Boring stuff. Is incredible what a weak scripting, a bad casting and a lack of imagination can do with a Incredible fantasy universe.
Everything is starting to hit more and more from the visuals, to the music, and to the characters. Breathtaking stuff!
So, this show that splits opinions to both ends of the spectrum. Why am I not surprised ?
I see some issues with it but in general I like it, it's entertaining. Everyone who doesn't like it can just stop watching. Simple as that.
Wow are the people watching this show who think is bad, idiots? Great entertainment. Sucks we have to wait a week for another episode.
MODERATION EDIT: Don't use that word here.
Childish dialogs and plot. What a disappointment so far. Better watch house of dragons.
Honestly the show so far is very very enjoyable idk what these negative reviews are on about
I keep watching hoping it gets better. At this point I now find myself wondering how much worse it can get yet every episode finds away to get worse and worse. :cry: Amazon is proving correct the saying "just because you can doesn't mean you should"
The visuals in this series are amazing
Best episode so far. It is a fascinating world. I feel that my very limited knowledge of the LotR universe is an asset though :thinking: I just enjoy the fantastic landscapes, stages and costumes. I especially like the islands. Characters are likeable. Childish and one-dimensional for the most part though but that's a general problem in Tolkien's world. The main story progresses slowly and I still can't see where it leads to, but I guess slow character and world building is the focus in this episode. Perhaps in the entire season. And I'm okay with that.
the writings has been dreadful from the beginning, but this episode was so bad that I felt bad for dismissing the got spin-off but giving this a shot
It's terrible but in a "so bad it's funny" way.
You've got "12 Years an Elf" freeing the slaves from the pale skinned "Ultra-Morgoth Republorcans"... Galadriel is absolutely horrifying in every scene (check out that horse ride wtf), the Lucky Chaaaarms Hobbits (nuff said)... Halbrand Solo is the only good character so far.
The first half was a boredfest. It did pick up a bit later on but I can't help but feeling it still tried to do so many things while only few of the events nor characters seemed remotely entertaining. Not to mention the forced tensions here and there which felt incredibly hollow and uncalled for.
I'm liking this more each episode - and not only because I'm back in Arda where I've always felt at home. It's just... good. It's really going somewhere, albeit slowly. I'm excited to see where the season takes us.
Worst episode so far - by a lot. I found this one hard to get through. Uninspiring and boring.
Galadriel and Halbrand arrive on Numenor and we get to know Elendil and his family. The island realms of Numenor is impressive and looks really wonderful, Galadriel seems a tad less irritating this episode, but I have no idea why they totally changed the history of Numenor, while they had the rights to the Appendices in LotR, where that history is summarised. Apparently Tar-Miriel is the queen, her father is still alive in some tower, and Pharazon is only her counsellor and not the usurper king (though they can put things right later on by making him usurp the kingship but why complicate matters in the first place when they could have followed the Appendices they had the right to?) I liked the tower of lore with all its scrolls, apparently Galadriel befriended Elendil and he took her there, but the horse-riding scene is really kitschy, Galadriel has a grimace as if she was really straining and not enjoying the ride. She discovers in one of the scrolls that the sign Sauron left was actually the map of Mordor which he plans to establish, how silly of Sauron to lay down his secrets like this. Halbrand fares worse than Galadriel as he antagonises some local smiths and lands in prison, Galadriel finds out that he is some sort of leader of men, though it is not clear whether the good ones or the bad ones. From the interest he showed in the smithy, he could have been Sauron but I guess that the guy Adar the orc worship would turn out to be Sauron in the end (maybe Adar because they don't have the rights to the name Annatar?). Elendil's family is OK, even the invented sister is not so jarring, but here they are sailors and not members of the royal house which is also a huge mistake. The worst part about the Numenor plot is that they never say that the reason why the Men estranged themselves from the Elves was because they were jealous of the Elvish immortality (as it is not said anywhere in the show that the Elves are immortal), so the reason behind the Numenoreans' dislike of the Elves is never explained. This is a huge mistake that would bite the showrunnners back later on.
The hobbits has some sort of celebration before leaving their current camp, and Nori decides to steal a page of Sadoc's book to find out more about the constellations the Stranger has showed her, the sequence about the theft and her friend Poppy covering for her is quite funny. But her dealings with the Stranger are discovered as he puts the stolen pages on fire by accident. She is to be punished and as a result her whole family has to travel at the back of the whole colony, which is especially hard due to her dad's twisted ankle, as the hobbits have to drag their wagons themselves. This seemed a bit un-hobbit like to punish the whole family for what only Nori did. In the end, it looks like the Stranger helps them to push the wagon. I hated the hobbits in the trailers but now I am used to them and they seem the mosst enjoyable part of the show. They are a bit like pixies from myths and legends, deeply rooted in nature, and it is rather sweet, though the last speech of their leader brings back to mind Bilbo's speech in Peter Jackson's films. They also had some commemoration of their dead, lost during the journey, which was quite moving.
Arondir lands in orcish slavery, where other Elves and Men work under the whip of the orcs, which are very sensitive to sunlight and can be seriously burned by it. This may be a callback to Morgoth enslaving Elves in the First Age, as well as Arondir fighting the warg, which may bring to mind Finrod fighting such a creature in defence of Beren when they were captured in Sauron's tower. It is a nice touch to refer to some material they have no rights to, but why on earth they do not use that one they do have access to properly? The show could have been much better if they stayed true to the summary of Numenorian history written in the Appendices. Now as it is, it does not make much sense.
Very bad, weak plot, actors so so
I don't care, I like it, I'm watching it.
1x03 Adar: 7.3/10 (Good)
Arondir is taken prisoner by the Orcs, Nori finds herself in a sticky situation with her family because of a secret friend she has been keeping from them. Galadriel and her new travel companion Halbrand arrive at a new Kingdom, Númenor. A satisfying continuation to the story that manages to keep things interesting. There's not much to remark about this episode, but we got to see more of Middle Earth, got introduced to some new characters, and the episode did a fantastic job of establishing the grandeur and scale of Middle-Earth. The show is starting to find its footing, and I’m excited for what is to come. Oh, and I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but the VFX and cinematography is just breathtaking.
Wow, I'm enjoying this more after each episode.
And that is saying a lot since this one didn't even have my favorite part of last episode (Elrond and Durin) .
I think I'm enjoying each story and the new characters are a nice addition.
Númenor is beautiful.
Also I liked the reference in the first time we heard the name Isildur being like when Elrond calls him in the beginning of the fellowship.
However, for people who are not familiar with this story it might be a bit confusing since they don't explain much.
I think OST is very important in anything and I like that it seems that the composer experience on Outlander and Black Sails can be heard in some of the tracks.
Also, the brutallity of the orcs scenes was unexpected for me so it was quite surprising what happened there in the end for me.
Anyway, hope it keeps getting better.
This was such an atrocious mess it reminded me of watching 'The Giant Claw' or 'The Bat People'.
Everything (except most of the CGI) was so poorly written, acted, directed and produced it was laughable.
The slow motion beach sequence was amazingly amateurish and locking into that gawd-aweful facial expression was altogether bad. And the sequence the guy giving the most obvious hugs to the other guy, you knew he just lifted the dagger but the continuity of stopping half way up the stairs to pass it off to 'Galadriel', the ventriloquist apprentice was incredibly poor. The editing and the cutting was some of the worst I've seen.
I do not see this getting any better, more to the point I'm not sure how much worse it can get. Given the budget on this production the costumes look like they came directly from a costume shop, and the armour looked so incredibly lame.
Even the clearly predictable and so badly performed scene where the star map 'accidently' caught light from the fire was so bad I paused, ready to end the viewing there. But I continued... to put myself through this agony.
I tried to find something I liked in this episode and I honestly couldn't. I can't put myself through this monstrosity any longer. 2/10
Those who are criticizing the show are unable to look far. They do not enjoy the idea of imagining who, amongst the characters, are the ancestors of Thorin, those of Bilbo, those of Aragorn, Gandalf himself who I am almost certain is the man who fell from heaven. Go back to watch Game of Thrones, that's the show for you.
Galadriel horse riding through Númenor. Perfection!
Better. Not really a fan of the Harfoot stuff unless it involves The Stranger, who surely is a blue wizard or Gandalf. Not sure Adar is Sauron. Intrigued. It's still far too long per episode.
And here we go again with the endless panoramic scenes and big dramatic music for no reason. And I'm no hardcore LOTR fanboy so maybe the elves are supposed to be portrayed as robots reading straight from the script but that doesn't change the fact that Morfydd Clark is unbearable to watch. And don't get me started on the Australian surfer gang with big feet living in the forest.
This better pick up some speed and go somewhere in the next episode or I'll bin it.
This is episode is much better than the pilots episodes. Less frequent switching of POVs allowed stories for each characters to be more fleshed out
Woke score 10/10. Watch lord of the rings and tell me how this is the same world in any imaginable way. Weak scripting with no name actors, and it's stuffed so heavily with cgi, even while being good cgi, it feels artificial.
Weird political undertones about slavery that were poorly presented, every "family" seems to have serious genetic issues with the parents being completely different races then the children. It's just weird, slow and poorly done.
Elendil smirking in the ship is exactly the same as Isildur. Like father like son.
A few Spartacus characters here. I count 3 of them.
Though I've enjoyed the films, I wouldn't say I'm a big fan of LOTR, still, this is quite fine. Enjoyable fantasy, decent story (though focus could be refined a bit), beeeeeeautiful cinematograph and special effects, I'm sold. Let's see how it unfolds.
This episode was better than the previous ones. The plot thickens, even though there are still too many separate plotthreads (and way too many characters to keep track of). And please, could Halbrand look any more similar to Aragorn? Which is a bit strange since Aragorn's Isildur's heir...
I'm sorry but as hard as I try I just think the rings of power is awful, couldn't give a damn about the casting as acting is just acting.
Don't care who they cast just as long as the show lives up to the LOTR.
But the whole feel of the show is just way off the mark.
The warg cgi was terrible, the time spent with the hobbit-ish folk is boring and pointless apart from Gandelf being introduced.
Really had high hopes for this as LOTR has always been my favourite set of books from since I was a child.
Only hope is that the show picks up speed and starts getting to the point as I'm losing interest fast, which hurts because I loved the idea of expanding the world of middle earth.
I really liked it, it was amazing
Despite not always easy to keep up with. That end fight was pretty awesome.
The best show this year! Amazing Story, Amazing effects, amazing actors! I dont understand some people and their complaints! This show justified the money and all the hard work from many people. Bravo! The fight in the pit, with Warg, is….jaw dropping. Ive watched the fight 10 or 15 times...Amazing!
6.5/10
Well at this juncture I'm just watching and chuckling to myself, and the fact I've dropped on to something else that is that bad it's sorta good, but that's bad in itself, because how bad has something got to be to start going the other way.
First Gal is completely unlikeable, Arrogant and a shitty attitude. Harsh AF and she's so annoying, this show would be so much better and rather awesome if it didn't have her in the lead role, better still give us another lead Elf instead and leave her out of it all together. The actress does a shitty cosplay of Gad and I don't think she's that good of an actress anyway, she has about as much acting range and likability as
Brie-Larson. Same insufferable energy.
So nobody had noticed a hole shit load of Elves missing, Elf napped if you will, whatever,
my disbelief only goes so far.
That slow mo shot of Gal on the beach
was ugly and ridiculous and
I laughed so hard.
The Big feet people, whatever.
I was nodding off through the first half of the episode and I had to pause it at 30mins to wake myself up.
It's all shiny and expensive looking and there is still lots of dragged out nothing happening and
people being rude and
pissed off, I just hope at the end of this season
there is a mother f...ing payoff.
I started GOT
House Of The Dragon
at the same time as this and I watch one episode of
this and one of the other and I can tell you now
H.O.T.D is super frickin awesome and just shows how engaging and exciting and brilliant a show can be when done right.
H.O.T.D smacks this shows ass and sends it home.
One show I'm having to Grind..grind my way through and one it's an absolute thrill and each episode
leaves me reaching to press play on the next one.
Can you guess which one does it for me
and which doesn't...."DRACARYS"
I guess I am starting to get into it a little and move past this being an adaption of Tolkien's stories during the Second Age or the weird mixing of ethnicities.
The new characters or at least newly established ones that have been present before actually made the story more interesting. Albeit Galadriel is only becoming more and more annoying to me.
I really liked Númenor. It looked a lot like Gondor in Jackson's films but was not only grand and majestic. It had a clear style but looked lived and organic while still beautiful. There armour and general outfits not so much.
I also really liked the depiction of the Orcs' vulnerability to the sun and generally their design. I don't care much for Arondir's story however and even less for the Harfoots adventure. Which is not only rather boring but also quite predictable and I wish they would just hurry up with that revelation who that seemingly Istari guy is.
I thought for a moment Halbrandt teasing he has many names, being falsely flattering and being interested in smithing in addition to being a captive in Númenor was supposed to be a twist on Annatar since his appearance is not even particularly beautiful. But that King of the Southlands part probably does not fit that idea.
All in all not a bad episode building up different factions and transitioning from establishing the characters to getting the story rolling.
Those sailing scenes are amazing! They show the beauty and power of the sea <3 I always thought sailing would be quite boring but now that I've been twice on a small sailing boat I find it quite fascinating and anything but boring.
The only thing more beautiful was that legendary island kingdom. The CGI, cinematography, and scenery is just so beautiful! <3
Galadriel and Halbrand are still a very interesting duo :) And quite entertaining at times ("kneel" or "how fares the quest for peace?").
Galadriel acts quite privileged but either she doesn't realize it or she's too naive. During the introduction she went right from thankful to demanding :o :D
Halbrand was way more diplomatic and even managed to make friends for a very brief time... :D I was happy for him when he seemed to connect with the people but it went really bad really fast. He definitely can fight though!
The fighting choreographies at the end (Elves and Humans vs. Orcs) are great! It just sucks that they did so well and still failed... :o I really wouldn't like to be Arondir(?) now though!
Difficult to follow the plot when you don’t see the red thread. Characters are stacked up in high tempo but the how does the different stories connect to the main plot?
Ok, I'm three hours in and it's alright but it doesn't have the holding power or the ( I have to have More) as say the other LOTR movies originally had. I also feel the the characters are starting to pile on to quickly.
The worst script speedrun any %
This is such a quality production and a very well told story. What a wonderful era we live in :heart_eyes:
Finally, some genuinely good television from this show. We get some good politics here and there, and an engaging plot with Galadriel stuck on the island. I appreciate Galadriel leaning into her flawed nature as an arrogant elf, while others treat her as if she is in fact being arrogant. It allows her character to maintain the flaws that keep her interesting, while preventing those flaws from chaffing the audience. For once, Galadriel's parts in the show are also the best parts.
On a negative note, the slow-motion sequences we're a bit overdone and didn't work the same way they did in the Snyder Cut because they don't match the tone of the other scenes. Additionally, the show seems to switch to the most boring parts of other plotlines when the intrigue is at its highest. Don't get me wrong, I love a good ping-pong between A, B, and C plots, but it's been said that cinema is "life, with the boring parts cut out", and I don't think the editors kept that in mind when writing and editing this episode.
Still going strong. Númenor was absolutely stunning and Elendil totally stole this episode for me. Slow-mo horse riding sequence could have been done a bit more tastefully, though.
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The absence of Durin and the dwarves this episode after they were the best part of the last episode was severely missed. But we still got some great world building with continued beautiful visuals. I really enjoyed the attempted prisoner escape scene at the end of the episode and Arondir is becoming one of my early favorite characters.