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Could anyone else afford to finance this? It wont get cheaper to make.
It's not like studios and streaming services are poor
This cost hundreds of millions, was not well received, and does not appear to be gaining a growing audience. Why would anyone want it?
That's a different question than whether anyone could afford to finance it
I thought that part was implied
Weeellll, "not well received" is more than a bit subjective, so it was kind of hard to tell from your initial comment that you personally don't think it'd be worth more seasons and not just that it'd be expensive to make but worth it if someone could cough up the money.
Tons of studios could easily afford it, and there's plenty of people who did like it – enough to get us 3 seasons anyhow
They cancelled it because there weren’t enough viewers for the high costs though.
But what's enough in this day and age? Enough to cover costs? Enough so that the studio execs can buy 5 new yachts per year instead of just 3? I have no idea how much they were actually making off WoT
Enough is enough to make it to next season amd cover the salary increases for the cast and crew plus make profit to invest in the next major IP.
Why sink money in a failed show none really cares about?
I made it through like 2 episodes and I get that diversity is important but wtf this show wants to make me believe there’s medieval villages with all ethnicities everywhere? I hate that I hate this so much.
That’s my point why spend hundreds of millions on a likely loser?
... the wheel of time is a post-apocalyptic setting, not a medieval one. They have high literacy rates, printed books, and, yes, the Emond's Fielders being diverse would be accurate, since they're the remnants of a powerful kingdom that was, itself, diverse.
Here's the real issue with the show. Any change they made replaced good writing with stale or outright hurtful tropes (they made up a character just so they could fridge her in the first episode). The End of season 1 was shot by covid and a lead leaving. And they were only just recovering the story from that in season 3.
The Two Rivers was not very diverse until after the Seanchan invasion at Falme.
... them being all Two Rivers folk before then. Show me in the text where that meant they had no diversity.
The characteristics they all share in the Book is "dark of hair and eye", shorter than Rand, and without the Aiel style of tanning that Rand shows.
Guess what features the cast of Emond's field all had?