Wheel of Time canceled..

[Magical Realist]

Yeah, again, you're a lefty. Diversity, for its own sake, is part of your ideology. Even when that means diversity/token hires that aren't based on the merit of faithfully serving the source material. And then you whine about it failing. 9_9

Every director who does a rendition of a classic is understood to impart his own style and interpretation on the original classic. This has been going on in cinema for decades now. Your taking offense to it simply because they include non-white actors is nothing but pure bigotry and a breach of creative license.

[Syne]

When series are cancelled due to lack of views or movies take box office losses, it's obvious that the "creative vision" (based on ideology) has failed. Just because it serves your particular ideology doesn't mean it will appeal to a broad enough audience to justify the budget. Christian-based projects have faced this reality for decades. When you ideologically narrow the potential audience, you can't expect mainstream success.

But as usual, I don't expect you will acknowledge the simple reality.

[Magical Realist]

There is nothing necessarily ideological about substituting different types of actors for characters in the original work. There is more than enough material suggested in the world of the classic to spin off new tales and adventures involving whole new characters and plotlines. Fresh new perspectives are introduced as well as novel plot twists. This has less to do with politics than with broadening the appeal and relatability of that world to a now more global and diverse audience and is a big reason for their success. Few want to relive the exact narrative of a classic exactly as portrayed in the original. Creativity and embellishment is everything in the art of cinema.

[Syne]

"Broadening appeal" would result in larger, not smaller, audiences. A show getting cancelled is not a success. 9_9

[Magical Realist]

"The Wheel of Time was cancelled by Prime Video primarily due to financial reasons, specifically high production costs versus viewership, leading to a difficult cost-benefit analysis for Season 4, despite the show's creative improvements and strong fan base."

[Syne]

Yes, the views couldn't support the budget, but it's likely the production quality (afforded by the budget) was what earned it what views it did get. It just wasn't good enough to bring in a larger audience. You know, "broadening appeal."

9_9

[Magical Realist]

Had nothing to do with the diversity of the actors and everything to do with overrunning expenses. It says it right there. It even had a "strong fan base", contrary to your false claim otherwise.

[Syne]

"specifically high production costs versus viewership" literally means it didn't have enough viewers to support its budget. A strong fan base denotes fan loyalty, not viewer numbers. Hence cancellation.

[Magical Realist]

"specifically high production costs versus viewership" literally means it didn't have enough viewers to support its budget.

No..it means its costs overran its budget. Happens all the time with these series. Has nothing to do with brown people in the cast. And if it had such a strong fan base, then that means there was no objections to the diversity casting of the series. Unlike you and other MAGA pigs, normal people are bigger that that.

[Syne]

Yeah, we get it. You don't understand production costs vs viewership nor that fan loyalty doesn't necessarily mean high viewership.

Between season one and two, it saw over a 50% drop in viewership, with views only marginally improving for season 3.