‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons

when s01 came out he put out a blog basically saying he hated it

Never read the books but I watched exact 15 minutes of the first episode of the first season way back when it premiered and turned it off. How do you people watch this crap? What makes you do it?

Never heard of it

cool. now kill RoP. in fact just remove it from prime and pretend it didn't happen like with D+ and shehulk

i read it as a kid coz i googled "strong protagonist harem" and this was one of the recommendations on google.
pretty good as a horny teenager desu. the feminist reference flew over my head i just thought dumai wells was fucking sick and the whole concept of rand fell squarely into the area of "badass mentally ill protagonist"

the brown mongol

arent they canonically indian?

So fucking weird, I literally made this thread yesterday

hate watched the first season. its nothing like the books

They're never going to stop, they'll just pick another series and slop it up

Yup, Rand is unironically one of the better monomythic heroes as both a character and a device in the book. The only shame is that the crazier he gets the lest viewpoints of him you get. I tried rereading and I keep getting filtered by Crossroads of Twilight.

They have epicanthic folds/almond shape eyes and they come from a conquering culture that tried to take over the entire continent. I also think Sanderson named the mongols directly as a loose inspiration for the Alethi...

thank the Light

i refused to watch because there wasn't enough representation for african pygmies and the remote, uncontacted indigenous tribes of the amazon rainforest. racist much, bezos?

YEEEEEEEEEES WE FUCKING WON

Good. Now cancel RoPe and maybe Witcher and HoTD too. All of those are equally terrible but if they get cancelled we may get actual fantasy shows next time.

I don't think anyone said that desu. Season 3 was decent but the storyline has already been ruined by the previous 2 seasons and it was unsalvageable by this point.

Now cancel RoP and use the excuse “We were so efficient we got the story done in just 24 episodes!”

God damn chuds out here getting everything cancelled.

Do nothing

Win

I have won again, Lews Therin.

I never realized the Light granted me so much power all I have to do is not watch something, goddamn I love being white

I will miss seeing that old chick bang the dragon in his dreams and cucking that hideous looking Indian looking girl

I really hate how opaque the television business has become.
Nielsen overnight ratings were flawed but they APPROXIMATED reality, if you watched them closely you could observe and predict the wheels of capitalism turning; like it or not, NCIS and The Big Bang Theory were getting eyeballs, Firefly and Deadwood weren't

But now everything's a fucking black box
Every new show comes out, every studio announces it's getting infinite budgets and infinite seasons and has been watched by billions of people
And then they quietly shitcan it because nobody was fucking watching it

It's like the TV business doesn't even have a "business" in it anymore, the way it did in the 1950s or 1970s or 2000s. Studios would rather tell you their fucking social security numbers and bank account pins than tell you how many people are actually watching something.

This gives me a creeping suspicion that nobody is actually watching anything. I'm not the president of the Game of Thrones fan club but I have eyeballs and I felt that fucking show permeate everywhere in day-to-day life and there's not a single show that does that anymore.

Amazon proudly announced that Wheel of Time was their #2 most-watched series ever (1.16 billion viewer engagement minutes), behind Rings of Power (1.25 billion) and ahead of The Boys (1.05 billion), and then canned it because nobody was watching it

Rand has progressed way further than other characters in development by book 7, so after that things just kinda slow down. Not that much happens with him after that and until Sanderson takes over. Instead of entire chapters in his head you get small snippets like "I am now going cleanse the source" or "I'm going to lose an arm now".

The Boys is vile and disgusting but you can’t say it doesn’t have an audience. Sure, half its viewers are hate-watching and hate-posting online. But eyeballs are eyeballs. WoT’s viewership are literally people leaving Amazon Prime on for their pets or as background noise.

I shall continue to not watch multi-season shows until a series is complete and all episodes are available

Man Jennifer Salke made some really bad bets at Amazon. Surprised she wasn't replaced years ago

Nobody pays for Prime to watch Prime. We all just want free shipping.

I think there are more people cheering on this news than being sad and that tells you everything.
I'm fucking tired of Rafe raping the corpse of this story.

never read the books but yeah season 3 was definitely the best season and i really liked it kinda sad its canceled just as it got good

got good

you have no idea what it could've have actually been, it could have been great from s01e01

Holy shit, best news I've heard in a while.

This gives me a creeping suspicion that nobody is actually watching anything. I'm not the president of the Game of Thrones fan club but I have eyeballs and I felt that fucking show permeate everywhere in day-to-day life and there's not a single show that does that anymore.

losers lately are obsessed with Andork. i can tell b/c every other thread here is a star wars thread and youtube grifters are making money off of andork videos.

Thank fucking god. Hopefully RoP is next. Fuck that bitch Salke for ruining these shows.

This is a completely different story from the books by season 3. They tried to do a hard course correction with season 3, but major moments have already been ruined and characters (Rand especially) lack development.

duuuuuhhhhh its gets good in season 3

Nigger im not gonna suffer through 2 seasons of book rape just to watch 1 season that at best might be decent
90% of the actors in that show are also repulsive to look at

one of the best and easiest to adapt prologues that I can think of

sets the tone for the entire series and gives the viewer a good expectation of where this is all going right from the start

skip it completely

what the FUCK

And yet, The Rings of Power will still live on. The world can still be cruel.

You don't have to watch previous 2 seasons desu, if you read the books then you know what happens there and it's honestly better if you don't know what the show did because some of those things are so retarded that you wouldn't believe me even if I explained them to you.

Its only one episode thats good (4) the rest is mediocre dogshit

well i am gonna start reading the books because after s3 i actually want to know the story lol Is there anything weird with the books like different editions or non canon stuff or sidestories or whatever that should be skipped or can i just the 15 (!) book set/ebook and have everything i need?

lmao this shit was still going?? i stopped watching about 10 minutes through the first episode when a remote medieval village had more diversity than a university pamphlet
like it's just an immediate red flag, if the creators don't care to immerse you then they don't care about what they're producing, end of

Don't be afraid of picking up the audiobook, it's pretty damn good. I went through the series while working. Otherwise no, there's pretty much nothing except the main story and one small prequel.

I meant the old audiobook btw, not the new one being done by Rosamund.

That's what happens when the racial makeup of your medieval-inspired fantasy series looks like an inner city slum.

thanks!

That's barely in top 5 reasons why the show failed

Good. It sucked.

just read the books enjoy, DO NOT START WITH NEW SPRING, you start with Eye of the World, read the prequel novel between books 5 and 6

Kill off multiple important characters because you dont want to write them

Change a ton of plot points and characters you actually included

WTF WHY IS THIS FAILING

oh yeah and listen to this guy
You don't want to start with New Spring. I don't think you'd miss much even if you skip New Spring entirely and simply carry on reading the main books, but there's no reason not to read it anyway. It's a nice little break.

True that. Double true!

I also love that shit like Tomb Raider and Doctor Who are getting put on ice indefinitely. We voted:

NO MORE WOKE!

and our guy delivered :)
USA! USA! USA!

It’s because streaming writers can’t get their own ideas made into shows so they launder them into established IPs.

got it!

Good riddance
Rafe Judkins needs to be balefired so hard that it erases this shitshow from memory so someone else can be given the offer to actually adapt the books rather than tell his own shitty headcanon.

never read the books

that's the problem
Rafe went totally off the rails killing off random main characters thinking he needed to Game of Thrones it.

Get popular IP to get initial interest.
Gut it and wear it like a skinsuit.
Use it as a vehicle to push the message and your own terrible original writing.
Get canceled because nobody watches past the first season as they realize the bullshit they're being fed isn't going to improve.
Rinse and repeat for every franchise and IP in existence.

I wanted this show to fail. I also wanted to see a good rendition of Dumai's Wells. I knew they were mutually exclusive.

Rafe went totally off the rails killing off random main characters thinking he needed to Game of Thrones it.

wait who did he kill? I haven't paid any attention to this after I watched the first couple of episodes and it was all stupid, perrin especially.

You shills said the show would continue forever because the third season was le marginally less shit than S1-2! You said everything was redeemed so now we have to lick amazon’s taint!

How are you feeling now, you chucklefucks??!!!

it was a symptom of the problem.
the core problem is Rafe did not respect the source material.
Casting choices just reflect that core problem.

What's the next part of his master plan?

I would have watched if the casting was good. The handful of webms and Anon Babble threads I saw talking about the changes to plot and character made me laugh, but I still would have watched with good casting.

The problem with corporations is that they want endless growth overnight. Let's say, in the first season, 10 million people watched the show, the next season they want 15 million or more. That won't happen even with a massive shilling campaign because people have a lot of choices those days, so everything get canceled left and right
The problem is not only Corpos also Hollywood who are pushing their agenda/faggotry or nepotism

Siuan/Loial/Valda at the end of season 3
Sorry but the lore and plot changes were way bigger issue than the casting

faggot nigger-worshipping forced diversity liberal propaganda fanfic of an actually good book series is cancelled

Let’s fucking go baby. Fuck jews

Siuan/Loial/Valda at the end of season 3

Siuan is a very stupid move, Loial an incredibbly stupid move, valda is w/e
Glad it proceeded to get worse and worse.

literally no-one here said that, however it is very satisfying that we here predicated it perfectly, it would run for 3 seasons as that was the contract and then get quietly axed as it deserved, we called all of this before the first episode ever aired.

That's because of the Breaking you retard that's why you have gingers running around the fucking desert
It's not medieval either
If you don't know that much shut you shit the show is fucked for other reasons

maybe don't make shit, its not that tough any one of us would've happily shilled WoT for free if it was accurate, however it was utter shit from the beginning.

the two rivers should be homogeneous you faggot

AAHHHHHAHAHAHAHAH FUCK YOU RAFE YOU FUCKING FAGGOT

This was a dog shit adaption what struck me in particular was just how absolutely ugly everyone was.
I still watched it to laugh and shitpost with you guys.

The breaking was 2,000 years ago. Everyone in the super secluded emmon’s field would be the same light brown if you’re trying to apply that logic. Regardless it’s entirely contrary to the source material. Dumb faggot

Nah honestly if there was someone to kill off then these aren't bad choices. Loial sticks out from them though because they stabbed him with the shadar logoth dagger in season 1 and he died, then he just showed up in season 2 like nothing happened and in season 3 he dies again while closing the gateway near Two Rivers.

Killing Loial

Are they just going to completely delete Perrin from the series?
Because Lorials like his bro for half the fucking books

NEXT TARGET ACQUIRED:

The Rings of Power

Libtards told Anon Babble that we're guaranteed 5 Seasons of this shitshow no matter how horrible the ratings/reviews are. They "think" they're fuckin untouchable. I say we prove to them, even LOTR can be touched!

You think consuming slop media is something cool? Embarassing

1. Eamon Valda, who was supposed to usurp Lord Captain Commander of the Children of the Light until Galad challenged him to a Trial Beneath the Light (trial by combat) for how he treated his stepmom Morgase (he raped her and the rumor was she'd been murdered by him but she'd escaped). This was how Galad became the Lord Captain Commander and ended up reforming the Whitecloaks into a force for Good in the last battle. So yeah, pretty important character to just have randomly get killed off by Mat's younger sister's cooking him with the Power.
2. Loial, who was supposed to be the Chronicaler of the Dragon, they sent him to seal the waygate and instead of just removing the leaves from both sides so the gate couldn't be opened anymore, he tried to smash the gate with a hammer it didn't work so he smashed the bridge in the ways under him and fell forever or something.
3. Siuan Sanche, that was the last cliffhanger thing of Season 3. Which pissed a lot of people off for the wrong reason. The reason they were pissed? Because they killed off a LGBTQ character of Color.
The right reason to be pissed off? Because Siuan gets stilled, and her being healed of being stilled is a big deal, even though a former false Dragon was the first person healed by accident because it showed that women healing a stilled woman doesn't restore them to full strength, it takes a man healing stilling to restore to full strength.
Not to mention Siuan's eyes and ears network are critical to Egwene as Amyrlin.

why is that bad?

Are they just going to completely delete Perrin from the series?

might as well honestly

It fucking is homogeneous except they're not white is why Rand sticks out read the books again

I'm aware. I just think Galad's entire whitecloak adventure really didn't add much to the story anyway.

lol no it isn't just look at mat or RANDS FATHER you disingenuous retard

really? that is what your going to go with? are you going to bring up cenn buie being heavily tanned next? Nye and Egwene are described in detail and if you are trying to say just the show then how do you explain Mat and Rands dad you faggot

Welp, I guess they're just going to have to cater to my racism if they want to be successful

Summoning story time anon for one last time

Welp, I guess they're just going to have to cater to my racism if they want to be successful

Well they actually should have. The coolest moment they could've had if they followed the damn books is that you wouldn't have seen a single black person until the seanchan show up. That would've been fucking cool.

It's quite literally the least important problem with this show. An all white cast would not make it better in the least.

Both black haired they're italian at BEST

inb4 italians white

lel cope

ok boys from what chapter do i continue reading this shit just finished S3 like 2 hours ago kek

I said the last one will be Lord Algarin's manor and then Anon Babble went down and...idk if it will be this thread, ah fuck it ok fine, for the last time until our threads are free of faggotry. Here is The Battle of Lord Algarin's manor.

not shocking, it wasn’t close to the books at all and all their oc sucked. I made it to episode 3 before calling it quits

Chapter 1 of Eye of the World.

The Battle of Lord Algarin’s Manor

Enough, Loial,” Rand said firmly, thumbing tabac into his short-stemmed pipe from a goatskin pouch. It was Tairen leaf, with a slightly oily taste from the curing, but that was all that was to be had. Thunder rolled overhead, slow and ponderous. “You’ll talk me hoarse with all these questions.”

They were seated at a long table in one of the larger rooms in Lord Algarin’s manor house, the remains of the midday meal pushed down to one end. The servants were old, for the most part, and slower moving than ever since Algarin left for the Black Tower. The rain pouring down outside seemed to be slackening, though strong gusts of wind still pelted the windows with raindrops hard enough to rattle the glass in the six yellow-painted casements.

The two fireplaces, at either end of the room, were broad and tall but of plain stone, the andirons and firetools sturdy wrought iron and simple. Lord or no, Algarin was far from wealthy.

Tucking the tabac pouch into his pocket, Rand strolled to one of the fireplaces and used small brass tongs from the mantel to lift a burning sliver of oak for lighting his pipe. He hoped no one thought that strange. He avoided channeling any more than absolutely necessary, especially if anyone else was present—the dizziness that hit him when he did was difficult to conceal—but no one had mentioned it so far.

A gust of wind brought a squeaking as though tree branches had scraped across the windowpanes. Imagination. The nearest trees were beyond the fields, more than half a mile away.

“But you’ve told me almost nothing really useful,” the Ogier rumbled, a drum booming its disappointment.

You never mention heroics, except by somebody else. You make it all sound so everyday. To hear you tell it, the fall of Illian was as exciting as watching a weaver repair her loom. Cleansing the True Source? You and Nynaeve linked, then you sat and channeled while everybody else was off fighting Forsaken."

ok boys from what chapter do i continue reading this shit just finished S3 like 2 hours ago kek

It's hard to recommend but season 3 is a mix of book 4 and other parts.
They reshuffled so much shit it's hard to tell you where to start.
If you got the general gist of things you can skip the first 3 books kinda.

But now everything's a fucking black box

This. Now, WoT was genuine wokeslop, but the larger issue is that there is no incentive to get interested in any kind of show with a long term story. At all. There is zero chance they will complete it, regardless of what they promise. And, because of this, the ratings for even a well done show will be paltry, even if they swear the numbers are high. So, unless the system changes radically, there is no way to actually complete a show based on a complex longer work. It's fucking retarded and no one seems to be trying to fix it.

unironically
the books are completely different from the show and are actually good (except for #10)

The shitskin cast is the sole reason that I didn't watch it

I was one of those requesting it, godbless

First time?

It's what turned me off to it before I even watched it. RoP, too. It told me before the shows aired that they weren't going to be loyal to the source material.

Nynaeve, wearing all of her jeweled ter’angreal and her strange bracelet-and-rings angreal, shifted in her chair in front of the other fireplace, then went back to watching Alivia.

Standing beside the doorway like a guard, Alivia gave a small, brief smile of amusement. The former damane knew Nynaeve’s display was meant for her. The intensity never left her hawkish blue eyes, though. It seldom had, ever since her collar had been removed in Caemlyn.

The two Maidens squatting on their heels near her playing cat’s cradle, Harilin of the Iron Mountain Taardad and Enaila of the Jarra Chareen. There were fifty Maidens in the manor house, several of them Shaido, and they all went about ready to dance the spears in a heartbeat. Perhaps with him. They seemed torn between delight at providing a guard for him again and displeasure over how long he had avoided them.

As for himself, he could not look at any of them without the litany of women who had died for him, women he had killed, starting up in his head. Moiraine Damodred. Her above all. Her name was written inside his skull in fire. Liah of the Cosaida Chareen, Sendara of the Iron Mountain Taardad, Lamelle of the Smoke Water Miagoma, Andhilin of the Red Salt Goshien, Desora of the Musara Reyn. . . . So many names. Sometimes he woke in the middle of the night muttering that list, with Min holding him and murmuring to him as if soothing a child. He always told her he was all right and wanted to go back to sleep, yet after he closed his eyes, he did not sleep until the list had been completed. Sometimes Lews Therin chanted it with him.

Min looked up from the volume she had open on the table. He hummed, thumbing his earlobe. She was beautiful. And tied to him tighter than ever. She and Elayne and Aviendha. How was he to keep them safe now?

holy fuck how long is this shit, i might as well start over and just take my time with it thank you.

no reason to rush things, it took me a year to go though the series

Literally the longest fantasy series

wearing all of her jeweled ter’angreal and her strange bracelet-and-rings angreal

Things that didn't need to be there RIgney! Why did you let your wife edit your books RIGNEY.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA best news this week. Fuck Rafe and his LGBT fanfiction.

“Rand isn’t very talkative, Loial,” she said, no longer smiling. Her low, almost musical voice held no anger, but the bond told another story. “In fact, sometimes he’s about as talkative as a mussel.” The look she directed at Rand made him sigh. It seemed there would be a great deal of talking once they were alone together. “I can’t tell you much, myself, but I’m sure Cadsuane and Verin will tell you anything you want to know. Others will, too. Ask them if you want more than yes and no and two words besides.”

“Oh, I will, Min, I will,” he said. “But Rand is central to my book.” With no sand jar at hand, he began blowing gently on the page of his notebook to dry the ink, but Loial being Loial, he still talked between puffs. “You never give enough detail, Rand. You make me drag everything out of you. Why, you never even mentioned being imprisoned in Far Madding until Min did. Never mentioned it! What did the Council of Nine say when they offered you the Laurel Crown? And when you renamed it? I can’t think they liked that. What was the coronation like? Was there feasting, a festival, parades? How many Forsaken came against you at Shadar Logoth? Which ones? What did it look like at the end? What did it feel like? My book won’t be very good without the details. I hope Mat and Perrin give me better answers.” He frowned, long eyebrows grazing his cheeks. “I hope they’re all right.”

“They’re well,” he said, calmly ignoring a piercing look from Cadsuane. She did not know everything, and he intended to keep it that way. Calm on the surface, content, blowing smoke rings. Inside was another matter. Where are they? he thought angrily, pushing down another appearance of the colors. That was as easy as breathing, now.

Note: One more bit with Rand and Lews having a crazy moment then onto the fight this goes on for quite a while

Abruptly another image was floating in his head, a man’s face, and his breath caught. For the first time, it came without any dizziness. For the first time, he could see it clearly in the moments before it vanished. A blue-eyed man with a square chin, perhaps a few years older than himself. Or rather, he saw it clearly for the first time in a long while. It was the face of the stranger who had saved his life in Shadar Logoth when he fought Sammael. Worse. . . .

He was aware of me, Lews Therin said. He sounded sane for a change. Sometimes he did, but the madness always returned eventually. How can a face appearing in my mind be aware of me?

If you don’t know, how do you expect me to? Rand thought. But I was aware of him, as well. It had been a strange sensation, as if he were . . . touching . . . the other man somehow. Only not physically. A residue hung on. It seemed he only had to move a hair’s breadth, in any direction, to touch him again. I think he saw my face, too.

Talking to a voice in his head no longer seemed peculiar. In truth, it had not for quite a long time.

When our streams of balefire touched in Shadar Logoth, it must have created some sort of link between us. I can’t think of any other explanation. That was the only time we ever met. I felt nothing, saw nothing except his stream of balefire. Having bits of knowledge seem his when he knew they came from Lews Therin no longer seemed odd, either. He could remember the Ansaline Gardens, destroyed in the War of the Shadow, as well as he did his father’s farm. Knowledge drifted the other way, too. Lews Therin sometimes spoke of Emond’s Field as if he had grown up there. Does that make any sense to you?

Oh, Light, why do I have this voice in my head? Lews Therin moaned. Why can I not die? Oh, Ilyena, my precious Ilyena, I want to join you. He trailed off into weeping. He often did when he spoke of the wife he had murdered in his madness.

So much stuff is saved from being pozzed. Rafe will never ruin Dumai's Wells. Feels good man. Moridin is safe as well.

Still annoyed they shat all over the Seanchan and Aiel (haven't watched after S1 btw), but we can't save them all.

Logain arrives him and Rand argue, Ogier arrive and Loial gets married, it goes on for a long time and then...

“. . . so I will take care of Tear, Logain, while you—” Abruptly Rand wrinkled his nose. It was not that he actually smelled a rotting midden heap suddenly, but he felt as if he did, and the feeling was getting stronger.

“Shadowspawn,” Cadsuane said quietly, putting down her embroidery and rising. His skin tingled as she embraced the Source. Or maybe it was Alivia, walking briskly toward the windows after the Green sister. Min stood, drawing a pair of throwing knives from her coatsleeves.

At the same instant, through the thick walls, he faintly heard Ogier shouting. There was no mistaking those deep, drumlike voices. “Trollocs coming! Up axes and clear the field!”

With an oath, he leaped to his feet and ran to a window. Trollocs in the thousands came running through the light rain across the newly planted fields, Trollocs as tall as Ogier and taller, Trollocs with rams’ horns and goats’ horns, wolves’ snouts, boars’ snouts, Trollocs with eagles’ beaks and crests of feathers, muddy earth splashing beneath boots and hooves and paws. Silent as death they ran. Black-clad Myrddraal galloped behind them, cloaks hanging as if they were standing still. He could see thirty or forty. How many more on other sides of the house?

Others had heard the Ogier’s cries, or maybe just looked out a window. Lightning began to fall among the charging Trollocs, silvery bolts that struck with a roar and hurled huge bodies in every direction. In other places, the ground erupted in flames, fountaining dirt and parts of Trollocs, heads, arms, legs wheeling through the air. Balls of fire struck them and exploded, each killing dozens. But on they ran, as fast as horses if not faster. Rand could not see the weaves that drew some of those lightning bolts. Now that they were discovered, the Trollocs began to shout, a wordless roar of rage.

But Amazon told us it was a massive success and one of their most-watched things!

“You told your Aes Sedai they could channel to defend themselves?” he said calmly.

“Do I look fool enough not to?” Logain snarled. At another window, he already held saidin, nearly as much as Rand could draw. He was weaving as fast as he could. “Do you intend to help or just watch, my Lord Dragon?” There was entirely too much sarcasm in that, but now was not the time to bring it up.

Drawing a deep breath, Rand gripped the casement on either side of the window against the dizziness that would come—the Dragons’ golden-maned heads on the backs of his hands seemed to writhe—and reached out to seize the Power. His head spun as saidin flooded into him, icy flames and crumbling mountains, a chaos trying to pull him under. But blessedly clean. He still felt the wonder of that. His head spun and his stomach wanted to empty itself, the odd illness that should have gone with the taint, yet that was not why he clung to the casement even harder. The One Power filled him—but in that moment of dizziness, Lews Therin had seized it away from him. Numb with horror, he stared at the Trollocs and Myrddraal racing toward the outbuildings. With the Power in him, he could make out the pins fastened to massive mailed shoulders. The silver whirlwind of the Ahf’frait band and the blood-red trident of the Ko’bal. And there were skulls. The horned skull of the Dha’vol and the piled human skulls of the Ghar’ghael and the skull cloven by a scythe-curved sword of the Dhjin’nen and the dagger-pierced skull of the Bhan’sheen. Trollocs liked skulls, if they could be said to like anything. It seemed the twelve principal bands might all be involved, and some of the lesser. He saw pins he did not recognize. What seemed a staring eye, a dagger-pierced hand, a man-shape wrapped in flames. They neared the outbuildings. Odd, the thoughts that came when a madman who wanted to die might well kill you in the next heartbeat.

I simply can't edit this part so witness the Dragon run to madness in action

Flows of Air pushed the casement in front of him out in a shower of shattered glass and fragmented wood. My hands, Lews Therin panted. Why can’t I move my hands? I need to raise my hands! Earth, Air and Fire went into a weave Rand did not know, six of them at once. Except that as soon as he saw the spinning, he did know. Blossom of Fire. Six vertical red shafts appeared among the Trollocs, ten feet tall and thinner than Rand’s forearm. The nearest Trollocs would be hearing their shrill whine, but unless memories had been passed down from the War of the Shadow, they would not realize they were hearing death. Lews Therin spun the last thread of Air, and fire blossomed. With a roar that shook the manor house, each red shaft expanded in a heartbeat to a disc of flame thirty feet across. Horned heads and snouted heads flew into the air, and pinwheeling arms, booted legs and legs that ended in paws or hooves. Trollocs a hundred paces and more away from the explosions went down, and only some got up again. Even as he was spinning those webs, Lews Therin spun six others, Spirit touched with Fire, the weave for a gateway, but then he added touches of Earth, so, and so. The familiar silvery-blue vertical streaks appeared, spaced out not far from the manor house, ground Rand knew well, rotating into—not openings, but the misty back of a gateway, four paces by four. Rather than remaining open, they rotated shut again, opening and shutting continuously. And rather than remaining fixed, they sped toward the Trollocs. Gateways and yet not. Deathgates. As soon as the Deathgates began to move, Lews Therin knotted the webs, a loose knotting that would hold only for minutes before allowing the whole weave to dissipate, and began spinning again. More Deathgates, more Blossoms of Fire, rattling the walls of the house, blowing Trollocs apart, flinging them down.

The first of the speeding Deathgates struck the Trollocs and carved through them. It was not just the slicing edge of the constantly opening and closing gateways. Where a Deathgate passed, there simply were no Trollocs remaining. My hands! the madman howled. My hands!

Slowly Rand raised his hands, stuck them through the opening. Immediately Lews Therin wove Fire and Earth in intricate combination, and red filaments flashed from Rand’s fingertips, ten from each, fanning out. Arrows of Fire, this. He knew. As soon as those vanished, more appeared, so fast that they seemed to flicker rather than actually go away. Trollocs struck by the filaments jerked as flesh and blood, heated in a flash beyond boiling, erupted, jerked and fell, holes blown entirely through their thick bodies. Often, two or three behind fell victim as well before a filament died. He spread his fingers and moved his hands slowly from side to side, spreading death across the whole line. Blossoms of Fire appeared that were not his weaving, and Deathgates, slightly smaller than Lews Therin’s, and Arrows of Fire that must have been Logain’s. The other Asha’man were paying attention, but few would be where they could see those last two webs spun.

Trollocs fell by the hundreds, the thousands, riven by lightning bolts and balls of fire, Blossoms of Fire and Deathgates and Arrows of Fire, the earth itself exploding beneath their feet, yet on they raced, roaring and waving their weapons, Myrddraal riding close behind, black-bladed swords in hand. As they reached the outbuildings, some of the Trollocs surrounded them, pounding on the doors with their fists, prying at the boards of the walls with their swords and spears, tossing flaming torches onto the thatched roofs. Saldaeans up there, working their horsebows as fast as they could, kicked the torches back down, but some hung up on the edges of the roof, and flames began catching even on damp thatch.

The fires, Rand thought at Lews Therin. The Saldaeans will burn! Do something!

Lews Therin made no reply, only wove death as fast as he could and hurled it at the Trollocs, Deathgates and Arrows of Fire. A Myrddraal, riddled by half a dozen red filaments, was flung from its saddle, then another. A third lost its head to an Arrow of Fire in an explosion of boiled blood and flesh, but that one rode on, waving its sword, as if it did not know it was dead. Rand was seeking them out. If the Myrddraal were all killed, the Trollocs might well turn and run.

Deathgates and Arrows of Fire only, Lews Therin spun now. The mass of Trollocs was too close to the manor house for Blossoms of Fire. Some of the Asha’man apparently did not realize that right away. The room shook to great booms, the whole manor house shook, as if struck by huge sledgehammers, shook as though about to shake apart, and then there were no more explosions, except where a fireball erupted or the ground itself exploded to throw Trollocs like broken toys. The sky seemed to rain lightning. Silver-blue bolts struck continuously so close to the house that the hair on Rand’s arms and chest tried to lift, the hair on his head.

Some of the Trollocs succeeded in forcing open the doors to one of the barns and began flooding inside. He shifted his hands, cutting down those still outside with flickering red filaments that blew holes in them. Some had managed to get inside, but those the Saldaeans would have to deal with themselves. On another barn and a stable, flames were beginning to ripple up the thatch, men coughing from the acrid smoke as they shot their bows.

Listen to me, Lews Therin. The fire. You must do something!

Lews Therin said nothing, just spun his webs to kill Trollocs and Myrddraal.

“Logain,” Rand shouted. “The fires! Put them out!”

The other man did not answer either, but Rand saw the weaves that pulled the heat from the flames, killing them.

They just vanished, leaving behind cold blackened thatch where not even tendrils of smoke rose. Death walked among the Trollocs, but they were so close that even the explosions of fireballs rattled the house, now.

Suddenly there was a Myrddraal afoot beside the window, pale eyeless face as calm as an Aes Sedai’s, black sword already stabbing toward him. Two thrown Aiel spears took it in the chest, and a throwing knife blossomed in its throat, but it only staggered before resuming the thrust. Rand bunched his fingers together, and just before the blade reached him, a hundred Arrows of Fire ripped through the Myrddraal, flinging it back twenty paces to lie riddled and leaking black blood onto the ground. Myrddraal seldom died right away, but this one never twitched.

Hurriedly, Rand searched for more targets, but he realized that Lews Therin had stopped channeling. He could still feel the goose bumps that told him Cadsuane and Alivia held the Power, still feel saidin in Logain, but the other man was weaving no more webs either. Outside, the ground lay carpeted with bodies and parts of bodies from the fields almost to the manor house walls. Within paces of them. A few horses belonging to Myrddraal still stood, one holding up a foreleg as if it were broken. A headless Myrddraal staggered about, flailing wildly with its sword, and here and there a Trolloc jerked or tried to lift itself and failed, but nothing else moved.

It’s done, he thought. It’s done, Lews Therin. You can release saidin now. Harilin and Enaila were standing on the table, veiled and spears in hand. Min stood beside them, her face grim, a throwing knife in either hand. The bond was full of fear, and not for herself, he suspected. They had saved his life, but he had to save it himself, now.

But Amazon told us it was a massive success and one of their most-watched things!

just like RoPE! Hopefully that one goes next!

“A close run thing,” Logain muttered. “If this had happened before I arrived. . . . A close-run thing.” He gave himself a shake and released the Source, turning away from his glassless window. “Did you intend keeping these new weaves for your favorites, like Taim? Those gateways. Where did we send those Trollocs? I just copied your weave exactly.”

“It doesn’t matter where they went,” Rand said absently. His attention was focused on Lews Therin. The madman, the bloody voice in his head, drew a little deeper on the Power. Let go, man. “Shadowspawn can’t survive passing through a gateway.”

I want to die, Lews Therin said. I want to join Ilyena.

If you really wanted to die, why did you kill Trollocs? Rand thought. Why kill that Myrddraal? “People will find groups of dead Trollocs and maybe Myrddraal without a mark on them,” he said aloud.

I seem to remember dying, Lews Therin murmured. I remember how I did it. He drew deeper still, and small pains grew in Rand’s temples.

“Not too many in any one place, though. The destination shifts every time a Deathgate opens.” Rand rubbed at his temples. That pain was a warning. He was close to the amount of saidin he could hold without dying or being burnt out. You can’t die yet, he told Lews Therin. We have to reach Tarmon Gai’don or the world dies.

“A Deathgate,” Logain said, his voice tinged with distaste. “Why are you still holding the Power?” he asked suddenly. “And so much. If you’re trying to show me that you’re stronger than I am, I already know it. I saw how large your . . . your Deathgates were compared to mine. And I’d say you’re holding every drop of saidin that you can safely.”

That certainly caught everyone’s attention. Min tucked her knives away and leapt down from the table, the bond suddenly so full of fear it seemed to throb with it.

Cadsuane glided down the room, her smooth face sternly composed. “What does he feel?” she demanded of Min. “Don’t toy with me, girl. You know the cost of that. I know that he bonded you, and you know I know. Is he afraid?”

“He’s never afraid,” Min said. “Except for me or. . . .” She set her jaw stubbornly and folded her arms beneath her breasts, fixing Cadsuane with a glare that dared the Green sister to do her worst. By the tangled mix of emotions ranging from fear to shame that she tried to keep out of the bond and failed, she had some idea of what Cadsuane’s worst could be.

“I’m standing under your nose,” Rand said. “If you want to know how I feel, ask me.” Lews Therin? he thought. There was no answer, and the saidin filling him did not slacken. His temples began to throb.

“Well?” Cadsuane said impatiently.

“I feel right as well water.” Lews Therin? “But I have a rule for you, Cadsuane. Don’t threaten Min again. In fact, leave her alone altogether.”

“Well, well. The boy shows some teeth.” Golden birds and fish, stars and moons, swayed as she shook her head. “Just don’t show too many. And you might ask the young woman whether she wants your protection.” Strangely, Min had shifted her frown to him, and the bond was threaded with irritation. Light, it was bad enough that she did not like him worrying about her. Now she seemed to want to take on Cadsuane single-handed, something he would not be eager to do himself.

We can die at Tarmon Gai’don, Lews Therin said, and suddenly, the Power drained out of him.

“He released,” Logain said, as if he were suddenly on Cadsuane’s side.

“I know,” she told him. He whipped his head around in surprise.

“Min can deal with you in your own way if she wishes,” Rand said starting for the door. “But don’t threaten her.” Yes, he thought. We can die at Tarmon Gai’don.

Fin

same

eh, pretty important to turn the whitecloaks into an actual army that helps Rand.
Without Galad they probably would have been fighting the Aes Sedai while they were at the last battle or something stupid like that. Galad was needed.

Will they cancel rings of shit next? Amazon should get out of media production and stick to streaming and deliveries, the only good thing they did for film was keep the Expanse going.

Nooooooooooo. I'll never see Dumai Wells

Thank you

RoPes will probably get like 5 season before it gets cancelled
You know they would have fucked it up in every way possible, its better this way

Probably not, only because Season 3 has already started production. But I think this third season will probably be the last in preparation for the The Hunt for Gollum movie

Book readers right now

and there's not a single show that does that anymore.

Because there's too many fucking shows that come out, and by the time you binge a retarded show with your normie gf, another 10 shows come out.

The Hunt for Gollum movie

that is new line / wb, the ones who made the original lotr including peter jackson as an executive producer as well as boyens

rop(e) is an amazon only thing, none of the above are associated with producing it

nws

Yes, I know. They were already rug pulling it by having moiraine tell Siuan they must kneel. They were trying to suck the wind out of that so hard.

great news, fuck that shit show

apparently according to this recent variety article, amazon is looking to syndicate rop

variety.com/2025/tv/global/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-citadel-amazon-1236407566/

Amazon MGM Studios Distribution, led by Chris Ottinger, head of worldwide distribution for the relatively new division, has started making the studio’s highest profile – and said to be costliest – titles “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” and “Citadel,” available to third parties. These are joined by two upcoming series, the graphic novel based-spy thriller series “Butterfly” and the action series “Countdown,” starring Jensen Ackles (“The Boys”).

Speaking of the “Lord of the Rings” franchise, Ottinger said: “We would want premium pricing because it’s a premium product. Season 1 of ‘The Rings of Power’was the biggest TV series premiere in the history of Prime Video and Season Two was the most-watched returning season ever on Prime Video at the time. Ultimately, it depends on the partner and where they plan to place it. If someone wants it for Thursday at 8 p.m. — a prime slot — I expect top dollar.”

Didn't the showrunner put his gay lover in the show, as a super duper OC who takes plot points from book characters?

It was a labor of hate

Didn't the showrunner put his gay lover in the show, as a super duper OC who takes plot points from book characters?

Yes and it sucked.

What was Amazon thinking giving a showrunner status to some faggot from Survivor?

I think the Tolkien estate will want an open runway and not want to confuse consumers with 2 different lord of the rings on at the same time. Toho does this exact thing with Godzilla, where different parts of him are owned by different companies and the movie projects are purposely released this way, so one godzilla project never steps on the toes of another.

Its probably the best prologue in any fantasy, ever.

No it didn’t. Ever.

no it isn't

This adaption was so bad, I genuinely do not believe I could create something so bad if I tried my fullest.
I just could not believe how ugly the main roster was.

Please provide a reasonable excuse for why your fantasy series has to have a majority white cast without sounding racist.

So they're trying to sell it off like when CBS tried selling ST:D to Netflix?

It's set in a region with a majority white population

Never read the books. I actually enjoyed the first two seasons. But by the time S3 came around I forgot what happened in previous seasons and the story/plots were all over the place and I lost interest and tuned out by the third episode.

Are the books worth reading?

White people look better and are more kino

I don't like nigger

too lazy to post those ugly white dudes from the bear and "I'LL BE USEFUL SER" but you know who I'm talmbout

The book characters were white

no the books aren't niggerloving enough for your tastes

i actually haven't the slightest clue

Rest in Piss

whats longer
Give it a try but keep in mind there might not be enough minorities in it for your taste

Bumfuck village hamlet in the middle of nowhere

Racially it looks like 21st century New York

Can we please stop with immersion breaking shit such as this?

Big thanks to everyone here for joining my boycott, I know it was difficult for you, and I appreciate your sacrifice

Go Woke Go Broke

A main theme of the world is a bunch of rural farmboys going out and seeing a diverse world of multiple cultures.

If you have your starting village being diverse it takes away their wonderment of seeing Cairhien or Ebou Dar or the Aiel.

It is okay to have A SINGLE BUMFUCK village being a singular culture when the entire point is the world is diverse.

Please Fucking help!

Call Amazon and put in feedback tickets on this! This season was really doing Fucking good and catching it's steam but you Assholes weren't watching it enough so now you Fuckers need to call and get them to renew it!

I need you Assholes to post up for our Fucking show!

Big thanks to everyone here for joining my boycott, I know it was difficult for you, and I appreciate your sacrifice

Congrats to you, I watched 2 episodes of this slop and couldn't stomach it.
Happy to see it die the death it deserved in season 1.

Riftwar Cycle
Every fucking chinese xianxia
The Wandering Inn

I was so disgusted by S1 that I clocked it out out of my mind and didnt even realize it got S3.
We did it anon

i think it wont go to another streaming service but rather to linear cable networks internationally, like how syndication used to work in the past

trouble is i dont know if there is much demand for primeslop globally

This is a completely different story from the books by season 3.

It was a completely different story from the books by episode 1.

“I’m going away, Egwene.” “Where?” “Somewhere. I don’t know.” He did not want to meet her eyes, but he could not stop looking at her. She wore red wild-roses twined in her hair, flowing about her shoulders. She held her cloak close, dark blue and embroidered along the edge with a thin line of white flowers in the Shienaran fashion, and the blossoms made a line straight up to her face. They were no paler than her cheeks; her eyes seemed so large and dark. “Away.”

Italians

as pale as white flowers

Pick one retard

book Egwene doesn't have a fooking wart on her nose you stupid fuck

i dont think even reddit is doing this, the interest for this show is remarkably niche

Rafe Judkins speaking to EW

Whereas Wheel of Time starts out in a way that's hard to make a clean adaptation for TV, but then as you get into the later books, it really is built along a clear, clean TV structure of an ensemble story. I don't even think Rand has the most POV chapters in the books overall. It's very much an ensemble, even though the first book is not. So we really tried to make the season have that feeling from the whole book series of being a real ensemble piece. We made a lot of changes in the first season to make sure that you could see all the stories of the five main leads.

people watch Star Wars

wtf

RoP is kino.

Let me move the goalpost one time.
I meant fantasy series following the same cast of characters in its entirety.
Also wtf is The Wandering Inn and xianxia

Qrd on the showrunner inserting his bf into the story? Dropped it before season 1 ended but from what I remember I thought the bf played a warder than an hero'd as soon as he was introduced?

LGBTshit

This fails to capture the literal inter-species gay romance and the the introduction of 21st century therapy speak as an honest-to-god plotline over 2400 pages (including 4th-wall breaking line "I'm his therapist").

agitate for suffrage in a fantasy world

They sure as hell do in Sanderson's latest slop. Its even worse because a Mormon trying to be a cool progressive is twenty years too late and it would have been lame and embarrassing back then anyways.

even though the first book is not

But the first book had Rand, Perrin, Nyneve, and Egwenes POV.
Thats pretty damn ensemble.

Really the only "issue" is due to Rand being explicitly the MC its kind of a joke to believe anyone else might be the dragon

I don't even think Rand has the most POV chapters in the books overall.

This cocksucker never even read the books at all did he.

Rafe Judkins is fucking hack, I wonder what rich producer he knew personally so he could land this job

The guy has never produced a good show in his career

Yes it would. It would still be shit, but it would be better.

Give me your human juice, yes yes!

We knew this asshole Rafe was going to fuck this up. Motherfucker.

Replace it with strong independent girlboss women taking down a mad evil male channeler.

Bravo Rafe.

kek what a shitskinned woke bitch

Or he only read like 8th or 9th books or some shit

Was the extra pride that comes from a forced +2 seasons after clear failure really worth it in the end?

Who throws money into a valcano for this shit? Is it really all ZOG?

Did anyone here who tried to watch the show get past the first 2-3 episodes?

I tried but it was so boring and shite that I started watching The Expanse instead.

All I remember is the monsters that looked like enemies in the first Narnia movie and the black dude who ate a bird or something.

Good

They had already paid the royalties for 3 seasons so at that point the die was cast. They pretty much had to do all 3 seasons to get any value out of it.

Eye of the World is crap, and you'll have to drag yourself through a lot of words to get to the good stuff.
The good stuff is legitimately good, but it is a fuck of a time investment.

Even libtards shit on wheel of time for being so obviously terrible (while giving backhanded compliments to the wokeshit). Why the fuck would it not get cancelled?

Xianxia is a genre of Chinese fantasy.
The Wandering Inn is a webnovel that's almost 15 million words long. Not actually the longest work of fiction but the longest one that isn't gibberish.

Amazing how many years they maintain products just because they are propaganda tools. Then one day, just like, well it's over: Let's contaminate another IP.

based sunk cost fallacy

How do you shit out 15 million words since 2016, how many writers are working on it

Wheel of Time didn't really lose.

15 million Chinese words

So most of them are just "wun hung lo" and they like

When you translate it, it's about the length of The Hobbit but with more bat eating.

the experts

trust the science, chud

No one's watching it. Even the faggots on twitter and Reddit who claim it's the best thing ever. Sadly this shit will keep getting forced.

You left out the deep fried hog anus.

What's stopping Amazon from outsourcing an animated series to South Korean sweat shops like Invincible? Surely it's cheaper than doing such a shitty live action adaptation.

forgivanus, prease

prestige, pride, HR, etc.

What's stopping Amazon from outsourcing an animated series to South Korean sweat shops like Invincible?

Hubris.

Normalniggers refuse to watch animation. Invincible's audience is much smaller than The Boys despite being similar and much better.

That his last couple of books are actually worse than Amazon slop? So he's winning?

Klein

Oh no! Anyways.
Seriously though, shocked this even lasted more than 1 season. I've rarely, if ever seen any threads about this show here despite seeing a lot of threads years ago about the Wheel of Time books being adapted, seemed like there was a lot of hype that it would be the next GoT but the few episodes I watched did not pull me in at all.
Amazon just makes bad shows desu.

It's a fake

Seriously though, shocked this even lasted more than 1 season

Contracted for 3 seasons.
Same reason why rings of POWAH will get 5 seasons.

Technically its hours before someone gets pissy but the hours directly correlate to seasons unless they suddenly make really long or short seasons

leftshits lost

tfw no thicc forsaken gf

shitty live action adaptation

That's were they went wrong. Amazon should have modeled their WoT adaptation after Xena and Legend of Hercules: lower budget, shorter eps, and more of them. WoT can't be properly adapted using the HBO model that everyone's been chasing for ten years.

They should have ploughed more money into it and made it more female centric with more ugly mutts. They just didn't go pozzed enough for the modern audience.

They made a less than middling show about a middling fan fantasy novel series.
This is not a surprising result.

it's time, WoT

haven't watched the show but how much does it differ from the books?

everything except the names of the characters

Very, but then it swerves back hard.

I've been sick since yesterday and this is the best news I could wake up to. Praise the Light and Lord Dragon.

At least it ended rather conclusively in the series.

I know for a fact that no one said anything about Wheel of Time on the whole of Anon Babble BUT THIS.
And I never saw it or Wheel of Time. I've never discussed it. I just know this is Anon Babble, so if an opinion was proven wrong then I know it must have been the prevailing, if not, exclusive perspective of Anon Babble because this faggot board is never right about anything and more leftwing then Bluesky on certain entertainment topics.