(This story contains major spoilers of Time wheel Final of season three, “the one who comes with dawn.”)
It is difficult to surprise an audience who already knows what is happening. This is not a particularly new challenge for television programs adapted from deductibles of beloved books as a premium video THE Time wheel. But that does not prevent his showrunner Rafe Judkins from trying.
Many events in the final narratively filled with season three, which made its debut Thursday, are fully expected, but others will leave more than a few fans in shock. After making the decision to play a key battle in the penultimate episode of the third season, the final, “the one who comes with dawn” does the job both to settle major scenarios, then to settle even more.
Through the episode, a large part of the main set of the series makes pivot choices in their biggest Time wheel Voyages. Nynaeve (Zoë Robins), in a literal movement of the last summit, finally draws from its explosive connection with power alone. Mat (Dónal Finn) also has an imminent death experience while having a meeting with a magical fox creature, which responds to several disturbing wishes and leaves him a memory. Rand (Josha Stradowski) finally kisses his fate while the Car’Acarn, but Egwene (Madeleine Madden) is not so fast to fold his knee.
And while me (Rosamund Pike) fights to retain Lanfear (Natasha O’Keeffe) in the name of Rand, it is finally – in a passage of books – Siuan (Sophie Okonedo) who meets a deadly spell. At the end of the episode and alongside more abandoned plots, Elaida (Shohreh Aghdashloo) seized the siege of Amyrlin, and Siuan is sentenced to death by the AES Sedai that she once led.
Judkins spoke to THR Before the final of season three on the fact of linking certain intrigues and launching others, which becomes white tower, mat and Egwene, and the potential of a four season.
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This finish is full of action, but really dark – undoubtedly the darkest episode of the series to date. How did you settle at the end of the season?
We always play a little with the expectations of the public. You have to, especially when you only have eight episodes. We hope that people will see the episode seven and will be like: “OK, they do the traditional fantastic thing where they make their big battle in the second in the last episode, then the eight episode is just the place location for the table for the following season.” We want the public to think that in the final. There are also a lot of places for the next season, but we are also shit other things, and we have very extensive climatic moments for some of the most loved characters in the series.
Nynaeve at this absolutely epic epic moment, then you say to yourself: “Wait, there are 40 minutes left.” We want the public to have the impression that we do not predict what we are going to do next. I think it’s one of the best things about the Time wheel Series of books. It sometimes breaks the structure in a way you want to continue. Basically, it is one of the best things about television. You want to continue when you cannot predict the next movement.
We see that the white tower has been infiltrated and compromised in a somewhat disturbing, even frightening way. At this point, can viewers trust the tower in the future?
This is really the idea and why the coup d’etat of the white tower – the coup d’etat of Elaida – in the books is such an emblematic moment. As much as you do not know what the tower is going to do, similar to our world today, you think there are certain rules of decorum and sensitivity that will hold. That it is an institution and that institutions can hold. What Elaida does is that she says: “I will take advantage of each damn rule of this tower to its greatest advantage and this institution may not survive it.” And she thinks she does it – she is not a black friend. This is the best thing about Elaida. She actually thinks that she does the right thing for the world. But what she did, hopefully, for the public, is at the end of this season, they no longer know if they can trust the institution of the white tower and what it will do next. So, could the white tower be the biggest threat to our characters to move forward? Yes, that could.
You have introduced a number of abandonment for three seasons, but it is very obvious that there is more expectations in the wings. After this final, how many of these additional beings can we expect to see in the next Go, if you get it?
We have definitely threw the pieces so that some abandonments appear next season which are new and maybe not that new as you will be delighted to see on the screen. I think I can say as much. The interaction of The Forsaken is really exciting and interesting in books, and I think we want to continue in the series and continue to meet new members of this group.
Natasha O’Keeffe (Lanfear), Rosamund Pike (Meire Damodred).
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There are a lot of very great moments in this final, as Nynaeve connects and completely hits the only power you have mentioned. Another is the fate of Siuan and I. In particular, I defy her fate and survives. Siuan, however, is apparently killed by his colleague Aes Sedai in the tower. Can you talk about what happened here and what becomes?
Part of their relationship which is important and that we have tried to set up in episode five is this idea that their relationship is greater than this life. Their relationship is greater than what is happening right now. There is something really beautiful to that and something alone Time wheel Maybe because it is inherent in the series of books. We adapt that these women do not all reach the final battle. It was therefore important for us, especially with a story of lesbians killed on the screen and knowing that we wanted before the start of the beginning, to see that this relationship does not relate more than this life for both, and that the relationship will continue independently of their death.
I think it’s really important and beautiful. I am destroyed. I mean, I sobbed the last day that Sophie was on the set. We all did. But I think what is beautiful about them is that their relationship concerns something more and, if the show continues, it is not the final scene that we intend to have between the two. I guess I can say as much.
In this episode, Rand finally accepts who he is and there is a time when everyone, but becomes becoming kneeling for him. With hiking this really complicated and deadly power, what is the involvement of Egwene’s resistance at that time?
This season, for both, consists in going from this place of unity to this place: they love each other as you like the people with whom you grew up, but Egwene is not a character who will simply queue. She will never be. What we wanted the final image of the season to be is a hike in its power, including both the darkness and the light that is in him and knowing that he must be these two things. And Egwene being the only one not to bow before him. Earlier in the episode, Lanfair says something interesting to Rand. She says essentially: During your last life, you left me because I was the only one not to tilt yourself.
So, for Lanfear and Egwene, these two characters who were in conflict throughout the season, suddenly in the last episode you really see, there is a thread that connects them. We consider all the relationships of the show as having this balance and, which is the balance of the reborn dragon? We believe it’s Egwene. You can go deeply in online theories of book fans, but there is this idea that there is a female balance for the reborn dragon and that there is in Egwene. You can see in her eyes at the end of the season she is ready to stop hiking if she needs it, and it’s a very new place for her. This sets up a lot of really incredible stories that we have not seen before that can happen during future seasons.
Mat, as usual, will really take a look in this episode – including an almost death experience and a frightening race with a creature that meets the wishes. During this meeting, he accidentally wishes certain things. What could these wishes be involved for Mat and the biggest Time wheel universe?
The implications for this exchange are huge to move forward, and I think we have made a little clue. There is a fox head medallion on the matt chest at the end. Books fans know what it means. Hopefully people who are not fans of books have written that what happened in this world with this creature Fox Elfinn is significant for what will happen to go ahead. This is one of the most important scenes for him in the whole series of books, so we knew that we had to strike there.
In the books that occur in Rhuidean in fact, because he is there with Rand. But we always intended to make it happen like this, so that it was just as much a lateral shift as in the books by a structure interrupted and how you think that the spectacle will take place when the carpet passes through this door frame. I hope this leaves the public to think that he cannot predict what will happen next.
The show has not yet been renewed, and so much are presented and left open with this final, it is intimidating. Robert Jordan’s series is so large, but television programs obtaining prolonged races or appropriate ends are increasingly rare. Have you had discussions on season four, other future seasons?
Is it the same thing I asked for Amazon in a way – what is the end game of the show? I really want to deliver this complete series, so how can we do the best? I think that one of the reasons why we went with Amazon, because we had options that were going to buy the series when we went out with it for the first time, it was that Amazon felt like a place where they wanted to invest in long -term shows. There are no more places to do this. For Time wheelIt is really important that we are somewhere who want to invest in long -term shows and not only for splashes and departure. So I hope that we can finish this story. I think it is a story that, in many ways, is important because of its length, and because it improves as it goes.
The books improve as you go and the spectacle improves as you go. I think we can continue this bow if we are allowed to continue. But it’s different (now). Television moves in a direction where things enter, splash and leave. But the history of television is that its strength is a long -form narration; That you stick to it and you like these characters and that you follow them for 60 to 100 hours. This is where television has its strength. This is where it is better than films, to tell these kinds of stories. So I have hope for our industry that shows as Time wheel Let’s move on to tell the whole story. I think it’s important for television. This is what we do best and we should therefore finish these stories.
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Season three of Wheel of Time is now in trouble on Prime Video.
