Siuan’s death in The Wheel of Time Season 3 has left me worried about Logain’s future

The finale episode of The Wheel of Time season three shocked me to my core with the unprecedented death of a character that had huge potential for exploration in the show's fourth season. While The Wheel of Time book series by Robert Jordan accorded a longer arc to Siuan Sanche by keeping her alive throughout The Shadow Rising and after she was stilled by the Aes Sedai, the show killed her off immediately after her stilling was done.

It's fair to say now that the show will have a vacuum to fill, as the character of Siuan could have assumed greater proportions in the future alongside Logain.

Siuan Sanche's ultimate fate and its impact on the narrative

In the book series, Siuan is ousted from her position of the Amyrlin Seat and cast away in a dungeon, wherein she meets Logain. Following this ending, the two are once again united in the book The Fires of Heaven, where they end up escaping from the White Tower along with Min Farshaw and Leane, only to get embroiled in the subsequent Aes Sedai rebellion. Siuan was seen as becoming the chief leader of the Aes Sedai in Salidar alongside Leane.

With The Wheel of Time having killed Siuan, there would be no one now to lead the charge and embark on adventures with Logain, and this makes me all the more disheartened.

Rafe Judkins speaks about the death of Siuan on The Wheel of Time season 3

Showrunner Judkins recently spoke in an exclusive interview with Entertainment Weekly, sharing his thoughts about the death of Siuan at the finale of the third season and the implications that it carries for the show's story at large:

"Yeah, it really was an important story for us to tell because it's the changing and the upsetting of the world order. There's hopefully in our audience this kind of feeling, especially through this season, that, "Well, Siuan's the Amyrlin Seat and what will she decide to do and how does the Tower work? And this moment that Elaida comes in in the books and turns all of that on its head, suddenly it raises the stakes of the world that things can happen that we hadn't processed or seen coming. And one of the biggest, most surprising moments in the books is Elaida's coup."

He added:

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"And so we really wanted to deliver that kind of emotional punch in the show as well, that the Tower now being under the control of someone who's not friendly to our characters is extremely dangerous. And so Sophie (Okonedo) as well is such an incredible actress and has brought so much to the show that it's emotional for us to lose her, too, she's an incredible woman, Siuan, who does things that are sometimes good and sometimes bad, and sometimes for our characters and sometimes against our characters, but you trust in her and believe in her."

The Wheel of Time season 3 is exclusively available on Prime Video.

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