Wheel of Mind: A Wheel of Time Character Reread Podcast

The great Ebou Dar escape is in the works! Roadblocks keep arriving, but our boy Mat and his trusty team are up to the task. 

Stick around to the end of the aftershow for some bloopers!

Mat's escape plan from Ebou Dar is still brewing. In the meantime, we get into another deep discussion about the Seanchan and colonization--this time centered on the social construction of race. But you know us: we also have a good time laughing about Mat's buffoonery!

Join us as we talk a LOT about the Seanchan, colonialism, and structural violence. Turns out to be very timely.

 

Stick around for the long aftershow with some chit-chat about creative writing and the internet!

Join us for a doozy of a four-chapter episode! Because Mat is still in Ebou Dar and so much of the story was redundant until the Seanchan arrive in Winter's Heart, where we'll pick up next week! Fun times were had at the Festival of Birds and they finally found the friggin' Bowl!

Content warning: As we did last week, this time we have brief mentions of sexual assault in this episode. We largely talk around the Mat-Tylin issue. 

We felt the debates about it have already been had more articulately by others. Leigh Butler did some good writing on it here in her commentary on Chapter 29: https://www.tor.com/2010/03/19/the-wheel-of-time-re-read-a-crown-of-swords-part-17/

There are also numerous Reddit and Dragonmount threads out there if you're interested in engaging with others about this topic. We didn't feel the need to give it more space here due to the plethora of other spaces for it.

Join us as Mat moves into the Tarasin Palace and, unfortunately, becomes Tylin's toy. There's plenty else to talk about in these chapters, though, like Dolly Parton!

Content warning: brief mentions of sexual assault in this episode. We largely talk around the Mat-Tylin issue. 

We felt the debates about it have already been had more articulately by others. Leigh Butler did some good writing on it here in her commentary on Chapter 29 (which we cover in the next episode): https://www.tor.com/2010/03/19/the-wheel-of-time-re-read-a-crown-of-swords-part-17/

There are also numerous Reddit and Dragonmount threads out there if you're interested in engaging with others about this topic. We didn't feel the need to give it more space here due to the plethora of other spaces for it.

Join us as we begin the doldrums of being stuck in Ebou Dar... We'll get through it together with lots of laughs, no worries!

Join us as we wrap up Lord of Chaos and prepare for "the Slog." Mat is an unwitting guinea pig for Aes Sedai and unknowingly informs a Seanchan Seeker!

Join us as we follow Mat marching into Salidar to rescue a mule and pull the girls' bacon off the fire once again... or not. He also tries to have a talk about racism with Olver. We can all do better than Mat did here!

Mat gets new orders and we learn about an old board game coming back into fashion.

Aftershow: Giskell talks about a scifi show called Travelers.

Join us for a deep dive into an entire 30-page chapter of Mat Cauthon's perspective! This week's themes are growth and acceptance.