The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Prime)

the trailer looks 'fine', but i have little faith they know what they are doing.
It really just looks like they are trying to copy off various other shows rather than having an actual vision - which for the amount of money on the line is frankly staggering
 
aardvark said:
which for the amount of money on the line is frankly staggering
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I have a strong opinion that this is a huge part of the reason we have had so many shows/films fail lately. Far too much money is put into them as a solution to issues.

LOTR to hobbit is a brilliant example. The studios weren't certain of the success, so Peter Jackson had to get creative and come up with creative ways to solve an issue they have. Be it make up, how to create a set, dialogue, etc, money was tight and each shot needed to make every penny count

Then the hobbit, and blank cheque. Any issues, just reshoot later. Any sets you want, just CG them. Nothing needed to meet budgets like LOTR did.

Putting creative people in a box forces them to create with the limited stuff they have. Giving essentially unlimited funds means they get lazy or don't come up with new ideas because they don't have to.

ROP feels some what the same. Too much money. Leads to lots of flashy scenes that mean nothing.
 
unwashed potato! said:
I have a strong opinion that this is a huge part of the reason we have had so many shows/films fail lately. Far too much money is put into them as a solution to issues.

LOTR to hobbit is a brilliant example. The studios weren't certain of the success, so Peter Jackson had to get creative and come up with creative ways to solve an issue they have. Be it make up, how to create a set, dialogue, etc, money was tight and each shot needed to make every penny count

Then the hobbit, and blank cheque. Any issues, just reshoot later. Any sets you want, just CG them. Nothing needed to meet budgets like LOTR did.

Putting creative people in a box forces them to create with the limited stuff they have. Giving essentially unlimited funds means they get lazy or don't come up with new ideas because they don't have to.

ROP feels some what the same. Too much money. Leads to lots of flashy scenes that mean nothing.
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Many reasons why The Hobbit was a massive let down, mostly down to the suits IMO.

But I don't believe Amazon hired the right people, they don't have the talent or the vision for something like Tolkien, firing Tom Shippey told me this was going to be a disaster (they also ignored Brandon Sanderson on WOT, and look how that turned out) - the more fans got to see about ROP, the less they liked it, and then the more the talked about diversity, and then they lost the fans. BUT I AM NOT GETTING INTO DEI HERE, but continually banging on about it and deliberately ******* off the fans contributed to it's failure.

However, DEI wasn't really ROP was so poorly recieved it was because the writing was just so terrible, fan-fic level. How could they get the casting so wrong? how could Midget Clark be cast as the ethereally glamourous and beautiful 6 foot plus Galadriel?

They just got everything so wrong, that's lack of talent, lack of creativity, and lack of coherent vision - no amount of money or lack of it would have made a blind bit of difference. And furthermore even in the area for which it gets most praise, (the aesthetics) I don't think are very good either, it's just off for me, plasticky, - HOD looked much much more authentic.
 
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Apex said:
It got heavily downvoted, people clearly weren't that impressed.

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The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power - Official Teaser Trailer | Prime Video

Darkness will bind them. The Rings Of Power returns August 29 on Prime Video. About The Rings of Power Season 2: Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, ...
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"But they were all of them decieved, for another wig was made".

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Should really be about the wigs of power

Such a shame to see so much money wasted on such a wonderful IP due to restrictions and worse writers than the final season of GoT
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Tom B coming to ROP S2
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I saw this reported today, I really don’t understand the logic behind it. But I hope they make use of him as completely pointless, as in he randomly comes along, does some dancing and singing and then disappears for the memes. I bet they call him Tom too, despite that fact back then he was known by all of the other names.
 
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I saw this reported today, I really don’t understand the logic behind it. But I hope they make use of him as completely pointless, as in he randomly comes along, does some dancing and singing and then disappears for the memes.
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He's a difficult character to use for anything, I hope they get him right.
 
The trailer does indeed look much better compared to season 1.

Elrond and Durin continues to appear to be the ones to watch.
Galadriel actress in the scenes here in the trailer was given proper physical combat (was given more training to fix up season 1 weakness maybe?).
And they didn't rely on "non physics based" movement combat. (Gone is the lack of momentum, etc, but the scenes here were all bow and arrow related so it's hard to say if this improvement carries over to other combat scenes as well, especially since it's partly to do with the sfx setup and crew too, but hoping they allowed the sfx teams to properly handle the sfx this time as there was too many rookie mistakes in season 1)

It'll remain to be seen when each episode airs whether this improvement translates to every episode, or if this was just cherry picked scenes have the least problems. But without a doubt an improvement. Just hope the improvment persists throughout each episode.
 
I've been catching up with S1 and against my better judgment I have to admit I've been quite enjoying it. Set design is good, very good, Hobbits are hilarious and not I suspect intentionally, fake oirish accents and all. Its not LOTR but I doubt anything will ever be that good again. If you can think of it as being a completely different thing with the same names as Tolkien's characters without it actually being Tolkien as convoluted as that sounds... yeah I enjoyed it. Its not LOTR. But I enjoyed it.
 
Looking forward to season 2, all the more so after that trailer - now I just have to decide whether to rewatch season 1 before it starts
 
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