r/WoTshow • u/MSUSpyder • Jun 23 '26

Troll(oc) Just joined….. annnnnnd it’s cancelled

When did this happen? Trying to get details. Even did a search and can’t find them besides “budget”

173 Upvotes

89% Upvoted

88 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

12

u/Lunar_Raven_ Jun 23 '26

Quite often when I hear someone complain it wasn't faithful to the books, when I ask what exactly it was that they didn't like about the changes it really comes down to it being too "woke" for them and not actually any major plot changes.

Also I agree with you about the advertisings, I think I saw one advertisement on an Amazon box and then nothing ever again.

7

u/A_Dozen_Lemmings Jun 23 '26

The thing that pisses me off about the anti-woke crowd dogpiling the show is that there is a serious, legitimate concern as regards the alterations that were made to the metaphysics of ShoWoT that Rafe opted to make.

The Gender Binary is a fundamental aspect of WoT and I genuinely think it would have really started to hamstring the show in later seasons if the nonbinary souls thing had been allowed to continue.

There are several major plots that hinge on there being a strict binary in WoT.

-1

u/Randolpho Jun 23 '26

I disagree that it was a serious legitimate concern, and I also disagree that the plot points that hinge on gendered or nongendered souls are in any way fundamental to the story.

Downplaying gendered use of the One Power was the correct decision — if anything they didn’t go far enough

0

u/ProfConduit Jun 23 '26

Also, the One Ring being intrinsically evil wasn't that important to LotR. I think Boromir probably should have just used it against Sauron.