That is the big problem, 10 minutes of a 1-hour show setting up just what's going on?

I like the prologue but I just don't think it would've worked for the series. Had they stayed closer to the book an opening scene of Tam and Rand heading to town and Rand seeing the Fade would've been a creepy way to start things. The foretelling would've been a nice flashback for when Moiraine explains to him what he is or when SIuan was giving her speech before she died.

I know I have heard Warhammer rumors before, seems like an expensive project. It also mentioned Amazon plans to offer ROP for syndication.

I just read that Amazon is looking to make a Warhammer 40k series. The speculation is this is part of the reason WOT was canceled as Amazon didn't wish to pay so much for another fantasy middle age type series. This would have their series spread out with ROP, Fallout, Reacher then Warhammer 40k. ROP was signed for 5 seasons so they can't nix that, plus as it described ROP gives Amazon much more in the way of possible spin off chances. Something WOT was limited in unless they wished to do the New Spring book.

I always saw the alternate worlds as the pattern's failsafe device, so there will always be a pattern etc since there are so many alternate realities. If Ishy got a hold of a powerful device and went around balefiring everyone in reality 1 there are other places where people still live. Rand's flickers if I remember right involved his never declaring himself the dragon so he isn't there to oppose the DO. if every decision you make can cause a different reality then it makes sense there are places the DO won.

Well not looking good, there is an article that says that "The Wheel of Time not being shopped to other networks after cancellation". The Wheel of Time not being shopped to other networks after cancellation My guess is it's just seen as being too expensive for any other network to really want to pursue, will it bring in enough new viewers to make it worthwhile? I mean I couldn't really see Sony or Amazon saying no if someone like Apple stepped up with a good offer. But seems like not much effort on Sony or Amazon to sell it and not much effort by other services to acquire it. To be honest I thought WOT was ok, not great. I wouldn't subscribe Apple just to see WOT.

I'm just pointing out the Tolkien estate hates the Jackson movies to the pint that ROP was forbidden to use anything from the movies or even reference the movies. Fans might've liked the movies, but the Tolkien estate didn't like his changes.

The Tolkien estate would disagree with your take on Peter Jackson doing a better job. They hated what he did, thus their refusal to let ROP use anything from the movies. As Elder has been pointed out to include the Green Man, untainted Saidin, etc would've been confusing. Look at how bad they did with setting up the Horn and why it mattered. When the horn was blown it was sort of confusing as to why this thing was important. I thought they did a good job with Shadar Logoth and The Ways.

8 episodes, so a lot had to be trimmed, that's not to say they didn't waste a lot of the time that they did have but things like the green man, 2 forsaken (who didn't do much of anything), Camelyn, white bridge etc had to get trimmed.

There are only few souls that get spun out and will perform heroic deeds or are linked LLT/Ishy are connected Brigette/ Giadal, heroes of the horn. Though they can lead ordinary lives. Brigette mentions once being a farmer's wife and it being the most boring thing ever. I'm guessing you can get spun out multiple times a cycle. Since a cycle might be a 1000 years, there is a good chance you might get spun out again and again. Hero of the Horn doesn't always mean you will be a great person. Hawkwing mentions fighting LTT numerous times. They are just usually destined for big things. RJ said the forsaken are different each time, since it would be against free will if you always were forced to team evil. But the ordinary person can get spun out over and over and maybe do something big but chances are just lead regular lives.

By then Skynet will have taken over.

Crowdfund it, I mean Star Citizen has raised over $800 million, sure 14 years later it's still not done. But if fans tossed in a few million maybe,

I see the tone as being really dark, just look at season 3 the wedding massacre, how Morgase took the throne. People being burnt at the stake, watching a grey man get made, ummm what happened to Samm. Or first season Perin killing his wife, Mats dad a drunken womanizer, or what the tinkers were going to be. It's not all bad but to me they clearly took it to a darker place.

I think a little evidence about Rafe saying this might be needed.

They won't get enough sadly, it would take a couple of million or so to get them to change their minds. 180,000 people saying save this show is small when the first two seasons alone cost around $256 million. Not to mention the studio head that signed WOT was ousted and the new studio head has been talking about streamlining. With Rafe saying he would need at least 6 seasons to really tell the story and having ROP for three more years I think really sealed WOT's fate. They wouldn't want to pay for both WOT and ROP for three more seasons.

GOT clearly had a huge influence, hence the darker tone of the series, In season 1 BS said he had to talk them out of making the Tinkers darker, he had to explain to them that was the exact opposite of what RJ had the Tinkers being. I think there are many who think to make a series they need to follow the GOT model just like so many games tried to be World of Warcraft.

It was so those who hadn't read the books would think maybe it could be Nyn or Egwene. They were hoping to keep some suspense

I still find it amusing people dislike the dragon could be a woman thing so much, it was only tossed in to try and build suspense for the people who had never read the books.

I wouldn't put too much faith in Sony at the moment; they have been causing disaster after disaster lately.

This is probably small potatoes to Sony right now after their "if a country doesn't have PSN they can't play Sony's game" fiasco. Sony is also facing backlash for promoting an all AI generated game, it was poor quality, but this seems to be becoming a more common thing with Sony. Pushing lower quality cheaper made AI stuff over the more expensive titles. Going for short term profit over quality. You can expect this to start happening with movies and Streaming series. Will they ever be 100% all AI? We can at least expect them to go more and more to AI in order to cut costs.

It just costs so much money now for streaming services to make a series. WOT $250 million for rights, + $256 or so million for the first two seasons + season 3 cost. Now put on what it has cost them for ROP + Reacher + Fallout. We have no idea what Sony was asking for to continue WOT. So streaming services depend on new subscriptions to help recover the money. Look at the buzz Stranger Things. Squid Game, or Fallout had after their first seasons. WOT simply never came close. Viewing numbers might have been good but were people subscribing to Prime just to see WOT?

Here would be the issue. If another service did pick it up do you start over with new writers etc? Do you just pick up where it left off with the same people or have new people keep it going? Amazon hasn't said anything so could they be testing the waters to see fan reaction before making an offer to Sony?

Blooper reels are fun, but I never really like when it's people just intentionally messing around, to me that's not a blooper.

Has Amazon officially announced anything yet? I'm sure its cancelled but seems odd Amazon has been silent about it.

Honestly for me HBO seems to do the best for putting out quality. Prime is frustrating for promoting their shows, seems like just one or two get advertised. WOT I rarely saw get pushed. Reacher and ROP seem to be the only two.