When Dana revealed herself in the room with Rand, was I the only person who had a momentary moment of panic thinking, "OMG they're bringing in Lanfear earlier than anyone expected!!"
I was re-watching some of the scenes a second time, and this time around I got proper tingles at the first time I get to hear someone in a show out loud refer to "the three-fold land" and actually say "May your soul find water and shade." I was never even a big Aiel person, but that's proper...
Yeah they're using real world swear words in the show so far but none of the in-world ones. The references to Light seem to be the extent of it.
I can get behind the show not using Emond's Field because a common task in adaptation is to reduce the number of new names for an audience to learn...
Ara, I don't think they ever actually say it's a mining town in the episode. Dana's speech talks about "digging in the dirt, until one day they cover you in it." So yeah, might not actually be mining at all.
On the episode, I really liked a whole episode centered around character development...