Minor nitpick about this video: Not enough Reds murdering people, not enough Blues being murdered.

@andrewdiaz3529

2 жыл бұрын

Not enough Greens Getting beat up and humiliated either.

Huh. I guess the black Ajah is actually the most well focused of the bunch then.

@andrewdiaz3529

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly if they kept all plotting focused on preventing their own discovery and to preventing regular Aes Sedai plots from being discovered by each other they'd be unstoppable.

@genericallyentertaining

2 жыл бұрын

Literally, though.

@lbaungartner

2 жыл бұрын

Just as the saying goes, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. While all the "good" Aes Sedai were satisfied with being completely useless and pompous while pretending to be "servants of all", the Black Ajah worked their asses off. If it weren't for some very few actually helpful sisters, the White Tower would have been completely doomed.

This is funnier than it has any right to be.

“This dress that I am wearing is green”

@wayar7349

2 жыл бұрын

Wish I can do this in real life 🤣🤣👌🏼 I’ll be like: “this is a school uniform” “this is mosque appropriate” “this dress is not stolen from your closet” Life would be easy ✌🏼🤍

@andrewdiaz3529

2 жыл бұрын

This 30 year old is a teen in a high school

You have passed the hair check, please collect your stamp by the counter

Couldn't agree more. I can't begin to quantify how infuriatingly pompous, closed minded and vacuous I found the Aes Sedai as I read WOT. Like, when I read the first book, I found it so strange that everyone looked at the Aes Sedai with such suspicion because they were ostensibly these powerful "mages" who protected the world from evil. After getting a couple books in though, I was so thoroughly disgusted by them that I totally agreed with the haters. Maybe not to the extent of the white cloaks and their weird beliefs, but still.

@n.asalim3988

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. I read half-way through the series and I couldn’t really stand the Aes Sedai at all.

@Anony298

2 жыл бұрын

Strange, I feel the exact same way with politicians

@RageTyrannosaurus

2 жыл бұрын

I hated most of the characters and organizations that I encountered in the book. From the Aes Sedai to the Asha men, from Andor to the Seanchan empire. Part of what made me dislike them so was things like forcing oaths on people who had no means of resistance or understanding and the slavery so many of them engaged in. The bloody Aes Sedai went around torturing and enslaving people, no wonder they were distrusted.

@reviewman

2 жыл бұрын

They are still better than the whitecloaks. Screw those zealous pricks. The only reason they aes sedai didn’t take care of them is that oath pillar that made only kill Darkspawn.

The rainbow handkerchief for the amyrlin is funny

One complaint: at 1:57, instead of "pure coincident", he (she?) should have said "the wheel weaves as the wheel wills."

"We put all of our eggs into one basket. What's wrong with that?" Demetrius of Phalerum, the man who proposed the library of Alexandria: 👀

Aes Sedai are in this weird place where you never know if their stupidity in the books is on purpose, unintentional, or a mix of both

@Revanchist

2 жыл бұрын

I think they are just badly written

@jaiadlakha212

2 жыл бұрын

That's what Robert jordan was going for

@jaiadlakha212

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly look at all the modern governments and how they handled the coronavirus pandemic and tell me aes sedai aren't similar

@carlossalazar3182

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaiadlakha212 Yeah, I think so too, it’s just that sometimes it seems like he wants to also portray them as cool or badass with characters like Moiraine and Egwene, so it feels like the story doesn’t quite know what it wants us to think about them. This is why for me (and this may be a controversial opinion) Cadsuane was the most respectable and admirable of the Aes Sedai. She knows they’re all idiots and just does whatever the hell she wants, which makes her cool in her own unique way without being dragged down by her Aes Sedai association. Same could be said of Verin in some instances, although I think liking her is a much less controversial opinion than liking Cadsuane

@jaiadlakha212

2 жыл бұрын

@@carlossalazar3182 the thing you have to keep in mind is that whenever you read of aes sedai it highly depends on the perspective of the person they're interacting with Quite frankly your opinions are as heavily biased towards one side or the other as the character you are currently reading If they're cool that's cause Elaine or egwene think they're cool If they're incompetent it's cause siuan or cadusanse believe it to be Jordan is an unreliable narrator

I feel like practically every Ajah is compromised by 99% dead weight, and is carried by a single character. Moiraine carries the blue, Nynaeve the yellows, Verin the browns, and so on. One character is about as effective in their mission as the rest put together

@realmless4193

Ай бұрын

(80/20)^2 rule

I have never read WoT and this was greatly entertaining nonetheless

@RICHIEV333

2 жыл бұрын

If you have a free weekend you should read it... (Everyone, shhhh hehe)

This sounds like a great D&D campaign where everyone is at war and they're all terrible/not effective 😅

@eldrago19

2 жыл бұрын

"Are we... the bad guys?" "No, we do lots of good things. Like helping the old man who had lost his crystals?" "The crystals he is currently using to bring about the end of the world? Those crystals?" ~ kzread.info/dash/bejne/nZ6AuteEeM6xqKg.html

Aes Sedai come across as a bunch of entitled manipulators who are so busy being important that they have no idea how to put there power and influence to any practical use. Sounds pretty realistic to me...

Wait...independent city state? It's a magic Vatican!

Imma stick up for Browns a little bit. Preserving knowledge is going to require most of the sisters spending day after day repairing and re-writing manuscripts. Unless they unload that work onto an artisan class that works under them that does that work for them. Eggs in one basket is still a poor idea though, unless you're talking about the food.

@andrewdiaz3529

2 жыл бұрын

There are still printing presses though to mass produce whatever they've already preserved. Also they never really advise people with that knowledge.

@harascarletto6065

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. The Browns don’t get enough credit. A lot of information was lost after the Breaking and their sole focus was to preserve what they could for future generations. In the books, we even saw Browns visit the libraries in other cities, perhaps for the purpose of reading and copying texts. They even traveled to get first-hand accounts of major events and wrote those down too, for the sake of documenting history. On top of that, they did a lot of theorizing, testing (trial & error), took notes and did share them with others to build upon later.

@sowpmactavish

2 жыл бұрын

But they do have scribes. I'd imagine the ones directly under the Brown Ajah will be the most attuned to their work.

@notthis9586

2 жыл бұрын

"I have the power to call lightning and fire, to make favorable winds blow and heal the sick, to make the very earth move. With these great abilties I shall sit in a library for years doing work that any *and I mean any* human person with working hands and a few years of education could complete to the same standards!" Yeah... browns are as useful as the greys in regards to actually using their channelling (the thing that makes them aes sedai) to serve mankind.

Major spoilers below The Aes Sedai makes more and less sense when you find the sheer number who are Black Ajah. It turned out almost 1/5 of the entire organization was evil, which makes a lot of sense as to why it was so utterly ineffective

@Martinator0325

2 жыл бұрын

To some extent, yes. But the very pervasiveness of the Black Ajah is yet another failing of the Tower as a whole, which goes back to James' point of them being incapable of reflection and accepting others' ideas: if Aes Sedai actually took the time to study the Oath Rod a bit more and realize that Oaths can be undone, or if they didn't immediately respond to claims that some of them might be corrupted by the Dark One as common rumors outside the tower suggested with censorship and denial, if they'd just taken a moment to do an internal investigation, they wouldn't even have this problem.

Damn it James, now I NEED to actually READ wheel of time to understand just how much of this is satire, and how much is real! Curse you!

@mycaleb8

2 жыл бұрын

None of it is satire, and the books themselves offer these very critiques. It's kind of a weird video, because it's punchline is just restating the entire point made in the books.

@nekiddo

2 жыл бұрын

@@mycaleb8 The fact that the books offer "critiques" doesn't automatically make them good or well constructed.

@mycaleb8

2 жыл бұрын

@@nekiddo What a non counter argument. You're correct in general, but that doesn't mean anything. This video is like if James made a skit where he explained to Jordan Belfort why he's a bad person, and that's the punchline.

@OsirisLord

2 жыл бұрын

Aes Sedai are people who can channel which means they can use magic. There's a male half and female half but the Bad Guy corrupted the male half so all male Aes Sedai go insane. This means the current organization is all female. They have a bunch of sub-orders called Aja which are all color coordinated. Think all women-Jedai with no laser swords and are some less effective.

@sowpmactavish

2 жыл бұрын

Huh. A JC Denton pfp who isnt a total ass. Never thought I'd see the day.

It was so funny when Rand was talking to the Tower Aes Sedai, and Beldaine lifted her chin and said "Green is The Battle Ajah!"

5:11 Well the white Ajah is completely useless! Just like in the books

"This dress I am wearing is green." I had to pause the video to laugh.

6:00 Two separate armies actually. One with a massive Empire and Massive tactical and technological advantages behind them.

@rivera147

2 жыл бұрын

They don't think they're all servants of evil. Just that they're not even human

Also Aes Sedai having a culture of not having babies for some reason. Edit: guys it's pride. "I'm Aes Sedai! I can't be bothered with children."

@learncat8771

2 жыл бұрын

@@adamnesico How does this relate to feminism exactly?

@josejaimes-ramos1546

2 жыл бұрын

Because of the higher risk of creating male channelers.

@user-zl7sv6go3p

2 жыл бұрын

Probably because they wouldn't want to outlive their children

@henriquesousa8819

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-zl7sv6go3p That's bullshit. I bet they are just too proud of fucking with a lowly commoner.

@learncat8771

2 жыл бұрын

@@adamnesico I don't want to come off as if I'm talking down to you, but I honestly don't think you know what the average feminist is like. The absolute closest they get to endorsing an ideology like that is when they talk about bodily autonomy, and that's still extremely far from "no children allowed ever".

Make this a series please. Ted the fantasy management consultant.

Never read wheel of time but every time you talk about it I am closer and closer to cracking one open

@trevorlong8659

2 жыл бұрын

Do iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

This job is almost as bad as consulting for the Brotherhood of Steel.

@nottherealpaulsmith

2 жыл бұрын

you beat me to it, the brown ajah is literally just a fantasy brotherhood of steel with slightly less murder

Yes, thank you! And they all have this holier than thou attitude.

If it has free dental then sign me up, hell I'll even worship a side of a bacon.

@johannageisel5390

2 жыл бұрын

The Flying Spaghettimonster: "Can I interest you in some meatballs?"

@leogazebo5290

2 жыл бұрын

@@johannageisel5390 what's the brand of the meatballs? And is it low carbs and... Vegan?

@johannageisel5390

2 жыл бұрын

@@leogazebo5290 Yes, all of the above. It's also low-fat. AND super tasty!

If you're going to take an unbreakable oath to never lie in order to get people to trust you, not ALL OF YOU can turn twisting the truth to mislead everyone into believing whatever suits you into an actual lifestyle. Never lying doesn't really make me trust you when every single Aes Sedai I've ever met has still managed to deceive me for her own inscrutable purposes.

@kght222

2 жыл бұрын

actually requiring an oath to never lie is likely make me trust you less. because it means that your organization is admitting that you cannot be trusted. the wise ones got it right and the kin were on the right path. the aes'sedai were obviously corrupt and their 3 oaths were the best evidence for it. the more hilarious thing is that the 3 oaths were probably intentionally inflicted by the black ajah, because they could find a way around them while the rest would not only be restricted in action but would literally lose half of their life. the white tower was probably conceived by ishamael, it uses an old word (ajah) that most aes'sedai even at the time would not have been aware really related to temporary alliances and organizations based on current issues then dissolve. they hold 7 ajahs in place for thousands of years so that ideas get so ingrained that they become toxic. they bind themselves with tools that were meant to bind against the crime and punish the criminal with a reduced life to try to prove their trustworthiness with oaths that outwardly say that they cannot be trusted. they have been corrupted by the shadow from the start and it would be the white ajah's job to see this. because this is logic. the white ajah completely failed at their job, because they should have seen the corruption.

@Mikkamel

2 жыл бұрын

@@kght222 Yeah, this one felt pretty intentional. Isn't it like peasant wisdom in the books to never trust a word that an Aes Sedai says?

These are my thoughts reading the first 4 and a half books.

I sure hope Daniel sees this

THIS DRESS I AM WEARING IS GREEN

If you haven't noticed, they literally live in ivory towers

Kind of wish Ted had lectured the Black Ajah too but oh well

The aes sedai only have influence because they can weild the power. The way white tower does things is asanine.

They're a semi-autonomous collective who take it in turns to act as a sort of executive

Yo, you REALLY help us developing writers think about this shit. You RULE James!

I mean I think with the Blue Ajah, it’s more about each sister picks her cause, or joins with other sisters on a cause, and they try to fulfill that cause as they believe it is just. It’s more individual based; if you want to fight a battle you believe in compared to fighting a battle a three thousand year old group believes in.

This is like 50% of a room reveal

A certain leave-colored goblin maybe come by your door in the coming days. Careful.

@NotoriousLightning

2 жыл бұрын

Green Daniel is a good man who would never sink so low as to harass Jimmy James for doing something similar. Low of you to insinuate nasty stuff about him.

Totally lost it at 5:05

Thanks for explaining what the different groups do for people who haven't read WoT (me)

This is unironically one of the funniest KZread videos I have ever seen 😂

tbh they're still better than the "hurr durr we only live on boats and are better than all you landlubbers" Atha'an mier

@Lammy4ever7

2 жыл бұрын

The Aiel are my personal least favorite. "Grr, wetlanders, grr, honor, bad sense of humor that makes no sense, grr."

@Chaunwilkerson

2 жыл бұрын

The only characters who could make the Aes sedai look humble.

This is without even getting into the incredibly disturbing practice of binding of wardens and the transferral of bonds that a warden can be subjected to.

I would love to see you talking about Morrowind, don't know if you are into TES or not, but would be nice anyway

Pedron Niall love this

Even my one temple that heals anyone that comes to them in my video script have sisters that travel around and look for villages/battlefields

This is the most fun I've had all week!

Greeneites malding, seething, balding and coping

James just put two weeks worth of shorts into one video. hilarious 😂

Highlighting the MANY reasons I dropped this series at book 5 and by extension why I'll always hate Moraine.

@Mohammed-zn8zt

2 жыл бұрын

well ! After book 5 you will see many Aes sedai and white tower foolishness till the end Maybe you can start again

@JenkemSuperfan

2 жыл бұрын

The aes sedai get their just deaerts and are deliberately written to be largely incompetent

James is very handsome in an unconventional way

Hello everyone…. This is Ted. From now on, this story is gonna terns to him escaping death.

I love these skits.

Currently starting 12 book and i always though its weird, that their name is Aes Sedai, so they are supposed to serve, but in the end, the only one they serve, is themselves. The black sedai might have been the only part of them, that actually got anything done. Their oaths are practically useless, as they usually will try to manipulate and half truth their way anyway (and almost everybody expects that). In short, perfect example of ancient order that has fallen from grace long time ago. Love the Asha-mans, one of the best thing Dragon reborn has done, if only he didnt hate his own creation that much, that would help.

Idk what this is even from but it's funny as hell XD

I love the scarf

This is a excellent example of why rover Jordan needed to rethink the premise of the different colors

The Aes Sedai: We won’t commit to being a magic school and we won’t commit to being the Illuminati. We just exist to do things. 🤣

The energy in this video is priceless. Those aes Sedai are a mess 😂

Nice outfit man, looking good

@ministryoftruth8499

2 жыл бұрын

Which one? The green one?

@Juno_Colchis

2 жыл бұрын

@@ministryoftruth8499 the one at the start

Definitely got at a bunch of my problems with WoT, for which I had to construct some major head-canon. Which is odd, considering the length of the series.

Laughed so hard I think I busted a kidney, and I haven't even read the books yet.

I have no idea what this is about, but I like this all the same

I love transformers but I don’t remember this episode

Half-trained children

"I think that went well." 😂😂😂

I love it as much as the first 6 books

Insane Man argues with fictional characters. That's fun.

the names are familiar, but I don't remember what book this is from...

@zopiranha3871

2 жыл бұрын

Wheel of time

@7OwlsWithALaptop

2 жыл бұрын

@@zopiranha3871 aaaaah yes

@7OwlsWithALaptop

2 жыл бұрын

@@zopiranha3871 thx

Yo they get a pension? Sign me up

I've only read one Wattpad story on a similar topic so only about half of these make sense to me, but boi I enjoyed it so much!!

Funny video 😂 Also, very accurate. The Aes Sedai are rather frustrating, I suppose

Thank you

Wheel of Time hot takes! :D and all of them true. My favourite ever is that the blue is described in the books as dedicated to 'causes'. Sure Jan.

James looking snatched in this

THANK YOU!

That did go well, it was hilarious.

This is a pretty good summation. Damn, the Aes Sedai are infuriating. Their close minded arrogance makes them such idiots. (Not bad writing. They're meant to be that way?

Yeah all good points, though two slight points of clarification. Reds are for fighting the abuse of The Power. Yes this includes all men but it can technically also include women who are misusing it. And Whites seem to have some focus on mathematics. Its only really hinted at once when the POV character overhears some arguing over the best way to formulate a projection of food spoilage, but I'd consider that one of their main uses.

@andrewdiaz3529

2 жыл бұрын

The whites spend so much time debating the philosophical merits of each system that the original point (that food is impossibly spoiling) is immediately forgotten and some one of another Ajah does the job themselves.

@Mechsrule1

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewdiaz3529 Fair point, they're all pretty useless. Except the blues I guess. They actually get shit done. They're also the worst because of how upset Eqwene got with Elain over her setting up a hospital of her own with channellers. And don't forget it was the ashamen who saved the refugees in the last battle, not aes sedai. Given that they are much much much more happy to use the power, they may do a lot of the things suggested here. They don't have ajahs anyway which probably help. I honestly think its an awful system. Who wants to only do ONE thing forever. People change.

Summed it up nicely

Honestly, after seeing how ridiculous and terrible the others are, it’s no wonder they formed The Black Ajah.

Thank you for saying this

Caption is literally my first thought exactly

The ending 🤣🤣🤣

Perfection

I get the feeling that I don't need to read the books or watch the show to understand this series

you have a lot of colourful t-shirts :D

I do hate that insuler nature of the tower wasn't addressed quite enough or will enough. Like... Even the men's tower was more integrated into the lives of people and more trusted than them and they were like.... Going insane a minute ago. Robert does portray the mistrust and dislike of them pretty will though and how in the middle of the end of the war they were MIRED in a civil war but the ending didn't really.... Show much of a path for them. The "new path" eg Egwain is dead and they immediately defaulted to the old gaurd. I think they were excited will but didn't get a will enough conclusion.

Iconic

I feel this would be better if I had any clue what franchise this was. Like, not just "if I understood what you were saying," but literally "what is this even from."

This is am entertaining way to point at the flaws in story.

Nice

“Pure coincidence...”

lol, i finished the books and i was wondering if anyone else thought about this about the ajhas, like the Blues seem like they have literally no purpose!

TED Talk in a nutshell

young thorias unlimited?

☠️

Do they really use color to name each organization? Why?