I only just started, but for all my previous hesitation, so far I'm fairly pleased. It isn't comparable with the original movie trilogy, but as a show it's entertaining and hasn't put me off yet.
Some people asked if I had watched it before, and now I have, somewhat. Galadriel's characterization (and both actresses playing her) have carried the role well. It's nice to have a story where not everyone left alive is a smirking sociopath, but that's just my subjective preference there.
It may yet disappoint me, but so far so good. The halfling predecessors were my favorite worldbuilding feature so far.
A little extra note: :my-hero: is tweeting that "Tolkien is rolling in his grave" about Rings of Power. Why? Did he specify what he found wrong with it or is it some :us-foreign-policy: thing because of the casting?
Musk added this in a later tweet.
Almost every male character so far is a coward, a jerk or both. Only Galadriel is brave, smart and nice.
So it's a slightly different flavor of :frothingfash:
I really like how they pointed out how 20 years is like a couple of months to an elf, while its a massive chunk of time for anyone else
yeah i really liked the conversation, and the guy who is playing Elrond legitimately sounded remorseful. Probably the scene that made me get over how he looked and start enjoying the character
Well, and Galadriel is one of the oldest elves, from the years of the trees. Elrond, in comparison, was born like 1000 years later, well after the trees got ate, and is a half-elf besides (though as a half-elf that chose to be immortal, he is basically considered an elf). So, for the events of the forging of the rings of power, Elrond is about 1000 years old, and Galadriel is almost 2000, so like, they would have somewhat different perspectives on time.
:what-the-hell:
In the story where the characters don't have the privilege of knowing the stories that come after them, their reluctance and hesitation to go hunting a few centuries longer for Sauron seems reasonable to me. I think the self-described "TechnoKing" doth protest too much.
Yeah, she's been searching for Sauron at least 400 years longer than the actual war took. The other elves are right.
Maybe politically colored men don't count as men to the apartheid princeling.
Call me crazy, but I wonder if Musk is lending his voice to the culture war aspect of this show to juice its visibility as a favor to Bezos. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if the entire controversy around the show including Black people and powerful women is inorganic and designed to get people talking about it.
lol no, it's definitely organic. huge parts of the tolkien fandom are incredibly racist.
they may have signal boosted it, but it's organic.
The inorganic part would be the executives telling the writers to include diversity to drive up controversy and make headlines. Its exactly what the chuds say is happening, ironically
It’s exactly the kind of thing his most rabid fans would want him to say. Gotta remind everyone you’re their thought leader and a powerful avatar in the culture war.
It's alright so far. I do wish they'd explain lorewise how a single village of people living in the dirt is so diverse though. Headcanoning it as a refugee village
At least with dwarves it can be explained as the whole 'made of stone' thing, also they're cowards for not giving the women huge beards cause in the lore it describes dwarven genders as nearly indistinguishable
I know less than nothing about this show, but beardless dwarf women is tragic. How dare
Did they give the dwarf women beards like they're supposed to have? If not I'm not interested.
Goddamn sjws in amazon have listened to the woke mobs and shaved my dwarves
:rage-cry:
Its certainly pretty. Plenty of effort was put in costumes and set pieces. But after two hour long episodes there's really no reason for me to keep watching beyond just wanting to see more new lotr. Its like mandalorian (sans :baby yoda:) or any of the star wars spin offs. Maybe house of dragons will be the exact same but have a hook in the first ep.
I've only seen the first episode and it was kinda dull tbh. The elf characters felt off to me because of the overly formal stilted way they speak. I know that's what LOTR is about but it just kinda felt weird and I couldn't bring myself to care about any of them. Maybe it gets better but right now it's just kinda alright.
The show is very pretty though.
I agree that the characters sounded stilted (though I expected that with the elves in particular), though after so many years of Joss Whedoneseque "so... that just happened" quip slurry over here and canned "badass" Prestige TV edgy quotables-fit-for-edgelord-forum-signatures there, I felt it was weirdly refreshing by comparison.
It was to me, but as you may see from the comments here, that is a subjective opinion.
