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The Wheel of Time Recap: Battle Flag
The show takes a detour to focus on Perrin & Co. making their stand in the season’s biggest battle.
When Dane, chief of the Children of Light, swallows his pride and agrees to help the villagers in exchange for Perrin’s surrender at battle’s end, he’s taken by surprise by enemy agents within their midst, led by season one’s minor antagonist, Padan Fain. Aram (Daryl McCormack), a strapping Tuatha’an man, grabs the beast’s knife and kills it — violating a strict taboo against violence in front of the eyes of Ila (Maria Doyle Kennedy), the group’s leader. Actor Marcus Rutherford has long been the core cast member I have the hardest time wrapping my head around; his mumble-mouthed affect makes sense when he’s the bereaved husband of a woman he killed accidentally while trying to save her, but much less so as a werewolf warlord whose people are straight-up inventing banners and sigils on his behalf.
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