I’m not the biggest Lord of the Rings fan out there, but I like this show. History has shown that prequels are hard, but I really think that this is well done. I like everyone in it and the whole world is beautiful.
Some scenes are a bit too dark and the later episodes are too long in my opinion, but that didn’t stand in the way of me enjoying this.
Looking forward to season 2.
While the pacing of the first episode was a bit choppy, I have been delighted overall. Really enjoying this!
They pulled a Star Wars on Tolkien and took the most expensive dump on a well established universe and lore for the sake of equality and virtue signaling. Congratulations, Amazon. You've just closed off Tolkien estate from allowing future iterations of one of the most beautiful and rich universes ever created.
I grew up with Tolkien's work, I loved the Lord of the rings trilogy and the hobbit was still very enjoyable. And to add, I am from the middle east. I don't really care about diversity, i just want likable characters.
This show..... I despise, the first half of the episode made me feel uncomfortable (Because it is not even close to the source materials.) and disappointed, I would have loved a series talking about the first and second age of middle earth but they aren't even close to telling the proper story.
I stopped watching because I was just THAT uninterested in it. That is a very hard feet to do as i generally watch through episodes before I make my opinion. In this case? It just made me unable to finish the episode and I doubt ill even finish the series.
I highly recommend anyone to actually read the books or just watch the 2 trilogies, as they are far better than the show both in story telling and visuals.
So far it's excellent. I was hoping I wouldn't be disappointed and I wasn't. The first two episodes did an excellent job introducing the main characters and the upcoming adventures. It was filled with action and excitement. I can't wait to watch the next episode.
I was wrong. I hated the trailers and promo images, but loved the first 2 episodes. It's absolutely fantastic and they nailed the look of Middle-Earth. The show is true to the spirit of PJ's movies so far. The cast is amazing. I didn't like short haired elves initially, but you don't even notice it after a few minutes into the show. Definitely recommended!
I was quite skeptical when I heard about the absurdly high budget, but after two episodes I'm pretty optimistic about this show. The simple concept of seeing the events that took place before the events of LoTR actually works really well. The CGI is tasteful and looks nice, instead of tacky and in-your-face (which was a real risk with this budget...). They also weren't afraid of using practical effects where appropriate and that really elevates the overall visuals.
Old characters are built to show the beginnings of the arc they arrive at when we see them in LoTR much later. New characters have realistic motives. Politics are sensible from all sides. What's too early to judge just after two episodes: will there be apt character development and a sensible story arc? I hope so.
I'm also pretty happy about the casting, especially Morfydd Clark who really shines as Galadriel. To people complaining about the diversity: this didn't even cross my mind when watching. If you have a problem with it, ask yourself why. Hint: It's a "you" problem and the word begins with a big fat R.
I have to admit I was kind of rooting for Amazon to fail at this just because I have so many problems with what Amazon is. But setting that aside, this is a very promising show and worth watching.
LOTR shows it's still the titan of the fantasy genre. Another adaptation leads by example as to how to depict women & girls in high fantasy. I love Galadriel and the beauty of this series thus far (ep.1-2).
I like it. Can’t wait to see next episodes.
I was skeptical about this... a lot. After ten minutes of the first episode (with all these pathetic pseudo-philosophy phrases) I was about to stop watching the series. But I gave it a second chance and... now I even like it. It's a good fantasy series, with good graphics, costumes, music. The acting is OK. Some actors play pretty close to how I imagine characters of their races would behave. Also it tells what was before The Hobbit and LOTR. It is not a masterpiece, but for me it is pretty solid and good. Will definitely watch the first season till the end.
There is something about this series— I have rewatched it (that’s a shocker) I don’t re-watch anything, except Rick and Morty. This series is quite good so far; the binge culture has ruined my appetite for waiting for weekly releases.
I really liked the first chapter, impeccable scenery, costumes... I'll wait how the story unfolds in the next chapters... so far it's going very well :thinking::thumbsup_tone2:
Watched them all. Will watch the next season becasue it's LOTR, but it's really not that great. The Harfoots are watered-down non-offensive Hobbits, The Southlanders are... well, I just don't care about them at all. We all know the Stranger is Gandolf. The Númenoreonsare a missed opportunity. Just so many typical tropes in this modern age of the woke and non-offensive.
After such epic movies from P. Jackson I was affraid they could ruin the whole thing... So far that's the case... Landscapes and effects are beautifull but it's SOOOOO boring, no magic at all, nothing to keep us excited, bad actors for most of them... Nothing Epic like it should have been... Finger crossed that it will improve
My biggest problem with the first two episodes was the pacing. It feels like we are being tossed around to the different groups too fast, making things feel rushed and a bit shallow.
I don't really mind the race swapping or the in your face woke dialogs that appear here and there. I have seen enough bad fantasy movies and series, so it does not bother me much anymore. There are some strange story decisions that seem like it was just thrown in for no reason, like the Galadriel swim, but again I can overlook that as flaws to an otherwise pretty impressive CGI driven visual scenery with some people thrown in for good measure.
I don't really find the un-hobbits storyline very good because it feels like a bunch of human rabbits playing hippies. I do however like the Dwarfs bits quite a lot, and I had no problem overlooking the beardless black dwarf princess. In fact, I thought the character was pretty great.
The elves do not feel like elves as they are portrayed to... human I suppose. Galdriel is the narcissistic, angry and impulsive girl that for some reason seem to look down on everyone, especially if they are men. It is quite a long way from the Galadriel that Tolkien described, but we'll see if they can explain how her entire character changes from this angry person to the Stoic and majestic one we meet in Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit.
The black elf Arondir storyline seems more like a homage to movies like in the name of the king, or The wheel of time, as it does not feel very Tolkien at all. I also would like a little backstory as to how an elf in middle earth can be black, but that is perhaps just me.
Overall, the first two episodes display stunning visuals, but with a much too rapid pace in jumping between storylines. I am also a bit worried as to how they will make anything meaningful of the first season with only 8 episodes as in the two that as been released not much has actually happened. That leaves 6 episodes to build up to something that will make it worth watching a second season.
So far, after 2 episodes I give this a weak 6, mostly because of the visuals and the dwarf parts.
It's too early to tell but then again not really, Amazon fucked this one up good and no amount of money can save it. With Tolkien you need visionaries at the help and not ... well you know... this.... of course I could be wrong and it won't suck THAT bad! I would be pleasantly surprised!
evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and destroy what is good
As a big Tolkien and Lotr fan i absolutely hate how im not even excited about this.....
This show is a pleasure for the eyes and a pain for the mind.
Elves act, talk and behave as if they are high, drunk and extremely stupid at the same time.
With their budget it is beyond me why they didn't hire a great writer and storyteller, and a person who can create characters that viewers care about after 1 dialogue. Hollywood has several people like that.
Instead of taking Tolkien material, leave it as is and think how to improve on top of that, AMZN decided to just take the character names, world map and create some random BS script to show off CGI. Well... It's a trend. Wheel of Time did the same thing. Now I pray to all gods that if Hollywood finally will make a TV Show based on Raymond Feist novels - they will ask someone who knows what they're doing...
Blimey, I went in with already low expectations, but "The Rings of Power" falls short of even those & is a train wreck.
It will take an entire day to point out all of the flaws in this abomination. I'm done.
Bezos & Amazon squandered a billion dollars on this mess.
This show is so bad, other sites like imdb where I normally do reviews, won’t let people review the Rings of Power!
The review I’ve submitted a bunch of times on imdb, and it seems to have disappeared into the ether:
There are some great looking shots in this. There is where 2 stars come from. But having some stunning visuals does not make a show great, or even good.
I would like to know how much they spent on writers. That was definitely a part they skipped out on the bill.
This is what 1 billion dollars gets you? Feels like old Bezos got fleeced.
I think if you convince yourself the show had a budget of 1 million per episode and you may enjoy it more.
As a studio you have Tolkien’s world, and works beloved by many 10’s of millions the world over. What level of incompetence and narcissism does it take to think you know better and you should start changing the fundamental character characteristics, and world lore in that world?
"Tolkien write, this he did not" -- Probably Yoda.
Allf the complaints about diversity are so typical of today's hateful conservative rhetoric.
I found the first two episodes to be epic scenes, great special effects, and a compelling storyline. by the end of the second episode I was disappointed that I couldn't watch the next one. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. a great start to a beloved set of books from my youth.
A visual feast, with an excellent musical score... but the rest just falls flat. There's nothing to hold the viewer's interest.
Can't see myself following this season beyond the 2 episodes that premiered.
The characters and their dialogue are so poorly written, it feels like I'm watching robots. They don't make choices or drive the story forward, things just happen to them.
(Potential exception: Elrond and his emerging storyline. But we see so little of him it's not worth slogging through the rest)
AND, If you're going to spend insane amounts of money on a project like this - why not hire ONE director and ONE main writer to take care of the whole season, instead of employing these no-vision, direct/write-one-episode-and-I'm-out hacks?
Give me low-budget creations by a team of passionate people who actually have something to say over this soulless "content", any day.
This show serves as yet another reflection of television and movies made in 2022 without feeling like middle earth at all. Years from now we will look back and laugh at how pathetic woke movies and television shows where when we noticed we always had great movies with characters of all backgrounds and gender identities without having to smother people with it. I'd even argue shows like these are going to be seen as pandering and destructive in the near future.
1/10
It will take billion dollar failures like this for the tide to turn on wokeness.
Proof that several rating systems have been compromised. Possibly even Trakt. There's no way this dumpster fire is being rated so high. Perhaps I'm in an area with a bad Internet connection, but my 1 Star Weak Sauce rating disappeared 3 times.
What a joke.
Well nice start to the series. I loved it. It's not GoT or even comparable to the movies, but it still feels epic.
I'm in need series heaven with this shoe House of Dragon, Wheel of Time (that I hope Amazon doesn't forget about it).
A FanFiction turned show, and that show isn't that good. Poor writing, childish dialogues, fair CGI. I have a feeling that this show soon enough will be a train wrecked.
I am convinced the Galadriel star has taken acting lessons from the school of Greta Thunberg.
Tolkien is turning in he’s grave!
This is trashy half baked soap opera stuff
Wish i could unsee it... This is not how you honor the Tolkien legacy!
Sure it's quite good visuals, but story and acting is just bad.
I really wanted to like this but it’s just so bad...
They completely destroyed the lore. Why make these series when you don’t even have the rights to the books???
Apart from that the acting and dialogues are poor. Elves are just people with pointy ears, you don’t get the sense that they are ‘something more than human’ like in the movies or the books.
Anyone could tell from the start who Sauron is and who the Stranger is.
The only good part was the last ten minutes of the last episode where they made the three rings. But it doesn’t justify watching a whole terrible season just to get there.
Childish trash. The amount of money wasted on this, probably lining the pockets of childish holywood types, when it could have funded recovery from covid, space exploration, or cancer cures, is pretty obscene.
By the words of great Michael Scott : " No God, please no!"
Listen up kids. This show is not going to be for everyone. As a casual fan of Tolkiens work, I think it’s great. Just another ol’ adventure in Middle Earth. Watch it and judge for yourself, don’t let others give you a bad impression.
That’s my two cents now watch the show and have fun with it.
If I had gone into this without reading any of the source material I might have enjoyed it, but I struggled to get through the first episode
so to me this is just a really expensive fanfic.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-silmarillion-illustrated-edition-j-r-r-tolkien/1141258421?ean=9780063280779
Do yourself a favor, read the wonderful world Tolkien left behind instead. Many interesting stories and lore Tolkien left for us, only to be forgotten.
All the billions in the stock market simply cannot buy a soul for show. A cinematography to rule them all, but that's sadly everything outstanding it can offer.
The biggest disappointment of the decade.
Started "Meh, but salvagable" and ended "how the fuck did someone approved this to be filmed?" The last two episodes were the worst. Revealing Sauron like it's a big surprise and Mordor sign at the end of 7th episode were the icing on the cake. I cringed out just watching it.
Way too fucking boring, the characters are scattered everywhere and the introduction of each potential main character just feels bland.
Very few characters have an interesting story but most are just disappointing.
The build-up is extremely slow although it is present.
At the end of each episode, instead of getting excited for the next one (with a cliff hanger for example), I just feel like I want to drop the series..
What they did to this franchise is fucked up.. it's just sad
Literally a pile of garbage.
This seems to go against the grain here on Trakt, but I really like this show. At least 4 episodes in, and I am feeling optimistic about the season.
Galadriel’s zealotry seems consistent with my mental image of the elves. Halbrand shows promise as a rogue. The dwarvish kingdom is richly presented both culturally and visually. The orcs are really well designed and costumed. There are some intriguing things going on with humans and our species constant division between good and evil. And all that without even mentioning the hobbits and the mysterious visitor!
I think this is going to be great!
I was so hopeful that a good fantasy show, and a Tolkien fantasy at that, was going to be a series - and such a fantastic story premise of the origin of the rings of power.
Hope quickly diminishes to boredom after just a few episodes as this show moves at a glacial pace.
There are so many problems with this that it's hard to know what to criticize first, for a multi-BILLION dollar production.
First I have to say that the production value of this show is amazing, absolutely amazing. The special effects are at least as good as the movies and you really feel like the show takes you to a different world entirely. Based on the rest of the show, 95% of their budget was special effects, 5% everything else - and it shows.
One big problem is casting people for the sake of "diversity", where they were cast for their skin tone rather than their acting ability or probability of bringing a fantasy character to life, and it was important to Amazon, apparently, that only actors of color were central characters and everyone else is a supporting role. Don't get me wrong, I think having people of color in the show is a good thing, but do it for the right reasons. Ismael Cruz Córdova as Arondir, the elf, is one such miscast. There's just nothing right about him as this character, he is very out of place. Perhaps as a human he would be fine, but as an elf he's just not believable.
Elves, in general, are just wrong in this show. Elves should have long hair and slim features but this show has them all over the map with anything from long hair to buzz cuts and weird eyes. Whoever thought Robert Aramayo is even similar to the book character of Elrond, let alone the stellar version of Elrond that Hugo Weaving gave us is just on serious crack. Elrond in this is just a douche, both in looks and in personality, not the elf hero by any means.
The Harfoot (pre-hobbits) are just silly to a fault. They all act like their brain is the size of a pea, and not the proud characters they are in the books and movies. They are caricatures of hobbits, meant to introduce some light hearted semi-humor into a serious show, but they fall flat and just come off as retarded. While the entire show feels this way, the Harfoot just feel like they are on a stage in a play - the actors have the same over exaggeration of their movements and very "play like" acting, which is probably where they found much of the cast.
Dwarves are similarly disparaged in this show as the Harfoot are, they all act like they have an IQ of 2.
Don't watch this show for the story, you'll be disappointed, but if you watch it for the CGI and to be in a world that resembles the one that Tolkien invented (but it is not really) then you might get into it.
After watching 24 minutes I already get bored. Anyway I keep watching.
This show is amazing. The cinematograohy is movie quality as is the music. It is a bit tough to get into as they introduce a bunch of characters without much exposition. Once the story starts in earnest though it grabs as you follow 4-5 stories similar ro the movies. I'm sure some people will drop off due to the high fantasy nature but I'm loving it and can't wait to see where it goes.
As a middle earth adaptation it's great, everyone should really chill and take this for what it is, someone's depiction of Tolkien's work. As a kid I would have died for more high fantasy of this quality, everyone seems eager to kill shows like this and go back to the dark ages.
incredible addition to the franchise. beautiful sets and costuming, compelling storylines, and complex lively characters.
a fabulous achievement in the face of insurmountable pressure. thrilling and fantastic, it stands up to the original without question.
this sets the standard to which all new TV shows will be compared.
"The Rings of Power is like blowing up Michelangelo's statue of David to make ten thousand little marble butt plugs. Any enjoyment you might get from your butt plug would be immediately nullified when you realized what had been destroyed to create it." - Alex
Watch this with open mind. Not talking about WOKE shit but like you never read the books or original movies. Then you have an amusing developing story with good cast, great battle scenes and a lot of characters that are introduced. I was entertainend and not disappointed. 9/10
I don't normally write reviews but as a long time fan of the books even going so deep down the Tolkien rabbit hole I put hundreds or hours into the LOTRO MMO I must tell fans not to watch this garbage!! The biggest waste of money Hollywood has ever spent. The acting is horrible, there is the most confusing dialogue ever and the only thing even remotely good is all fake CGI biggest letdown of a TV show in forever.
Nope, not for me. I will stick with The House Of The Dragon.
It's the worst adaptation I've ever seen.
Lord of the Rings turned into soap opera with bland, uncharismatic and woke casting, rubbish story and disrespect for the real work of Tolkien. Hollywood can no longer create, only destroy what others have created.
I am new to LOTR. I watched the movies a couple of weeks ago and I loved every minute, deeply. All this to say that I'm not an expert on the lore or anything, I'm just vibing.
Though the show is visually stunning and the actors are mostly good, it lacked the soul and spirit I've quickly come to expect from LOTR. I didn't care about many of the characters and the writing was wonky, so I wasn't as interested in the story as I would've liked.
The main reason I watched this so quickly is because I find Halbrand very attractive, don't even get me started on Galadriel, so I wanted to see more of them. But the story? Didn't really care. Their arcs? Meh.
It wasn't a chore to watch this but it also wasn't truly enjoyable and engaging. I feel like I will forget most of this season in a few days, so I really want them to do better in the next one. Please, I want to like this show.
Truly one of the most boring TV Show I ever watched. Some same-scene conversations can last almost 10 MINUTES! Unbearable.
Last but not least, it seems "acting experience & knowledge" was not a major requirement during the casting! Also unbearable.
I got to the end, to say I watched it!
I will not be back for this woke pc crap
Yeah this kinda sucks. I found myself pretty bored most of the time. Shame really as I was really looking forward to it
Might be a hot take: but I think the show did pretty good work on the source material. I’m sure there are some differences and the timeline is likely askew. If anything, my largest complaint with the show is simply that it’s put in a show form. The first couple episodes were quite boring as they tried to set everything up, but after it got going, and I started to see the connections as each storyline got under way, the show did an excellent job weaving a complex narrative. The cutoffs for each episode were rather off at times, which unfortunately made it difficult to watch on a weekly basis as it felt designed more like it should have been a trilogy of lengthy ~3hr movies instead of a bunch of hour long episodes.
But all in all, I was contented by the series. The graphics were gorgeous of course given the shows massive budget.
The show is fine. Definitely not for try hard Tolkien fans. It's not great though. The plot lacks depth and it's relies to heavily on know characters. Most plotlines end with most obvious and unsatisfactory ending. Overall, there's a lot to improve for season 2.
The series goes from less to more, with the end of this season we can know the great evil of middle earth and with its pieces on the board, the next season can have a better journey.
Watched the first episode and i don't have an urge to watch the second one, acting is somewhat bad and poor, there is no soul in half of the cast and overacting and reacting in other half.
CGI is astonishing, but there is feeling that everyone and everything is CGI, its too much so you get the feeling that its like a videogame and that nothin is real. Maybe it is all green screen and that is why its so expensive in the end i don't know.
Im far from Tolkien fan like someone is, i like the movies im starting book three, loving the world he created, and so my opinion on this show is
there will be no next season, meybe a forced season 2, because of all the money spend... obviously.
Storyline and acting didn't get me interested to watch episode 2.
And another small thing :wink:
I'm from part of the world where is no problem saying out loud about "woke" stuff and "skin" stuff, but _____ elfs and hobbits and dwarfs apparently didn't survive, because this is timeline before the books like a prequel, and in the books you know how character looks like, so nobody has procreate apparently from this amazon vision (NHF).
Like it or not, for me it's not.
The day show releases is my birthday. I'm so honored :)
The first two episodes were fantastic. It's silly to compare this to game of thrones or hotd considering how antithetical the source materials are to one another. The trailers and character posters looked like they had some spotty cgi and tacky costumes but it all looks stunning in this nearly billion dollar first season. It's already better than any of the hobbit movies and im wildly excited for whats to come after tempered expectations before watching.
It’s absurd how people frame themselves as Tolkien Fans because they watched LOTR and now they claim that everything that came afterwards is „so bad“.
The team behind this put a lot of effort and created something incredible with respect to the Tolkien-World. Hope it won’t be ruined by some of us.
Normally would give this an 8/10 but will give it a 10/10 just out of spite of some idiots.
I don't get where all the hate is coming from. I'm a big Tolkien fan. First 2 episodes were a nice introduction. I wish the show every sucsess
Not perfect by any means but the good heavily outweighs the bad. People acting like it's the worst thing ever just because it took some liberties and is not 100% faithful to the books are so cringe. Even I was super skeptical about it from the promos and posters, but I've completely turned around. This is a fairly enjoyable show and a great accomplishment for fantasy series in general.
My rating after seeing the first 2 episodes. This falls somewhere between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
foolish critical comments everywhere from foolish people. it's a very good series. not every movie or spin off must be like it's predecessors
I'm giving this a 4 because that's as far as I could get into this abomination before deleting it from my server. The acting, presentation, writing and disregard for the lore and source material makes me hope they cancel this after Season 01. Go buy the original trilogy, buy the audiobooks but god please don't waste your time, viewership or money with this obvious cash grab. Tolkien would be ashamed.
I think we should show some love to Ema Horvath.
Her character was boring and completely unnecessary.
But what she excelled in and did better than anyone else on the show, was having the biggest forehead.
I was not much of a fan of the movies cause they were very slow and long.
But this series is a lot easier to digest. It's still not as action packed as most of comparable ones,but since it's only over one hour long, it's fine.
What I have to praise is it's simply one of the most visually stunning series I have ever seen.
I know it's mostly CGI, but even if you are not fan of this universe, but you like visual art, you have to see it.
It's just so outstanding,with everything looking so great, even the smallest details.
man reviews are very polarized. I gave this show a 7 thus far, it could easily be a 6. The show is enjoyable, and for the most part everything (acting, costumes, cgi, storyline) is above par, spare a few things and characters here and there. Its too bad a few of those deficiencies tend to fall on some of the main characters. However, the show does have promise, it's leaps and bounds better than Wheel of Time which isn't saying much, and I'm truly interested in how the story progresses which means I will be tuning in every week. I'm happy to see Amazon turn out a decent show, I'd like to see this get to an 8 rating eventually as the show progresses, for now 6-7.
The first two episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Amazon’s epic and staggeringly high budgeted series are… pretty good. Not amazing, but certainly not bad or sacrilegious to Tolkien’s writing like some people had feared. The most noticeable strength of the series is the visuals and world-building, perhaps being the greatest looking show ever made thanks to incredible vistas and gorgeous cinematography abound. This is pure fantasy eye candy delivered with the assured direction of the highly talented director J.A. Bayona, who helmed the quality films “El orfanato” (The Orphanage) and “A Monster Calls.” While off to a promising start, the show will hopefully be able to strengthen the characterization in future episodes now that everything’s been established and as the actors settle more comfortably into their roles.
The actors are serviceable for the most part, though I can’t help but wonder why they wouldn’t have hired some bigger names with more experience for such a large project. Morfydd Clark (excellent in 2020’s psychological horror film “Saint Maud”) plays young Galadriel and Ismael Cruz Córdova is a new elf character, Arondir, in some kind of forbidden romance with a human woman. Both are stoic, immortal beings without a whole lot of humanity to them and should probably have been more relegated to the background, as the elves were in the original films. Galadriel at least has something going on with persistently hunting Sauron to the ends of the earth and trying to avenge her late brother, who perished at the dark lord’s hands. Elrond, played by Robert Aramayo, becomes more interesting at the end of the second episode when he teams up with dwarves in their kingdom of Moria, aka Khazad-dûm, and begin the plans to presumably make the forge that will create the rings of power.
I’m not sure focusing so much time on the elves was the best choice, as these ethereal people don’t have a whole lot of relatability going on due to their proud, almost otherworldly nature. Harfoots, dwarves, and some of the men characters come across as more natural by comparison and liven up the story when on screen. The side plot of a mysterious tall stranger crash landing in Harfoot country and two children discovering him and trying to figure out how to help him is the most interesting plot line so far.
The Rings of Power is a very polished show, which is what pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into it will accomplish. The visuals and cinematography are fantastic, especially seeing Khazad-dûm in all its glory, which was in ruins and infested by goblins and the Balrog in “The Fellowship of the Ring.” Since this is a medieval fantasy series where life can be pretty hard and brutal, I wish the non-elf characters looked a bit gruffer, maybe with some longer hair and more beards (I’m not sure some of those modern haircuts would’ve happened in Middle-earth…) but most of them look the way they should and organically feel part of Middle-earth, especially the dwarves and Harfoots.
Perhaps due to the sprawling nature of the story, the pacing and focus is a bit lackadaisical. A few too many characters are introduced in the first episode without much room for development yet. The series will supposedly run for five seasons and is taking its time so far, which I appreciate in a way, as it allows the viewer to grow accustomed to this world once again. While it’s no Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, Amazon’s The Rings of Power begins with a confident 2-hour debut of visually stunning fantasy television that feels wholly cinematic. Time will tell if the characters will become fleshed out and the story more focused, but prospects are hopeful and the potential is certainly already there for it to grow into something special.
i just found a trailer here: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2836448025?ref_=vp_rv_ap_0 This is no spoiler, because there is not the slightest hint on the plot in this trailer... Even the listed actors in trakt reveals few: Tyra, Oren are new characters without reference to the books of J.R.R. Tolkien (not even in "Silmarillion"). But i think it is pretty clear, that this movie takes place earlier than "The lord of the rings"
Season 2 coming this year!
been a minute.
Looked forward to this a lot because of the giant budget and all. It looks very good but oh god is the plot a nonsensical, boring mess. Galadriel is a terrible character. Sauron and his identity as Halbrand was obvious, but still didn't make any sense. Celebrimbor was one of the best smiths ever who lived thousands of years, but didn't know what alloys were. The Southlands is just a village of 100 people but very important according to the plot. How Mordor was made was also laughable bad.
I can't see how they will solve this in a second season and beyond. Such a waste of the source material.
Here’s another franchise killer for you. Couldn’t finish it.
Looks fantastic but is otherwise exceedingly boring. Nothing seems to tie together the disparate storylines. Characters are one-note and don’t have developmental arcs. Dialogue tries too hard. Show takes itself way too seriously to the point of comedy. Sad because I absolutely love the original films and this could’ve (should’ve) been great.
F*** THE HARFOOTS s s s
I love the idea that this show tells some history of the Lord of the Rings, it's ok but sometimes too slow and other time too epical. Left with a bit of disappointment... I hope the second season is better, otherwise I'll probably stop watching
Breathtaking visuals...... overall a amazing series but Galadriel was expressionless throughout the series
I enjoyed this I don’t see why it’s getting hate. Looking forward to the next season.
1 billion dollars of absolute dogs poo!!
Well done Amazon, you fired the guy who made House of the dragon. Then hire x2 JJ idiots to make this crap!
Good story's is all we want, leave the stupid messages elsewhere. Example... Picard Season 3 ONLY!!!
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This was incredible. It was amazing to see how the world of LOTR started. Seeing the background on locations and the various races. Seeing a history filled in for all of it is just really interesting and was done very well.
How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!
Soulless, generic adaption of an amazing franchise.
wow this is total garbage. will amazon pay Trakt to remove the negative comments and thumbs down like they did the other platforms ?
This is a show that I think put loads of thought a d effort into the cinematography, casting, and costumes, that the actual storytelling was allowed to be a little bit dull. This wasn't a bad show by any means, but it was no where near amazing either.
Part grand fantasy action and part HoD-style character drama, but some characters are missing the development needed for the viewer to identify and the result is a mixed bag with some pacing issues. The huge set pieces and elaborate action sequences help to pick things up a bit in the 2nd half and deliver a satisfying season arc and finale while setting up some plot devices that I'm looking forward to seeing explored in S2. Great cinematography, CGI and costume design. If you've been turned off by negative review bombing across the web, I'd encourage you to give it a try for yourself. So long as you aren't offended by the existence of black or brown people, I think you'll find that the showrunners were actually faithful to the source material in all the ways that matter and the cast was pretty good overall.
After a slow start, the season eventually begins to take off during the middle episodes and the final result isn't nearly as bad as some people would lead you to believe. It's a slow burner and if you've ever read the novels then this shouldn't be any surprise. Since the most common complaint seems to be that the action scenes are few and far between, I would instead say that the pacing is in keeping with the source material. However, since this is the small screen and not a book, I can see where that might irk some people.
I've also seen a few comments about plot armour. To this I would simply say - this is not Games of Thrones. In fact, I would go one further and say that this is high fantasy and in direct opposition to Game of Thrones which is most decidedly not. Here the heroes survive, the men are courageous, the women are beautiful, and good always wins out in the end. If Game of Thrones is a fast shot of hard liquor, then The Rings of Power is a tall glass of lemonade on a hot day. It's not supposed to shock and awe, it's supposed to tell a story in the way that only high fantasy can - by tweaking at the heart strings now and again, but ultimately giving you a warm fuzzy feeling and leaving a smile on your face.
The Rings of Power is classic storytelling at it's finest. It won't be everyone's cup of tea and that's ok.
If you're looking for dark, sombre, and gritty, then look elsewhere.
Easily the best looking show of all time.
"The Rings of Power" is a sumptuous feast for the eyes that sets a whole new standard for TV shows. The show offers some truly breathtaking landscapes and meticulously constructed locations while more or less respecting the continuity of Peter Jackson's movies. Unfortunately, the overall presentation sometimes ends up feeling a little too lifeless and artificial for my taste, but there's no doubt it's still a level of production value I have never witnessed on the small screen.
Unfortunately, the impact of the visuals rarely goes along with equally impressive storytelling. The contrived writing and trite plot constantly bring down the impact of the locations and the spectacularity of the special effects. If the sense of wonder was enough for us to ignore the writing issues in the "Lord of the Rings" movies two decades ago, entertainment has evolved to a point where spectacle is not enough for us to digest yet one more fantasy tale bloated with clichés. Despite the evident effort from a purely visual standpoint, the plot feels mechanical and the characters hard to connect with, as if the showrunners were so afraid of Tolkien's fanboys' backlash that they forgot to have fun and tell their own story in the process.
However, it does get better in the later episodes, especially in the sixth episode where we finally see something happening after the exhausting premise. Then they took one step backward again with the seventh and a little step forward with the finale, where I finally started feeling some sort of emotion. This first season was barely a set-up for the rest, and only time will tell if "The Rings of Power" will manage to make a stale franchise shine again. I won't be expecting a gripping plot from the second season, but at least a better pacing and a more consistent direction.
Not nearly as terrible as people say, though.
Gohandriel is training in the afterlife with her brother Dimrod. He teaches her that a ship can only look up and a stone can only look down.
Gohandriel's boat is getting hit by ki blasts. The boat can't see the difference between the ki blasts and their reflection in the water so it drowns.
Dimrod gets mordorred by Majin Sauron and Gohandriel needs to find his secret base, before he takes over the world.
Gohandriel has trained for thousands of years to become the worlds strongest Sayan. Though she kind of wants to respec to a wizard.
After getting married and having kids and another few thousand years pas she remembers her quest again and takes the boat to Middle Namek.
Majin Sauron has been leaving hidden notes behind with his location around Middle Namek in case his goons go on vacation.
Gohandriel finds his hidden note behind an ice wall after letting most of her friends die on her little trip.
She gets awarded a medal for her leadership and decides to go back to the afterlife to learn to read maps.
On her way to the afterlife she looks into the water, sees her reflection and drowns.
Mystery man saves her from the sea on his raft after he got lost fishing and drifted a few thousand miles from the shore.
Gohandriel tells Mystery man that the giant M on his forehead probably means that he is the Majestic King Man and he is the ruler of South Namek.
Mystery man decides on a sabitical as a smith instead, because living for thousands of years as a human is perfectly normal and he will just be king again later.
They drift to a Sayan worshipping planet. Where they are welcomed with open arms after not seeing any Sayans for a thousand years.
They get angry because Gohandriel does every job on the planet simultaniously so she TUKURJUBS.
She reads a map and notices the giant M is also on the map and it is the location of the secret base. Also she needs to be there tonight.
The NUMORJOBians decide to go with Gohandriel since they no longer have jobs and Mystery man comes along since he kindof a king of these South Namek M lands and stuff.
After a sunburnt Sayan bangs a chick 1000 years younger then him, he notices their sewer system is filled with Cell clones.
After getting enslaved by Cell, he manages to escape because the Cell clones forgot their sunglasses.
His biggest mission is to prevent Cell from getting a magic sword with which he can cut a rope that releases a spirit bomb that can roll onto a golf course with a whole that leads to the center of the Deathstar.
Sunburn Sayan lures Cell to the spirit bomb and because he cuts the wrong rope a Wile E. Coyote Boulder falls and kills half it's clones.
Cell decides to raid the village, but the village is well prepared because they barricaded themselves and lit themselves on fire.
Some neighbours kill each other, because they are colorblind and they look kind of green.
Gohandriel uses mass teleport and arrives to kill every Cell clone.
Cell tries to flee, but Mystery man teleports and kills him easily.
Gohandriel hands the mystery sword with a giant M on it to Mystery man.
Mystery man throws a blanket over the mystery sword and hands it to the sunburnt elf who passes it on to an emo kid to throw it into the ocean.
The emo kid notices there is actually a giraffe under the blanket instead of the mystery sword.
Mystery man is missing and people notice a giant spirit bomb rolling by which falls into the center of the Deathstar and explodes killing everyone.
After surviving being blown up the people decide Mystery man is the best king since nobody remembers him and he is not suspicious.
Mystery man is bleeding out and Sayans don't have medicine so Gohandriel takes him for a few days ride to the Sayan planet.
Mystery man instantly recovers and tells the worlds best smith that he actually needs fire to smelt things.
Mystery man tells Gohandriel that he is Majin Sauron. Gohandriel decides she kind of wants to bang him instead of kill him, but she remembers she is married and has children.
She notices that she is standing next to a river, sees her own reflection and drowns again.
Majin Sauron helps the best smith to create some rings over a few hundred years and bails.
Melrond is to busy on his phone so he ignores his dwarfen friends wedding and the drowning Gohandriel for a few hundred years.
Melrond goes to some dwarves to lie, steal their mythril and throw a leaf down a hole to awaken a demon that will destroy their civilization to save a tree.
Gohandriel after being saved from drowning gets a cool ring and forgets to tell the other guys about Majin Sauron.
Meanwhile a Freeza falls from the sky on bunch off Satan worshippers who use fruit as hats.
Some nice Majin Sauron worshippers come by to worship him, but they notice he doesn't have a giant M on his head so they turn into ghosts.
On the remote Sayan worshipping planet a King shows a young girl his giant shiny ball, because he mistakes her for his daughter and dies.
34 minutes into it and I am already bored..
Couldn't understand what Galadriel was saying without subtitles.
Big fan of LOTR and Hobbit....
Dissappointed
I am speechless. So bad, bad, bad. What a waste of time :sob:
more of a 6.5 than 6. the budget allowed for some very nice scenery but it just lacks a good scenario and the characters are just not that entertaining. I just can't connect with Galadriel at most of the characters like I could with the ones from LOTR.
Really boring with really bad writing, i don't know how people even like it, on every episode nothing happens and they made most main characters very dumb especially galadriel. galadriel almost cheating on celebron with sauron ahaha
i'm a huge Lord of the Rings fan. i'm finding it hard to get into this show. its lacking something don't know maybe its just me.
The definition of style over substance.
You can definitely see the insane budget at work. This might be the most beautiful show I have ever seen.
Just a shame that the story is completely uninteresting and boring.
[Prime Video] Among its weaknesses is not knowing how to capture the spirit of Tolkien's stories, which is why as a fantasy series it is solvent, although not particularly impressive, but as an adaptation it is inconsequential and makes wrong decisions. It simplifies the story to a kind of riddle about "who is Sauron?" and, surprisingly, it makes Galadriel the least attractive character.
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I'm waiting for this serie since I heard about it