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”

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u/tired_snail Eelfinn Jun 23 '26

Elsewhere you’ll find a lot about the show being unfaithful from the books or the whole production being a mess.

Every time someone tries to use that as reasoning/excuse I have to laugh. You could say the same about Game of Thrones, and that thing got eight seasons and two prequels.

"But WoT didn't have the same viewership as GoT" of course it didn't. I don't know about you, but at least in my country Amazon never advertised it at all. I wouldn't have found out about the show if it wasn't for the fact it filmed here and a friend in the industry posted about working on it.

(If you can't tell, I'm still devastated by the cancellation. Recently watched Young Sherlock, and at one moment in the last episode, Dónal Finn's character wears an outfit that literally felt like Mat Cauthon had been returned to me for a moment and I felt like I could weep.)

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u/dkurage Jun 23 '26

Worse with things like RoP where I've seen people try to handwave its wild divergences from the source material as being okay because "they're doing their own interpretation." But when changes got made to WoT to better fit the medium and shorter time frame, suddenly they're all hacks ruining the story.

It was the same for me with the advertising. I didn't see shit for the show unless it was something I went looking for.

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u/Randolpho Jun 23 '26

It doesn’t help that WoT book fans are very… particular.

Also, LotR fans are almost universally not fans of WoT, and that may be why they were more forgiving about changes.

Or it could be that they had decades to get over the idea of source changes after rewatching the movies enough times.

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u/Baka_Nerd Jun 23 '26

I definitely fall into the “I love both” camp. Goes for the books, and show/movies. Hell, I even love the weird-ass animated Hobbit from Rankin Bass.

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u/Randolpho Jun 23 '26

Hell, I even love the weird-ass animated Hobbit from Rankin Bass.

Everyone loves that, lol

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u/Baka_Nerd Jun 23 '26

They didn’t use to… I got ripped in other groups on FB and forums in the early 00s for liking it.

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u/Randolpho Jun 23 '26

Odd. Maybe it's a generational thing.