![]() It’s a better show for it.īut then, it’s a better show in general now. As we see when his fellow Warder Ihvon (a strong Emmanuel Imani) tells him to get over himself about the idea that he and Moraine were somehow equals, this is a man who needs the piss taken out of him figuratively as well as literally. By all means, spend a few seconds of screen time to show the sexy swordsman drain the main vein. Beneath all of author Robert Jordan’s insane quantity of characters and cultures and ancient civilizations and magical McGuffins, these are just people, and people urinate after they have a bunch to drink with dinner. Lan taking a pee break in the middle of a cookout is right in line with that. Heck, Thrones alum Dave Hill wrote this episode! Really well at that!) But Wheel has its own earthy quality, rooted in practical matters, ranging from how to get decent wine when you’re poor as hell to how to comfort a grieving friend to how to negotiate the interpersonal dynamics of a throuple, with or without the use of magic. (Nerds can kvetch all they want about how the two shows, and the books from which they sprung, are totally different in this way or that, but it’s just a fact of the business that GoT is why we have TWoT and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Time, etc. Wheel is indeed far less gory, explicit, and brutal than the show that clearly inspired its creation. Game of Thrones went there first (it went everywhere first), but seeing a heroic main character take a leak on this show reinforces its particular brand of realism. I’m serious! If you’ve spent enough time around fantasy TV shows and movies, or at least around the kinds of people who watch them to complain about them, you may have heard this complaint: “This fantasy includes fucked-up stuff because it’s ‘realistic’? How come you never see anyone going to the bathroom, then?” Checkmate, complainers! ![]() The handsome and tormented Warder, pissing on a tree trunk. You know what I’m going to go with, though: al’Lan Mandragoran, There are many things, large and small, that I could single out as the highlight of this episode of The Wheel of Time, the second very strong one in a row. The ornate latticework covering every column within the tower of the Aes Sedai, a simple design flourish that communicates their beauty and skill on the one hand, their preoccupation with ritual and their decadent splendor on the other - the attempted murder of a demigoddess. Moiraine Damodred futzing around in her childhood room, the ghost of a smile on her face as she remembers who she used to be. A vampiric being of an ancient evil called back from beyond the grave while dripping Hellraiser quantities of blood from her nude body. A bird’s-eye view of the city of Tar Valon spread out in all its splendor around the great White Tower.
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