This was a very Perrin-centric episode. I have to admit, even in the books his story arch never really catched on to me. Still, there were some great moments in this episode as well.
Likes:
The villagers’ song. I love that we get a catchy song in every episode now. (Edit: Its not new but the atmosphere was perfect)
In general, how they handled the fight scenes as well as the training of the villagers.
Faile: So much better than the books. Same with her relationship with Perrin.
Really glad they got rid of Dain Bornhold, who thought Perrin was a dark friend. Never made much sense, and everything could still happen as known if he just hates him because of his father.
Bain and Chiad. Their style, their behavior, their comments, everything. Together they are my secret favorites this season.
The two river set is still great and the landscape shots fit perfectly into how I imagined the area years ago.
Dislikes:
Would have liked to see more Trollocs, less dark friends in the battles.
The death of Loial. I just don’t see a reason for him not to be in the later seasons. Of course, it could be another Fake death, but I would dislike that even more. The high numbers if this is still one of my top criticisms of the show.
I’m glad your list of likes is longer than the dislikes. Maybe I am just being a big curmudgeon about it but…
It feels like a lot of the streamlining that they are doing here is because they expect to have to wrap this thing up in 4-5 seasons. If that is the case they are likely to be tempted to grab things from much later books and skip them forward. In order to do that they are going to start amputating plotlines. Between the amputations and the cauterisation of what is kept so it doesn’t rely on the missing tissue… I think it’s going to get a whole lot more distressing for book fans.
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This was a very Perrin-centric episode. I have to admit, even in the books his story arch never really catched on to me. Still, there were some great moments in this episode as well.
Likes:
Dislikes:
I’m glad your list of likes is longer than the dislikes. Maybe I am just being a big curmudgeon about it but…
It feels like a lot of the streamlining that they are doing here is because they expect to have to wrap this thing up in 4-5 seasons. If that is the case they are likely to be tempted to grab things from much later books and skip them forward. In order to do that they are going to start amputating plotlines. Between the amputations and the cauterisation of what is kept so it doesn’t rely on the missing tissue… I think it’s going to get a whole lot more distressing for book fans.