The Wheel of Time Season 2 SNEAK PEEK - Darkfriend Social 

I’m glad you think there are six seals because that would make more sense to me and I personally don’t like the one seal per Forsaken idea so I hope it’s a different number.

@@ReadingthePattern I thought the seals were never tied to the forsaken, they just kept the prison shut for the Dark One as well as them and as they started to weaken the forsaken started getting out. But it was never one per forsaken which is why they all got out even though there were still 2-3 seals left.

@@ioannispaxinos5171 I don’t think the show is going to do one seal per forsaken I think it’s just a design choice to represent the Forsaken on the seals or seal proxies which is what we might be seeing here.

@@ReadingthePattern I think the little statues at the Social are just that, made of stone, symbolic and easter eggy more than anything else. As for the number of seals in the show, 6 or 8 are the most likely. It feels weird that the little statues at the Social (and the real cuendillar seal at the Eye) would have eight points but then there are only 6 seals in the world. Similarly, it feels weird if there are 8 seals that there were only 6 statues and that the roof only had 6 points. I don’t immediately love idea of the seals being tied so closely to the Forsaken, though the analysis of the dolls/seal iconography is pretty convincing. I’ll have to reserve judgment on how the show handles this. Please no ‘one seal and one forsaken a season!’ The show is certainly taking the focus of the antagonist and evil in the series away from the Dark One and placing it more on the human characters, which true to the message of the books, are the real evil after all. I’ve posted elsewhere that I like the changes to Ishy so far, a logical and rational evil is far more interesting then your typical simple fantasy evil ala Sauron in Lord of the Rings. That being said I think WoT is great because it has both types and while we’ve got some of the simple evil so far in the show, Shadowspawn, White Cloaks etc. and we’ll get some more this season in the Seanchan I’m really getting ancy for them to show us the big bad of the Dark One.

I really wish he had thrown the girl to the trollocs so that you understood how evil he is

I think this is creepier but as a blooper yup 🤣

At the end, he should have put her down, looked at the Trolloc and said "feed", then turned round as we hear a scream.

For real 😬

Yeah I noticed that too, Fain’s smile was timed very nicely to counteract his not scary pitch to the girl

I know they’re the same design, but I don’t say exact because the size is clearly different at least. I really am not convinced these are actual seals, but rather representations of them.

I mean 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣

Yes you’re right, mistake on my part as I was counting

It might be something with your audio setting? Though audio was recorded differently so it might not come through in mono? But if I hear other complaints I’ll address as soon as I can. Turn captions on, because I did manually put in captions so they should be accurate.

@@ReadingthePattern All the other audio is working fine in the video, it's just that one minute segment that's silent, so I don't see how it could be audio settings on my side. (Captions are broken for me in a way that occasionally youtube captions are, where all the timing info is missing so it just shows them all as a single screen at the very start.) Edit: I normally browse in Firefox... checking Chrome I get the same behavior.

Other folks have said they hear the audio for that segment but it sounds different. It was recorded differently so that is why I said it could be a setting. The captions I added are not RU-vid generated so I would hope they’d work for you and be accurate but I will definitely look at this more when I am home and not on my phone.

@@ReadingthePattern Further update! I figured it out, it's kinda both! That first segment only has left-side audio (and I'm wearing headphones but without the left head phone over my ear). (The subtitles seem to be broken everywhere, however. The auto-generated ones work just fine though.)

@@i_a_r_n_a I thought it might be a mono vs stereo issue. Thanks for the update on the captions too. That I will have to go in and check/fix manually.

I think that’s a fine theory and it could be true although I’m not sure that the clothing is distinct enough from the Tinkers or really fine enough to look like nobility. I honestly think we’ll never know for sure because we’ll never get any more information about who they are and in that instance I think we will be meant to conclude they are Tinkers. But if we end up meeting Amadician nobility who look like that then I’ll change my mind.

@@ReadingthePattern yeah, I suppose is sort of just a trade off - do you want it to make sense that the girl is there or do you want to imagine it's a clue about Tuatha'an darkfriends - and it may never get resolved.

You mean like how I thought she was going to be played by a 4 feet tall adult actress 😅