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

There was good and bad. I thought the decay of Celebrimbor was done well, but the elves in the action sequences were not ideal. I am also not convinced that the elves would exhibit the level of fear and distress presented.
 
SpeedFreak said:
There was good and bad. I thought the decay of Celebrimbor was done well, but the elves in the action sequences were not ideal. I am also not convinced that the elves would exhibit the level of fear and distress presented.
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Cavalry charges through dense woodland, bogs and river bed.
No archer cover when the orcs were in the open.
No focus fire on the machine attacking the walls.
A walled city with no siege engine defence.
Trebuchets bringing down a mountain.
Where was the discipline of the elves from the books/films?
Where was any kind of leadership?
WTF is Sauron doing? Just wandering about the place yet somehow being the elves amazing leader.
No evacuation of civilians from the affected area of the city.
Elves of 100s or 1000s of years of experience can't even win a duel against a bloody orc.
 
I’ve gone through the 4 stages, and have arrived at acceptance. The only thing good about this show is the dwarfs, durin, his father etc are the only things remotely well done.

I’ll continue watching since why not, but can’t understand how with the amount of money can they make something so bad. Literally everyone could have died in episodes 7 “battle” and I wouldn’t bat an eyelid.
 
Craterloads said:
I’ve gone through the 4 stages, and have arrived at acceptance. The only thing good about this show is the dwarfs, durin, his father etc are the only things remotely well done.

I’ll continue watching since why not, but can’t understand how with the amount of money can they make something so bad. Literally everyone could have died in episodes 7 “battle” and I wouldn’t bat an eyelid.
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The cheapo Shadow and Bone adaptation was better than this, and that was only YA really, so is WOT, even S2 onwards of The Witcher (what an epic waste that was).
 
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I started watching Season 2 yesterday, but I am only a few episode in and am losing interest.

For me, the main issue is that it's just become predictable. It's not holding my attention any more.
 
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I agree that last episode was a bit poor. My wife was more invested than I.

Main issues I had with it (some spoilers, but it's been out long enough)

1) Despite them showing the 'smoke blotting out the sun' it was clearly still quite bright and Orcs don't like being in the sun (Jackson also ignored this in the hobbit)
2) A charging elf army coming to complete halt because Galadriel is captured, and then suddenly cutting to a sit down meeting between Elrond and Adar was poorly written/executed.
3) Sauron suddenly developing force powers. He's a deceiver, not a sith lord.

It also suffers with issues that most prequels suffer from - Galadriel and Elrond aren't ever in mortal danger because we know they live.
 
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VincentHanna said:
It also suffers with issues that most prequels suffer from - Galadriel and Elrond aren't ever in mortal danger because we know they live.
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Yes, this is the thing for me. Once we have worked out who everyone is and what's going on, there is no mystery in the series, so the motivation to watch it has gone.
 
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Balrog was hands down the best thing about this travesty, strangely the best acted part also!

Zero build up or suspense to how the dwarves were so greedy and delved the deeps for the riches of khazad-dum with all the mithril treasures and bilbos shirt, in the show's screwed up and heavily-compressed timeline, the greatest source of Khazad-dum's wealth, mithril, has only just been discovered.

In the actual lore, Eregion was founded to begin with because of its proximity to Khazad-dum and its mithril.

Look back to the hall of Thrain in the Hobbit, at the throne carved into an ore vein and how grand the stone carvings are. In the rings of power Durin looks like he's just dragged his throne and dumped it in a store room, no grace or beautiful crafted stonework.

Whoever wrote and directed this has no idea what they are doing.
 
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