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Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series,despite 97% Rotten Tomatoes rating

21 points by rock57 1y ago

more_corn 1y ago
A lot of people watched at first because the books were good. Then they stopped because the show was not.
- Sabinus 1y ago
  That's what happened to me. Show had too much of a modern air, needed a far more gritty epic fantasy tone.
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andsoitis 1y ago
If something costs a lot of money to make but not many people watch it, you can use your customers’ monthly subscription money more wisely by investing in a different show.
- msie 1y ago
  Like 2 more seasons of Mr Beast??? LOL
  - bigyabai 1y ago
    You laugh, but if the economics work out that way then the answer is an unequivocal "yes".
dekhn 1y ago
It just wasn't very interesting, or even good to look at.
- LargoLasskhyfv 1y ago
  With the exception of Lanfear.
JumpCrisscross 1y ago
I’m surprised TV shows don’t get picked up by passionate patrons. A small group of millionaires and crowdfunding could probably keep a lot of these projects going.
delichon 1y ago
> flagging viewership numbers I was excited to see it but my viewership flagged within a few minutes, when they tossed out the whole gendered One Power yin yang conceit so central to the books. Did I miss anything good? Something similar happened at the start of the Hunger Games, when one character playfully makes the protagonist miss her shot at a deer, when both of them have starving families to feed. That one did get a little better, partly because it was hard to get worse. If you're going to betray the source material best to get it over with quickly, so I can go do something else. Thanks for that.
- sumeno 1y ago
  > they tossed out the whole gendered One Power yin yang conceit so central to the books. Well... for one they didn't do this, so you probably should have watched a bit more!
  - delichon 1y ago
    "The Dragon has been born again, and it's one of you. But we don't know whether they were born as a girl or a boy." -- Moiraine, in the series opening That seems to throw out the gender determinism of the books. Do they walk that back? Is it an isolated exception? It's like starting The Fellowship of the Ring with a scene of Smeagol getting a great deal on the one ring at Diamonds Direct.
    - sumeno 1y ago
      I mean, Rand is still the dragon reborn, Saidin is still tainted, men who channel still go crazy. Channeling saidin and saidar are still treated as fundamentally different. Adding a couple other people to the candidate pool for TDR didn't change much except leave new viewers guessing who TDR was for the first season whereas in The Eye of the World it was very obvious from the start
aaron695 1y ago
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21 points by rock57 1y ago

more_corn 1y ago

A lot of people watched at first because the books were good. Then they stopped because the show was not.

Sabinus 1y ago
That's what happened to me. Show had too much of a modern air, needed a far more gritty epic fantasy tone.

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andsoitis 1y ago

If something costs a lot of money to make but not many people watch it, you can use your customers’ monthly subscription money more wisely by investing in a different show.

msie 1y ago
Like 2 more seasons of Mr Beast??? LOL
- bigyabai 1y ago
  You laugh, but if the economics work out that way then the answer is an unequivocal "yes".

dekhn 1y ago

It just wasn't very interesting, or even good to look at.

LargoLasskhyfv 1y ago
With the exception of Lanfear.

JumpCrisscross 1y ago

I’m surprised TV shows don’t get picked up by passionate patrons. A small group of millionaires and crowdfunding could probably keep a lot of these projects going.

delichon 1y ago

> flagging viewership numbers I was excited to see it but my viewership flagged within a few minutes, when they tossed out the whole gendered One Power yin yang conceit so central to the books. Did I miss anything good? Something similar happened at the start of the Hunger Games, when one character playfully makes the protagonist miss her shot at a deer, when both of them have starving families to feed. That one did get a little better, partly because it was hard to get worse. If you're going to betray the source material best to get it over with quickly, so I can go do something else. Thanks for that.

sumeno 1y ago
> they tossed out the whole gendered One Power yin yang conceit so central to the books. Well... for one they didn't do this, so you probably should have watched a bit more!
- delichon 1y ago
  "The Dragon has been born again, and it's one of you. But we don't know whether they were born as a girl or a boy." -- Moiraine, in the series opening That seems to throw out the gender determinism of the books. Do they walk that back? Is it an isolated exception? It's like starting The Fellowship of the Ring with a scene of Smeagol getting a great deal on the one ring at Diamonds Direct.
  - sumeno 1y ago
    I mean, Rand is still the dragon reborn, Saidin is still tainted, men who channel still go crazy. Channeling saidin and saidar are still treated as fundamentally different. Adding a couple other people to the candidate pool for TDR didn't change much except leave new viewers guessing who TDR was for the first season whereas in The Eye of the World it was very obvious from the start

aaron695 1y ago

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