S2E4 "Daughter of the Night" -- w/ Book Spoilers

[Melearlin Valar]

My rambling/live blog as I watched:
- holy balls a sister for Moiraine. that's a change. But they gave us a dressing scene where we can see corsetry and undergarments so I forgive them!
- loooove Alanna's village thingy being so indian-influenced. Such a nice visual change from ye olde england fantasy
- sending visual images is way easier to portray on screen than literally telepathy with wolves, that would have to be subtitles and that's visually meh
- finally some evil Liandrin! And having a genuine reason (perrin and loial are captured) instead of generic "uh rand is in trouble" is a way better reason.
- ok which of the writers is seriously into kink Y'all think Sanderson is watching this with the warder 3somes and all the S&M?
- Originally dubious on Lanfear healing herself, but it makes some amount of sense if you want to go with "only balefire can truly kill forsaken" and then you don't even have to bother with resurrected bodies, you can just keep the same actors the whole time. Which is way better for a show than new bodies (and avoids the ickyness with Balthamel/Halima gender stuff)
- there is no reason Moiraine should have been able to find them. Just because the sister knew about Selene and the inn is no reason she would know about Selene taking him to her sexy cabin with a view.
- leaning more towards "moiraine is super shielded" given that she still seems to think that she can't lie and we haven't seen any evidence that she can. It's possible that she hasn't tried and is going on instinct, but it's not reading that way.

 

[Megana Vallentin]

I think I was bothered more by how simplified the arches felt. It was very much more arcane in the books. They had more sisters that were present to maintain the arches. It felt bigger. This was just a small room and it just didn't have the same oomph for me.

I was okay with most of that, but the way they just seemed to activate the arches but didn't have to maintain them was a bit disappointing to me. Although it did really sell Nynaeve's loss to me, since I totally expected that once they gave up and left, that was it. When Egwene was in there trying to reactivate them herself, I was like, "hang on what? That's a thing??"

 

[Melearlin Valar]

I figure Egwene was just grasping at straws trying to do anything.

 

[Boreas Silverfir]

I appreciate that we might never see everything from inside the arches. Those are private moments after all.

 

[Nadezhda al'Lanahrin]

I just realized we've not seen the Whitecloaks at all this season so far.

 

[Megana Vallentin]

I figure Egwene was just grasping at straws trying to do anything.

That's what I figured, until the moment Nynaeve popped back out.

 

[Morrighan Daghdera]

Spoiler: I meme it