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The Wheel of Time's Rosamund Pike wishes the show could be saved, but believes "we have to accept that it's over” (winteriscoming.net)
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Despite getting better and better with each season, Prime Video ultimately cancelled The Wheel of Time — and we're still angry over it.

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[+] 34 points 1 year ago (20 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I for one am so fucking sick of series being announced just to find out they are loosely using the source material but mainly just making shit up that sucks. Looking at you Halo and The Witcher. Everything is already there, worked out in detail, all you have to do is adapt. But noooooo, the writers know way better than anyone else and we end up with minority representation where it doesn't fit just to boost their numbers, armour that looks like old scrotums, and a fractured bullshit retelling of the story sort of. I'm over it.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I just wanted to see Dumais Wells. That's all.

    The trailer alone for it would have soaked my undies.

    Fade to black The lull roar of combat and screams of battle, the screen fades in on the face of Mazrim Taim "Asha'man..." The screen flickers to the a group of men bursting with viscous black and red fibers of light crawling into the ground.

    "Kill"

    The screen goes black and from a distance the ripple passing through the Earth rises to wash fighters from the battle field.

    There is no fight. There is only the one power and true terror. A 5-second trailer would have done it. I wanted that and they took it from me.

    I'm so disappointed. "

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Dear God. I'm so grateful that I stopped watching after 30 min of episode one. That is one unsettling screenshot. How could they butcher that so fucking bad? Fucking carrottop? Realy?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    As a fan of the Foundation book series I welcome you to the club.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Damn straight. When I saw the ads for the Foundation series they had a lot of action and stupid shit in them and I thought 'hang on, I don't remember any of that in the books'. That's a big fat pass from me thank you.

    The problem with Foundation is there's a lot of jumping in time, especially in the first book, and despite the series being a great read, it's a bit too 'thinky' to adapt easily to the screen. They really shouldn't have bothered.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    The problem with Foundation is there's a lot of jumping in time, especially in the first book

    That's why an accurate adaptation should have been easy. The book is basically an outline and all they needed to do was fill in the blanks. Instead they completely changed the story.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It could have been so easy to just bring the books to life. I understand some things do not translate from the page to the screen, but that should be the exception and not the rule.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Robert Jordan's work is some of the easiest to translate to the screen because of how descriptive and long winded he is with world building. They took too many creative liberties in the wrong direction with that show.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    I tried really hard a few times with the first book and I just couldn't do it. Mat it just so fucking dumb with every single decision. I understand characters needing conflict but jfc it's so, so bad in the first book. I really can't get past it. Wolf boy or whatever was cool for a bit but every 15 minutes the book has to go back to mat and him whining about how every stupid thing he does rightfully fucks him over. I couldn't stand it by halfway through the book.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Mat sucks donkey balls before they get the dagger away from him. But, he's also eventually the best character, so...

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    "Eventually" doesn't cover it when we're talking 30 hours a book on audiobook. Mat sucks for as much of the wheel of time as I'm prepared to tolerate.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    There are over 400hrs for the entire audiobook series, most of which Mat is the baddest of baddasses.

    Sometimes the best story arcs come from drastic changes in the character, like going from super annoying to completely awesome. You thinking of him as making terrible decisions, being whiny and annoying may be a testament to the quality of writing since that was the foundation for his drastic change. He had to represent those characteristics to make his outcome that much more impactful.

    You not liking him at that point of his story arc was the intention of the author.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Intentionally making your MC unlikeable while having a very weak cast for the first 60+ hours of your book series is certainly a choice as a writer.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That choice seems to have worked out well for Robert Jordan as Mat is the most beloved character from a cast of hundreds in his internationally acclaimed book series many claim to be some of the best fantasy written and was also adapted into a TV show.

    It is hard to argue with results, which is what you are doing after only completing less than 15% of the entire series. You have every right to your opinion and also to stay willfully ignorant about the other 85% of the story you have missed. It’s not your cup of tea, I get it; but your opinion is easily dismissed because of that and rightfully so.

    To me this is like someone only watching the first 30mins of the LotR trilogy and turning it off because I didn’t like Merry & Pippen’s hijinks. Or not liking Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album because I didn’t like the first few minutes of the first song. You have every right to your opinion but your lack of exposure to the content invalidates that opinion for many people.

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