Moiraine Damodred And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Month

Moiraine Damodred and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Month

S I U A N  S A N C H E

Daughter of the river. Clever as a pike. Strong as the tides.

Lorne Balfe: *makes Moiraine’s theme also the themesong to the entire show*

Also Lorne Balfe: *makes an entire song about Siuan and releases it as a single before literally anything else*

Also Lorne Balfe: *writes a song literally called ‘on your knees’*

Lorne Balfe says Siuaraine rights

so, in the show, i know that we’re able to see the one power woven as a viewer

but in the books it was made clear that you couldn’t see the one power woven unless you could also embrace it

so now i’m just going back and watching the scenes where moiraine is just like….wiggling and flowing and flinging her hands and arms around and thinking about how funny or odd that would look to some random person who can’t see the weaves

at least until a lightning bolt or a ball of fire appears out of nowhere but y’all get my point

Moiraine + her least favorite child

Still can’t believe we’ve gotten, canonically and unambiguously on screen-

1, a queerplatonic partnership between two leads that is very deeply intimate, and never diminished by characters or the narrative for being non-romantic and non-sexual

2, a loving and stable polyamourous relationship between three secondary characters, which is supported by their friends and coworkers, and which no one criticizes them or degrades them for

3, a wlw couple consisting of a lead and an extremely important secondary character who are presented as soulmates, kiss multiple times on screen, and are very intimate with each other, all without ever being framed as sexual objects for the audience

All of the characters involved have their own stories, their own selves outside of their partner(s). None of them are reduced to a caricature, all of them are treated as people. And to top it all off, not one of the relationships shown has been between exclusively white people! Including the only significant m/f pairing, which is not only interracial, but consists of a bisexual actress paired with a character who is also implied to be bisexual! Even the potential pairs that are being set up are all incredibly diverse!

It’s just, any one of these is so, so rare. And it’s particularly rare for relationships like these to be given any kind of prominent role in a story, especially in fantasy. But to have all of them featured in the same show, and for them all to be treated with equal respect and care? It just means so very much. And I am so grateful to Rafe & Co. for making it happen.