The writers of this show couldn't touch the quality of writing in Game of Thrones. It was a lost cause from the start with these writers. Through all 3 seasons they constantly contradicted what was established earlier, sometimes even within the same episode. And if not contradicting themselves, they were full on retconning earlier mistakes in the writing. Anybody who actually thought any season of this show was good could only do so by turning off their brain. Otherwise you become aware of the glaring plot holes, plot conveniences, and stuff just happening because the script said so. The in show White Tower politics were just petty, juvenile at best, and not even remotely intelligent. I could go on, but it's really not worth the time.

I'll just sign off by thanking Rafe Judkins for ruining the possibility we'll ever see a good adaptation of this show. Investors will now only see it as a failed IP.

They did the exact opposite with Mat's memories that's in the book.

In the books, Mat's interaction with the Shadar Logoth dagger makes him go through his journey at the time in a stupor, his mind losing memory of that time. Unlike the show, when Mat is in the White Tower, the Yellow Ajah help separate Mat from his connection to the dagger, thereby saving his life which has been slowly draining away. He did not receive his past life memories from Ishamael's tea, or the blowing of the Horn of Valere. The show definitely isn't clear on which of those two gives him the memories.

When he meets the Eelfinn, one of his wishes is to get his memories back, those he lost while carrying the dagger. The complete opposite of what they did in the show! How is he going to have the memories of part generals now? This show keeps muffing up simple story beats and now they'll have to do something that makes absolutely zero sense to explain his memories, I'd they even do it now. Wouldn't be surprised if they nixed it all just to simplify their writing. Mat will, completely without any explanation, have him be a military genius. Smh.

No, in typical Judkins fashion, the Eelfinn are only an Easter egg for book fans. But at this point in this travesty of an adaptation, any Easter egg he drops at this point is merely a slap in the face of the book fans.

Just about every time this show actually does something close to the books, (Nynaeve's accepted test, Egwene's time captured by the Seanchan, Rand's walk through Rhuidien, etc), it's at its best. And that's the saddest part, because those times exemplify what potential this show actually had, (even though they were drastically "cheapened" from their book counterparts). But instead it's all squandered for Rafe's made up BS that's written so poorly I can't fathom how even people who've never read the books can even make sense of this drivel.

With this show, story beats are dropped out of nowhere, many of which you'd never understand if you hadn't read the books. Almost everything is "tell", not "show". So many things are contradicted from previous episodes, sometimes even within a single episode. Death doesn't exist, everybody is fine moments after fatal wounds. Things are often fully retconed. There are no stakes in this world.

So anyway, the Eelfinn aren't going to be properly explained or used again. (I mean, who of those who haven't read the books can explain to me what a "Stedding" is? That's the way this show works!)... Honestly, I'd be surprised if this show lasts long enough to do so.

Shane Who really cares! If you're so proud of yourself in picking this up, then tell me why, when he had the power to completely cloak what was going on in Eregion, while it was under attack, with a vast illusion, why did he need to cut himself to create such a simple illusion of Mithril in a flask?

This show makes ZERO sense! And I even have a very active imagination and can forgive a lot...if it makes sense within the world and the story. Everything these writers do is just so utterly cheap, and unintelligent.

And as to the "your welcome" you gave me, I'll quote one of Galadriel's stupidest lines in the show from season one, when Miriel told her, "You're welcome to try", in reference to getting off the island by herself, Galadriel responds:

"I have no need of your welcome!"

Really?! Let's look at Jordan's Perrin:

Here's a guy who grew up bigger than all the other boys in his village. He quickly learned that if he wasn't careful, he'd hurt people. So he grew up doing everything in his power to be gentle and kind.

Then he encounters the wolves, and a man who shows him that he will change with his connection to the wolves, which he essentially fears because he doesn't understand it yet.

Then, almost immediately afterwards, they encounter a belligerent military group who attack the wolves. Perrin, with his connection to the wolves, feels their frenzy and hatred for the Whitecloaks, essentially goes berserk with them, and ultimately kills two men.

For a man who grew up as a gentle giant, fearing hurting anyone, this is an earth shattering breach of his character, as he knows himself, and it terrifies him! And going forward from this point on, he fears his connection to the wolves and possibly losing himself in that berserker frenzy again, or losing himself completely. Therefore he develops an immediate hate for his axe and struggles even carrying it, because it represents violence and hurting other people, something he grew up actively avoiding, even in the smallest form. However, he realizes he has to carry it in this cruel world out of necessity. So it's a major internal struggle for him.

But no, you're right, this show's version of Perrin is much better! Giving him a wife we never get to know, or love, or care about in any way, shape, or form, then cheaply fridging her to give Perrin a reason to apparently struggle with violence which he never really shows thus far in the show, except for a couple forgettable brief moments, is way better!

(They never even establish how gentle of a character he actually is. Nor do they accurately establish him entertaining the idea of taking on The Way of the Leaf, because during his entire time with them in the show, he ridicules Aram for their ways, by allowing their dogs to be violent, but