S3E1

https://x.com/italymystery/status/1900216055294841296 – Image

@writer5230

Happy #TheWheelOfTime Day to all those who celebrate!!!

https://x.com/writer5230/status/1900234752977731633

@molasseslord

HAPPY WHEELY DAY EVERYONE #TheWheelOfTime
https://x.com/molasseslord/status/1900157176284315962

@_RussellElliot_

the PURE adrenaline running through my veins as I press play on s3e1 of wheel of time

https://x.com/_RussellElliot_/status/1900439128468316662

We begin in a gloomy Tar Valon. Siuan and Leane are at the top of the White Tower preparing for… something, while Moiraine and Lan watch warily from the streets below.

“It’s time, Mother.”

@ndiaga_d

The Ajahs have gathered #TheWheelOfTime

https://x.com/ndiaga_d/status/1900178684218118427

@strangeredeyes.bsky.social‬

Can you imagine what the fashion industry is like in Tar Valon? #wheeloftime
https://bsky.app/profile/strangeredeyes.bsky.social/post/3lkllnpkink2r

@ladyofjotunheim.bsky.social‬

Liandrin’s wardrobe choice is not subtle at all and I love it

https://bsky.app/profile/ladyofjotunheim.bsky.social/post/3lkj6rby5ws2h

Blocking Reds

Meanwhile, Verin, her sister Adeleas, and fellow brown ajah scholar Nyomi are heading… somewhere.

@sulingoshien.bsky.social‬

Verin giving the best advice of the entire series. Meera is killing it.

https://bsky.app/profile/sulingoshien.bsky.social/post/3lkalbzjdys2l

The Sitters assemble to hear what matter the Amyrlin Seat has to bring before the Hall.

@ofthebrownajah.bsky.social‬

Alanna’s little smirk at Liandrin is so funny

https://bsky.app/profile/ofthebrownajah.bsky.social/post/3lkjxua7x7k2p

@joelywrites

Liandrin is such a yapper
https://x.com/joelywrites/status/1900150881376481771

[Liandrin reveal]

@johanntimkang

Fck the Black Ajahs!!!
https://x.com/johanntimkang/status/1900245421014110563 – Image

@_Osasu__

The Black Ajah!
https://x.com/_Osasu__/status/1900151346306625885

Meanwhile, Verin reveals that the crew is headed to protect the “13th Depository”, where the tower’s most dangerous objects of power – sa’angreal and ter’angreal – are kept.

@eilonwymerrilin.bsky.social‬

The 13th Depository! 👀

https://bsky.app/profile/eilonwymerrilin.bsky.social/post/3limhpcin6k2u

Back in the hall, the newly revealed Black Ajah are making short work of the unprepared Sitters. Nynaeve tries in vain to channel but she needs anger, not fear, to overcome her mental block.

@ROMERntiko

episode 1 of season 3, and Nynaeve still is useless. what in the actual fvck
https://x.com/ROMERntiko/status/1900206079587594433

@asipofteee

UMMMMM WHY IS SHIT GOING TO HELL IN THE FIRST EPISODE?!?!
https://x.com/asipofteee/status/1900235709425795092

@ayevbeosa

Why is the Amyrlin seat so weak 🙂‍↕️

https://x.com/ayevbeosa/status/1900267950633816274

@iron_widow

Umm guys are we losing this fight 👀
https://x.com/iron_widow/status/1900240212271522014

‪@themacaran.bsky.social‬

Did Leana just beat a bitch to death with that staff? Go off, queen!

https://bsky.app/profile/themacaran.bsky.social/post/3lkaqjg6shs2s

@ororoswind

The weaves look so good this season. Shoutout to @andyescrase and his team!
https://x.com/ororoswind/status/1900256607596142790

@kiriakos_koulis

the costumes are so so so gorgeous and the effects for the weaves have a special place in my heart.
https://x.com/kiriakos_koulis/status/1900207747766829122

Maksim, Ivhon, and the rest of the warders are unable to break into the Hall when the red sitters Galina Casban, Tsutama Rath, and [?] show up to give them a hard time. The cavalry appears to arrive in the form of green sister Jeaine Caide and yellow sister Chesmal Emery.

@rachelweizz

she’s so adorable and evil #TheWheelOfTime
https://x.com/rachelweizz/status/1900322491496530299

@ofthebrownajah.bsky.social‬

The look on Tsutama’s face when Jeaine was getting off on feeling her Warders die
https://bsky.app/profile/ofthebrownajah.bsky.social/post/3lkjyjrtu2s2p

Back inside the Hall, our fighters are Healed up and Liandrin links with the others for the attempted KO.

@nirvanasbooks

I’ve been shouting at my tv for the last 10 minutes. The beginning of WoT season. 3?! AHHH.
https://x.com/nirvanasbooks/status/1900221695782179171

Just when the black ajah gang think they’re in the clear, Alanna and her warders stroll in to slow their roll.

@nicolalvr

GOD GOD ALANNA IHVON AND MAKSIM, LORD I LOVE THEM THEY ARE PERFECT
https://x.com/nicolalvr/status/1900280800450392132

@ndiaga_d

Alanna and her wardens are really good
https://x.com/ndiaga_d/status/1900200590363205985

@lxreads.fun‬

I’m so glad the show made the Greens the actual BATTLE Ajah as opposed to just the horny Ajah. It makes my soul happy to see some competent combat weaves from them 😊

https://bsky.app/profile/lxreads.fun/post/3lkm6pcdd4s2u

Elsewhere on the streets of Tar Valon, Siuan and two sisters stalk the escapees until black sisters Joiya Byir and Amico Nagoyin melt her sidekicks’ brains and shield her. Liandrin wants her alive.

@siva-ashaman.bsky.social‬

Joiya: On your knees mother

There is only one person who can tell that to Siuan , Joiya. Only one, and that is not you!! .

https://bsky.app/profile/siva-ashaman.bsky.social/post/3lkf7in3ogs24

Siuan is strong enough to nearly break free of her shield so Amico moves to Plan B by collapsing the bell tower on top of Siuan… or does she?

@Wilson_ikpeme

Moiraine saving Siuan from the black ajah is just want I want to see….
https://x.com/Wilson_ikpeme/status/1900166781928399125

@caroldanes

Moiraine is so faithful to her wifey 🥹 even now that they are separated.

I SAID SEPARATED NOT DIVORCED

don’t @ me
https://x.com/caroldanes/status/1900239454637355216

@_geoLes

moraine salvó a siuan

😭🤧😭🤧

el amor 💖💖💖

https://x.com/_geoLes/status/1900193801446080684

‪@radiolaires.bsky.social‬

Siuan Sanche, daughter of the river, clever as a pike, strong as the tides, flame of Tar Valon, I will lay down my life for you
https://bsky.app/profile/radiolaires.bsky.social/post/3lkjg7t4hzc2w

@shelly-k.bsky.social‬

I think I am in the minority, in that I am hoping that Siuan and Moraine don’t get back together. I don’t hate Siuan, but what she did to Moraine last season was messed up.
https://bsky.app/profile/shelly-k.bsky.social/post/3lkk3v7guqk2u

[Ivhon]

@The_amyrlin_

Ivohn 💔💔💔 Alanna gotta get her lick back x10000000. Aim for that bxtch’s head next time!!!
https://x.com/The_amyrlin_/status/1900227230997110943

@nicolalvr

id like to start by saying a big fuck you to @TheWheelOfTime you are paying for my therapy session, yk i was wondering why ihvon wasnt really in promos BUT I DID NOT THINK ITS BECAUSE IT GOT ONE SHOTTED IN THE FIRST 15MINS TF

https://x.com/nicolalvr/status/1900281629119308171

As the fighting dies down, Lan reaches the Hall, searching for Nynaeve.

@nicolalvr

LAN NYNAEVE REUINION PLEASE GOD LAN NYNAEVE REUINION
https://x.com/nicolalvr/status/1900283366194237547

…and we roll to the abbreviated opening. This is a 69 minute episode and we need to MOVE.

@Femi_OG_

Me thinking #TheWheelOfTime was going to start on a low-key, only to be screaming my lungs out 20 minutes in 🤣
https://x.com/Femi_OG_/status/1900310499088093195

@nirvanasbooks

This show has been on for less than 20 minutes and I feel like I need to pause it because I am STRESSED and I can’t handle this #TheWheelOfTime I am literally breathless!!
https://x.com/nirvanasbooks/status/1900222746958717062

@CaseySheltonn

THE OPENING SCENE HOLY SHIT.
https://x.com/CaseySheltonn/status/1900168544144310629

We regroup at The Light’s Blessing Inn in Tar Valon with the newly declared Dragon Reborn Rand al’Thor, tooter of the Horn of Valere Mat Cauthon, slayer of Whitecloaks Perrin Aybara, unbreakable badass Egwene al’Vere, freshly concussed Nynaeve, and Daughter-Heir of Andor Elayne Trakand after a month of boat travel from Falme.

@winespringinc.bsky.social‬

S3E1

I love the contrast of the WT battle with the E5+ talking to each other like the still clueless village kids they are

https://bsky.app/profile/winespringinc.bsky.social/post/3lkbyw67hyc2e

@Rant_AlMore

Perrins eyes look really amazing
https://x.com/Rant_AlMore/status/1900283237965947005

@rantalmore.bsky.social‬

AHHHH we get to hear the word Callandor lol genuinely so hype for that
https://bsky.app/profile/rantalmore.bsky.social/post/3liwpeodtgs26

@tigraine.bsky.social‬

I’m glad Callandor and Tear are still in the mix.

https://bsky.app/profile/tigraine.bsky.social/post/3lkf64qfxsu2k

@nicolalvr

Mat randomly speaking old tongue? okay sure, not even the weirdest thing to have happen on this show
https://x.com/nicolalvr/status/1900284543170429006

Moiraine summons the full party from Falme to lay out the ground rules for their time in the city. What could go wrong?

@biologicalriley.bsky.social‬

It’s called Tear because he who wields Callandor can Tear the world a new asshole

https://bsky.app/profile/biologicalriley.bsky.social/post/3lkekaph4bc2u

@stefsmelodrama

elayne wants that cookie so bad

https://x.com/stefsmelodrama/status/1900307371039002644

@stefsmelodrama

mat cauthon ?? wearing clean clothes ??
https://x.com/stefsmelodrama/status/1900305526149218601

@ofthebrownajah.bsky.social‬

Why does she always want to leave at dawn? Why not after a hearty breakfast? Good question, Loial!
https://bsky.app/profile/ofthebrownajah.bsky.social/post/3lkjz2jv7c22p

Aiel Follow Rand

We cut to our girls having a moment in the pub. Egwene is clearly having difficulty with her traumatic experiences.

@ladyofjotunheim.bsky.social‬

Egwene, I feel so bad for her. She went through so much. Everyone has, but damn

I’m glad she has folks by her side to lean on

https://bsky.app/profile/ladyofjotunheim.bsky.social/post/3lkjart2nlk2h

At the same time, Rand appears to have escaped his Far Dareis Mai chaperones to spend some quality time with Perrin on a game of… what’s that?

@devanescence78.bsky.social‬

It appears my dreams are coming true this season, too. I definitely did see the Snakes and Foxes board on that table. Looks like the Finn are coming this season!!

https://bsky.app/profile/devanescence78.bsky.social/post/3lkk43zpog22y

While Mat is “that guy” in the pub having portraits commissioned.

@geryrrs

He still going around with the horn 💀
https://x.com/geryrrs/status/1900208030743970040

‪@nyniamhsedai.bsky.social‬

Honestly, I love how Dónal is playing Mat like he’s just your typical cocky Irish bloke, out for the laugh with his mates.
https://bsky.app/profile/nyniamhsedai.bsky.social/post/3lkammwssv22z

@Jordis2short

I love that Moiraine tells the group to be inconspicuous and Mat is immediately in the middle of an inn screaming, “I’m Mat Cauthon, blower of the Horn of Valere. Me, Mat Cauthon. Horn of Valere. MAT CAUTHON.” While holding the bloody Horn💀

https://x.com/Jordis2short/status/1900183276368912868

@perrinsnose.bsky.social‬

Rand looking at a painting of the battle of Flame with him fighting Ishy in the sky is a hilarious nod to the books. Prophecy met!
https://bsky.app/profile/perrinsnose.bsky.social/post/3lkavfecv3s2u

They corner Rand, who has a terrible poker face, about his apparent reunion with Egwene.

‪@ladyofjotunheim.bsky.social‬

The boys squealing like a couple of school girls in the tavern lmaohttps://bsky.app/profile/ladyofjotunheim.bsky.social/post/3lkjastuefs2h

@nicolalvr

“she was an inkeeper, selene” oh mother is hereee i can feel it
https://x.com/nicolalvr/status/1900290577347850649

Mother is here, indeed, as a mysterious and fashionable person with a threatening aura winds their way down the streets of Tar Valon.

@beythewitch

Lanfear is so fucking hot wtf😭😭😭😭 the way she giggled at Moiraine when she got startled by her PLEASE I NEED ONE CHANCE

https://x.com/beythewitch/status/1900155992182034596

@optsexo

moiraine this isn’t you (it is)
https://x.com/optsexo/status/1900172386168954986

@themacaran.bsky.social‬

Don’t mind me, I’ll just be over here shouting “NOW KISS!” about Moiraine and Lanfear working together
https://bsky.app/profile/themacaran.bsky.social/post/3lkartmhi7c2s

@zulemasbaby

moiraine forgetting her actions may have consequences…with lanfear especially😭😭
https://x.com/zulemasbaby/status/1901560593061965958

@laylalalel

moiraine saying to Lan “we’ll kill lanfear” if they can’t trust her is genuinely hilarious….exactly who’s gonna do the killing
https://x.com/laylalalel/status/1900676219974062555

We revisit the Tower Puff Girls in the pub, only to be interrupted by none other than The Amyrlin Seat herself, who has been having a case of the Mondays today.

@AuntDamodred

Season 3 episode 1? Egwene accused her of controlling Rand and Siuan answered that she hopes she can undo her mistakes.

https://x.com/AuntDamodred/status/1901411779538026704

@Moiraine_Sedai_

Guys Egwene is not Moiraine’s favourite child. It will always be Rand 😭 Egwene is Siuan’s favourite 😔

https://x.com/Moiraine_Sedai_/status/1901629112600433064

@TheWheelOfCUNT

So many read that scene as negative but I think if you look at Siuans face at the end of the scene you can see respect in it. Like Siuan and Moiraine, Egwene would not hesitate to break tower law to serve the light and defeat the shadow.

https://x.com/TheWheelOfCUNT/status/1901302611539636530

@KnownIntrovert

Egwene: “I’ll go back to your tower on one condition: I go through the arches today.”

Show editors: “How about.. Right now!”
https://x.com/KnownIntrovert/status/1898454285723058334

And just like that, we are whisked to the room with the three arches of the Accepted test, this time with Siuan, Leane, and a newly named white ajah sister, Alviarin Friedhen.

@TheWreaker

We have Egwene in the Arches everyone.

https://x.com/TheWreaker/status/1900403286219612466

@psionic_david

Not egwene going into the arches is she nuts!

https://x.com/psionic_david/status/1900263684644954454

@edwardlculIen

well egwene going through the arches is obviously not a good idea she’s still traumatized she herself just admitted it earlier in the episode
https://x.com/edwardlculIen/status/1901059152518221909

@moonoutsold

ALVIARIN?!@,#&,×

https://x.com/moonoutsold/status/1900928364023525435

@LeithSkilling

Okay, okay, I’m prepared to eat my hat on this one. I did not think we would see Egwene take her Accepted Test this season, or ever. I have no idea how she gets to the Waste. But I am excited to see what happens in the Arches!!!!

https://x.com/LeithSkilling/status/1865549836331716822

@IsaacToafa

I’ve been pronouncing Alviarin wrong . 😑

https://x.com/IsaacToafa/status/1900726772792226072

@drh0rrible

this show has so many beautiful women… alviarin hiiiii
https://x.com/drh0rrible/status/1900332615741169715

And here to remind us of just how traumatic the trial of the arches can be for a woman, it’s Nynaeve and Lan with whom she spent years raising a family in an Inception-like alternate world in Season 2.

@sulingoshien.bsky.social‬

Nynaeve communicating with Lan & telling him about her time in the arches is the most beautiful scene, but also the only communication we’re going to see in this show, so relish in it!

https://bsky.app/profile/sulingoshien.bsky.social/post/3lkaltmf2ys2l

@ArynLance91

Friendly reminder that Nynaeve lived her test. She married Lan. They lived in the Two Rivers. With Mat. Perrin.

She was pregnant, bore her child, raised her with Lan, who gave up the sword to bake. For years

-finishes pouring salt in wound-
https://x.com/ArynLance91/status/1697817443891126757

While we spent a third of an episode on Nynaeve’s trial, we’ve characters to visit and plots to tend, onward!

Elayne is doing a bit of fruit shopping and stops by the Andoran post to send letters off to a noblewoman in Tear along with a “this letter will self-destruct in 30 seconds” message for her mother back home in Andor.

She waltzes back to the Inn only to find she’s being watched by Aviendha, bored out of her gourd without the potential Car’a’Carn to follow around.

@tanneroftarth

elayne and avi are flirting HAAAAAAAAAARD. elayne just used maiden hand talk???? i’m going to combust holy shit
https://x.com/tanneroftarth/status/1898454414534590721

@nicolalvr

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
https://x.com/nicolalvr/status/1900298404506300447

@Salya_al_Onir

I think Elayne makes hard cider because she mentions the base being apples. I’m sure @GradeKangusBeef Knows.

https://x.com/Salya_al_Onir/status/1716377235559518705

@downtowndemgirl

where did elayne get the apples for her brew? Lol.

https://x.com/downtowndemgirl/status/1901589336094847127

Inside, Rand and Loial are reviewing prophecies in an attempt to figure out his next move.

@lionesswisd0m

Rand and Loial studying the prophecies!

https://x.com/lionesswisd0m/status/1900118696661570008

@randmuadib

Rand and Loial studying, Rand’s knowledge grown about his fate 😭
https://x.com/randmuadib/status/1898467985351712885

Elayne enters and wastes no time mixing power-wrought hooch prep with dropping lectures from the University of Andor’s MBA in Continental Leadership with Rand.

@joelywrites

Elayne trying to give Rand political advice is so good!! i loooove this scene
https://x.com/joelywrites/status/1900159314981249382

@holdontoyou13

“You sure I can’t convince you to come with us tomorrow?” Rand was begging Elayne to go with him 😍

I NEED MORE SCENES #TheWheelOfTime
https://x.com/holdontoyou13/status/1900274422722027560

@georgierreads

Shut up the chemistry for Elayne and Rand is also so strong this cast is so good
https://x.com/georgierreads/status/1901759210594930835

Meanwhile, Egwene has cleared the first arch (what was) and the second arch (what is) off-screen and we are dropped into her experience in the third arch (what will be).

Egwene, Elayne, and Nynave gallop along a river in exquisite gowns to confront a man kneeling in the water. The long-haired man rises and turns, clearly mad…

@chrlux3

oooo in the arches egwene was mother 👀
https://x.com/chrlux3/status/1900861564963405832

@nirvanasbooks

Rand is looking GOOD this season. I do appreciate the long haired look 🤣
https://x.com/nirvanasbooks/status/1900243316240773413

@psionic_david

Oh god did egwene have to kill rand in the arch
https://x.com/psionic_david/status/1900266291388100721

After boning up on prophecies earlier, a much shorter-haired Rand decides to play stump the chump with Moiraine. She is still pushing an assault on the Stone of Tear to take Callandor, but Rand thinks it’s a trap. Rand wants to go “home” while Mo drops tough love on the readiness of the Two Rivers folk to defend their homes.

Rand You’re not the boss of me

Back in the tower, Egwene has been washed clean of her sins in the arches, given a new dress, and the shiny, stone-less Great Serpent ring of an Accepted of the Aes Sedai. But her experiences of the last year, along with the cataclysmic morning, have dimmed that original tower shine for her.

‪@1llicitBuck

Egwene is so real going through the arches to get a ring and leave. She ate that
https://x.com/1llicitBuck/status/1898455800147767792

@gymleadermichael.bsky.social‬

I like pissed off and powerful Egwene this season on Wheel of Time.

https://bsky.app/profile/gymleadermichael.bsky.social/post/3lkjdsnc4fs2b

@nyniamhsedai.bsky.social‬

They are definitely showing a vulnerability to Siuan from E1, and Eggie’s defiance; how she just lets her go is showing her losing her grasp on the power she has as Amyrlin. The cracks are there.
https://bsky.app/profile/nyniamhsedai.bsky.social/post/3lkl3xs4pes2j

Elsewhere in the tower, Lan has retrieved his power-wrought Malkieri sword – one wielded by his father and generations before.

@Sabeezy2011

Nynaeve: That sword’s new

Me muttering: actually it’s old

Lan: it’s very old
https://x.com/Sabeezy2011/status/1900117398205653406