that when Lanfear is with Rand in the dream, she’s in her soft-feminine Cairhienin clothes of the current age when she wants to manipulate him. When she’s in her forsaken AoL get-up was when she was wanting to control him. But she learned it doesnt work, so she shifted tactics. And it works. Rand falls for her ‘soft’ version, rather than the ruthless evil Forsaken version, which is what she wears when she’s torturing Egwene—which is obviously who she truly is.
I appreciate that the cinematography differentiates the real world from the dream. It’s glowy and light, a little echo, and you can just sense its different. And when Egwene’s clothes shifted into her armor, i was so happy.
The music this season is different too. Its prettier. I recognize the themes, like the amyrlin’s theme but its modified, sadder yet hopeful, ethereal and dreamy. But there are more sinister tunes. When Egwene starts hopping from dream to dream, theres this distinct LotR sounding tune in the background. It just sounds more upscale than in the past. There is even a pretty tune playing over the credits. I need the lyrics!
Egwene watching everyone’s dreams seemed so motherly. AND OMG HOPPER.
Okay E5 was good for me.