There’s also a magical MacGuffin in the form of a little statue from before the Breaking of the World a last-minute lifesaving as Egwene revives Nynaeve after their battle with the Trollocs and a very cool intro set 3,000 years in the past, where the original Dragon Reborn (which I guess means he’s not original at all the Wheel of Time is a complicated thing), a male Aes Sedai named Lews Therin, ignores his female companion’s warnings and decides to try to imprison the Dark One despite the risk that this will enable his adversary to taint the One Power forever. And on a faraway shore, an impressively costumed invasion force creates a magical tsunami as the vanguard of their assault their origins and goals are unknown, but they’re probably nothing good. Moiraine herself winds up cut off from the One Power, telling Lan she lacks the ability to repair their once-unbreakable bond. So he rejects the Dark One’s advances, seals him back in his prison (at least for the time being), then wanders off, telling Moiraine to tell his friends that he died in order to spare them his incipient madness. If Rand were to create a happy family for himself, he’d do so knowing he’d be going against Egwene’s wishes the Egwene he’d wind up with would not be Egwene at all. Egwene, he insists at the cost of his own heartbreak, has already chosen life as an Aes Sedai instead of life as a humble housewife.
#Gold rush series finale series
In a series of unnerving scenes in which he sees a Last Temptation of Christ–style future for himself, his beloved Egwene, and their baby - frozen in time by the Dark One - he rejects this vision. Rand, to his credit, doesn’t fall for it. This version of the Dark One doesn’t intimidate - he goads, entices, persuades, attempting to win the day by convincing the Dragon Reborn to use his newfound power to make his fondest dreams come true instead of, y’know, sealing evil away forever. Whoops!) Fain takes some time to gloat in front of our guy Perrin before exiting stage right as if getting into the throne room of a previously impregnable city were the easiest thing in the world.Īnd back at the Eye of the World, Rand matches wits with the Dark One, who abandons his fire-eyed guise and takes the form of a handsome sophisticate, played by actor Fares Fares. (Moiraine helpfully tells us that this is the First Battle. Meanwhile, the previously very minor character Padan Fain leads a pair of Fades to sack the city’s palace, killing its guardians and stealing a chest containing a magical horn meant to be blown by the Dragon Reborn on the occasion of the Last Battle. (No one’s going to be comparing this episode’s battle favorably to the similar conflicts of, say, Blackwater in Game of Thrones or Helm’s Deep in The Lord of the Rings anytime soon.) In turn, they are blown to gooey smithereens by Fal Dara’s phalanx of five female channelers in a matter of seconds, even though it costs most of those channelers their lives. Meanwhile, the Dark One’s army of Trollocs defeats the guardians of Fal Dara in fairly short order. Lan, Moiraine’s severed Warder, catches up with her seemingly only minutes after the confrontation to which the entire season has built. It takes only a brisk day’s walk for Rand al’Thor - the Dragon Reborn - and his Aes Sedai mentor Moiraine to walk from the besieged city of Fal Dara through the impenetrable and dangerous Blight to the Eye of the World, where the Dark One is imprisoned.
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