The Winds of Time: A Wheel of Time Readthrough Podcast
A new podcast where James, Isaiah and Amal, three people who have not read the Wheel of Time, read it for the first time, guided by veteran Wheel of Time Reader Mike. Theories, guesses and silliness abound, and the Dragon rides again on the Winds of Time!
Episodes
In which our heroes converge and ALL the Chekov's Guns go off.
Mike drops what he thinks is an earth-shattering revelation, but no one else really cares that much. Amal is doomed to impatience. James overthinks Isaiah has strong feelings about Ingtar And everyone is blind going forward
In which our heroes continue to converge
Mike gets it wrong multiple times Amal refuses to take the bait James picks a fight with Kate Reading Isaiah summarizes a chapter perfectly And half the episode is spent talking about one chapter
In which our heroes converge, and desperate times require desperate measures.
Mike rants. Amal declines a point she didn’t receive. James slanders Bela. Isaiah gets skeeved out. And everyone fears the Seanchan more than Ba’alzamon.
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In which our heroes go to a party
Mike cleanses himself of his sins.
Amal gets her turn.
James is a stranger to the subtle art of seduction, as performed by married noblewomen of the Cairheinin nation.
Isaiah doesn’t do names.
And American Thanksgiving is completely forgotten about until the very end and then only glossed over.
In which our heroes chase, get chased, meet new people, and just royally screw up.
Mike gots jokes Amal tries to spoil the ending of Shogun James gets weirdly antagonistic toward coffee Isaiah admits that Mike is right And nobody fears or respects the Forsaken
In which our heroines gain some knowledge
Mike is enervated
James is in mourning
Amal is sick
Isaiah's hamster power electrical grid fails
And there are so many tangents there's no way to follow anything.
In which our heroes make new friends
Mike is once again confused by Canada, and all things Canadian
Amal’s lack of fear of Ba’alzamon is spreading
James keeps getting interrupted
Isaiah sticks to his guns
And everybody agrees that that b*tch from the next chapter is Lanfear
In which our heroes get a restful night's sleep.
Mike calls out Steven Erikson on his naming bullshit
Amal is caught unawares
James doesn’t know Shakespeare.
Isaiah prepares ye the way of the Malazan
And absolutely nobody makes note of the fact that this is the twentieth episode.
In which our heroes set off on a sizeable chase
Mike subjects everyone to family dynamics.
Amal opens the Robert Jordan Stock Phrases can of worms and spills it all over the podcast.
James drills down on everyone’s ages, again.
Isaiah subconsciously ships Rand and Nynaeve.
And everybody sucks at doing accents
In which our heroes make mistakes
Mike draws parallels to geopolitical conflicts. Amal has nothing but disdain for Ba’alzamon. James snubs his wife on their anniversary. Isaiah is disgusted. And for the first time in the podcast’s history, nobody makes a Tolkien or Harry Potter reference.
In which our hero runs around like a chicken with his head cut off.
Mike is forced to defend Shakespeare’s honor Amal’s fury outburns Ba’alzamon’s. James, for all of the reading he has done, does not recognize one of the most FAMOUS AND IMPORTANT LITERARY DEVICES OF ALL TIME Isaiah would be more evil And nobody knows what [Spoiler] knows.
Mike loses his mind editing. Amal and Isaiah team up to craft a theory. James dips out to go to a wedding Isaiah is sick of the swords And everybody is excited to start the second book.
In which our heroes go there and back again.
Mike RAFOs everyone and everything forever and ever world without end, amen.
Amal runs with a theory in exactly the wrong direction
James demands answers
Isaiah does a dramatic reenactment
And everybody gets to have their first experience with the Big White Book of Bad Art
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In which our heroes hear stories
Mike gets reductive about Daenerys of the House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, The Unburnt, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Queen of Meereen, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Protector of the Realm, Lady Regnant of the Seven Kingdoms, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons (yes, I had to look that up because Ice and Fire is BORING and I DNFed halfway through the first book)....
In which our ways take a lovely constitutional through a horrific miasma of darkness and soul sucking wind.
Mike puts an end to the funny funny colloquialism Amal gets needlessly nihilistic James reads into and overthinks things too much Isaiah steals the Tolkien reference from James And everybody, once again, takes a Spontaneous Last Minute Digressionary Interlude
In which our heroes are reunited, and it feels so good.
Mike stomps down on a theory before it gets profligately out of hand Amal refuses to suspend her disbelief James learns some new stuff Isaiah fails to make the joke Everybody fixates on an ultimately unimportant plot hole, and just… GOD I hope you all like “The Girl from Ipanema”.
In which our heroes reach their various destinations
Mike once again completely forgets about Isaiah Amal frees us from the torment of the Three-Pronged Leaf James just… really loves his Tolkien, doesn’t he? Isaiah is annoyed by the chapter icons and everyone is getting sent to The Hague for the actual legitimate criminal crime of not laughing at one of the funniest jokes ever told.
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