11-12-2021, 05:21 PM
It's an interesting question. In the 1st book, it all came out at the Eye. The green man calls him child of the dragon (which, when I 1st read it, I didn't get as a reference to teh Aiel. I thought it was an indicator that he was the DR. Perhaps RJ wanted that mental association as well to nudge the reader in the right direction.) It becomes obvious when Rand channels pure saidin.
Im trying to remember my 1st read. i confess, it was a bit confusing the way it all went down. How Rand began to channel the pure saidin from the Eye, siphoning away from Aginor. How he somehow ended up in what we later found out was the world of dreams facing and burning baalzamon (After destroying the shadowspawn at Tarwins gap.) It was a massive jumble of stuff that happened (similar to book 3's climax with Rand and Baalzamon, as I recall.)
In the end, after it is all done, Moiraine listens in to Rand telling someone (Egwene?) he is leaving and will never channel again. And she is looking at the dragon banner and saying "the dragon is reborn."
It's a climax that occurs at the end and because of facing down a big bad. If I had to guess, the question of who the DR is will need to occur at some climax. It doesn't HAVE to be the Eye (if they cut it) To be honest, of all the RJisms in the early book, it is the most inconsistent. RJ was still nailing down his world and the magic system. Things in the EOTW feel the most...soft magic (akin to LOTR) rather than the much more concrete stuff later. (Even book 2 has some 'magic' that doesn't fit later depictions. The battle over Falme and the connection between Baalzamon and the Seanchan armies- when he fell back, they did, when he surged, they did. RJ later sort of retconned it and called it a Pattern Level Event, that it was the quickest and most efficient way to declare Rand the dragon and to eliminate Taim and the other 2 false dragons. That feels retcon to me. I suspect he didn't flesh out TR until book 3- just opinion.)
The eye primarily made it clear who the dragon was, hid the banner, a seal and the horn. Those can be taken care of with another climax that still feels appropriate. But I don't think it will be ep 3. That's too soon. I think ep 3 will make it clear that one of them is the dragon and give the lore and backstory that make it all the more terrifying. They might use the last ep to accomplish an Eye ending. But that leaves a lot of heavy lifting for season 2 to move throught he storylines that involve at least book 2 and 3. (I know the 1st season has storyline elements from the 1st 3 books as well as New Spring).
Again, it makes me curious how they will dole out their climaxes and revelations with short seasons. Hopefully, they get longer orders so they have room to flesh them out. Realistically, 10 seasons is like 12 years in the actors lives. Thats a lot of time and a lot will change in them. Saw a video yesterday commenting on how innocent and scared Rand looks. And it will be interesting to mark that to check in a few years when Rand has become iron.
I am looking for the soundtrack. is it on youtube?
Im trying to remember my 1st read. i confess, it was a bit confusing the way it all went down. How Rand began to channel the pure saidin from the Eye, siphoning away from Aginor. How he somehow ended up in what we later found out was the world of dreams facing and burning baalzamon (After destroying the shadowspawn at Tarwins gap.) It was a massive jumble of stuff that happened (similar to book 3's climax with Rand and Baalzamon, as I recall.)
In the end, after it is all done, Moiraine listens in to Rand telling someone (Egwene?) he is leaving and will never channel again. And she is looking at the dragon banner and saying "the dragon is reborn."
It's a climax that occurs at the end and because of facing down a big bad. If I had to guess, the question of who the DR is will need to occur at some climax. It doesn't HAVE to be the Eye (if they cut it) To be honest, of all the RJisms in the early book, it is the most inconsistent. RJ was still nailing down his world and the magic system. Things in the EOTW feel the most...soft magic (akin to LOTR) rather than the much more concrete stuff later. (Even book 2 has some 'magic' that doesn't fit later depictions. The battle over Falme and the connection between Baalzamon and the Seanchan armies- when he fell back, they did, when he surged, they did. RJ later sort of retconned it and called it a Pattern Level Event, that it was the quickest and most efficient way to declare Rand the dragon and to eliminate Taim and the other 2 false dragons. That feels retcon to me. I suspect he didn't flesh out TR until book 3- just opinion.)
The eye primarily made it clear who the dragon was, hid the banner, a seal and the horn. Those can be taken care of with another climax that still feels appropriate. But I don't think it will be ep 3. That's too soon. I think ep 3 will make it clear that one of them is the dragon and give the lore and backstory that make it all the more terrifying. They might use the last ep to accomplish an Eye ending. But that leaves a lot of heavy lifting for season 2 to move throught he storylines that involve at least book 2 and 3. (I know the 1st season has storyline elements from the 1st 3 books as well as New Spring).
Again, it makes me curious how they will dole out their climaxes and revelations with short seasons. Hopefully, they get longer orders so they have room to flesh them out. Realistically, 10 seasons is like 12 years in the actors lives. Thats a lot of time and a lot will change in them. Saw a video yesterday commenting on how innocent and scared Rand looks. And it will be interesting to mark that to check in a few years when Rand has become iron.
I am looking for the soundtrack. is it on youtube?