Lord of the Rings Series -- Amazon (2 Viewers)

[Tapxe]

I came how for lunch today and it’s there for me. Just watched the first 15 minutes and it looks stunning. Can’t wait to get home tonight and finish.

Must be a local setting. I've uninstalled Amazon. but the browser version is the same. Time to clear cookies and cache I guess.

ETA: yep user setting. I'd hidden the trailer, so it wasn't on the landing page in the way. Had to dig into settings and unhide the trailer to see the season.

 

[Semper]

I’ve seen both episodes. My only drawback is the amount of stuff going on. A lot of characters.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

stunning stunning stunning

Last month or so I’d begun to get nervous I wasn’t going to like it as much as dragons - but it’s at least pulled even
I hope we don’t spend too much time comparing, but that was my takeaway

 

[Semper]

I couldn’t compare the two. IMO LotR is far and away better in regards to cinematography. I am not sure about all the whining and complains about woke-ism. I just saw an engaging show.

 

[sammymvpknight]

Frankly…this is avatar level production value. I watched the first episode and really have no clue what’s going on. But I’ll rewatch the episode and do a little background reading just because it’s so beautiful. Hopefully the pacing improves a bit…can’t assume everyone has read every piece of Tolkien…I know I haven’t, and I love fantasy.

 

[Semper]

Frankly…this is avatar level production value. I watched the first episode and really have no clue what’s going on. But I’ll rewatch the episode and do a little background reading just because it’s so beautiful. Hopefully the pacing improves a bit…can’t assume everyone has read every piece of Tolkien…I know I haven’t, and I love fantasy.

Tried but my God its so brutal.

 

[sammymvpknight]

Tried but my God its so brutal.

I have a hidden agenda, I want The Way of Kings brought to streaming with the huge production value it needs. We need some of these shows like WoT, LOR, and the new GoT show to pan out. What sucks is that I think that everyone one of those stories are inferior to TWOK. I’m really nervous about WoT, as the first season was probably worse than the book…which is not a great book. I think that the new GoT show so far…through two episodes looks much better than the first season of WoT. And I’ll continue to hope that the pacing improves for LOR because if it does it still has potential because the world is great and the visuals are among the best ever made.

 

[Zztop]

Frankly…this is avatar level production value.

I agree. Also, after watching it on the tv, I kind of want to go see it in a movie theater... which isn't possible now, since it was for one night only I think.

I watched the first episode and really have no clue what’s going on.

yeah, there are a lot of characters. I get why they had to compress it all, but each one of these groups, they kept cutting back and forth to, could probably have a whole season to themselves.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I agree. Also, after watching it on the tv, I kind of want to go see it in a movie theater... which isn't possible now, since it was for one night only I think.



yeah, there are a lot of characters. I get why they had to compress it all, but each one of these groups, they kept cutting back and forth to, could probably have a whole season to themselves.

Amazon is playing a high stakes game here - essentially the future of their streaming service hinges
There are 3 venn circles- normies, casual fans, hardcore- that need to make as big an overlapping circle as possible
It’s not going to be perfect for any individual circle/fanbase- but hopefully it’s good enough for most

 

[sfidc3]

stunning stunning stunning

Last month or so I’d begun to get nervous I wasn’t going to like it as much as dragons - but it’s at least pulled even
I hope we don’t spend too much time comparing, but that was my takeaway

I watched last night, it was stunning I agree. I was surprised how much more betta it was than the 1st episode (which was likely just setting the table for the 2nd)….

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

 

[DCSaints_Fan]

Watched through the second episode Excellent production quality. The Elves seem to be a bit more "human" in this series and are not the near-flawless beings they were often depicted in LOTR. This is probably a good idea because of what I assume is about to transpire ...

I think the show writers did a decent job of not necessarily subverting expectations but at least keep us guessing what was going to happen next and it wasn't always obvious. Spoilers to follow

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- First scene trying to track Sauron in the mountains. I thought it was either going to be something like the entire party except Galadriel gets wiped out in a surprise attack or Galadriel would have relented for some reason. A soft coup was something I didn't really expect.
- Was surprised that Galadriel didn't just straight up refuse the King's offer to go the Undying Lands.
- I'm was assuming once you go to the Undying Lands, you can't comeback although it was always in the back of my mind it might be possible (ala Gandalf), and I didn't quite expect Galadriel to Leroy Jenkins right off the boat, I thought there was going to be some weird divine intervention type of deal.
- And then once she did, I so thought the Eagles were going to show up to pull Galadriel out of the ocean. But I think the internet would have had a coronary if that happened.
- I'm assuming that meteor man is Gandalf, although it does seem a bit early for him - I thought he didn't arrive until the Third Age, and we're still pretty firmly in the Second Age, they haven't even mentioned Numenor yet unless they play on retconning it out of the canon (which would really suck, its mentioned at least once in the LOTR movies). Whoever he is they are definitely slow rolling his character.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Despite a widely positive critical reception for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Amazon’s goliath new fantasy series is floundering on Rotten Tomatoes with an audience score of just 33% at the time of writing.

Meanwhile, the critic score on the popular review-aggregation site is a much more impressive 84%.

So, why the disparity?

The Rings of Power may be the latest victim of “review-bombing” – when bigots flood a show with bad reviews in order to make it seem less appealing or popular…….

Amazon Prime Video halts user ratings for The Rings of Power due to ‘review bombing’

Review bombing occurs when bigots flood a show with bad reviews in order to make it seem less appealing or popular

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Sailorsaint]

Despite a widely positive critical reception for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Amazon’s goliath new fantasy series is floundering on Rotten Tomatoes with an audience score of just 33% at the time of writing.

Meanwhile, the critic score on the popular review-aggregation site is a much more impressive 84%.

So, why the disparity?

The Rings of Power may be the latest victim of “review-bombing” – when bigots flood a show with bad reviews in order to make it seem less appealing or popular…….

Amazon Prime Video halts user ratings for The Rings of Power due to ‘review bombing’

Review bombing occurs when bigots flood a show with bad reviews in order to make it seem less appealing or popular

www.independent.co.uk

Bigots? Are there people who object to Elven/Human hook ups?

 

[Crzycjunx76]

Bigots? Are there people who object to Elven/Human hook ups?

More to the point there are people who object to human/human hookups if their shades of beige dont match.

Or object that elves have any discernable beige to them at all... or for that matter middle-earth humans, other than the evil ones in the east of course, they can have melanin.

Why am I always so disappointed when this happens?