First episode looks like crap.
Come on use some imagination. As soon as someone has power, the first thing they want to do is destroy the world/universe/everything. That’s just boring.
Am I the only one who is irritated by the silliness? The whole town evacuates, 30 people. Big ass war ship with dozens of fighters, easily defeated by a small ship and transport. Radar, never heard of it. Defenses, never heard of it. Somebody shooting from above, if only we had rockets on our backs.
This is really the a-team/macgyver equivalent of Star Wars. Low quality entertainment
Loved the scenes with Mando and Bo but although it was awesome to see Coruscant after the fall of the empire, the storyline was stretched out way too long.
Not much happening this episode. Playing the same notes. Feels almost like filler. Okay 6 / 10
Man, Saundor gave off a lot of creepy vibes, almost like an animated Vecna from Stranger Things.
Also, if I could regain my strength by stimulating myself I’d be so happy.
Holy balls. I remembered that the trailer for this season had me halted at just how bad the geopolitics was, but I wasn't prepared for it to jump into this inane plot where the government, of the United States of America, is in utter throat-clutching terror of Venezuela gaining nuclear power. It's utterly ridiculous and it jars me out of the verisimilitude of the show.
Everybody in this is unlikable. The show has no interest in telling you what characters you're going to follow here in its initial episode. No one is really established except one has anxiety, one other has a thing against technology and the third is gay getting fondled in a club in the open. All is being done in a "we don't have too much time to focus on one thing so let's hurry getting the point accross", making it unbelievable and weird. The pacing is off due to the lack of this.
The acting is incredibly bad and towards the end rather cringeworthy. The mystery that is being set up in this episode somewhat uninteresting and lacking anything creative. This is trying to be bigger than it is with a lower budget.
Should have some already established young actors in this but either the budget is too low, or potential casts didn't want to do this for good reasons.
Many like me are drawn to this because it has SMG involved but that's her only reason to be in this, in front of the camera while executive producing this as well. It's bad. Not funny bad, or so-bad-it's-good bad but really, really bad.
Definite skip for me.
Really good series overall, but by golly Elsa is it's weakest point. It's obvious they're trying to have an endearing, attractive, whimsical character at the forefront who is captivated by the land in order to highlight its beauty and power. However, she just became an annoying brat. Tim McGraw's James Dutton should have been the narrator and eyes for the audience. Looking forward to seeing what 1923 has to bring.
This piece of trash starts with the white washing of the Native American tribes right off the bat. It's well documented that cowboys, mostly cattle driving, both during and in between cattle seasons, regularly murdered and raped homesteaders on their homesteads and en route to the West. The US Army officers of the time often wrote to DC about this problem and many were told, or voluntarily, blamed local tribes to justify annihilation of the Native Americans.
I had a feeling this crap would be white washed but I thought, give it a chance. The very first scene gave the false history a big pat on the back, with a minor nod to how awful the white settlers were because of the false narrative white America used to justify stealing the lands, forcing Natives into tiny sector, now called reservations, and even used to keep them poor, unemployed and without running water even to this day.
Plus, if you're going to make garbage like this, make sure the actress isn't a damn bottle blonde whose natural hair color is darker than most Natives. They didn't have hair dye in 1883 and homesteaders couldn't afford it.
I'm so disgusted. Paramount should be ashamed. This piece of shit is critically acclaimed? Of course it is..... welcome to whitewashed Amerikkka.
INASIAL - I'm not a spy. I'm a lawyer.
Loved Faith and Tim here.
Elsa was almost insufferable to be the main focus. Got tired of her melodramatic monologues every 10 minutes and the way she immediately folds to any man after just a few compliments about her looks.
Looking forward to this, especially as Sam Elliott is in it. Owner of the best western moustache ever! He brings a great presence to anything he's in. Isabel May, excellent as narrator, looks remarkably like a cross between Jenifer Lawrence and Natalie Portman! A future star in the making.
God I can't take much more of this retarded girlboss shit. Kill off Beth, let the whole ranch burn. Cunts.
Wasn't a big fan of this start to the season in the first two episodes. They seem to want to push as much Beth down your throat as possible and I'm honestly just sick and tired of her character. Not growth, no arc, she's the exact same person she was 5 seasons ago with some added backstory to try and make her feel more sympathetic. Kelly Reilly's acting is some of the best you'll see, but I'm sick and tired of Beth. And I'm especially sick and tired of her dogging on Jamie in the same exact way season after season after season. The show seems to want to keep showing you Beth treating Jamie like dirt, and it's just way too old and repetitive at this point. I still think they should turn Jamie into a full on villain, they've set him up to be a perfect villain but they're not taking that step. I think if he started outwardly fighting the Duttons and actually getting some major victories, especially against Beth, it would add so much to the show. Really anything different and new would make the show better, but they mostly just keep on making the same show season after season. The added politics were fresh and new and very welcome, I actually found this to be the most enjoyable part of these first two episodes simply because it's not just the same old thing. But everything else has gotten too stagnant and overdone. The show also desperately needed more Kayce in these first two episodes. He's the easiest character to root for and without his presence I found myself having a not knowing where to aim my support and therefore not really caring about anything. It also feels like they're bringing in a new character who's whole thing is just going to be being Beth 2.0 so... yay. So there are pieces to enjoy (the politics), but overall disappointed in this premiere. There's a lot of show left this season so I want to be hopeful but I just didn't care for this start.
I agree with everyone. Beth and Jamie has to end and it could end with a strong wording from John Dutton. Be a father and fix those two…. Other than that, good show
Somebody. Please. For the love of God. Kill Beth Dutton.
Beth is extremely annoying. Beck brothers definitely went too easy on her.
Jamie is such a tit.
Well I finally got around to watching the first episode and it's pretty good. Hope this "Beth" character doesn't ruin the show. Insufferable.
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.
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.
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.
With this episode they went full on with the woke trash. In addition it was excruciatingly boring. The only skill the Hollywood hacks has nowadays is to take a show with potential and totally ruin it... every f... time.
“Means he had the shot, Layun.”
This was so disrespectful to TJ! He deserved so much better!! I think he has the saddest story from all the passengers, before this episode I thought Bethany’s cousin’s boyfriend had it, but nope TJ wins, as if what happened to his mom (his only family) wasn’t sad af, then also losing his home and belongings, and now dying like this... I feel like he might not be completely gone cause in a show no one is truly dead until we see a body or we have a funeral. But still, so disrespectful! And I think the worst part was dying because of Olive!
She’s so lost and dumb! Talking about emancipation just cause her parents wouldn’t let her join a cult.
Oh and also the guy who just donated his kidney to his lost kid!! That was sad too! But also if he just donated an organ I don’t think he could’ve been drinking?
This season has been terrible.
And I feel like Saanvi’s project was too easy? Like she could inject every passenger with that and problem solved! Also obviously bisexuality exists, but I feel like a big part of Saanvi’s character was her crush on Ben but now it’s like that never happened? I guess the writers prioritized keeping Ben and Grace together because of the baby. I kinda shipped Benvi!
My first thought when finding a fire extinguisher in a burning building is to use it to actually extinguish some of the fire, but not Michaela, she'll use it to break a lock, then throw it away. WTF! Olive tripping while trying to leave the club was cheesy as fuck, too.
