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I was keen to see Alanna get penetrated multiple times but this wasn't what I meant.

I saw Marin's quilted flower jacket and instantly thought of Egwene in ep 1. Not as similar as my memory made it but I still like the callback!

Poor Alanna

I loved how this season (and especially this episode!) tied together SO MUCH of Perrin's arc that we've seen so far. It really feels like this is the moment it's all been building towards.

His wife's death. Violence is hard to control and may hurt people you care about. Running into the Tuatha'an. Nonviolence is another option, that takes a different kind of strength. His interactions with Dain and the Whitecloaks. People's intentions and their actions don't always agree; people can be twisted by grief to perpetuate cycles of violence, and the only way to break out is to choose to stop.

We can now look back on all of that as threads in the story of how he thinks about violence and non-violence - when to deploy violence and when to choose not to - leading him here:

Lord Perrin Goldeneyes, who knows that the Two Rivers must fight or be destroyed. Who wants to send Faile away to be safe but listens and trusts that she can handle herself in battle. Who makes a deal with Whitecloaks he knows might turn on him because he can see it's the only chance they have. Who desperately - desperately! - wants to kill Padan Fain but holds back because he knows he can save more lives that way.

SO. FUCKING. GOOD.

I would like to once more formally rescind any complaints I made previously about the give Perrin an s1 wife choice he’s absolutely the most emotionally grounded and mature of the boys of course he would have got married off in this small town at age 20.

And as I thought they would, they’re also using her death as a way to make his overprotectiveness towards Faile in the books make more sense than just being a factor of how RJ’s male characters often have an obsessive need to protect women.

Perfect couple cleaning up their house // The Wheel of Time S3E7 // Perrin Aybara & Faile Bashere

Fantastic, in depth interview with Marcus Rutherford about episode 7.

Alanna this season:

Marcus Rutherford talks about Perrin & Loial:

I know it's just that I'm thirsty for him, but do you think we'll get any more Ishy flashbacks this season? 🥺

"what would you give for the two rivers?"

"everything."

“Stay behind me.”

“Stop trying to protect m-“

“Kill the ones I miss”

Faile thought that was so hot. And she was right.