"The Wheel does not care if you are young or afraid, petty or weak. It certainly doesn’t care what you want. The Wheel calls you to this whether you can bear it or not. The Last Battle is coming. What any of us wants now is meaningless. The only thing that matters is what you do." - THE WHEEL OF TIME 1.06
My favorite thing about the Wheel of Time TV series is the way it lets middle-aged women be desirable, desiring, and hot. Moiraine and Siuan have very visible wrinkles! Alanna Sedai is played by a 41-year-old actress, and she's living her best life as the soft domme of a MFM throuple! Especially in high fantasy, I feel like this sort of thing is really unusual and I love it.
thinking about how lanfear interrupted a very much needed conversation between siuan and moiraine as revenge for moiraine cockblocking her in episode 4. she really uno reversed her
Rewatching 2x07 and the way that Siuan is showing vulnerability and basically telling Moiraine how much she hates the tower and just wants to leave it with Moiraine. Then after Moiraine says they'll retire, SIUAN'S FACE when she says "Really?" just kills me.
And then 2 minutes later when that future gets ripped away from them, it's SIUAN that stays in the tower to do the politics and not Moiraine (the political heir from the 'most political city in the world'). Like she's protecting Moiraine from ever having to go back to that life, even if it means she has to give up basically her entire life to do the EXACT opposite of what she so deeply wants.
That's the kind of sacrifice that you only do for someone you love so completely that you would do anything to protect them.
I just want them to have a happy ending in the show please 😭 I can't take how tragic it is otherwise.