Reposting an old post I made that is more relevant than ever now
Just be longer than 10 episodes
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
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I was trying to think of a way to shoehorn in my opinion on Wheel of Time, but fuck it, I'll just say it.
Wheel of Time sucked. They fucked it up badly.
Eh I had accepted the major and completely unnecessary changes. In fact, I got used to them and was really enjoying it in the last season as it was finally getting better.
Then it got cancelled for no reason.
I went in thinking "ok, fan fiction, alternate take on the universe", and it was an ok show with some surprisingly great parts. Then the season two plot was just a turtle fucking a snail, and I was done.
Edit: to be clear, it was slow motion WTF, why is this nothing happening?
Someone once pointed out that in this meme, the gate controller is shouting commands to himself. Now I can't unsee it, and neither should you.
It's not going to be a total reboot either! Same universe as produced that had Jack O'Neil played by Richard Dean Anderson. I hope they guest star Amanda Tapping at least once.
Or, what if the whole thing is about the Ancients before they ascended?
Amazon has financed the Expanse. That's it. The evil fuckers have zero credit to the quality of the TV adaptation. It was two seasons at SyFy - then, sadly but unsurprisingly, SyFy was unable to turn it into a source of revenue (Hi Firefly :( ) and amazon financed it because the shitbucket in chief at amazon is an Expanse fan.
Hey now. No need to drag shitbuckets through the mud here. 🤌🏼
Pirate it and encourage all your friends to pirate it.
This is the way.
Let us hope it is the last footwear to fall.
Plenty of Amazon shows are also shit. Just like how Netflix and all the others have a mix of good shows and bad shows.
I want to believe, I really do, but basically every “new version of thing I loved from childhood” has been profoundly disappointing.
My guess: [bad guy] comes back because [good guy] is actually bad guy now, in a complete reversal of their entire character growth arc, and [bad thing that we took care of in the last show] is back because [history erasing lazy writing so they can just tell the same story again].
I see you have also seen [show/movie brought back after a long gap]!
Produced by just means "paid for by," anyway.
So there's a chance it can still suck if Amazon pays the wrong people to make it.
Even if they pay the right people, it may still suck if they try to influence the creative process at all. Over all, I am not optimistic.
The showrunner worked on all three of the TV series so as long as he doesn’t try something like rebooting SGU it might be good.
But if it starts with a drastically older Robert Carlyle defrosting I’m only giving it two episodes.
they said it's not going to be a reboot of anything.
Open the gates!
The one actor who I most want to reprise their role is Michael Welch as Jack
holy shit. so much this
Do you know why Ha'tak floats but a Chappa'ai cannot?
I feel like I should... but I am drawing a blank. Illuminate me?
Huh. Never bothered to watch that train wreck, so I guess I was only reacting to the Goa'uld words!
So there’s a chance it can still suck if Amazon pays the wrong people to make it.
Rings of Power.
Produced by just means “paid for by,” anyway.
The problem is when they abruptly cut off funding and sit on the IP indefinitely.
That's what they did to James Bond .
I hate Amazon as much as is humanly possible, thats not what is happening, though.
Denis villaneuve is directing the movie and has stated that he is isnt looking for a new james bond until dune 3 is finished.
Also, fwiw, barb sat on the IP for no good reason. She was probably looking for a buyer, because a new Bond movie should have happened 2.5ish years ago.
Barbara no longer controls the creative IP.
I thought James Bond is special though? The family still gets to approve the script, so the issue is that Amazon wants to milk it with a crap story, and the family says no this isn't good enough.
Negative, barbara broccoli sold the creative rights to Amazon.
So Amazon sits on the IP because Bezos doesn't get his way
This is incorrect.
See other comment.
Or if they demand changes, which usually comes with the territory of the person writing the checks.
Carnival Row wasn't too bad either IMO
The first season was good, I wasn't super keen on the second.
Fuck, I couldn't get through the first few minutes of ep 1. 🤢
I felt the same way about carnival row AND good omens.
But what about the rings of power?
SEAL THE IRIS!
The money comes from somewhere shitty always with these things. All you can do is hope they stay out of it as much as possible and let the artists do their thing
Oh god. I thought that was an AI joke image...
I'll believe it when it gets released.
Checking the stock price of NVIDIA to determine how many movies get made this year.
Can you explain this comment please I don't understand. Is it a CGI related thing because NVIDIA sells GPUs?
Nividia => AI => AI slop movies/shows