Rings of Power

[Hawkeye10]

1) WOKE to include being overly dramatic.

2) Boring

3) A betrayal of Tolkien...the trust or whoever took the Big Money and approved this should be ashamed of themselves.






Tell me that I am wrong.

[Hawkeye10]

We are doing ep 5 in a few minutes, The Wife likes it better than me, but we might stop. We will not watch the other 5 series these people are planning to make with their $250 million? rights deal unless we hear it is good after this very expensive dud and insult.

[Hawkeye10]

I am back...."technical difficulties".

Slut says that she prob needs to recycle and resync everything.

[Hawkeye10]

[Lightbringer]

1) WOKE to include being overly dramatic.

2) Boring

3) A betrayal of Tolkien...the trust or whoever took the Big Money and approved this should be ashamed of themselves.






Tell me that I am wrong.

I can't. You're right.

[Hawkeye10]

This sort of failure is much worse throughout “The Rings of Power.” Almost no one behaves like an adult, even elves who are hundreds, or even thousands, of years old. The show refuses to trust the viewers to remain interested as grown-up characters are developed and stakes established and increased. Instead, there is a constant stirring of petty drama, which degrades both the characters and the stakes of the conflicts. Thus, even though the show has now put immense (and invented) stakes on the friendship of Durin and Elrond, there is no real drama to be found in it after all their bickering. Cheap drama undermines the real deal.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/27...n-is-terrible/


Really shit story telling is now normal in Hollywood as they have traded in their profession for proselytizing the WOKE Religion.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Nothing like wading through the stream of consciousness of a demented, drunken, psychotic. Whew. We need brain bleach.

[Celticguy]

i cant understand why they picture hobbits as not much removed from animals.

[Gondwanaland]

Wasn't terrible. Not terribly faithful to Tolkien, but then I didn't expect it to be. Approaching it knowing it was going to be a very pretty and very expensive fanfic set in the Tolkien universe, and not caring too much about being a lore-Nazi, it's been decent enough.

I've been enjoying HotD more though.

[Hawkeye10]

Wasn't terrible. Not terribly faithful to Tolkien, but then I didn't expect it to be. Approaching it knowing it was going to be a very pretty and very expensive fanfic set in the Tolkien universe, and not caring too much about being a lore-Nazi, it's been decent enough.

I've been enjoying HotD more though.

I notice the faint praise.

[Hawkeye10]

Wasn't terrible. Not terribly faithful to Tolkien, but then I didn't expect it to be. Approaching it knowing it was going to be a very pretty and very expensive fanfic set in the Tolkien universe, and not caring too much about being a lore-Nazi, it's been decent enough.

I've been enjoying HotD more though.

They spent a shit ton of money on this, is there even one aspect that is great?

[Gondwanaland]

They spent a shit ton of money on this, is there even one aspect that is great?

Costuming, set design, cinematics/world.

[Celticguy]

They spent a shit ton of money on this, is there even one aspect that is great?

the technical side is TV great if movie pretty good.

to be fair to the producers the LOTR story is pretty well known while the lore of this time period is not. So I am enjoying the filling out of backstory regarding why the various races hate each other.

but why the hobbits have to have random grass and shrub clippings sticking out of their uncombed hair is a mystery.

Im guessing "the Stranger" hanging out with the hobbits becomes Gandalf over time. How wrong am I on that ? No I never got through the Silmarrion (sp?).

[Hawkeye10]

the technical side is TV great if movie pretty good.

to be fair to the producers the LOTR story is pretty well known while the lore of this time period is not. So I am enjoying the filling out of backstory regarding why the various races hate each other.

but why the hobbits have to have random grass and shrub clippings sticking out of their uncombed hair is a mystery.

Im guessing "the Stranger" hanging out with the hobbits becomes Gandalf over time. How wrong am I on that ? No I never got through the Silmarrion (sp?).

A really shit story that looks great on the screen is how Hollywood rolls now.

[Celticguy]

A really shit story that looks great on the screen is how Hollywood rolls now.

the movie biz can do a good job presenting source material as the first 4 years or so of GOT shows. So long as they had books to screenplay from they were very good. When they got left to their own devices they struggle.

Always a few exceptions (Sopranos for example in tv of Godfather 2&3 in movies). Problem now seems to be how can they not spend money on creativity to have money for smoke and mirrors.