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

Re:Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series,despite 97% ... by davidcbc on Friday May 23, 2025 @07:22PM (#44077501)

> 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!

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Re:Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series,despite 97% ... by delichon on Friday May 23, 2025 @07:25PM (#44077520)

  "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.

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Re:Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series,despite 97% ... by davidcbc on Friday May 23, 2025 @07:33PM (#44077555)

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

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