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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9731792" data-attributes="member: 18">Did he? That's slightly surprising, because I always assumed, from the initial two books, that the main characters were pretty much exactly the colours they were on the show, and it's weird that he'd missed that.But then I guess half the people who read Hunger Games somehow missed that Rue was Black...Have you got any quotes re: him being mad about diversity? I'm disputing it, I'd just like to have them to hand in future, because Sanderson has an incredibly spotty history re: diversity (i.e. publicly celebrating it, but then actually do really doing anything that supports it).I don't really believe much of this is actually what happened, if I'm honest. This sounds like a lot of handwringing and blame-slinging. It's always someone else's fault, the people you agree with are always the innocent victims even though you're saying stuff which sounds very un-innocent and so on lol.The only bit I really buy is someone saying "If you don't watch it, you'll never see it on screen!"*, because someone always claims that about every show that's an adaption of a book or game, good or bad, high budget or low.All the WoT book fans I know had not "stopped watching" but in fact the common opinion was "Oh thank god the show is finally coming together and feels way more like the books" with S3. Obviously fans vary - these were normal people I know IRL, not like, subreddit people.And then they cancelled it lol. Like a prank.* = I feel like this is true but also not quite in the way that person meant either. Like with Shadow and Bone, that 100% is the only time someone will try to do a live-action show of the Grishaverse. But just because people watched it, doesn't mean it won't get cancelled or w/e. S&B S2 did, as far as anyone can tell, extremely good numbers. It was in the Netflix top 10 in most countries immediately and stayed there for weeks, all the fans, even those who didn't like the changes were dutifully watching it, etc. Netflix cancelled it anyway for inscrutable Netflix reasons (probably the nameless executive who commissioned it had left Netflix, that'd be my guess). So even the "book fans" who didn't watch S3, had watched S3, I think it still would have got cancelled, because I think Amazon was refocusing its budget, especially re: fantasy. They can't cancel Rings of Power because otherwise Jeffy B. will come down to their offices and lecture them (it literally exists solely because he wills it), but it's burning money at an insane rate and isn't very popular (seemingly) so something had to go...</blockquote>

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