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  1. Aratouial Delafeld

    I'm sorry... One of the FIVE of you?!

    I had a thought while cooking dinner: another good reason for "one of the four/five of you" is that, to TV audiences, not including Egwene could easily be misread as "following Rand." We know she leaves because she's restless and ambitious and seizes the opportunity, but I can easily put myself...
  2. Aratouial Delafeld

    I'm sorry... One of the FIVE of you?!

    My personal thoughts are that The Karaethon Cycle, if you remove the male pronouns, doesn't change. It doesn't explicitly make the connection that the Dragon will channel saidin and go mad-- mostly because he doesn't go mad, so they'd be inaccurate if they predicted that (Lews Therin's voice was...
  3. Aratouial Delafeld

    I'm sorry... One of the FIVE of you?!

    yeah sure probably but I'd argue the author's intention there was to set up the primary emotional conflict in Rand's interior dialogue ... none of which can be adapted to film in a show about an ensemble cast. You can do it if you make a show like Mr. Robot but I don't want Mr. Dragon, I want a...
  4. Aratouial Delafeld

    I'm sorry... One of the FIVE of you?!

    I love how we're all taking the word of a Cairhienen Aes Sedai at face value :lol Just because that's the text of what she says, it doesn't mean we know why she said it. Maybe she's convincing all five of them to get out of the TR because she doesn't want to leave two powerful channelers...
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