I agree Looks like Season 3 is now in 2025. Season 4 not even announced. They’ll lose even more viewers who will just forget the show. i didn’t mind Season 2 but the show runner and team putting this together are inept.

I would start with NOT dedicating a huge chunk of an episode to a ridiculous story about Steppin ending with Lan crying his eyes out. The 8 seasons of 8 episodes point is a cop out. The story can be told, it just takes a good showrunner, which Rafe is not. He is making WoT for himself and his very strange interpretation of the books.

I don't think Sanderson has had a dig at Bezos before.

Genuinely don't think he'd be calling out Bezos if he didn't think/know that the show was getting binned. Has Season 4 been announced yet? Are they even going to finish Season 3 in post-production and get it on air? My guess is Season 3 will make it to the screens but there will be late changes to try and wrap it up as a story within the longer story. That will be it. Of course, I could be wrong. Just my feeling.

Whilst I think Rafe Judkins should never be forgiven for the mess he made of the show, it's not entirely his fault. Sanderson recently said this after he also publicly apologised for what the show did to Perrin's character: This very much plays to the OPs point. By the way - the fact that Sanderson is talking like that suggests that this show is cooked and we've seen the last of it after season 3.

I saw today that Rosamund Pike has taken a film role. Surprised she has time if they were going to shoot a Season 4. Could be that Season 3 is the last.

Yes, I did see that AI was now creating video from text prompts. At the pace the tech is accelerating it's exciting to think that idiots like the WoT showrunner and Amazon will no longer be required to bring WoT and other great stories to life on screen.

I would love the book series to be brough to life properly in animation - ironically in the style Amazon actually used for the add on information to the series. Would MUCH prefer that to the show we got.

Season 3 looks like it will be in 2025. I don't see how this show can survive 8 episodes every 2 years. There does seem to be a trend now that shows' seasons are released with bigger gaps than ever before, but with just 8 episodes and a long wait between, even a well-made show would struggle, never mind WOT. Ominous that season 4 has not been green lit. Won't be at all surprised if season 3 is the last. I look forward to the coming years where AI can create shows and movies and fans can do it themselves - then we won't need people like Rafe Judkins to destroy cherished works or literature.

Thats the only hope IMO - firing the show runner and his team and bringing in a new crew. The problem is not really that it is 8 episodes, rather what they did with the time and the fact that it's effectively 8 episodes every 2 years. People lose patience and interest wanes. I think they could tell this story well in 8 seasons of 8 episodes of 1hr15mins. That's an 80hr story. if they got 8 seasons. Unfortunately the show runner feels the need to pack time with irrelevant nonsense like the Steppin episode in Season 1. Right now I am skeptical that the show will get a season 4, let alone make 8. I actually thought season 2 was better than the awful season 1, but it looks like too many people got turned away.