The first could of seasons have a lot of staying power, that's for sure. Amazon tried to unseat GoT with their Wheel of Time show and it was just embarrassing. My guess is that Apple's LotR will crash and burn too.
i like my fantasy slop leave the wheel of time alone!!! :rage-cry:
In all seriousness, most genuine praise I’ll give the show is that they made some decently thought out changes to some characters that I always thought were just dumb and cringy. Not specifically talking about character traits or character growth, but Robert Jordan’s hints of weirdness coming through.
My biggest gripe is how rushed everything turned out.
It's closer to the author pointing out how dumb those takes are by flipping them on their heads, like having characters talk about how gossipy and useless men are.
Sure, you can categorize scifi and fantasy from the 50s-90s based on plot, subject matter, genre, whatever. Or you could categorize it based on the authors barely concealed sexual fetish that will reliably show up in every book they write.
It's not like movie theaters where you can look at the box office reciepts and know for sure that a movie was or was not a flop, nothing on streaming ever crashes and burns. Even if literally nobody watches it and the critics pan it, LotR will get a ton of marketing and multiple seasons so that they can claim it was totally successful.
The first could of seasons have a lot of staying power, that's for sure. Amazon tried to unseat GoT with their Wheel of Time show and it was just embarrassing. My guess is that Apple's LotR will crash and burn too.
i like my fantasy slop leave the wheel of time alone!!! :rage-cry:
In all seriousness, most genuine praise I’ll give the show is that they made some decently thought out changes to some characters that I always thought were just dumb and cringy. Not specifically talking about character traits or character growth, but Robert Jordan’s hints of weirdness coming through.
My biggest gripe is how rushed everything turned out.
Everything I've heard about Wheel of Time makes it sound like 14 books of :grillman: level takes about how women are like this, men are like that
It's closer to the author pointing out how dumb those takes are by flipping them on their heads, like having characters talk about how gossipy and useless men are.
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Sure, you can categorize scifi and fantasy from the 50s-90s based on plot, subject matter, genre, whatever. Or you could categorize it based on the authors barely concealed sexual fetish that will reliably show up in every book they write.
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I will never stop being mad they just gave Perrin a new wife to fridge her Ep 1 like excuse me, he has a wife, she's the queen of fucking Saldaea
I'm very hopeful season 2 is more salvageable. I just wanna see my poor emo red haired better-Anakin please 🥺
It's not like movie theaters where you can look at the box office reciepts and know for sure that a movie was or was not a flop, nothing on streaming ever crashes and burns. Even if literally nobody watches it and the critics pan it, LotR will get a ton of marketing and multiple seasons so that they can claim it was totally successful.
Literaly the Alex Kurtzman/CBS strategy for Trek.