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The Wheel of Time Season-Premiere Recap: The People of the Dragon
All hell breaks loose at the White Tower, and it’s hard to keep track of everything that is going on.
A cursory search indicates Jordan, at least, was more of a gardener type — he labeled himself a “discovery” writer — and it stands to reason: A planned trilogy doesn’t wind up a dozen books longer than expected if you’ve got it all mapped out in an outline in a notebook or hard drive somewhere. Directed by genre-TV veteran Ciarán Donnelly, the premiere begins with mayhem in the White Tower (think of this as having the same basic energy as David Bowie’s “Panic in Detroit”) headquarters of the order of magic-wielding women called the Aes Sedai. Aviendha (Ayoola Smart), a spear-wielding member of the red-headed desert warrior people called the Aiel, sworn to find and protect their prophesied messiah, the Car’a’carn (yes, it’s the old Kwisatz Haderach/Lisan al-Gaib routine); Elayne has a budding thing going on with her too.
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