Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power

nivek

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Amazon is holding back reviews on their site for 72 hours, they claim to be reviewing the reviews to weed out what they say are possible review bombs and trolls...

This is a lie in my opinion, to watch this show on Amazon Prime one must become a paying member providing name, phone number, physical address, and credit card to Amazon...So they have all the information for anyone who leaves reviews, no random person can post a review on Amazon Prime, so no trolls...They lie, what seem more likely is they are deleting some of the negative reviews to make the show appear to have more positive reviews than its really getting...

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Standingstones

Celestial
I have noticed that if you are a Amazon Prime member you can now view “The Lord of the Rings.” I don’t know if this is a special thing to go along with the “Rings of Power” or not. I have not seen LOTR in some years so I figure now is a good time to view them.
 

nivek

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This article comes from Forbes which hurts worse for Amazon...Also, Amazon deleted 1000s of negative reviews which is also very telling...

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‘The Rings Of Power’ Has Inexplicably Terrible Writing - Forbes

I’ve come to a sad realization: The creators of Amazon’s The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power know how to create spectacle, but they don’t know how to tell a good story.

Unfortunately, The Rings Of Power is written so poorly it defies even my worst fears. Oh yes, I was awed and impressed by the opening two episodes just like many others. But my how quickly a badly written TV series can wear out its welcome once the shimmer fades.

There it is, scrawled in blood on the wall. The writers and showrunners responsible for this show could have won me over with good fan-fiction. They could have tossed Tolkien’s lore onto a bonfire and I’d have been perfectly happy if they’d simply crafted an enjoyable story with characters I care about.

Unfortunately, The Rings Of Power is written so poorly it defies even my worst fears. Oh yes, I was awed and impressed by the opening two episodes just like many others. But my how quickly a badly written TV series can wear out its welcome once the shimmer fades.

“All that glitters is not gold” is the old aphorism; it’s the one Tolkien flipped on its head for “The Riddle Of Strider”—all that is gold does not glitter.

But The Rings Of Power knows only how to glitter, and it’s certainly not gold. It knows how to shoot pretty slow-motion shots of elves on horses or orcs leaping through the trees. It gets the giant statues of ancient elven kings and shining cities just right. It has a sweeping score that’s lovely to listen to—but is, like the show’s melodrama, perhaps a little too incessant. This is a show of spectacle and it gets the spectacle mostly right.

The problem is everything else.

Galadriel’s adventure in Númenor is honestly just embarrassing. She arrived there—after being rescued—and effectively just bullied everyone in her path like the elven version of a steamroller. The queen regent has her hands full from the moment Galadriel barges through the door, and soon she’s demanding to see the king, then asking for an army.


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AD1184

Celestial
This article comes from Forbes which hurts worse for Amazon...Also, Amazon deleted 1000s of negative reviews which is also very telling...

‘The Rings Of Power’ Has Inexplicably Terrible Writing - Forbes

About the writing:

I looked at the entry for this programme on Amazon's IMDB website.


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I followed the links to the 'creators' Patrick McKay and John D. Payne. Interestingly, the 'Filmography' is identical for both men:

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They each allegedly have an 'uncredited' writing contribution to the film Star Trek Beyond six years ago (but there are three others who contributed to the writing of that film) and nothing else until The Rings of Power. The only other thing listed is another production of Flash Gordon, but this film/TV series does not yet exist. (It also tells me that they are both practising Mormons, which is interesting, given the values that American TV series are required to espouse.)

So it seems that Amazon have been conned into handing the reins of their billion-dollar production to a couple of unproven upstarts. Or perhaps they could not find anyone established willing to touch it with a barge pole.
 

nivek

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Wow, one woman and one man is copied and pasted standing beside themselves lol...Another man is copied 4 times in that small crowd...Doh!


View: https://youtu.be/zt1vdPEOr1M


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1963

Noble
Just finished the first season [8 episodes] last night, and despite all of the negativity on this thread [even from people that confess to have not even watched it! lol] I will certainly give the series a solid 8/10. It would have been even higher if it were not for a couple of episodes that weren't needed and was in my opinion .. just padding out episodes in order to stretch a six-hour show into an 8-hour show... there was also a lack of 'new horrors' [in the form of cgi monsters] ... the exceptionally high budget led me to believe that my senses would be inundated with a raft of new terrifying creatures... but alas they were few and far between. ... But then, after researching this fabled budget a little, I found that it wasn't nearly as high as the popular hype-stations would have us believe! ... In as much as each episode [of roughly 70 mins long] cost in actual fact around $25m ... which is not really that much higher than HBO's HOTD series which racked up about $20m per episode [several million less than the original GOT series ... and even less than the latest series of Stranger Days, which I believe to cost as much as the Rings of Power] ... And then considering that the budget [spent] on the Hobbit trilogy of films was $745m for roughly 9 hours ... close enough to say that figure is almost double the cost of The Rings of Power ... so if like me you thought that was a budget well spent,... plus if you factor in the ten years of inflationary costs, then The Rings Of Power's budget wasn't so mind-bendingly-large after all!
I cannot say that TROP was as good as The Hobbit [or TLOTR trilogies] ... but well worth the watch from the comfort of my sofa on T.V.
As to the "spoilt by wokism" tag! ... Well you all know my feelings on that topic and am pleased to say that 'it was barely detectable and the fact that the main character was a woman [Galadriel] did not spoil the programme whatsoever! [there were plenty of male main-characters as well]... ] and when we come down to the racism that has been tossed at the makers and general detractors of the programme. [and saying that Tolkien would have turned in his grave because of the black actors being cast as the Harfoot tribe, ... well perhaps they have never actually read the books? ... Because in the original books of Tolkien's Hobbit and Rings world ... Tolkien described the Hobbits of Hobbiton were of a darker skin than others in Middle Earth!! ... I wonder what that could mean? lol... does that make Peter Jackson " A Racist" for ignoring this inconvenient little fact and casting 'all white Hobbits'! ... lol No it does not... it was a directors prerogative to make his movie the way he thought best! ... and that includes using the original material as more of a inspiration than as of a bible!

.... Anyway, I see that i'm waffling on again, so suffice to say that i'm really glad that I watched series one and can't wait for the return series next year! :Thumbsup:

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nivek

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Rings of Power Shocker: Barely 1/3 of Viewers Finished Streaming Season 1

The first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power indeed took viewers on an epic journey, just not a well-attended one.

Only 37 percent of domestic Prime Video subscribers who started the fantasy drama’s first season completed all eight episodes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show reportedly performed slightly better overseas, where its completion rate is 45 percent.

According to THR‘s source, even a 50 percent completion rate wouldn’t be considered exceptional, especially for such an expensive series. (The first season cost Amazon roughly $715 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.)

Despite those reported figures, Prime Video boss Jennifer Salke stands by the Middle-earth series, which is expected to return for its second season sometime in 2024.


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Standingstones

Celestial

Rings of Power Shocker: Barely 1/3 of Viewers Finished Streaming Season 1

The first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power indeed took viewers on an epic journey, just not a well-attended one.

Only 37 percent of domestic Prime Video subscribers who started the fantasy drama’s first season completed all eight episodes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show reportedly performed slightly better overseas, where its completion rate is 45 percent.

According to THR‘s source, even a 50 percent completion rate wouldn’t be considered exceptional, especially for such an expensive series. (The first season cost Amazon roughly $715 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.)

Despite those reported figures, Prime Video boss Jennifer Salke stands by the Middle-earth series, which is expected to return for its second season sometime in 2024.


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No wonder Amazon is hurting financially. They spent $715 million on a boondoggle. They even have to continue with a season two for appearances sake.
 
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