The Wheel of Woke - Episode 1 - Opening scene
Part 1 - SPOILERS
Now that I have listened to all fourteen of the audiobooks in ' The Wheel of Time ' series and have watched a lot of criticism about this TV Show on Youtube I have more to say about it.
Here is the first 4:20 of Episode 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bspJ_5xsFq4
It starts off with a monologue by Moiraine, an Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah:
The world is broken. Many, many years ago men who were born with great power believed they could cage darkness itself. The arrogance ! When they failed the seas boiled, mountains were swallowed up, cities burned, and the women of the Aes Sedai were left to pick up the pieces. These women remembered one thing above all else, the man who brought the breaking of the world. And him they named Dragon.
So the show starts with a Woke Declaration. Men broke the world, men are arrogant, men are destroyers. And the women were left to pick up the pieces. Women are good, women are responsible, women are healers.
And for the record the male Aes Sedai didn't fail. They sealed the Dark One away from the world ( although not permanently as the seals eventually began to fail ) which was their objective. But there was a heavy price that was paid as a result of the Dark Ones counterstroke. Also for the record the female Aes Sedai didn't name Lews Therin the Dragon. That name was given to him by men when he was the General in command of the forces of the Light fighting against the forces of the Dark One.
But where is the full context for these terrible events from the books ? Did men really break the world because of their arrogance ?
Well actually no it was nothing like that. Lews Therin the Dragon from 3,000 years before asked the female Aes Sedai to join him and his one hundred male Aes Sedai to try to seal the Dark One off from the world. Because using Saidin ( the male side of the Power ) and Saidar ( the female side of the Power ) together was much more effective and powerful than just using either one on its own ( do you see what Robert Jordan the author of The Wheel of Time did there ? ).
But the female Aes Sedai thought it was a dangerous plan and refused to help even after their own plan couldn't be carried out. So the men decided to confront the Dark One on their own. They did their best and managed to seal the Dark One off from the world ( although not permanently ) and the Dark One at the last moment put a taint on Saidin which drove the male Aes Sedai mad. Then these mad male Aes Sedai went berserk and unleashed Saidin on the world.
And you might ask who made the bore into the Dark Ones lair in the first place ? Arrogant men !? Well no it was a team led by Mierin Sedai ( Lanfear ) who later became one of the female Forsaken ( the highest level of servants of the Dark One ).
So were the male Aes Sedai arrogant ? No they weren't, not at all. They came up with a plan and they took it to the female Aes Sedai who refused to help so the men went ahead with it anyway. Doing nothing wasn't an option. And the plan succeeded in containing the Dark One but at a terrible cost. The female Aes Sedai should have accepted their share of the blame for what happened because it was one of them ( Lanfear ) who created the problem in the first place. But they refused to help and walked away. But in watching the opening scene of Episode One you wouldn't know any of that !
Context is everything but if you leave it out then you can give the story your own Woke spin. And that spin was nothing less than a sneaky and lying Woke hatchet job on men.
And it's worth asking the question what ( 3,000 years later ) is Moiraine's plan to battle the Dark One again in the knowledge of what happened last time ? Well it turns out she wants to help Rand seal the Dark One off like Lews Therin did. So apparently in Moiraine's mind it's not arrogant or a deal breakingly bad plan when she proposes doing it, but it was when Lews Therin proposed doing it ! Which shows how blatantly self contradictory and just plain stupid the writing can be for this show.
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