Calling Egwene "unbreakable" when she can create cuendillar: perfect. Calling her "unbreakable" in light of what happens during the Last Battle: ugly tears.
Lan - this episode kind of ruined Lan for me. Where is the stone face we know and love? He was perfect for most of the episode, but that last scene ruined the effect
I am so in love with that episode. Only had one watch through so definitely will be doing a repeat in the coming days. It made me realised I never actually teared up in GoT, but here, by episode 5 I'm crying over characters I had just recently met because this show has actual heart and tugs on those emotional strings which I absolutely adore. It makes me care and become invested in the characters.
I really hope Elaida does make an appearance sometime however, as I did like to dislike her. To be completely honest I liked her enough to name some mmorpg characters after her haha I may love the bad ones.
Absolutely loved Loial, his hands and voice... so soothing and comforting. Perfection.
Also, if Moiraine and Liandrin did have a past I so want to read about. Give me a lovers to enemies story any day! (Or the other way around...either works as long as there is angst lol)
So in anthropology, if you study mourning traditions (*waves*) there are very specifically certain types of mourning ceremonies that are meant to release emotion. In some cases it's the only time you're socially and culturally expected to release raw emotion.
The whole funeral scene for Stepin screamed that. It seemed that the Warder leader chooses the one who finds the body of a downed Warder to release that emotion. It also seemed to be a ceremony really specifically linked to a suicide after losing one's Sedai.
So in anthropology, if you study mourning traditions (*waves*) there are very specifically certain types of mourning ceremonies that are meant to release emotion. In some cases it's the only time you're socially and culturally expected to release raw emotion.
The whole funeral scene for Stepin screamed that.
I read Liandrin's touching of Moiraine's face and hair to be a power move, kind of the way you sometimes see between men in a corporate setting when the ladder-climber steps up to a rival and while talking to them also takes initiative to brush off their jacket or straighten their tie for them. Kind of a passive-aggressive move to establish superiority, whether it works or not.