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BigDickOriole t1_ixiaxmg wrote

Hopefully they've learned their lesson with Rings of Power and now know how much money you spend is meaningless if you don't hire good writers.

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GetWreckedDJ t1_ixidwco wrote

I heard almost everyone praise that show, is it not good?

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CrackedandPopped t1_ixii9f1 wrote

Not really no. It’s okay, but it’s not 500 million dollars good. It’s like a 6/10

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Caraes_Naur t1_ixim6mi wrote

I, a moderate Tolkien fan, knew I would not watch it when I saw the first trailer. First time showrunners and Galadriel wearing armor telegraphed how bad it would be. Learning that they fired Tom Shippey (40+ year Tolkien scholar) from being a consultant was even worse.

I have seen well-argued, in-depth criticism of RoP covering writing, pacing, fight choreography, cinematography, costume design, and more. And that's not counting all the outrage videos addressing the numerous WTF moments.

The two showrunners are buffoons who couldn't write themselves out of a single strand of spider silk, never mind a wet paper bag.

Half the reported budget at most seems to have made it on screen.

Then there was Amazon pulling a bunch of shenanigans with online reviews. On top of that, they have not made a single clear statement trumpeting its ratings. Not one.

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Spot-CSG t1_ixk8kvl wrote

Nah you sound like a far-moderate fan. They tried to go game of thrones with it with all the different story lines but they skipped the whole making you care about the characters part.

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Rankine t1_ixijdtz wrote

It’s an ensemble show and the biggest issue is that 3/4ths of the ensemble plot lines really drag.

The one plot line that was universally liked actually didn’t have all that much meat to it, but the character interactions and acting were so good that you care far more about this side plot line than the main plot line.

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iam6ft7 t1_ixily6n wrote

Is this your first day on the Internet? Rings of Power was so bad that Amazon throttled the reviews and literally deleted the bad reviews off IMDb which they own.

Search for it on YouTube. It was easily the worst show of the last few years.

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Ahab_Ali t1_ixihah1 wrote

I only saw the first episode and thought it was meh. The stories and characters just were not as engaging as the Tolkien movies. And, sure it looked cinematic, but not $500M cinematic. The Mandalorian had a polished look as well, and cost 1/5 as much.

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Spot-CSG t1_ixk89ab wrote

Is that 500m on making it or dies it include buying the rights and shit?

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SlowMotionPanic t1_ixkgjbz wrote

The rights alone were $250m just for the indices more or less. That’s why they have to do all this bullshit dancing around because they didn’t purchase the rights to a lot of actual LOTR writing.

It seems so rotten that any other studio is accuse of money laundering. But this is Amazon; they are just more or less incompetent with filmmaking. They fucked with WoT in much the same way.

Amazon thought they would try a new marketing tactic known as fan baiting to get contrarians consuming their show. It didn’t work, and Amazon is covering their tracks because they overcommitted to this nightmare.

I’m a firm believer in giving a show at least 3 episodes to unpack. I think Amazon wishes more people did thag because they are still hiding their viewership data while HBO acts with transparency and gloats.

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Therefirs t1_ixin1c7 wrote

Have you been living in a cave or something? Rings of Power gets shit on daily by the internet for its horrible writing, pacing and dialogue.

But what could you expect from people who act more like activists than writers of a multi-million dollar project.

And let's not even talk about what an immense flop it was and how much money was wasted.

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Michaelmyers69420 t1_ixir5sk wrote

Who liked it lol everyone I seen made fun of it to hell. I stopped after 3 episodes it sucks so much. Even free its not worth it.

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jeffreynya t1_ixify3k wrote

I enjoyed it. But I can easly overlook some bad writing and character issues if the story is decent. I could never review movies.

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BigDickOriole t1_ixiet2x wrote

Some people seem to like it. I personally think it's the worst big budget show I've ever watched. Truly horrendous characters and writing.

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StarBoto t1_ixieu5j wrote

It's alright, meh, mediocre as a series itself

People who really dislike, are just hardcore Tolkien fans lol

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BigDickOriole t1_ixif5f7 wrote

I'm not even a tolkien fan, I just think the writing, characters and pacing sucks. I couldn't care less that it's not faithful to the lore.

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Informal-Ideal-6640 t1_ixkgi9q wrote

It’s a solid show and I am somewhat excited for the second season but there is definitely a lot more to be desired and it is not an experience similar to the lotr movies. I think a lot of people really overexaggerate how bad it was but I won’t say that a lot of the points made by people are that wrong necessarily.

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SpokenByMumbles t1_iximacd wrote

They’ve had some pretty good original content lately. The Boys, Terminal List, Reacher.

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