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I didn’t know anything about the Wheel of Time but it’s so good??? Just watched the sixth episode and omg??? (I watched the rest of the series first obvs xD) Just. Everything about the characters, and the magic, the “encauzar”, and the colors and the clothes of everyone. And Moraine is the best >-< she just creept in my spot of fave chara silently? without warning? I really liked how her keeping of secrets and not talking much about what isn’t needed is something she is just like, that she does with everyone not just the confused main 5. When I realised that she was that way with everyone I went, oh that’s just great!!! But then she isn’t by any means inept she just, like, prefers to keep to herself most of the time with unkowns. Also she’s so beautiful I just stare at her when she enters the room, which is super weird for me with female charas and clearly shows I wasn’t watching the right shows. The female charas on the Wheel of Time are so so good? Siuan was a perfect surprise, how good is it to see a conflicted leader trying to do good, actively, being hard in front of others and then the difference with her in private with Moraine or later with Nynnive and Egweine??? Woman leaders are usually or “be kind and lead by the heart” or “be a (man)warrior”when they aren’t on the opposing side being bad bitches and manipulating. So I love her complexity ;_;
Speaking of the rest of the cast. Lan is great both with Moraine and Nynaeve. Moraine with him is great too, their scenes are really sweet and a bit hilarious in the “eh, you thought het but nope just besties for life” way, and also a bit heartbreaking. Just, the knight and lady imagery of it all. The way it’s platonic in the best possible way. The end of ep 5 omg.
Nynaeve (gods those names. they’re suffering, it’s impossible to divine the writing form from the spoken way) so anyway, the way she’s just relentlessly driven to protect Egwaine and the others and remain suspicious of the Aes Sedhai is at the same time a bit funny and really admirable??? Loved how she killed that trollock and the fact that Lan had to practically kidnapp her to make her cure Moraine but then she took it super seriously, and her explosion of healing power…. Great!! Also everytime red ajah blondie came to talk to her, she just, like, listened bc info is info, but also just ignored her attempts to tempt her to the ~Red side~ “we hate men in here” Lmfao. We like to see complex fem charas!!
Egwene is a bit more eh for me (and just, Moraine is my fave on general right now), but like, personal tastes aside, she’s amazing too and I loved when she went and told Rand, “look, maybe i want to be something more, and use this potential/power, and dunno, if i have to give up a life as someone’s wife or mother….” XD So great. Also that talk was handed really well in both parts? I liked that although there was a bit of drama it wasn’t awfull soap opera let’s kill any brain cells on our charas shit, but very realistic to both charas.
Of the guys… I mentioned Lan, above, and he’s very good, but my fave just by vibes and chara until now is Rand. He’s the other chara I spend way too much time looking at, bc the red hair-blue shirt combination calls terribly to my magpie eyes lol. But I love how he’s like, ignorant and a bit self-centered and also ready to die for his friends and be kind with people in general. He feels very realistic and not at all a bore or an idiot, which other charas of his kind tendo to fall into. Mat is terribly interesting if in the “i can’t keep my eyes away from the disaster” way xD
And Perrin… Oh poor poor Perrin!! Just, that first ep was terrible to him, and of all the ways to fridge someone, the realism of an overrreaction just at the end of a fight hit me hard. (Also when you have so many fem charas so great and complex you can allow this xD) Really liked how he’s the first of the boys in exhibit some innate power beyond dreams (and being possesed by a fkcd up daguer Mat) and how they’re nature related?? Wolf related, but the way he talked to the caravan people, and showed interest on their pacifism… Oh, I think he won’t have many opportunities in the future to do that….
