时光之轮 第一季

这一部分确实是第七集乃至第一季处理得比较不好的地方(尤其是那场四人吵架的群戏)，但reddit上有人给这段做出了一些自己的理解：他们不是在跟对方吵架，而是都在吵架的那个时间段面临剧烈的自我挣扎，而吵架过程本身也其实就是跟自己的内心抗争。这个理解方式可以作为一个角度来思考。

以下附原文：

So, about that "love triangle"...

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I commented this in a different post, and people seemed to find it helpful in understanding that scene, so making it a standalone:

It’s not a love triangle, and that’s not the point of the scene. It’s not why Nynaeve says it, or why Perrin and Rand react the way they do.

With everything we learn about our characters' mindsets this episode, the scene is much more about four individuals talking entirely at cross-purposes – and accusing each other of the things they feel ashamed of. Mostly, it’s an extremely Jordan-esque bit of four-way miscommunication.

Nynaeve isn’t actually sick of Perrin and Rand fighting over Egwene, she’s projecting her self-loathing over herownone-sided fight with Moiraine over Egwene and Lan. Early in the scene, Egwene pretty directly calls her out, when she tells her that if Moiraine weren’t involved, she’d be the first to commit to the plan. In an extremely-Nynaeve bit of character work, she then accuses Perrin and Rand of the same thing she’s just spent a few minutes beating herself up over – fighting over Egwene (and Lan, in her case!) like she’s a prize to be won.

Egwene and Rand aren’t fighting over who Mat is, they’re fighting over who they are. In Rand's case, he's very obviously working up to concluding that the only way to save everyone else is to own up to being the Dragon. But on top of that, Egwene is daring Rand to validate her guilt over leaving her loved ones behind to become an Aes Sedai. Rand is wondering whether Egwene will remember him as a monster from legends, not as a man who gave up everything he had to save his loved ones.

Perrin’s not fighting with Rand over Egwene – he’s beating himself up because he killed his wife, who it’s hinted thought he only married her because Egwene didn’t want him. Machin Shin capitalised on that to draw out his fear that some secret part of him wanted her out of the way, and he’s now dwelling in that self-loathing and self-doubt. Watching his friends tear their relationship apart, he jumps in to tell Rand to apologise – with a subtext of “you don’t actually want to push her away”, because that’s wherehismind is.

Rand isn’t wondering whether Egwene and Perrin have a thing – he’s suddenly wondering whether, instead of remembering him with horror, Egwene will just… move on with her life. Then, when Perrin furiously insists the only woman he ever loved was Laila, he backs right down and leaves, because he’s just been reminded that even if he’s the Dragon, that doesn’t mean people’s lives will revolve only around him.

When Rand and Egwene finally talk alone, Perrin is a footnote both of them dismiss immediately. Egwene makes it clear that she was upset that Rand would think she’d abandon Mat. Rand makes clear he was talking out of fear, and we later learn what exactly he was fearing. And then Rand encourages her to go become an Aes Sedai – he absolves her of the guilt she’s been expressing over what it means for her to do that.

Egwene goes to find Nynaeve first thing in the morning – because there’s a conversation to have about what Nynaeve threw at her and Rand and Perrin last night. When she finds Nynaeve’s bed hasn’t been slept in, she skips right past the mess of their conversation last night to tease her, and takes her apology without any further discussion. Why? Because she knows that the subtext of Nynaeve’s input last night is as much Lan as it is her, and if she’s spent the night with him, maybe they don’t need to have that conversation.