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

https://www.theverge.com/news/673899/amazon-wheel-of-time-canceled

by rock57 • 1 year ago

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andsoitis• 1 year 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• 1 year ago

Like 2 more seasons of Mr Beast??? LOL

bigyabai• 1 year ago

You laugh, but if the economics work out that way then the answer is an unequivocal "yes".

dekhn• 1 year ago

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

LargoLasskhyfv• 1 year ago

With the exception of Lanfear.

JumpCrisscross• 1 year 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.

delichon2• 1 year 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.

davidcbc2• 1 year 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!

delichon2• 1 year 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.

more_corn• 1 year ago

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

Sabinus• 1 year ago

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

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

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