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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9067106" data-attributes="member: 7023840">No, it isn't. I don't know how more clear this can be.It's not a prestige show- it doesn't get any awards.It's not a show that gets buzz; as [USER=90374]@payn[/USER] correctly notes, there are more people that talked about Wheel of Time. Even just to hate on it.It's not a show that drives engagement. You keep repeating the same point - but that is an absolutely abysmal retention number. Really really bad. As I stated before, 50% is considered the low-end of cromulent for series in general ....let alone a big-time show. If they hadn't invested this money, it would be canceled.And most importantly, it is far and away the most expensive show ever made. If the WSJ is correct with their in-depth reporting, we are looking at a cost of $90 million per episode the first season. That's four times as much as House of the Dragon (which outperformed it in terms of total viewership and far outperformed it in terms of completion). Again, it costs four times as much as House of the Dragon, which aired on a streamer with far fewer subscribers, and still underperformed it despite costing four times as much. Oh, and House of the Dragon received Emmy nominations for &quot;above the line&quot; categories (like best dramatic series).Cost matters. A lot. Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources, and business is choosing how to allocate your resources in order to maximize opportunities. Here, resources are not being well allocated. Finally, while there has been extensive reporting on the leaked information about the completion rate, there has been no confirmation of the reported &quot;100 million&quot; figure- which is something Prime released in terms of people who &quot;tuned in&quot; the first day, but they have never confirmed how they arrived at that figure. So we cannot, in fact, state that &quot;37 million people watched the show to completion.&quot;Because, for example, the people at Amazon might have simply juiced the numbers by taking the number of subscribers worldwide who watched a part of the first episode (say it was 25 million) and multiplying it by 4 to account for &quot;multiple people in a household&quot; watching it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 9067106, member: 7023840"] No, it isn't. I don't know how more clear this can be. It's not a prestige show- it doesn't get any awards. It's not a show that gets buzz; as [USER=90374]@payn[/USER] correctly notes, there are more people that talked about Wheel of Time. Even just to hate on it. It's not a show that drives engagement. You keep repeating the same point - but that is an absolutely [I]abysmal[/I] retention number. Really really bad. As I stated before, 50% is considered the low-end of cromulent for series in general ....let alone a big-time show. If they hadn't invested this money, it would be canceled. And most importantly, [I]it is far and away the most expensive show ever made[/I]. If the WSJ is correct with their in-depth reporting, we are looking at a cost of $90 million per episode the first season. That's four times as much as House of the Dragon (which outperformed it in terms of total viewership and far outperformed it in terms of completion). Again, it costs four times as much as House of the Dragon, which aired on a streamer with far fewer subscribers, and still underperformed it despite costing four times as much. Oh, and House of the Dragon received Emmy nominations for "above the line" categories (like best dramatic series). Cost matters. A lot. Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources, and business is choosing how to allocate your resources in order to maximize opportunities. Here, resources are not being well allocated. Finally, while there has been extensive reporting on the leaked information about the completion rate, there has been no confirmation of the reported "100 million" figure- which is something Prime released in terms of people who "tuned in" the first day, but they have never confirmed how they arrived at that figure. So we cannot, in fact, state that "37 million people watched the show to completion." Because, for example, the people at Amazon might have simply juiced the numbers by taking the number of subscribers worldwide who watched a part of the first episode (say it was 25 million) and multiplying it by 4 to account for "multiple people in a household" watching it. [/QUOTE]

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