I've said it before but for me the turnoff was the fundamental differences in focus and themes between what I valued in the books and what Rafe/Amazon did. Starting from season 1 the show just missed so many of the moments and themes I valued and focused on stuff that I really wasn't that much interested in. Every time I'd read an article about Rafe's vision for the show I was kind of left puzzled by how secondary the themes brought up felt to me compared to just bringing the story from the book to screen. I kind of feel like if this production crew had created their own stories based in the World of the Wheel of Time that I would have been more forgiving of the product. To me it felt like the writers never really trusted the source material and were more comfortable in creating their own stories. It felt like the writing was often at its sharpest when it was something they came up all by themselves. In hindsight Rafe's vision might have been better for adapting New Spring where the focus was on Moiraine and other Aes Sedai, White Tower dynamics and the warder bond with Lan.

Not terribly surprised by the news, though it is a pity for the poduction crew to get cancelled when everyone seems to agree the series had been improving season by season. In the end I think the show just never recovered it's potential viewership after the underwhelming first season. We can argue endlessly about the changes in the adaptation but it seems the show lost a lot of the built in fanbase early on as expressed by the drastic drop in viewership after S1E1. Quality wise the first season just wasn't that good either tbh and it ended up costing long term. It just never seemed to capture the attention of audiences and even with the improvements in S2 it felt like the momentum was gone. I personally checked out after S2. It just felt the tone and narrative choices weren't for me and the disappointing end to S2 reinforced all the doubts I had after S1. Then I ended up cancelling Prime and so I haven't even watched the third season, though I've heard good things about it. As a tv show it just didn't capture me enough to stand on its own. Even if I was a bit disappointed in the show I did enjoy talking and speculating about it here. I'm a bit saddened by the fact that my own interest in the show fizzled between S2 & 3 because for a while this was the show I followed and talked about online and I miss that. Maybe I could have got back to it one day but alas...