If by show you mean Rings of Power, I think the fan consensus is that it’s crap. Even in the kindest opinion I don’t think you could call it “just as good” as the Peter Jackson trilogy.
I honestly loved it. Wish there was more.
Same! I am excited for season 2
My lesbian heart just beats for Galadriel and that’s enough for me to watch. Also it wasn’t that bad.
That wasn’t my takeaway at all…
From what I saw, people who didn’t like it stopped watching by episode 3/4. People who felt it was a little slow kept watching and enjoyed it.
I gave up on episode 1. I don’t even know what the main plot of the show is except that Galadriel thinks Sauron is coming back and Elrond doesn’t give a shit
Excuse me what? The show is good?? I quit watching during the first episode. Or am I misunderstanding something here?
So you watched one episode and stopped? Did you watch only the first hour of the first movie?
No, because the movie didn’t immediately turn me off with an insane plot, crappy dialog, boring, unbelievable characters, just all in all bad writing, terrible costumes… I don’t even know where to start. But to each his own I guess. To me the movies and the series are completely different in quality. But maybe that’s just me.
You got all that when you didn’t even finish the first episode? Damn, you are a tough audience.
I thought the show was pretty decent. It wasn’t literally perfect, but it was entertaining and beautifully shot. Some of the acting was kinda underwhelming, but some others did a great job IMO.
Especially Morfydd Clark, Joseph Mawle, and Ismael Cruz Córdova as Galadriel, Adar, and Arondir, respectively. Sophia Nomvete as Disa gave one of my favorite performances yet of a Dwarven character, and I enjoyed her scenes immensely.
I’ll probably rewatch that show more often than I will the Hobbit movies, which makes it a solid entry by my reckoning, and it’s okay that it wasn’t perfect.
I watched about 3 episodes and I got so BORED that I started doing something else and forgot about the show entirely. Have no desire to finish it, and I love LOTR. It completely failed to grab me or make me care about any of the characters
Yeah the bad writing was pretty much apparent from the start, and that is the thing I can bear the least. Bad FX, bad visuals, even bad acting I can handle if the writing is well done.
I have the feeling that writing has really deteriorated in the last couple years with many new shows. Seems like all the money goes into advertising, FX, some high class actors to garner interest. Another example being the Wheel of Time series, which pains me even to mention, but also The Witcher (was at least average).
I also suppose GoT might have set the bar quite high at least for the first few seasons. But even without GoT as an example… To me LotR and WoT were utter trash even though I was really hoping, willing and forgiving…
Did you watch only the first hour of the first movie?
Dude, if someone’s opening pitch sucks then they have failed as a creative. That’s a skill issue and indicates that the rest of the work sucks.
You should only need to watch the opening to the LOTR movies to gauge if you’ll like it or not.
That’s a five minute investment before you continue watching a 9+ hour work.
The show isn’t good though
What show?
The show was shit though, they didn’t have the rights to all the source materials and the part they did have they didn’t understand. Then the execution was piss poor, with a shitty predictable story, terrible writing, awful set and costume design (due to a lacking budget, I’m sure the people involved were very talented and did the best they could) and mediocre acting. Plus way over the top poorly done cgi.
There’s plenty of online info about all the reasons it sucks ass, so I won’t reiterate here.
One thing that stuck in my mind was this actual piece of dialog: “Do you know why a ship floats and a stone cannot? Because the stone sees only downward. The darkness of the water is vast and irresistible. The ship feels the darkness, as well, striving moment by moment to master her and pull her under. But the ship has a secret. For, unlike the stone, her gaze is not downward but up. Fixed upon the light that guides her, whispering of grander things than darkness ever knew.”
This is spoken by not only an ocean-faring people, but by persons that actually have actively navigated the open sea. Like I hope you have that buoyancy thing figured out my dudes, or you’re gonna have a bad time. Absolute drivel that doesn’t even make sense in the context of the show.
At least the new GOT show is pretty good?
It’s better than Season 8, which is of course just about the lowest bar in existence, but worth noting when talking GoT.
The plot was kind of just a borderline uninteresting version of Downton Abbey with way more blood and incest, but the characters felt correct for the world and the acting and production was on point. Definitely worth a watch, but just don’t expect it to be anything on the level of Seasons 1-4 of the original show.
there were parts of this season 2 that reminded me of those GOT Season 1-4 heights. But now that i’ve had a few more days’ distance from it, I agree that the total package is not quite there.
Better than the lotr show at least
this is what i hear, but i didn’t want to make any personal slander against a show i hadn’t seen
The show is fine. It should be better, but it’s not actually bad. The lore complaints beyond the simple reality that the timeline would have made all the human cast die in between episodes are either nitpicking or nonsense. But on the other hand, if you stop and think about the scopes of things, the idea that these events all took that long in the first place… Really kind of dumb itself?
There are a couple really poor choices that bookend the season though, and the armor designer should be fired. And the “Who is Sky Guy” question? Who were they trying to fool? People that haven’t seen or read LotR?
I mean, I liked being right about it, but still.
Right? I’m rewatching the first season before starting the second, and it’s actually really solid. A little "palace-intruige"y the first few episodes, but it sets up characters, plots and conflicts really believably and efficiently.
It would be nice to see a decent show in the GoT universe again. Something that isn’t just all rich people planning who is married off to who and blah blah blah blah.
I marathoned the extended edition trilogy with some friends at the end of June. ☺
