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

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

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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.

Like 2 more seasons of Mr Beast??? LOL

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

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

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> 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.

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

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> 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…

> 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!

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