Hello, everybody, welcome to my channel. Today I am going to explain and recap an epic TV
series called the wheel of time. It's Amazon's big-budget show with each episode costing
nearly ten million. It is based on the fourteen-volume book series by author Robert Jordan who published
his first book in the year 1990. Although he passed away before completing this series
in 2007, his friend and fellow fantasy author, Brandon Sanderson, completed it by referring
to his notes. This is a mega book series, eighty of its books were on the New York Times
best sellers list. It won the Hugo award and sold over 90 million copies. If you have not
read it, then give it a shot, or else listen to it in audio form. This fictional world
draws inspiration from early European and Asian mythologies, Hindu, Islamic and Buddhist
traditions. Good verses evil, God verses evil, light verses dark. According to Buddhism,
the wheel of time or Kalachakra holds the karmas or the actions of everyone, it decides
when and how one experiences it. In this fictional world, at the dawn of time, a deity known
as the Creator forged the universe and the Wheel of Time, which spins the Pattern of
the Ages using the lives of men and women as its threads. The Wheel has seven spokes,
each representing an age, and it is rotated by a magical force called the One Power, which
flows from the True Source. The One Power is divided into male and female halves, Saidin
and Saidar, which work in opposition and in unison to drive the wheel. Humans who can
channel this magical, One Power are called aies Sedai or simply Channelers.At the same
time, during creation, The Creator imprisoned an entity called the dark one. The dark one
disagreed with the creator on creation and wanted to spread his influence which was malignant.
The Dark One’s true name is Shaitan, yep, a Devil indeed. But people rarely speak it
in fear that they will evoke his presence. He was referred to by other names like Father
of Lies, Sightblinder, Soulsbane, and Lighteater. This entity is kind of similar to the Dark
Lord in the Harry Potter Series where he had many names. Tom Riddle, the Heir of Slytherin,
He who must not be named, and Voldemort. According to books, the story goes like this.
In the initial ages both men and women used to channel the One-Power energy. But during
the Age of Legends, an aies Sedai experiment called The Bore inadvertently breached the
Dark One's prison, allowing his influence to seep back into the world. He rallied the
powerful, the corrupt, and the ambitious to his cause and these servants began an effort
to free the Dark One fully from his prison, so he might remake time and reality in his
own image. Like the death eaters of the Harry Potter universe. In response to this threat,
the Wheel spun out the Dragon, a channeler of immense power, to be a champion for the
Light. In the Age of Legends, the Dragon was a man named Lews Therin Telamon, who eventually
rose to command the aies Sedai and their allies in the struggle against the Dark One's forces.
He defeated the Dark-One in a ten-year-long war. However, at the moment of victory, the
Dark One was able to corrupt his mind and his fellow men. All male Aies Sedai went insane,
Lews Therin killed himself and his family. The other male channelers devastated the world
with the One Power, creating genocide, hurricanes, earthquakes and what not. Eventually, all
female Aies Sedai killed all male Aies Sedai, leading only women to wield the One Power
from that age. The Women Aies Sedai managed and protected the mankind from that point
to the next three and half thousand years. In this new age, which is actually the third
age, women enjoy full equality with men in most societies and are superior in some. Like
Game of Thrones show, this series is also modified to meet the taste of the present-day
audience. Meaning it will have more violence and adult content, which was not in the book.This
show starts with the voice over of Aies Sedai Moiraine Damodred who narrates the prophecy
of the Dragon. According to this Dragon, will be reincarnate in this age who in his arrogance
will try once again to close the prison of the dark one which will again make him mad
and cause great destruction. According to the show, the dragon can be a male or a female.
Moiraine and her warder Lan were on the move to find this new dragon and take him to the
white tower. The white tower was the headquarter of all Aies Sedai located in the Tar Valon
city. It is the center of aies Sedai power and is also the second largest, most populous
city in the Westlands. The white tower was adjacent to Dragonmount where the first Draggon
channled enormorus One Power which caused his death. In books there are seven different
types of Aies Sedai. Blue, yellow, green, red, white, grey and brown. We can see them
in this clip. These ladies have a leader. Excep Red Aies Sedai, all Aies Sedai have
a warder, or you can say personal bodyguard. But it's not that simple, the bond between
Aies Sedai and the warder is unique, they can feel each other feeling, they are bonded
for life. And one more thing, all Aies Sedai wear a ring unique to their colour, which
helps them to channel one power.In the beginning, we see two men running from Red clocked Aies
Sedai. When they get caught, one of them says we can't die like this, we must use power.
Aies Sedai says this power is meant only for women, and by touching it you made it filthy.
Strangely, Aies Sedai was seeing only one man here, the other guy was visible only to
the other man. Later, the Aies Sedai sisters use their powers, and we hear that man's scream.
Men are not able to wield the power of magic without the unfortunate side effect of going
completely mad, so Aies Sedai used to hunt them down and “gentle” them by stripping
them of their dangerous powers.Moiraine and Lan saw this, she says this is not the dragon.
They continue their quest to a small hamlet of Emond’s Field in the two-river district.
Emond’s Field was a small little hamlet were people lived happily. There lived five
different potential Dragon Reborn candidates who are the main protagonists. Ran Al-Thor,
a young shepherd who lives with his father, Tam Al-Thor. Perrin Ay-bara, a gentle giant
of a blacksmith who lives with his wife Laila. Mat Cauthon, a good for nothing, unemployed
guy who cares for his sisters. Egwene Al-Vere, a young woman and Ran’s lover who has potential
to become Wisdom, a female doctor of sorts. Nynaeve Al-Maera, the current Wisdom of Emond’s
Field.We see Nynaeve, Egwene and other near a waterfall, Nynaeve welcomed Egwene in the
women's circle, she was conducting a ritual of sorts. She asked Egwene to trust the water
and threw her into the river. Egwene started flowing in the heavy current of water, later
at some distance she synchronized her mind and body with the flow.Some women incarnated
with the strong potential of one power, this was the test of Egwene's ability. When she
came back to the town in the evening, her parents and friends were extremely happy.
Everyone drank and danced in the bar. The party was going well when suddenly Moiraine
and Lan arrived. Everyone was shell shocked and scared as Moiraine was like a battalion
of the army. Whenever an army enters the town, even in a peaceful time, it's not a good sign.
There was a war going on in the south from here, so everybody assumed that she was here
for that. Moiraine asked for a room for the night, and the bar owner happily arranged
it. While going, she took a great look at all five candidates.At late night Rand and
Egwene hooked up directly, which was a deviation from the book. In the first book Rand was
always trying hard to woo Egwene. Here Egwene reluctantly tells Rand the shocking thing,
Nynaeve wanted her to be the next wisdom, she had the potential. But the catch was,
the life of wisdom was a lonely one, a Wisdom can't marry or have kids. It's a service to
people like nuns. Egwene has not decided yet, she was struggling with it. This obviously
upsets Rand as he loved Egwene from childhood. Moiraine and Lan also took a hot bath. Here
we see a hooded man also arriving in this town on his horse. Next day while on the petrol
Lan comes across several dead sheep whose bodies were arranged in the shape of the number
six. Everyone in the village was preparing for the feast of the light festival. It is
a celebration so their loved one’s souls can make it back to them. It’s a carnival
of sorts. Here we see a merchent Padan Fain arriving with his cart. Matt sells him a stolen
bracelet for which he gets less money as Padan can't sell it here. This guy is a important
one in later episodes. In the afternoon Rand tells sorry to Egwene for the last night and
tells her to do what she likes with her life. He will be happy with her in anything she
decides. Later Egwene and Nynaeve were on a bridge for a training session, apparently
both can hear the sound of wind. Which to me seems as if they can hear minute-to-minute
sounds from a far distance. Today they heard many screaming voices, which spooks them.In
the evening people float lights in the river. After the ceremony, everyone was enjoying
and dancing like a Norwegian folk dance. Suddenly, Trollocs attacked this hamlet. These were
the foot-soldiers in the Dark One’s army, and they are looking for the same five candidates.
These were a hybrid of a an animal and a man. They walk upright and kill anything that moves.
Trollocs started killing everyone in the village left right and center. Perrin and his wife
Laila were in their house when some trolls attacked them. They fought with them ferociously,
but Perrin accidentally killed Laila. She died on the spot.Rand and Tam were attacked
at their house outside the village, Tam reveals that he has a very fancy sword—the kind
used by knights, not farmers. They fight off their attackers, but Tam gets severely infected.
Rand was surprised by this talent of Tam. At the village, a Trolloc picked Nynaeve and
dragged her with him in front of Egwene. Finally, Moiraine and Lan jumped in to the battle,
and she started killing these Trollocs with her power. Soon she was over-whelmed as Trollocs
kept coming at her. Finally, she channeled the one power to her potential and killed
every Trolloc. Meanwhile, one Trolloc was able to get her, it injured her with a bow
which started to slowly infect her.Next morning Rand brings infected Tam to the village. Moiraine
heals him with one power as Trolloc poison can only be healed by one power. She can't
heal her own wound, only another Aies Sedai can do it. Suddenly everyone saw another battalion
of Trollocs approaching this village. Moiraine tells everyone about her visit, says one among
the four is the dragon. Since Nynaeve was gone, only Mat, Rand, Perrin and Egwene left.
She asked them to travel to the white tower with her where her chief sister Aies Sedai
will determine their fate. Reluctantly, suspiciously, Rand his companions hoist themselves onto
horses and started to ride out of Emond’s Field and the Two Rivers. These guys agreed
as they had no choice, Trollocs would have ripped and killed this town again to get them
if they stayed. With this, the episode one Leavetaking ends.Overall, this is a great
beginning. It has all the potential to become another master series. However, not all will
be happy with it as TV shows and movies based on a book seldom get it right.I will shortly
recap episode two and three. If you enjoyed this video, then pleAies leave a like. Subscribe
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