Watch That “Bonkers” Opening ‘Wheel of Time’ Season 3 Scene Showrunner Rafe Judkins Has Been Teasing

Followers are counting down the weeks till The Wheel of Time returns to Prime Video for Season 3. This morning, the streamer released the first 11 minutes of the premiere, which showrunner Rafe Judkins had beforehand teased as “Some of the bonkers set items I’ve ever seen on tv.” And he was proper.

This upcoming season will adapt the fourth e book in Robert Jordan‘s bestselling fantasy collection, The Shadow Rising, in addition to a part of the fifth e book, The Fires of Heaven. Season 3 takes followers to new areas, together with the Aiel Waste, which we have already seen within the first trailer dropped at CCXP and in first-look photos, in addition to the coastal city of Tanchico. In addition to the Two Rivers, these new areas seem like the place our foremost characters will break up as much as journey to after the occasions of the Season 2 finale. Earlier than that occurs, although, it appears to be like like there’s going to be an enormous face-off between members of the Aes Sedai, the mysterious group solely made up of girls who can channel the One Energy, within the White Tower of Tar Valon — and never everybody goes to make it out alive.

As the primary 11 minutes of the Season 3 premiere reveal, Liandrin (Kate Fleetwood) is being questioned within the White Tower by the Amyrlin Seat, Siuan Sanche (Sophie Okonedo) for her function in delivering Egwene (Madeleine Madden), Nynaeve (Zoë Robins), and Elayne (Ceara Coveney) into the hands of the Seanchan final season — and for being a Darkfriend. Little does Liandrin know that Siuan has at the least one key witness she will be able to present to testify to these allegations. Nonetheless, different Tower Sisters have been ready within the wings to not solely reveal their loyalty to Liandrin however to the Darkish One, and the second quickly turns into a battle of Aes Sedai vs. Aes Sedai, with fireballs and explosions shortly turning the house right into a pile of rubble and damaged our bodies. When Judkins beforehand summed up this sequence as “a bunch of girls of their 40s and 50s shredding one another,” he wasn’t exaggerating!

Will Rand Be Ready To Safe the White Tower’s Allegiance in ‘The Wheel of Time’ Season 3?

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From the photographs and trailers already launched, the group appears to be splitting in two this season, with Moiraine (Rosamund Pike), Rand (Josha Stradowski), and Lan (Daniel Henney), heading to the Aiel Waste, and Mat (Dónal Finn), Elayne, Min (Kae Alexander), and Nynaeve in disguise on the streets of Tanchico. Because the season progresses and our foremost characters enterprise to the far reaches of the world, the solid can be set to develop, together with Shohreh Aghdashloo as Elaida, Olivia Williams as Morgase, a part of the Royal Household of Andor, and Isabella Bucceri as Faile, a Hunter of the Horn. Because the season progresses, between Rand’s growth because the Dragon and closeness with Lanfear (Natasha O’Keeffe), a Forsaken (sure we noticed these lip locks in final week’s trailer), he’ll change into unrecognizable to these round him — however as Moiraine says, he’ll want the assist of the Tower if he ever desires to have any hope of profitable the Final Battle.

Watch the primary 11 minutes of The Wheel of Time Season 3 on Prime Video now. The primary three episodes will arrive on March 13, with new episodes dropping weekly after that till the season finale on April 17. Stick with Collider for the newest updates.

The Wheel of Time

Launch Date: November 18, 2021
Community: Prime Video
Showrunner: Rafe Judkins
Administrators: Sanaa Hamri, Ciaran Donnelly, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Thomas Napper, Maja Vrvilo, Wayne Che Yip
Writers: Amanda Kate Shuman, Dave Hill, Rohit Kumar, Justine Juel Gillmer, Celine Track, Rammy Park, The Clarksons Twins, Katherine B. McKenna