I was excited to see it but my viewership flagged within a few minutes, when they tossed out the whole gendered One Power yin yang conceit so central to the books. Did I miss anything good?
Something similar happened at the start of the Hunger Games, when one character playfully makes the protagonist miss her shot at a deer, when both of them have starving families to feed. That one did get a little better, partly because it was hard to get worse.
If you're going to betray the source material best to get it over with quickly, so I can go do something else. Thanks for that.
davidcbc · 10h ago
> they tossed out the whole gendered One Power yin yang conceit so central to the books.
Well... for one they didn't do this, so you probably should have watched a bit more!
delichon · 10h ago
"The Dragon has been born again, and it's one of you. But we don't know whether they were born as a girl or a boy." -- Moiraine, in the series opening
That seems to throw out the gender determinism of the books. Do they walk that back? Is it an isolated exception? It's like starting The Fellowship of the Ring with a scene of Smeagol getting a great deal on the one ring at Diamonds Direct.
davidcbc · 10h ago
I mean, Rand is still the dragon reborn, Saidin is still tainted, men who channel still go crazy. Channeling saidin and saidar are still treated as fundamentally different.
Adding a couple other people to the candidate pool for TDR didn't change much except leave new viewers guessing who TDR was for the first season whereas in The Eye of the World it was very obvious from the start
dekhn · 11h ago
It just wasn't very interesting, or even good to look at.
LargoLasskhyfv · 11h ago
With the exception of Lanfear.
andsoitis · 11h ago
If something costs a lot of money to make but not many people watch it, you can use your customers’ monthly subscription money more wisely by investing in a different show.
msie · 11h ago
Like 2 more seasons of Mr Beast??? LOL
bigyabai · 11h ago
You laugh, but if the economics work out that way then the answer is an unequivocal "yes".
more_corn · 10h ago
A lot of people watched at first because the books were good. Then they stopped because the show was not.
Sabinus · 8h ago
That's what happened to me. Show had too much of a modern air, needed a far more gritty epic fantasy tone.
JumpCrisscross · 11h ago
I’m surprised TV shows don’t get picked up by passionate patrons. A small group of millionaires and crowdfunding could probably keep a lot of these projects going.
I was excited to see it but my viewership flagged within a few minutes, when they tossed out the whole gendered One Power yin yang conceit so central to the books. Did I miss anything good?
Something similar happened at the start of the Hunger Games, when one character playfully makes the protagonist miss her shot at a deer, when both of them have starving families to feed. That one did get a little better, partly because it was hard to get worse.
If you're going to betray the source material best to get it over with quickly, so I can go do something else. Thanks for that.
Well... for one they didn't do this, so you probably should have watched a bit more!
Adding a couple other people to the candidate pool for TDR didn't change much except leave new viewers guessing who TDR was for the first season whereas in The Eye of the World it was very obvious from the start