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.
FYI, I read the first four pages of the first book and decided it wasn't for me.
What did I miss?
13,000 pages of fantasy that transitions from country town boys and token female to a full JRPG cast of magic knight, thief, barbarian, and sorceress, plus a cast of minor characters that each have nearly half a book to a whole book worth of their own development over the course of it. That ends on a surprisingly Christian theme that would be spoiler if I explained.
Brandon Sanderson did a tolerable job finishing off the series because Robert Jordan left 2000 pages of notes. It is still a shame that he died befire finishing, and the spinoff series following the thief that was supposed to be a 3 book project sounded interesting and will never be written.
Maybe one day I'll finish it, but for some reason I never could get into the Sanderson books.
The last one is long. Insanely long. The chapter for 'The Last Battle' alone is longer than some other novels and it's something like a whole ninth of the book.