07/02/2025
WARNING RANT AHEAD
I haven’t really wanted to speak out about the Wheel of Time cancellation by Amazon Prime because I hate hearing the Book Clokes and their call of “ the book was better, this is unrecognizable” (stop being hyperbolic, by the way). The worst thing, I heard yesterday “ I would have enjoyed it if it was called anything else” ( No, as someone that watched Wizard of Earthsea, no you wouldn’t) 🤬 Are you serious? SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE BOOKS AND TV SHOW.
I am not going to lie, The Wheel of Time and its content is not why I watch TV, does that make sense? I watch TV to laugh, most of the high fantasy shows I haven’t watched unless there is a reason but I did watch WOT. On the other side of the couch, I have tried for years to get my husband to read the WOT. It is everything he loves in a book (high fantasy, politics, world building, he would probably love the slog) but he hasn’t and he really enjoyed the show, did the cancellation make him want to read the book😫😫. Nope he still hasn’t read the books yet but he did start re reading a book from the Warhammer series again.
Did the show have its problems, Yes but DID THE BOOK HAVE PROBLEMS, absolutely. The people glad about the cancellation seem to put the books on a pedestal like it did have problems, like it didn’t need a stronger editor. THERE IS A SECTION OF THE BOOKS CALLED THE SLOG THAT RUNS OVER SEVERAL BOOKS. That shouldn’t happen and do you honestly think that a viewer, with all the streaming available, is going to sit through a boring season OR TWO, NO, hell I was super worried when Perrin went back to the Two Rivers we were going to be there for 2 seasons and that section of Perrins arch in the book 😒😒😒 .
I might have to make another post of about the costumes which is what I get asked about a lot but at the moment I should leave this rant off it is already starting to get rambly, I need a good editor too😅😅😅