Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons
reddig33@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So will Prime use this freed up budget to fund some decent programming, or will they just throw it at another Bezos money pit project like the Lord of The Rings tv show?
Murderbot
It’s not … A great show?
But it’s fucking cheap (small cast, limited sets so far), and it’s trying to be charming.
It’s the streaming equivalent of comfort food.
We need more content like this to keep streams full, then we have a few prestige shows like andor or whatever.
What we have now is crap writing burning prestige money (twot/LOTR-trop) and leaving us with unwatchable crap.
It could be better. I read the books and they’re rushing through the story at 90 miles an hour. They’re also overdoing the voiceovers and on screen displays to the point of annoyance. The “rise and fall of sanctuary moon” inserts are a hoot though.
Yeah, the pace is stupid, the problem is it’s 22 minute shows, and I think they’re trying to finish in less than 10 episodes.
For 22m shows they should do 18-20 er season, but the format generally sucks for anything except comedy.
But I was optimistic because the short length also means it doesn’t have to be burdened by all the overwhelming pretense of the heavier stuff, it can be chill about it.
Oh god they did what to murderbot?! These bastards. What a waste of good source material
That’s an apple show what does any of this have to do with anything
I’m making a point that we need more casual, cheap stuff like this to fill in viewing hours, with a few prestige shows for the high end.
Twot was trying to be prestige and ended up a complete disaster, while starving other good shows of that cash.
Naw, it will be another Meliana Trump documentary
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I have a sneaking suspicion amazon picked up wheel of time because they wanted fill a high fantasy slot in the portfolio. Now they have rings of power with a stronger backing IP, typical executive brain will put focus there instead.