Thread 212200820 - /tv/ [Archived: 924 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/1/2025, 12:22:18 AM No.212200820
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Wheel of Time bros... I'm starting to think the petitions are not doing anything....
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 12:26:24 AM No.212200954
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>>212200820 (OP)
What went wrong?
Differential diagnosis, go!
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 12:29:45 AM No.212201100
>>212200954
Showrunner thought he could cage good storytelling itself, the arrogance!
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 12:31:07 AM No.212201141
>>212200954
>What went wrong?
Too many nonwhites.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 12:39:40 AM No.212201448
>>212200820 (OP)
There are several things we can do to help save WoT.
>Sign the petition
The obvious one. Add your name to the growing list of 191,000+ Wheel of Time fans clamoring for the show's deserved renewal. Easy.
>Send letters and postcards
Physical mail gets attention. Send letters to executives at studios and streamers.
>Review and rate the show
Hit imdb, rottentomatoes, etc and leave reviews and ratings.
>Rewatch the series
Boost its viewership numbers.
There's a lot more you can do, but these key steps can help save the show. We don't have much time left. "Do or do not, there is no try" - Verin Mathwin
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 12:41:19 AM No.212201513
>>212201448
>Rewatch the series
>Boost its viewership numbers.
It's funny how the redditors think Amazon doesn't have the means to differentiate a handful of retards rewatching the episodes on repeat from genuine viewers.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 12:48:00 AM No.212201776
>>212201513
They don't. In normal social situations, streaming accounts such as Prime are used collectively. Amazon can't tell if I'm spam watching, or if maybe my pal Frodo decided to watch, or my niece Pinkie Pie came over and decided to watch every episode in order over the course of three days. Pretty stupid comment - and that isn't even accounting for non-Amazon tracking, like Nielsen, which matters to Amazon.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 12:48:36 AM No.212201797
>>212201776
Oh no, it's retarded.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 12:49:53 AM No.212201839
watched season 1 and thought how is there 13 more books of this shit
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 12:55:29 AM No.212202040
>>212201839
191,000+ viewers who signed the petition *know* that Wheel of Time is not "shit".
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 1:13:48 AM No.212202674
>>212201839
There isn't. The show doesn't represent the books in the slightest.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 1:14:49 AM No.212202714
>>212202040
Not a single one of the show "fans" have ever read a single page of WoT.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 1:16:29 AM No.212202779
>>212200820 (OP)
>New season
>Kill all the gilfs/milfs in the first episode
Yeah, that was stupid. Plus they doubled down on the faggot stuff.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 1:22:08 AM No.212203009
>>212202714
Sarah Nakamura read the series 50 times.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 1:22:41 AM No.212203033
>>212203009
Nope. She hasn't read it even once.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 1:24:04 AM No.212203090
>>212202714
I have some of the comics. Does that count?
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 1:30:59 AM No.212203342
>>212200954
- Budget was too small for an epic this large
- Cosume design often looked like a mish mash of time periods, materials, and way way way too modern. I know it's a fantasy world that eschews time periods insofar as we understand them, but it's hard to become immersed in a world when a character is wearing a furry vest that looks like something a Kardashian would wear.
- VFX were insanely cheap looking. I really hated any time the any of the aes sedai used their power. It looked horrible.
- The aes sedai having a threesome with her two gay warders was unnecessary and smacked of fan fic. And the several occasions when the aes sedai would start clucking about sexual stuff in general felt out of place.
- The soundtrack was fucking awful. It didn't seem to fit the world at all. It called a lot of attention to itself (which is not really a compliment since the score should support the narrative, not detract from it), and the sound itself reeked of burning man hippyisms. I was way too electronic for a show with medieval type vibes and the vaguely "eastern" female vocals that were peppered throughout (seemingly randomly) sounded like what a white chick does when she tries to sound "exotic". It surprised me since Lorne Balfe has a reasonably good track record. It makes me wonder how much of those decisions were being imposed by the director/producer. Without initially knowing who scored it, I had imagined that this was some burning man trance DJ's first crack at scoring media.

The show did seem to suffer from a sense of tokenism too. I don't know why that was. I'm not the type of person to get upset over actor skin color by any means and I generally find those types of grievances eye-roll inducing, but the implementation specifically in Wheel of Time felt like they put more effort into ensuring diversity than they did into creating a universe that felt real.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 1:36:46 AM No.212203547
>>212200954
Writers using abridgement as an excuse to shove in their OC to "fill in the gaps",
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 1:39:29 AM No.212203647
>>212203342
>Budget was too small for an epic this large
The budget was insanely high, the issue was that they wasted it all.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 1:54:50 AM No.212204216
>>212203647
my bad. I guess I didn't know what the actual budget was. Since the whole production felt so cheap, I assumed they were doing what they could with what they had.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 2:39:07 AM No.212205809
>>212204216
They had something in the ballpark of 16M per episode.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 2:55:39 AM No.212206408
wigfixes
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>>212204216
>>212205809
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 2:58:08 AM No.212206492
>>212206408
Modern hollywood really is just a daycare for middle aged karens and gay men.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 3:07:40 AM No.212206799
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>>212206408
So what's the bet that whoever was doing "wig repairs" was also related to someone on the production?
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 3:20:35 AM No.212207227
>>212200820 (OP)
>here's your french shortstack who travels with a full wardrobe of blue dresses, bro