Nice.
Edit: I just watched it. I honestly though saidin was black because it's the black side of the Aes Sedai symbol, it didn't even occur to me that it was the taint / "corruption" :lol
(Also seriously I get why they changed it but that's going to be quite the adjustment to make when...
- The Whitecloak with the trophy belt of Aes Sedai rings.
- Mat being Mat with the "have you lost your entire mind" (I don't think he's talking to Moiraine)
- Alanna blowing up everything
- Are we going to see a condensed version of New Spring or something??
- The serious implications that it...
taint is a specific private part of a man's anatomy. They would absolutely get torn to shreds in non-book-reading fandom circles if they used that term on screen. :P