I haven’t seen either episode but I hope they keep them available for online viewing. I want to make up my own mind.
Where’s a wizard to fight trolls when you need one?
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Great opening line!
Feminist, woke propaganda. Who knew?
I’ve watched the first two episode, I liked both of them and looked forward to the rest.
I wasn’t a huge Lord of the Rings fan, remember the character that took the ring to its final end was a Hobbit and so was his best friend.
It’s sort of like the new HBO show, “House of the Dragon”, comparing it to the original is not really fair, judge it on its own, I like both new shows.
Ignore the racist morons who think having black elves is somehow unthinkable.
Listen to the honest critics who simply point out how the show stinks.
Watched the first 2 episodes. Its OK. Nothing spectacular. Nothing over the top SJW. Just OK. I remain cautiously optimistic.
I tried to watch and could not get in. Maybe I’ll try in 6 months if I still have prime.
I tried to watch it, but, 15 minutes in, it was just plain painful to watch.
Watched the first Rings episode and it was awful - could barely make it through. Very boring. Bad writing, bad dialogue and bad acting. I won’t bother with anymore. Not surprised they shut down reviews.
I may go back and watch at least Ep 1. In the first episode after a minute or so an elf showed up with a haircut that made him look like he’d just stepped out of a Beverly Hills hair salon and I stopped streaming.
I know in an interview one of the showrunners asked “don’t you want the show to look like the world around you?”. I figured she was talking the diversity angle, but apparently she meant the cast would literally look like hip young people of today. That may be ok for younger folks, but I first read LOTR 50 years ago this month and I guess I’m not in the target audience.
What they’re doing makes perfect sense.
It’s generic comic book fantasy borrowing a few Tolkien character and place names, otherwise it’s spun from used toilet tissue.
Blasphemous garbage
To me it was like someone wrote a bare script outline;
Some one else came a long and plugged in some more lines;
Then they picked a place where they could make some pretty CGI;
Some one else hired a bunch of daytime soap actors that insisted on looking the same so their fans would recognize them - except the whole idea of their ‘fans’ was a publicists idea to keep them happy;
Marketing came along and asked how they were going to sell that mess;
Some one said just say it an adaption of a work by a famous writer, after casting around a bit then came up with Tolkien;
And that’s how it was sold - a work by Tolkien. “You’ll love it, Jeff,” they said.
I watched part of the first episode. It was all I could deal with.
The episode varies between being boring to the point of falling asleep, to being laugh-out-loud absurd; and throw in a dollop of not so great acting.
There’s a black elf who could be a stand-in for Don Lemon.
The Harfoots, which I guess are supposed to be proto-Hobbits, seem to have Irish accents, but they look like recycled Not from Stargate SG-1; or perhaps hair conditioner hasn’t been invented yet.
And the Galadriel character, who seems to be one of the major characters, is both a rather poor actress and she portrays a character who manages to be both a Karen and a Mary Sue. She has a permanent bitchy attitude and is portrayed as some flawless character, which makes her both boring and unlikable.
I have watched She-Hulk (a comedy, but a waste of Tatiana Maslany’s talents) and the 1st 2 episodes of Rings of Power and have enjoyed both (although skin color does not appear heredity in Rings). Neither deserve the criticism I see folks giving them.
Gender confused Hobbits and Elfs?
I’ll pass.
Serious discussion about a fantasy genre. LOL