WoT on Prime episode 5 SPOILERS

[Mikhail]

Oh, yeah. Completely agree about Rand. I think Josha has done a great job with what he has been given *as Rand*. But as far as things he has done....nah. Other than the door, nothing makes him stand out. As I said, it's interesting and surprising that the analysis by non book readers going off just the clues has Rand slightly ahead. 

Their full data table (with each new piece of evidence) is here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WoT/comments/ra...&context=3
The idea is that with each new episode, new facts are introduced that would make them more, likely, less likely or the same as the previous. The number of episodes also factors. For example:

Similarly, we didn't really see anything new from Nynaeve in this episode. In fact she's also getting a small downgrade. Looking back over the season so far, we think there's been very strong evidence that her main skill will be healing - something which we haven't factored-in at all until now. I.e., so far we haven't really accounted for the fact that she was the wisdom/healer of 2 rivers, she helped heal Moiraine in episode 3, power-heals everyone in episode 4, gives medicine to Stepin, tries to take care of Mat in episode 5, and is basically super-protective of everyone she cares about. We also learned that there is a faction of Tar Valon dedicated to healing (see the incredibly illuminating 5th episode of the animated shorts). We strongly suspect that all of this is setting Nynaeve up to be a totally OP healing character, but not likely the Dragon. At least not by herself (the Power Ranger hypothesis is still very much alive). As a result, we're taking all of this 'healer' evidence into account now to apply a small downgrade to the probability that Nynaeve by herself will be the Dragon Reborn. She drops 3 points from 11% to 8%.

But this is sort of what I mean about Rand being significantly down played. The bayes' analysis of the minutia holds up (and these people have no clue Rand is the DR) but that is DESPITE the fact that a casual viewing/impression pushes Rand lower. I am not sure if that is a good or bad thing, but is interesting all the same. (I DO love that power rangers Dragon is a theory that has some support. I think it's hilariously clever and not at all expected in something like this. Too bad it doesn't work...)
So there are 4 male forsaken. Ishy is already names. Shorty is likely Sammael or a Sammy merging. The other two are tall guy with guitar and short guy. The tall guitar guy is likely Asmo, which means we have another shorty in the bunch. So it could be interesting if Demandred (slightly shorter than LTT, hook nosed, almost 'everything') is portrayed as short.
of course that is assuming the statues are visual cues as to their identity. Case in point, Ishy as baalzamon with a face that looks like a mask. And yet, in world, no one knows Ishy is Baalzamon with the mask. Still, at least 3 of the female forsaken bear some visual clues that they are based on in-world (at least from the AS perspective) knowledge. So it's curious.
Loial's actor is phenomenal. I really dislike his hair. And his prosthetics look a bit...rubbery. Still, I think I won't notice it much. He captures his rambling bumbling self.

Your husband is clever re Lan. If we didn't know for sure, that would have been a great twist.