RAFE JUDKINS: I know.
It was something that people kept suggesting in the writers room, and I’d be like, No!
We’re just not going to do it.
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For all of our characters, we have these incredible actors tied to them.
For Loial, there needed to be a loss for Perrin.
At the end of the Battle of Two Rivers, he needed to feel loss.
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But we’re all sad to see him go.
It’s so insane.
The scripts were all done, and there was no way to change them.
For us, I really like how it plays.
What am I even watching?
Nynaeve finally overcomes her block, which has lasted for the majority of the past two seasons.
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Did you always know that you wanted to build up to the moment in this week’s finale?
You have to release control, essentially, which is the hardest thing for Nynaeve to do.
Why is she seasick?
Sometimes you have to move with the water.
That’s the story we wanted to tell with her and deliver it at the end.
He also discusses Rand and Lanfear’s confrontation, Rand’s emotional scene with Moiraine, and more.
In the finale, Moghedien is the one who gets the definitive upper hand on Sammael.
We had to show Lanfear being afraid of her.
Oh my god, I don’t know what’s going to happen next.
I’m really worried for all of my favorite characters in this scene.
Was there ever a version of this sequence where that was the case?
Were you tossing around different outcomes at all?
I remember when I read the Tower coup in the books, I just lost it.
I threw down the book.
What fueled the decision to kill her off?
We’re always thinking.
It’s never like, Oh, you know what would be shocking?
Five billion conversations have gone into it.
In terms of blocking out the season, there’s so much ground to cover.
Why did you want to end Season 3 with Rand at Alcair Dal?
It does set up the internal schism that’s growing within the Aiel.
You’ve got the Shaido on one side with Couladin and Sevanna, and Rand on the other.
JUDKINS:We really want to just set up Rand.
He has to do both.
He doesn’t get to be a sweet farm boy or power incarnate.
He has to be both.
Is there anything you’re able to say about a status update for Season 4?
JUDKINS: I can’t say anything, but we have great plans for it.
If we get to do it, I think it’s going to be fucking amazing.
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