If by show you mean Rings of Power, I think the fan consensus is that it’s crap. Even in the kindest opinion I don’t think you could call it “just as good” as the Peter Jackson film trilogy.
My lesbian heart just beats for Galadriel and that’s enough for me to watch. Also it wasn’t that bad.
The show isn’t good though
The show was shit though, they didn’t have the rights to all the source materials and the part they did have they didn’t understand. Then the execution was piss poor, with a shitty predictable story, terrible writing, awful set and costume design (due to a lacking budget, I’m sure the people involved were very talented and did the best they could) and mediocre acting. Plus way over the top poorly done cgi.
There’s plenty of online info about all the reasons it sucks ass, so I won’t reiterate here.
One thing that stuck in my mind was this actual piece of dialog: “Do you know why a ship floats and a stone cannot? Because the stone sees only downward. The darkness of the water is vast and irresistible. The ship feels the darkness, as well, striving moment by moment to master her and pull her under. But the ship has a secret. For, unlike the stone, her gaze is not downward but up. Fixed upon the light that guides her, whispering of grander things than darkness ever knew.”
This is spoken by not only an ocean-faring people, but by persons that actually have actively navigated the open sea. Like I hope you have that buoyancy thing figured out my dudes, or you’re gonna have a bad time. Absolute drivel that doesn’t even make sense in the context of the show.
Excuse me what? The show is good?? I quit watching during the first episode. Or am I misunderstanding something here?
So you watched one episode and stopped? Did you watch only the first hour of the first movie?
No, because the movie didn’t immediately turn me off with an insane plot, crappy dialog, boring, unbelievable characters, just all in all bad writing, terrible costumes… I don’t even know where to start. But to each his own I guess. To me the movies and the series are completely different in quality. But maybe that’s just me.
You got all that when you didn’t even finish the first episode? Damn, you are a tough audience.
I thought the show was pretty decent. It wasn’t literally perfect, but it was entertaining and beautifully shot. Some of the acting was kinda underwhelming, but some others did a great job IMO.
Especially Morfydd Clark, Joseph Mawle, and Ismael Cruz Córdova as Galadriel, Adar, and Arondir, respectively. Sophia Nomvete as Disa gave one of my favorite performances yet of a Dwarven character, and I enjoyed her scenes immensely.
I’ll probably rewatch that show more often than I will the Hobbit movies, which makes it a solid entry by my reckoning, and it’s okay that it wasn’t perfect.
Yeah the bad writing was pretty much apparent from the start, and that is the thing I can bear the least. Bad FX, bad visuals, even bad acting I can handle if the writing is well done.
I have the feeling that writing has really deteriorated in the last couple years with many new shows. Seems like all the money goes into advertising, FX, some high class actors to garner interest. Another example being the Wheel of Time series, which pains me even to mention, but also The Witcher (was at least average).
I also suppose GoT might have set the bar quite high at least for the first few seasons. But even without GoT as an example… To me LotR and WoT were utter trash even though I was really hoping, willing and forgiving…
I watched about 3 episodes and I got so BORED that I started doing something else and forgot about the show entirely. Have no desire to finish it, and I love LOTR. It completely failed to grab me or make me care about any of the characters
Did you watch only the first hour of the first movie?
Dude, if someone’s opening pitch sucks then they have failed as a creative. That’s a skill issue and indicates that the rest of the work sucks.
You should only need to watch the opening to the LOTR movies to gauge if you’ll like it or not.
That’s a five minute investment before you continue watching a 9+ hour work.
At least the new GOT show is pretty good?
