#wot s2e5

[cainfortea]

WoT Show

I don't think we can call Moiraine a horse girl anymore.

#wheel of time #wheel of prime #spoilers #wheel of time spoilers #moiraine damodred #wot s2e5

[emylilas]

Nothing's fair in love and war

- Fleurie

#wot edit #the wheel of time s2e5 and the “can this night just be over now” discourse... #wot s2 #moiraine damodred #siuan sanche #lanfear #liandrin guirale #alanna mosvani #moiraine x siuan #siuanraine #rosamund pike #sophie okonedo #natasha o'keeffe #kate fleetwood #priyanka bose #gifs #usergif #userlgbtq

[highladyluck]

I’m glad they made Dain a fuckboy because when he becomes a wet cat it will only make him more sad and powerfully homoerotic

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[eve-is-obsessed]

Anvaere Damodred is actually making me sick in the head. I can't begin to express the emotions I am experiencing right now. help

#eve reads wot #(watching the show on s2e5) #wheel of time show

[missmacfire]

My main take away from episode 5

I love Verin ❤️

The forsaken are such fun to watch

The wolfs are too cute

Aviendha! ☺️

Seanchan 😬

#wot on prime #wot on prime s2e5 #wot on prime spoilers #wheel of time

[thewheelweevils]

Liandrin Sedai

Spoilers through WoT S2E5, and very minor spoilers through book … oh, 6 or so?

Basically, I’m so loving the changes in S2 so far from the books. In S1 I struggled with them; in S2, not only do they make more sense, but I think they’re improving on the source material. In particular: Liandrin.

In the books, she’s kind of a minor antagonist. Very little depth, her motivation is that she … wants to be evil, I guess? Doesn’t like feeling powerless, sure. Here are the minor book spoilers, and I say minor because at this point I doubt that the show is going to stick with these story points:

In the books, she was already a Darkfriend when she came to the White Tower as a novice. We don’t get a ton about her motivations except that she had a rough childhood. And after she hands Nynaeve, Egwene, and Elayne (our wonderful Wonder Girls!) to the Seanchan, she becomes a background villain whom the Wonder Girls mostly engage with indirectly, and who vanishes from the narrative in a bit of poetic justice but ultimately she winds up feeing inconsequential. She picks a fight with a Forsaken and is punished with Footnote Syndrome: she doesn’t die but is basically made irrelevant to the rest of the story. No more Liandrin.

Season 2 is giving her much more depth and sympathy, as it is with all the Darkfriends, turning them from faceless or one-dimensional baddies into characters you can understand, even root for to some degree. And I suspect the show is going to make Liandrin a much more relevant character who will stick around a lot longer and be a more involved part of the Wonder Girls’ story arch.

That is all, till next time.

#wheel of time #wot #the wheel of time #wheel of time season 2 #unreasonably attractive fandom #egwene al'vere #nynaeve al'meara #elayne trakand #liandrin guirale #liandrin sedai #dare i say

[queersoftime]

Our discussion about s2e5 is now available wherever you can listen to podcasts! As always, the first part does not contain any WoT book spoilers...

Between a very sexy and corruptable Dain Bornhald, dominatrix mommy Lanfear, and the maiden who speared our hearts, The Wheel of Time Season 2 continues to give. In fact, it's so good that even some of the most vocal critics are accidentally stumbling into quality opinions on the show. What's not to love? Well, unless you're Egwene. Maybe if she were the strongest channeler we've seen in a thousand years, she wouldn't be in this situation. But anyway, it's time for us to discuss episode 5--Damane.

#queers of time #wheel of time #wot on prime #the wheel of time #moiraine damodred #egwene al'vere #liandrin sedai #no but really why does liandrin know what grows where and when

[highladyluck]

Looks like they ditched Semirhage, so I assume Graendal will be picking up Semirhage's slack (while Ishy fills in right now with the Seanchan and Lanfear steals her outfits.)

So, uh, congrats Tuon, you just got Graendal as your new Truthspeaker. I suspect she'll be better at her job than Semirhage was- Semirhage had a theming bonus but was otherwise kind of bad at psychological manipulation of someone she was only allowed to beat occasionally. Graendal's fully capable of getting in her head and fucking her up EXTRA.

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[highladyluck]

Season 2, Episode 5 Liveblog

“Finished pouting?” Never. Suroth has never finished pouting in her life

Egwene says “These colors don’t run!”

I’m sorry but I laughed at Lanfear’s outfit

Grolm time! I love the Seanchan theme it’s so creepy

We have handtalk!

Ahahahahahaha damn they are really going for the Whitecloak and Rand parallels (uniting everyone under our banner to fight the shadow)

Interesting scarification(?) on Turak’s bald head- are they coding him as imperial family? I forgot what his canonical relationship to the throne was

It's manicure time for Suroth's coke nails

Oh hai, it’s our buddy Fain

I forgot that Turak knew the box code (as did book!Lanfear) and that reports of him having the Horn would have gone back to Seanchan

True Power is very useful here

Oh my god you have horse girl Moiraine killing horses (like that’ll stop Lanfear)

I like how she vaporized his head

Omg I love Lanfear’s utter disdain

Perrin is very mad right now, love to see it

“You can’t run from what you are” but the boys are all sure as hell are going to try lmao

Moiraine like ‘it’s time for very bad news, are you keeping moving? good good’

‘If they’re all released we’re doomed’ (Look I’m gonna tell you a secret, they kinda suck, you guys will probably do ok)

Hopper is like ‘I’m on babysitting duty, I have no choice’

I hope we get Gaul but I will take… holy shit that is a smoking hot Aviendha

Omg omg is that Dain Bornhald? ill-met by moonlight

Perrin’s like ‘I do not understand and I am now officially in jailbreak mode, please leave any friendly warnings with my wolf’

It’s not a coincidence that there are Aiel and Seanchan, it’s the plot lmao (also the apocalypse)

I love Lanfear talking to herself so so much! Eat that scenery, Lanfear! Eat it for the woman and the man who no longer can eat things because you sewed their mouth shut and popped their head like a pimple, respectively

Browns Browns Browns

In the Ways again…

Liandrin, are you gonna try to recruit Nyneave? Let me rephrase that. Do you think you will SUCCEED in recruiting Nyneave?

Huh, tying the oaths to Artur Hawkwing, I kinda like that

Nihilism, baby!!! Oh I love Nyneave so much

Suroth is not having a good day

“Finished pouting?” Never. Suroth has never finished pouting in her life

“And plunge the Empire into civil war?” 👀👀👀 It’s fine they have spares

Lmao Suroth in a power struggle with Ishy is very fun

If you keep calling the last battle early, no one is going to believe you when it really is the last battle, Ishy

“People shouldn’t be in cages” that’s a book line!

She is so hot help

Ooooh I love the Aiel theme

The music this season is so good!!!

Dain with his big axe and Perrin with his hammer

The camera on the battle scenes is characteristic by now- feels very ‘in it’

Lanfear like ‘ah my Tel'Aran'Rhiod propaganda is working’

Congrats Moiraine now everyone in your family thinks Rand is your boytoy

Queen Galldrian and baby boy Barthanes!

Verin is like ‘oh hi! Did you know you have massive problems? :D’

It’s important to cross-check

Verin introducing Compulsion

Liandrin I think you don’t have a ton of leg to stand on criticizing the system when you’re about to feed these girls into it

Awww look she gave Nyneave a fighting chance

Egwene says “These colors don’t run!”

Avi like ‘wow you don’t even know what toh is, hoo boy’

I like their carpet mantles

Lmao Elayne’s priorities “They’re occupiers!” vs Nyneave “who cares, we need to get the fuck out of here” al’Meara

Verin is Columboing her way through the usual suspects

Omg Moiraine is actually being honest as well as truthful

And her sister is honest back

Rand needs protection! And he needs you because you’re his magic mom who gives him complexes

UM [this is Ishy cuddling up to Rand]

Subtlety thy name is not Lanfear

HUH (re Moiraine desperation)

Because you’re King Nihilist

MOGGY MENTION

TITS OUT FOR GRAENDAL

“The Boys” I disagree with Lanfear’s assessment of the girls (insane & vain/stupid) but she’s right about the boys, and it does set up the 'everyone in this office hates everyone else' vibes

See I told you, he’s King Nihilist

Booooooooooooo Mat’s not yours

Oh you have not seen anything yet re: breaking Rand

Oooooooooh Ishy prompted the omens for the Return?

Court of the Nine Moons mention! It's interesting having this be the first time we hear about it. Won't change things that much narratively unless certain other characters hear about it prior to the next season or so, though.

YES WE HAVE YELLOW AJAH I love it

Oh man this is going to hurt

Collars and leashes confirmed

Moiraine is correct that Lanfear probably won’t hurt him physically. However, she can absolutely hurt him emotionally so I don't think he's gonna be, uh, safe

Hmmmmm I don’t think I like the lack of mystery about why Lanfear turned, but otoh no living Aes Sedai is a reliable narrator about the Age of Legends, so I’m filing this under ‘reasonable but there might be a more interesting story later’

Staking Rand out like sexy sexy bait

Oooooh it’s symbolism time

I’m sorry but I laughed at Lanfear’s outfit

Oh episode 6 is going to be very hard to watch

#wheel of time #wot book spoilers #wot on prime #wot on prime spoilers #wot on prime s2 #wot on prime s2e5 #Lanfear bites AND she can hurt you in other ways

[cainfortea]

WoT S2E5 thoughts

Holy shit that last scene is some absolute Lanfear shit. Top shelf. Peak crazy girl. Also so many more Forsaken name drops.

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