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Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series,despite 97% Rotten Tomatoes rating

https://www.theverge.com/news/673899/amazon-wheel-of-time-canceled
16•rock57•5h ago

Comments

andsoitis•5h ago
If something costs a lot of money to make but not many people watch it, you can use your customers’ monthly subscription money more wisely by investing in a different show.
msie•5h ago
Like 2 more seasons of Mr Beast??? LOL
bigyabai•5h ago
You laugh, but if the economics work out that way then the answer is an unequivocal "yes".
dekhn•5h ago
It just wasn't very interesting, or even good to look at.
LargoLasskhyfv•4h ago
With the exception of Lanfear.
JumpCrisscross•5h ago
I’m surprised TV shows don’t get picked up by passionate patrons. A small group of millionaires and crowdfunding could probably keep a lot of these projects going.
delichon•4h ago
> flagging viewership numbers

I was excited to see it but my viewership flagged within a few minutes, when they tossed out the whole gendered One Power yin yang conceit so central to the books. Did I miss anything good?

Something similar happened at the start of the Hunger Games, when one character playfully makes the protagonist miss her shot at a deer, when both of them have starving families to feed. That one did get a little better, partly because it was hard to get worse.

If you're going to betray the source material best to get it over with quickly, so I can go do something else. Thanks for that.

davidcbc•4h ago
> they tossed out the whole gendered One Power yin yang conceit so central to the books.

Well... for one they didn't do this, so you probably should have watched a bit more!

delichon•4h ago

  "The Dragon has been born again, and it's one of you. But we don't know whether they were born as a girl or a boy." -- Moiraine, in the series opening
That seems to throw out the gender determinism of the books. Do they walk that back? Is it an isolated exception? It's like starting The Fellowship of the Ring with a scene of Smeagol getting a great deal on the one ring at Diamonds Direct.
davidcbc•4h ago
I mean, Rand is still the dragon reborn, Saidin is still tainted, men who channel still go crazy. Channeling saidin and saidar are still treated as fundamentally different.

Adding a couple other people to the candidate pool for TDR didn't change much except leave new viewers guessing who TDR was for the first season whereas in The Eye of the World it was very obvious from the start

more_corn•4h ago
A lot of people watched at first because the books were good. Then they stopped because the show was not.
Sabinus•2h ago
That's what happened to me. Show had too much of a modern air, needed a far more gritty epic fantasy tone.

Put your bodies upon the gears

https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/put-your-bodies-upon-the-gears
1•HR01•29s ago•0 comments

IonQ Signs MoU with Kisti to Accelerate South Korea's Role in the Quantum Race

https://ionq.com/news/ionq-signs-mou-with-kisti-to-accelerate-south-koreas-role-in-the-global
1•donutloop•3m ago•0 comments

D-Wave revives 'quantum supremacy' claims for new Advantage2 computer

https://www.zdnet.com/article/d-wave-revives-quantum-supremacy-claims-for-new-advantage2-computer/
1•donutloop•4m ago•0 comments

Our vision for building a universal AI assistant

https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-universal-ai-assistant/
1•davidbarker•13m ago•0 comments

Open Source Can't Coordinate

https://matklad.github.io/2025/05/20/open-source-cant-coordinate.html
1•ishitatsuyuki•17m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Should HN show a summary of posts at the top of threads?

1•behnamoh•23m ago•0 comments

The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk's Deadly Attack

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/05/hawk-new-jersey-traffic/682913/
1•a_w•23m ago•0 comments

De-Abstraction and Conditional Escape Analysis

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/coreclr/jit/DeabstractionAndConditionalEscapeAnalysis.md
1•todsacerdoti•25m ago•0 comments

Violet Light Hypothesis for the Control of Myopia Progression

https://www.aao.org/eyenet/academy-live/detail/violet-light-hypothesis
1•plun9•29m ago•0 comments

Rustc_codegen_GCC: Libgccjit AOT Codegen for Rustc

https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_gcc
2•thunderbong•30m ago•0 comments

1956 Suez Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis
2•simonebrunozzi•37m ago•1 comments

Changing scope of software jobs – Microsoft CPO

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-cpo-computer-science-degree-coding-important-skills-project-managers-2025-5
2•light_222•38m ago•0 comments

Composing Server and Client Components: The Modern React's Superpower

https://www.epicreact.dev/composing-server-and-client-components-the-modern-reacts-superpower-08yn9
1•CharlesW•38m ago•0 comments

uBlock Origin – filter lists and advanced features

https://old.reddit.com/user/fsau/comments/1ku1pvd/ublock_origin_filter_lists_and_advanced_features/
2•ReadCarlBarks•47m ago•0 comments

Fugit: Time tools (cron, parsing, durations) for Ruby, rufus-scheduler, and flor

https://github.com/floraison/fugit
2•thunderbong•47m ago•0 comments

Rick Rubin on Art, Life, and Vibe Coding [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BDsFUvPqI0
1•fjd•51m ago•0 comments

Colahall: An Independent Audio Technology Company

https://colahall.io/
2•ashafq•54m ago•1 comments

I assume I'm below average (2010)

https://sive.rs/below-average
2•vinhnx•55m ago•2 comments

AutoWorld (Theme Park)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoWorld_(theme_park)
2•cebert•57m ago•0 comments

Tariffs or not, China's infiltration of US systems needs new attention

https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/2025/05/22/tariffs-or-not-chinas-infiltration-of-us-systems-needs-new-attention/
3•felineflock•1h ago•0 comments

CVE-2025-48708: ghostscript can embed plaintext password in encrypted PDFs

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/23/2
1•transpute•1h ago•0 comments

Why Algebraic Effects?

https://antelang.org/blog/why_effects/
31•jiggawatts•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: BudgetGPT – Free ChatGPT like financial coach

https://budgetgpt.io/
1•zbranson•1h ago•0 comments

The Pacific Coast Highway, a Mythic Route Always in Need of Repair

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/pacific-coast-highway-closed-climate-change.html
2•vthommeret•1h ago•0 comments

The Greatest Business Deal of the Last Decade (2023)

https://pomp.substack.com/p/the-greatest-business-deal-of-the
1•indigodaddy•1h ago•0 comments

Menupick – utility program to pick items from stdin via menu

https://github.com/mjdominus/util/blob/master/bin/menupick
1•kamaraju•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What did you guys create with veo3?

1•ivape•1h ago•1 comments

Anthropic adds security measures to limit risk of users developing weapons

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/23/anthropic-claude-4-weapons.html
1•champagnepapi•1h ago•0 comments

Boeing reaches deal to avoid prosecution over deadly 737 MAX crashes

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/23/boeing-737-max-crashes-doj.html
16•passwordoops•1h ago•4 comments

Learning in a Changing World

https://vyeevani.github.io/robotics/2025/05/23/learning-in-a-changing-world.html
1•vineethy•1h ago•0 comments