I tried watching Rings of Power. All of that budget, all of those resources, and it was so bland. I drifted out before the "prestige TV" torture focus really kicked in, at least.
RoP has many flaws that could probably be forgiven if it wasn't just such a slog to get through. Screwing up the canon and characters and everything is one thing but at least make it good. Jackson's films mess with the canon too but the original trilogy is still timeless because it was so well done
The whole (I'm not spoiler alerting this because this is such a garbage story that I don't mind spoiling the surprise) "Sauron was just some dude that Galadriel randomly ran into after she jumped off the boat" thing was an amazing shark jump.
, like a lot of creativity-deprived techbros, is a very firm absolutist in Joseph Campell-like story cliches, so he had to have a "friend that becomes a traitor" moment because his own mandates said so.
I tried watching Rings of Power. All of that budget, all of those resources, and it was so bland. I drifted out before the "prestige TV" torture focus really kicked in, at least.
RoP has many flaws that could probably be forgiven if it wasn't just such a slog to get through. Screwing up the canon and characters and everything is one thing but at least make it good. Jackson's films mess with the canon too but the original trilogy is still timeless because it was so well done
The whole (I'm not spoiler alerting this because this is such a garbage story that I don't mind spoiling the surprise) "Sauron was just some dude that Galadriel randomly ran into after she jumped off the boat" thing was an amazing shark jump.