Samantha Field, Author at The Mary Sue

Samantha Field

Samantha Field is a queer writer, gamer, geek, and activist. Her earliest memory is the Star Trek: Next Generation theme song, and she walked down the aisle to the theme from Star Trek: First Contact. She's also read Wheel of Time four times (currently working on her fifth reread). When not writing about the cross section of feminism and culture, her day job is as a children's rights lobbyist.

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Moiraine sits in the woods in Amazon's Wheel of Time.

Recap: The Wheel of Time, Episode 8 “The Eye of the World”

Our cold open in the first season finale of Amazon's Wheel of Time series adaptation shows us the world from before The Breaking, during the Age of Legends where The Tamyrlin Seat, Latra, and the Dragon Reborn, Lews, discuss (entirely in the Old Tongue) Lews’ plan to confront the Dark One.

Still from Amazon's Wheel of Time. (image: Amazon)

The Wheel of Time Recap: Episode 7, “The Dark of the Ways”

I had a baby last year, and emotionally speaking, my birth experience is basically equivalent to fighting off a half-dozen Illianer Companions and getting stabbed in the side while in labor. Watching Tigraine Mantear be a magnificent BAMF was honestly quite cathartic for me. Having struggled through pregnancy and motherhood during the pandemic, I felt such a deep resonance watching her fight for her life and her baby.

Still from Amazon's Wheel of Time. (image: Amazon)

The Wheel of Time: Episode 6, “The Flame of Tar Valon”

This episode, y’all. Y’all. How do I put into words everything this episode made me feel? I almost feel like I could die happy now that I’ve seen it, except then I wouldn’t be able to watch it six dozen more times.

Still from Amazon's Wheel of Time episode 5 Blood Calls Blood.

Recap: The Wheel of Time: Episode 5, “Blood Calls Blood”

This episode is a bit of an emotional rollercoaster. It’s bookended by two funerals (or, should I say, it has a circular ending), and the middle bits feature nonviolent resistance, suicide pacts, torture, stabbings, and political maneuvering. Whoof.

An archer drawing a bow in Amazon's Wheel of Time.

Recap: The Wheel of Time: Episode 4, “The Dragon Reborn”

It’s hard to describe how well this episode works as an adaptation, and how much the show is benefiting from Robert Jordan’s completed work. As someone who started reading The Wheel of Time when I was seventeen, I found the amount of foreshadowing in this episode utterly delightful.

Still from Amazon's Wheel of Time.

Recap: The Wheel of Time, Episode 3 “A Place of Safety”

In a sequence that launched a thousand memes, this episode finally shows what happened to Nynaeve—and it's worth the wait.

Still of Amazon's Wheel of Time cast traveling on horseback.

Recap: The Wheel of Time: Episode 2, “Shadow’s Waiting”

Robert Jordan is renowned for the breadth and depth of the world he constructed for The Wheel of Time.

Rosamund Pike in 'The Wheel of Time'

Recap: The Wheel of Time: Episode 1, “Leavetaking,” Covers a Lot of Ground and Does It Well

“The arrogance,” Moiraine Sedai pronounces in the opening moments of Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time, condemning “men who believed they could cage Darkness itself,” leaving “the women of the Aes Sedai to pick up the pieces.”