‘Wheel of Time’ Recap: Episode 5 “Blood Calls Blood”

Quote of the Episode: “Women hold the one power, but men still control much of this world and they are rarely kind to little girls that show a spark of being greater than they are.” -Liandrin With Wheel of Time episode 5, we are past the halfway point in the series, and it feels like we are flying through the season. I really wish we had gotten a 12-episode season, because I’m trying to figure out where and how they are going to land this plane. They have flown through a lot of stuff. It sometimes feels like when you’re playing a video game and someone skips a bunch of dialogue to get to the main quest. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad we didn’t spend 4 episodes in the Two Rivers, but I am curious as to how some of this fast-forwarding is going to affect future storylines. But hey, I look up and here we are at Wheel of Time episode 5, and we just hit Tar Valor. Overall, this was a solid, clear transition episode, so I’m expecting big things from episode 6. I’m convinced that some of us have forgotten how to watch tv. Being able to binge a season’s worth of tv in a weekend has ruined us in ways. Every episode can’t be Michael Bay explosions and M. Night Shyamalan twisty-turns. We have to have transitions, monologues, we have to have episodes that scaffold us into the awesome, and I think that’s what episode 5 was. As always, continue at your own peril, because spoilers are Whitecloaks, and I am Hopper coming for your throat.

In the opening scene of Wheel of Time episode 5 , we…