It’s as good as advertised. The adaptation of book 2 (S2E6-S3E6) is still my favorite season of television ever. The character of Camina Drummer is also one of those wild TV adaptation stories where the new writing and the actor were so good that they had to keep bringing her back.
I’m okay with where the series ended–even successful shows these days aren’t likely to get full adaptations–but the shortened final season still makes me sad. It’s even shorter than it looks on paper, too, as part of the runtime includes one of the novella plots, which only serves to set up a future storyline. Maybe they’ll pay that off eventually with a new production, but it’s awkward as hell in hindsight.
The show ran into issues with distribution rights. SyFy didn’t want to keep funding it because the views were from next day streaming rather than live broadcast. SyFy made less (or nothing?) from the streams.
Amazon bought the rights and funded the final season, but didn’t continue the because the viewership wasn’t huge and they were funding Rings of Power instead.
at least that’s my vague recollection from 8 years agot
Even the author was saying it’s a pause at the time and not canceled outright.
It’s a decades long jump to the next book, so they didn’t want to do it right away. Amazon might have canceled it in the normal sense, but that wasn’t the whole story.
Granted that doesn’t mean Amazon or Alcon or whoever else is going to take it up, no one commits to doing another season 5 or 10 or more years from now, but the intention is to continue it.
It’s as good as advertised. The adaptation of book 2 (S2E6-S3E6) is still my favorite season of television ever. The character of Camina Drummer is also one of those wild TV adaptation stories where the new writing and the actor were so good that they had to keep bringing her back.
I’m okay with where the series ended–even successful shows these days aren’t likely to get full adaptations–but the shortened final season still makes me sad. It’s even shorter than it looks on paper, too, as part of the runtime includes one of the novella plots, which only serves to set up a future storyline. Maybe they’ll pay that off eventually with a new production, but it’s awkward as hell in hindsight.
I’m pretty sure I remember that they do plan to continue it, but there was a time jump or something and they wanted a break?
You’d probably know better if you read the books though, but we very well might see more on TV even if it’s a new cast.
The show ran into issues with distribution rights. SyFy didn’t want to keep funding it because the views were from next day streaming rather than live broadcast. SyFy made less (or nothing?) from the streams.
Amazon bought the rights and funded the final season, but didn’t continue the because the viewership wasn’t huge and they were funding Rings of Power instead.
at least that’s my vague recollection from 8 years agot
Even the author was saying it’s a pause at the time and not canceled outright.
It’s a decades long jump to the next book, so they didn’t want to do it right away. Amazon might have canceled it in the normal sense, but that wasn’t the whole story.
Granted that doesn’t mean Amazon or Alcon or whoever else is going to take it up, no one commits to doing another season 5 or 10 or more years from now, but the intention is to continue it.