Amber here today, joined with the wonderful Jordan Rannells audio engineer and editor for "The Prancing Pony" podcast, and https://www.youtube.com/@alongexpectedsoundscape as we talk about, compare and contrast Moiraine Damodred from The Wheel of Time and Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings.

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First off - full spoilers! If you’re one of those brave folks who doesn’t give a fig if you’re spoiled, then go right ahead.  All others have been warned. 

Inspired by the new year, the year of the dragon, we each picked our favorite Dragon Reborn moment from the book series.  It should come as little surprise that we picked something from points in the books that perfectly balance each other.  This was a super fun way to take a look at what it means to be the Dragon.  What do you think your favorite moment is? Would you be interested in more characters covered this way? 

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Well, it didn’t take long for us to take a little detour from the books to discuss recent news in the WoT world.  There’s been another announcement regarding taking Wheel of Time source material and turning it into a movie.  What will this movie look like? How will we wrap our heads around new actors for Ishamael and Lanfear now that we love the actors in the WoT show? How deep will they go into the darkness that makes up who the Forsaken become? We are curious and excited and invite you to join us as we hypothesize over what this movie is going to look like.

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If you don’t already subscribe to the YouTube channel, you really should.  Amber puts up content on the regular and sometimes her videos take her to worlds outside Randland.  

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We are back in the books!  This is a spoiler free episode if you have read up to Fires of Heaven, through chapter fifteen, which happens to be Amber’s favorite chapter in the entire series.  There’s a heavy load of sarcasm added to that statement and you should listen to find out why.  There’s other stuff that happens that’s definitely on the lighter side, most importantly we are introduced to Valan Luca’s caravan of circus performers.  Are those whippets in sparkly tutus we see? If not, we’d like to. 

Just a couple of announcements wrap up this episode.  Traci has big news and a podcast she’s been working on.  Paperback Cabaret can be found on all major podcasting platforms. Click here to find it on Spotify.  

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Full spoilers for the books and the show.  Just making sure that’s the first thing you read.  Please, consider yourself warned 🙂  

The assignment was -  choose your top five takeaways from WoT season two and come prepared to “defend it with your life.” And that’s what we did.  There were things we loved and things we didn’t and if you want to know what they were, kick back for the next hour and join us. 

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If you don’t already subscribe to the YouTube channel, you really should.  Amber puts up content on the regular and sometimes her videos take her to worlds outside Randland.  

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Before you jump in we want you to know, full spoilers for the books and the show.  

The Wheel of Time is filled with couples, but how believable are some of these relationships?  Are they all needed? Is there any true “romance” found in the book series?  The tv series has a chance to do things differently, and indeed has shown us endearing moments that build on the romances barely fleshed out in the books as well as places where maybe certain couples aren’t going to make it to the screen. 

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If you don’t already subscribe to the YouTube channel, you really should.  Amber puts up content on the regular and sometimes her videos take her to worlds outside Randland.  

Check out our Patreon page to help fund the show, peruse our awesome Wheel of Time shop, or join the Road to Tar Valon discord server! All links found here: https://linktr.ee/roadtotarvalon 

First off, your spoiler warning; we made a cut off at the end of book five, Fires of Heaven. 

Second, and most importantly, today we are discussing an article from ScreenRant with their choice for ten WoT character team ups to look forward to in season three.  We take our own ideas and blend them with theirs for what is, once again, a perfectly splendid chat. 

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If you don’t already subscribe to the YouTube channel, you really should.  Amber puts up content on the regular and sometimes her videos take her to worlds outside Randland.  

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Spoilers don’t go past book four, The Shadow Rising, for this episode.  

We took a recent article from the Hollywood Reporter to discuss what we may or may not see in season three now that we have some confirmed locations, as well as the introduction of yet another group of people claiming Rand as the key person in their prophecies.  

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If you don’t already subscribe to the YouTube channel, you really should.  Amber puts up content on the regular and sometimes her videos take her to worlds outside Randland.  

Check out our Patreon page to help fund the show, peruse our awesome Wheel of Time shop, or join the Road to Tar Valon discord server! All links found here: https://linktr.ee/roadtotarvalon 

It’s full spoilers over the entirety of the books while pondering some of our remaining questions from season two.  Thank you to all our friends in chat who share their Sunday afternoons with us and join in making our recordings such a fun process.  

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If you don’t already subscribe to the YouTube channel, you really should.  Amber puts up content on the regular and sometimes her videos take her to worlds outside Randland.  

Check out our Patreon page to help fund the show, peruse our awesome Wheel of Time shop, or join the Road to Tar Valon discord server! All links found here: https://linktr.ee/roadtotarvalon 

Full spoiler episode for the books! You do be warned, friends. We waited so long and season two has already come to an end far faster than we could have hoped.  But what a finale!!!! We couldn’t make it all the way through all the things we wanted to talk about so this is only part one.  We certainly have more speculating to do! 

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If you don’t already subscribe to the YouTube channel, you really should.  Amber puts up content on the regular and sometimes her videos take her to worlds outside Randland.  

Check out our Patreon page to help fund the show, peruse our awesome Wheel of Time shop, or join the Road to Tar Valon discord server! All links found here: https://linktr.ee/roadtotarvalon 

Full spoilers, friends! Listen responsibly.  There were some doubts on where this episode would be taking us but we find ourselves giddy with excitement at what has been unraveled through the Daes dae'mar episode.  We also get a little side tracked with speculations on what changes might happen for season three and wraps with our anticipation for the finale of season two.   

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If you don’t already subscribe to the YouTube channel, you really should.  Amber puts up content on the regular and sometimes her videos take her to worlds outside Randland.  

Check out our Patreon page to help fund the show, peruse our awesome Wheel of Time shop, or join the Road to Tar Valon discord server! All links found here: https://linktr.ee/roadtotarvalon