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So will Prime use this freed up budget to fund some decent programming, or will they just throw it at another big budget Bezos money pit project like the Lord of The Rings tv show and that awful Citadel tv universe?
My prediction: This is being sacrificed to pay for a Bond 007 tentpole show that won’t be any good.
Meanwhile Amazon owns the rights to Stargate and does nothing with it.
I have a sneaking suspicion amazon picked up wheel of time only because they wanted to fill a high fantasy slot in the portfolio. Now they have rings of power with built in IP recognition, typical executive brain will put focus there instead.
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It's not ... A great show?
But it's fucking cheap (small cast, limited sets so far), and it's trying to be charming.
It's the streaming equivalent of comfort food.
We need more content like this to keep streams full, then we have a few prestige shows like andor or whatever.
What we have now is crap writing burning prestige money (twot/LOTR-trop) and leaving us with unwatchable crap.
It could be better. I read the books and they’re rushing through the story at 90 miles an hour. And they are leaning into everything like it’s all quirky comedy which does a disservice to the source material. The characters are supposed to be characters, not caricatures. You should to care about what happens to these people but in the series they so far feel disposable. They’re also overdoing the voiceovers and on screen displays to the point of annoyance. The “rise and fall of sanctuary moon” inserts are a hoot though.
Yeah, the pace is stupid, the problem is it's 22 minute shows, and I think they're trying to finish in less than 10 episodes.
For 22m shows they should do 18-20 er season, but the format generally sucks for anything except comedy.
But I was optimistic because the short length also means it doesn't have to be burdened by all the overwhelming pretense of the heavier stuff, it can be chill about it.
That's an apple show what does any of this have to do with anything
I'm making a point that we need more casual, cheap stuff like this to fill in viewing hours, with a few prestige shows for the high end.
Twot was trying to be prestige and ended up a complete disaster, while starving other good shows of that cash.
The boys is also fairly cheap in comparison (getting more expensive obviously as time goes on, but nowhere near twot/trop).
Tech companies had so much money they started throwing money at shit, that was the problem.
I could never get past Loial not having expressive ears. Like 90% of Ogier emotion is described by the positioning or movement of their long ass ears
I guess I'll have to watch it
They took forever to build out the characters and the story. Good production for a series, but had the worst pacing. Sadly, their build up now leaves you hanging. I am not sure why Amazon is cancelling their series, without proper finales. I am guessing this has to do with overspending on Bond.
Similar to Netflix's approach, they most likely found that viewership drops sharply after the first 2 or 3 seasons, so more money to be made elsewhere.
But similar to Netflix, they'll find that people aren't willing to give things a chance and will associate all your original productions with crap, if you keep doing it.
Also true, but that's not what shareholders and executives care about. They just want the next quarterly profits to go up to get their payouts
Fuck.
As someone who never read the books, I found the TV show cluttered. Part of that was watching it non-binge style I’m sure.
Should I give this another try? Even though there won’t be an “ending..”
The show has a completely different tone and pacing from the books. The books are much closer to LotR (particularly the first one which is basically just alt. Fellowship) and spend a lot of time with the characters traveling and getting to know each other and the lore of the world. There's plenty of bickering, but the characters all like each other and get along decently. The show opted to cut most of the parts where you learn what's going on to instead focus on manufactured drama.
They also just changed things in really confusing ways like making Mat's parents deadbeats, among other things. Some of the plot restructuring makes sense given how much stuff there is to adapt. I don't think anyone reasonable can expect any book adaptation to keep 100% faithful unless it's getting crazy funding as a TV series. That said they just really took a knife to things.
Idk, as someone who loves the books despite their issues I wasn't particularly enamoured with the show. Some people liked it though.
If the world seemed interesting I'd recommend the audiobooks. Love Michael Kramer and Kate Reading.
Yeah I started it a couple times but kept losing track of the goal/stakes in the story. Really wanted to like it.
After 3 seasons they have to give people a pay bump so I'm mot surprised
Hopefully another company will step in.
Didn’t read the books but found it an ok watch which was obv not enough for a marquee show.
A long time I tried to read the books; the first ne was great, and probably also the second and third, but after a while it got extremely drawn out and the books just kept getting longer and longer. I had hoped the TV show could mitigatre that and reduce itself to what is no doubt an intriguing story. How were the first two seasons?
Each book seemed longer and longer but each book took place over fewer and fewer days until it seemed like the last books you'd read a whole book about someone's day. Then someone's meal, then someone's thought about a hill the looked at on the horizon.
I know this is absolutely insane to say when we're talking about books that are 1,000 pages long, but book 6 is where the series really becomes levels up into something incredible. I enjoyed it a lot before then, but if you can get that far, it's just amazing.
Whelp, at least I can finally cancel my prime subscription.