something i appreciate so much that wheel of time does better than any other fantasy show is showcasing all the different cultures that are present in the world and how that forms a character’s perspective and informs how they interact with characters from a different culture from their own.
in just the first 3 episodes of s3: its perrin and alanna sharing the different ways they grieve their dead and even liandrin's funeral custom (which helps propel the plot forward too!), how loial introduces himself in an ogier fashion and how bain and chiad do so in an aiel fashion to marin al'vere and not to mention just how the aiel culture just Clashes with everyone that's not aiel themself, its siuan continually using fishing analogies from her tairen unbringing, and how Different and Vibrant tar valon is from tanchico is from the aiel waste/three-fold land. and there's so much more i didn't catch
the show doesn't let you forget for a second that this fantasy world is vast with its own nations and people and cultures and that these characters are from different places of differing upbringings and it makes the world feel so alive.
it seeps in everywhere and makes the show so textured in a way i haven't seen in a long time. and don't even get me started on the wardrobes!