There are three inevitabilities in life: death, taxes, and streaming services cancelling your favourite show before the story’s finished.
This morning, Amazon Prime Video fans are the ones feeling the sting after it was announced that the fantasy series The Wheel of Time had been cancelled after three seasons.
Based on the popular book series of the same name by Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time followed Moiraine Damodred (Rosamund Pike) as she sought the reincarnation of the prophesied Dragon Reborn.
This legendary figure would supposedly save ot doom the world. It’s all classic fantasy stuff, really, but sadly, we’ll never know the Dragon Reborn’s destiny.
Deadline reports that despite Amazon execs liking the series, it just never caught on with a big enough audience to make it financially sustainable.
They claim that it all came down to season three’s performance, which just wasn’t good enough to justify the costs involved. The streaming service examined all other scenarios but just couldn’t find a way to make season 4 work.
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What makes this an even more bitter pill for fans to swallow is that many believe the show was finally finding its feet, and they’ve taken to social media to make their fury known.
@umbreoonnnn wrote on X, ‘Wdym Prime cancelled The Wheel of Time after the best season they ever had? Rosamund Pike literally spent weeks in a desert for nothing?’
A similar sentiment was held by @annetteb, who claimed ‘S3 of The Wheel of Time was amazing, it shows the improvement!! It is not fair neither for cast or fans! Please some other studio take over it’.
It was @oluwatroy, however, who perhaps summed up fan despair best when they posted ‘Cancelling The Wheel of Time is not fair’.
It’s not just people on X who are upset, either. Over on The Wheel of Time section of Reddit,where lvs301 complained, ‘every story was on a cliffhanger!!! This is so disappointing!’
Cease_Cows admitted that while they didn’t love a lot of the decisions the show made, they thought ‘season 3 was definitely an upswing’.
Others, meanwhile, were happy to point the finger of blame for the show’s cancellation, and it seems that the rocky fan reception to season one is taking the brunt of the finger wagging.
‘This sucks – but it’s expected,’ wrote Spyk124. ‘It alienated too large of the fan base in the first season and wasn’t quality enough to get a large enough audience outside of fans.’
Sadly, this belief that the first season just cost the show too many eyeballs seems to be pretty widespread, with 2ndChanceCharlie adding It was doomed after the first season. Too many people gave up on it.
‘I watched season one,’ replied Hurrly90. ‘Didn’t even realise a second season, never mind a third, was out. I had zero interest after the first season.’
Still, while fans may be devastated, they’re still determined to save their favourite show with a #savewheeloftime campaign already well under way on X.
Or if you’re desperate to know exactly what happens, why not give Robert’s original books a read?
All three seasons of Wheel of Time are available to watch now on Amazon Prime Video.
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