imagine being Eustace scrubb. your weird gay cousin is king Arthur . and you used to make fun of him for being weird and gay but now you know he's literally king Arthur and one of like 7 people in the world who understand your specific portal fantasy experience but he's still your weird gay cousin and also king Arthur. like id explode
thinking about how he lowkey expected this from suly so he isn’t surprised but rather disappointed but hearing that from hatice of all people was SHOCKING it hurt him like nothing else and in his hurt he equated these reaction as the same even though hatice’s one wasn’t intentional hence the “I know who you think I am”
It also adds a whole another level of fucked-upness when you remember suly is the state and everything ibro does as a politician and as a soldier is seen as a personal behaviour on suly himself. Because ibro is there only because of him and everything about him exists thanks to that very obvious favouritism. So everything goes back to them and their relationship and that is such a toxic environment to be in because wdym you have nothing outside of this guy.
I think to some extent he could justify to himself the whole cheating as we don’t have any private matters everything is public but then was hit with suly taking everything super personal even though like no bro this isn’t about you on paper 😭. so like there is always this mind games and manipulations about what is wanted of him because suly himself couldn’t figure out what he wanted from him so there is this push and pull and no normal person could keep up with that without struggling.
He still loved him and believed him to be the truth enough to try to make it work and it sucks that it was never acknowledged and he was branded as nothing but a traitor or “suly dealing with demons he shouldn’t because he did what needed to be done” because like no he is human having a very human reaction that he should be having. we’re not from that time we can acknowledge he isn’t god
"In Ottoman Greece, a motherless girl named Daphne leads a suffocating farmer's life. When her older brother dies after a short illness, her patriarch father curses God for leaving him with only a daughter. Unable to pay the local priest for his son's burial, he compels Daphne to go to the village and beg for money. Daphne gets rejected and mocked by the villagers, and flees to the mountains, where she finds a gold pouch. She dares to dream this could be her way out. But just before she's about to carry out her escape plan, the Devil pays her a visit. These lands belong to him. And payment is due."
very excited to read this, ive been itching to read something set in ottoman greece so this is amazing. its set to release on the 23rd of september i think and i will be sat! day one ;)
recently binged watched the wheel of time show after putting it off for years so here are my thoughts :)
my ranking of the current seasons is
1) season 2
2) season 1
3) season 3
the intro is soooo good like genuinely top notch and the soundtrack is also amazing ive been listening to it on repeat <3
ps i have not read the books (but i do know a few spoilers)
detailed review below :)
season 1
i started this a while back and around episode 5 i stopped for like a good 2 years (no specific reason i just do that sometimes #professionaltvwatcher)
but im so glad i continued. this season was a great intro to the world and i loved how the relationships between the two rivers 5 were set up. i loved how they introduced moiraine and how we see her develop later on. the start of the nyneave and lan relationship was very rushed though. like why r u two already acting in love u just met ? the sets and the costumes were really help pull you into the story (although I THINK! some of the magic was kinda poorly explained what is a fade. but ill give the show the fact that they were mostly an ep5 focus and it's been like 3 years since i watched that so that might be a me problem). highlight for me was the rand and mat storyline i have been convinced by the cauthor agenda i say add mat to the polycule! although i felt the pacing of the season was off, the beginning dragged on a bit and the eye of the world thing was so fast i was like tahts it? BUT i liked the season overall so i decided to continue :)
season 2
i could feel the improvement from last season this was a TREAT! oooh we got so many more settings to explore in this world and all of them looked good someone really needs to give a handwritten thank you note and bonus pay to the set and costume designers <3 my one issue with the world is because of the waygates nothing feels particularly far from eachother. the map of this world does not feel like an actual map. game of thrones season 1 did this really well (yes i am using the got comparison it's the big fantasy show of the age i gotta do it), i felt like they were travelling from place to place but if you ask me where tar valon is in comparison to falme ill give you a blank look. loved the introduction of elayne and the trio of nyneave, egwene and elayne was amazing, egwene was definitely the highlight of the season for me. madeleine madden was phenomenal. everyone was acting better than they were last season. they were never particularly bad but you can see the improvement and that was great. donal finn was also a great recast enjoyed all his scenes. rand storyline at the beginning made me yawn a bit to be honest and selene annoyed me so bad i barely managed not to skip their scenes. however once the lanfear got revealed it was great fan # be true to yourself queen. moiraine and rand were so great love their relationship through the season, she would sacrifice anything to see him succeed. moiraine in general had one of my favourite arcs this season with her supposed stilling and then her relationship with siuan being lowley blown up ooooh i ate that up. yumyumyum. perin and aviendha were great loved their banter. the finale of this season was so amazing as was the rest of it it really git my expectations high for whatever next.
season 3
my expectations were too high. from the beginning i did not like the filter but that's pretty minor so i let it go, but in hindsight the season felt rushed overcrowded buttt im gonna start with the positives and Then ill complain. again the relationship between rand and moiraine is so special to me AND THEY FINALLY UNDERSTAND EACHOTHER. also lan and moiraine <3<3<3<3 loved the continuation of the min and mat friendship they're great. also from what ive seen people didn't enjoy how much focus there still was on rand/egwene but i really liked how the breakdown of their relationship was developed. the highlight of the season to me was perrin though. he's so kind <3 the battle of the two rivers was so good and his whole arc of choosing peace was sooooo good omg i need more of him. the faile perrin romance felt a bit fast but in a show with nyneave and lan im gonna let it go. and they haven't had a love confession or anything so peace and love they're cute i ship it. and now. complaints for whole season (minimal would not bother me that much in general) and the finale (pissed me off so bad i had to stop watching shows and started reading books so i guess thanks for getting me out of the reading slump i guess)
1) the rhuidean journey i enjoyed overall but i felt like aviendha was really done dirty, this was an opportunity to focus more on her and rand but there was literally nothing there she was gone half the time, if i didn't know from spoilers that she's important down the line id think she was a minor character? which i don't think is a good impression to give to your audience.
2) tanchico storyline? why did they do nothing lowkey? lost the artifact (no idea what is was called) and lost mat's memories (not sure what's going on here i tried looking it up and apparently it's not book accurate so ? hope they give mat something more next season bc he's been standing around doing nothing for 2 now let's get a move on guys) lost liandrin (who is overstaying her welcome i think. nyneave should've killed her or at least fought her.) nyneave got unblocked and whole that scene was great and i liked how it was set up with the sailors previously and the water motiff it felt a bit ? bc she did nothing with it except walk out the water (she did look good though)
3) why is maksim there all the time, it was fun at the beginning yay #thetrio and i love alanna so far but? he is also overstaying his welcome. maybe instead of 5000 hours of maksim we could get an extra minute of aviendha no? also the death of ihvon om it's own is like. fine. but after you kill loial and siuan too like maybe you should stop killing off black characters left and right for no good reason huh? killing ihvon just to get more maksim scenes is... blehpukekillmaksimewwblehbleh
4) siuan.... siuan siuan siuan. her death genuinely pissed me off so bad. it was unnecessarily violent and cruel. siuan was sidelined to moiraine the entire runtime of the show, mostly looked kinda incompetent as the leader of the white tower just to prop up moiraine and now her death is also just used for moiraine. like (again i have not read the books so take my words here with a grain of salt) as far as i know she has a story that can be told after her stilling, she didn't need to die especially not in such a violent way. i completely understand people calling this racist esp since you've already killed two black characters and now you kill another one who isn't dead in the book like ok. i liked her final speech though. and idk im a bit worried siuan's death will be used to explain whatever awful fate awaits elaida in the show but whatever not there yet no need to complain about the nonexistent.
personally my delusional theory that probably doesnt actually work is that she's actually alive. im suspecting that white ajah that helped elaida to be secretly black ajah (there is still one left in the tower) so maybe she cast some sort of weave to make siuan appear as if beheaded (idk does that exist? whatever dont tell me) to imprison her and use her against moiraine. speaking of moiraine how did she even know siuan was dead i didn't get it but whatever couldn't a forsaken make her believe that? that is my current theory with a few holes but ive gotta cope somehow.
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