Checked all the usual shill sites and it has been cancelled. I say good. The tone of the sites was about how they are leaving fantasy fans high and dry and insisted that the 3rd season was getting good. Some comments from show fans attacked book fans for being critical of the show by using the stupid "the books are the books and the show is the show" argument.
They act like we don't understand that some changes need to be made when adapting a story from book to tv/movie. This showrunner made zero attempt to respect the source material that already had plenty of female empowerment to go with.
Maybe I'm petty but when they announced the cast of the show I knew it wouldn't be good. I guess the one benefit of race and gender swapping is that is shows the priorities of the people in charge.
Exactly. The geography and ethnic groups in WoT were relevant to the story, especially the Two Rivers being a such backwater for over a millennium that their nominal monarch only knew of them as a note on a map. Turning the Two Rivers into a community college brochure was ridiculous. Rand being an outlander was pretty important. All this is before we get into WoT having many many many essential women characters that all wound up being Flandersized caricatures (Galbrush paradox, if your prefer) in the show.
To be honest I only watched bits of the show to know how bad it was. Amazon's WoT really affirms my choice of refusing to watch even a single episode of their rape of Tolkien (and irl went as far as criticizing friends and family for watching). Good riddance.
I heard with Ring of Power they fired the Tolkien Scholar they had
Wouldn't surprise me. Just in case you think you can breathe easy now; don't forget we have Greta Gerwig's rape of Narnia coming up. Two things she has said so far include making the story "more rock and roll," and the need to "move past the books' pre-Victorian morality." So, yeah.
And it’s gonna be Netflix and Netflix cares less about source material than prime
It's why I couldn't get into Greedfall. Magical colonialism premise was ruined by every faction being a rainbow of racial diversity.