WAFO

WAFO is an acronym used for saying Watch and Find Out (or alternatively, Wait and Find Out). It is a variation of RAFO  (book spoilers!) (Read and Find Out), which was commonly used during the publication of the book series in response to fan questions which prompted answers that would reveal spoilers for future novels.

WAFO is used with the implication that the viewer's question will be revealed in the upcoming season, or a future season of the show. It has been consistently used by Rafe Judkins in response to fan questions since 2018.

Quotes

Question

Thanks for interfacing so well with the fandom! How will you approach portraying the Age of Legends in the flashbacks (Sho-wings, Shocklances, Song of Growing, etc.)?

Rafe Judkins

Thank you, but I feel like I'm terrible at interacting with the fandom. I'm so bad at social media, it makes me feel like a sad old man. I only want to use flashbacks when they help elucidate our characters' stories, so that'll be a WAFO :)

— Twitter Q&A, September 12, 2018

Question

Will you be keeping Min, Elayne and Aviendha as separate characters each with a role in the show and their relationship to Rand in tact?

Rafe Judkins

That one you’ll have to WAFO

— Twitter Q&A, September 12, 2018

Question

What do you think will have to hit the cutting room floor from the Eye of the World in transitioning from book from show? As a follow up could those things re-emerge at a natural point later?

Rafe Judkins

This is a WAFO, but there are already aspects of EoTW that I plan to use in different seasons

— Twitter Q&A, September 12, 2018

Kathy

All right, so now that we've gotten that off, we're gonna probably get WAFOed but we're gonna, you know what, we're gonna try.

Rafe

Yeah, there could be a fair amount of that. We haven't been able to do an interview with people who really know this stuff for a while. So if I hit you with too many WAFOs, then I apologize.

— Dragonmount interview, December 17, 2022