Why was The Shannara Chronicles cancelled?
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- In this video, I'm going to explore the reasons I think the Shannara Chronicles ended after two seasons. The show was based on the best-selling novels by Terry Brooks, and was meant to be the continuation of the Elfstones of Shannara series. However, the show seemed to flounder in its second season and was cancelled.
So what went wrong with the Shannara Chronicles? Was it the casting, the writing or the direction? In this video, I'll explore all of these questions and more.
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Woo! Feels good to be back, and ranting about "The Shannara Chronicles". First of many to come!
Just found out their was a season 2.
This happened to Legend of the Seeker show too - people are often angry, that the adaptation is not 100% accurate, but why? It's a different format, the books are still there to read. I love the show and the books. It's still my favourite fantasy show, I was hoping to find something similar, so I binge-watched Shannara in the past week. I have a lot of problems, but ultimately I finished it, and wish for more. That hasn't happened in years to me. I'm watching your videos to fill the void. Hope to see the other 'positive' half of this video some day. Thanks for the videos!
Same thing happened with the Dresden Files. I wish people would just give adaptations a chance to stand on their own. Thanks for watching and I’m definitely going to do the e other video. It’s been rough life wise, but things are starting to even out and get better, thankfully.
@@CJDExplains happy to hear things are getting better for you! No worries, meanwhile, let me re-watch Shannara. I watched the first season as a background thing, I had it for this cheesy, predictable show, but it really grew on me. I'd still call it cheesy, but in a good way. I love TV shows with this vibe.. I feel like they were built on good intentions
By God Sir! What a Magnificent beard!
Haven't seen the show. Just reading through the first books
Enjoy the incredible journey you’ve started. Sword is great, but, for me, the least impressive book in the series. Elfstones really set the tone of the series, so make sure you get to that second book!
I was prepared to say all of this before seeing your video. It's a melancholy sort of glad to hear you agree on this.
For me, the show was far too blatant with the putting forward the idea of the world they are in. Brooks Shannara series hinted at these things from Sword on forward, but without making it a obvious certainty till the Heritage books. I had always suspected, but the events dealing with Walker Boh in the Heritage books solidified that suspicion.
With the show, they just come right out and trot it out as if to say, "Here ya go, isn't this a neat idea and a cool reason to like our show?" - which had me immediately feeling deflated and wanting to turn it off. Nothing in the Elfstones which the shows first season was "loosely" based on ever had anything like remaining street signage etc, which they used in the show. It was one hundred percent a turnoff for me and reason enough to stop watching.
I don't know how involved Brooks was with the show, or if those in charge of the show had actually read the books, but it felt like Brooks was not at all involved (and it wouldn't have helped me enjoy it if I found out he had been) and it felt like the showrunners had read a synopsis about the setting from a website before deciding key directions the show would take.
Arborlorn didn't have to be rebuilt though. The other racial groups and various kingdoms of men however, spot on. Those needed centuries to develop, some had come and gone. An entire society had risen and fallen in the time since man had scraped themselves back up out of the dust of apocalypse. There are very few buildings even remaining, you glimpse some small ruins and a left over robot things of some sort early on in The Sword of Shannara, but the description of it is only enough to hint that there was a civilization in the past that had fallen, which Allanon had already made clear in his fairly vague explanations.
Also note: I couldn't hear the dog barking 😂
tl;dr - The show was canceled cause it was bad. Just bad. Had it not been bad and had good ratings, perhaps that last network would have kept it alive.
I loved the first season but the second season was...not great. I really was disappointed, because the first season was sooo good IMO and I really was looking forward to seeing more.
Yeah, the done season pissed me off.
Great to finally see a video on this! I was so excited, and then so disappointed with this show.
Great explanation, especially for those who didn't read the books. You put all my frustrations into words very eloquently.
"I just went and took a nap, okay lets go!" LOL
Thanks for the kind words and for watching!
Me and my wife loved the 1st season of the TV series as it was a cool blend of future and fantasy elements that we enjoyed. (Note we never read the books and never had the opportunity to read them) when season 1 ended we could wait for season 2 to come around and when it did it felt like a different TV series all together and some of the stuff they did felt forced rather than being part of the story.
We only got halfway (or 1/3 honestly can't remember since it was years ago) through season 2 before we both lost interest in the series as a whole and never came back to it. We were bummed how they changed the characters and how they dragged out the story.
Maybe one day we might finish it to see if we judged too harshly, but based on what I've been hearing so far, it's probably for the better to just read the books than jump back into the series
I can understand that. If you do like reading, I encourage you to read Elfstones and Sword of Shannara, they are easy reads and give you a better picture of the world and what was possible.
Recently with the success of Austin Butler I have watched episode 1 and 2 and wish that series 3 would been completed. It would have had massive success‼️ What a waste 😥 I think the promotion of this was very poorly handled. I knew nothing about this until Austin's success and wanting to know everything he was in as MANY of his fan's would have loved.
A good overview of the show overall. I agree that Manu Bennet was probably the best thing about it. I disagree about the show being good in any way however, but that is ok! Looking forward to seeing your thoughts on the good parts!
I know the show was polarizing, so I can completely understand where you’re coming from. I tried to take it as it’s own thing and enjoy it as much as I could. Thanks for watching and commenting!
season 1 felt great for me eretrea amberle and wills relationship was really worth a watch and you got awesome written characters like arion, eventine and the gnomes, cabhelo to. overrall it was a great season some things couldve changed but it was good. And the acting was kinda good to.Then we get to season 2 were it felt like everyone was just a side character somebody died =nobody cared at all. there was just to much going on everybody was dying left and right. first we got brandon his relationship with allanon was worth watchin then he gets killed of in the stupidest way by the warlock like brandon a wasted character. The acting felt stupid. You got riga cool villian gets killed instantly. Warlock felt boring
ing unlike the the dagda mor. Overall s1 was great s2 just sucked
Season 2 was mostly created out of thin air and vague inclusions from the books, which is where the issues came from. It just wasn’t well realized and felt hastily thrown together.
They switch to Spike, and then it changed to the paramount channel. Hopefully Netflix or Apple plus will take it .
didn’t read the book but loved the show so sad no season 3
I hear ya. I do encourage you to check out the first 3 books when you can. They are really great.
Shannara is great!
Glad you enjoyed the show!
I can tell you 100% why it didn't work. Allanon the main character was cast as a short Latino which isn't even close to the book. Allanon was a 6'10" tall white dude with "LONG" hair and a "BEARD." You can put all the Latinos in the show that you want but to fu@# up the casting of the main character? Big fu@#ing mistake. I'm surprised Terry Brooks didn't say no fu@#img way to that!
Reboot Shannara as a movie and it would NOT be connected to the TV series which aired on both MTV and then-Spike for two seasons.
Give it a “Lord of the Rings” treatment, and it would be great. Easily make a trilogy.
@@CJDExplains but Paramount doesn’t have the film rights to Shannara, nor does Warner Bros. They secured the film rights back then until it lapsed in 2010.
I want to see a shannara chronicle season 3 and I want to see will falling in love with Eretria and kiss and getting married and ending together at the end of the serie pleasee i am still waiting for season 3 in 2023 and also if they make a season 3 I want to see will and Eretria being endgame and having kids like in the books.
Unfortunately that wasn’t the direction they were taking the show. Wil and Eretria were no longer a thing unfortunately.
why was it canceled ? because they tried to make it politically correct and turned it to garbage ! the screen writer should have been fired and blacklisted ! the books were great , the tv series was total trash !
You nailed why that show just failed.