Spoilers Lord of the Rings TV series
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Musk joins the anti woke pile on for this show.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1566849074762059777?t=fkr_MS1WKmZ_-8KLO_-Yqg&s=19
This will lead to a lot more review bombing.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1566849074762059777?t=fkr_MS1WKmZ_-8KLO_-Yqg&s=19
This will lead to a lot more review bombing.
Nenya - which should be invisible when worn - Frodo could see it because he was the Ring-bearer but Sam could not. Its stone is adamant and not a piece of a Silmaril. Jackson's prologue gets this wrong as the rings are visible on the fingers of the Elves wearing them (including Galadriel). After the One Ring is destroyed, I believe the Elven rings become visible to everyone when worn.
Yep. Outright cancellation of the series before the end of September, no doubt.
The prospects of this show are falling harder than The Stranger.
Amazon will be left with no choice but to break the world, separating it from the Promised Land of Five Seasonor, and forever ending the reign of the Flat Earthers.
Calamity is upon us.
Seek shelter and despair.
So, episode 3 is off, then?
Has to be. Even Bezos bows before The Lord of the Musk.
Truly, the only appropriate response. Thank you.
I'm not sure I like a state of affairs where something of bad quality (an opinion, not necessarily my own) will persist because someone has the money to burn; it's fine when the work in question is of good quality (also an opinion), because it is then capable of weathering inept marketing/bad timing/rotten luck/et cetera that would have otherwise caused it to fail, but...I'd rather a creative endeavor thrive or decline solely on the merit of its actual quality.
It's his money after all - a vanity project with some calculation that it will attract subscribers. The cost of the series so far is something like 0.5% of Bezos's total worth. Perhaps someone in the future will buy the rights to The Silmarillion and other books and make a more faithful adaptation starting from the very beginning of the legendarium but there's no guarantee it will be any more successful. I think the stories from the Years of the Trees and the First Age are more interesting than the Second Age but I don't expect to see them adapted in my lifetime.
I highly doubt that a "faithful" (i.e. with utmost fidelity) adaptation of those source materials would be "successful" (commercially speaking). Those sources really are esoteric and require a genuine love of Tolkien that would not appeal to a mass audience. It would be great to see all of that faithfully dramatized. But I cannot imagine any genuinely commercial success without an adaptation tailoring the product to modern audiences - which would, by definition, reduce fidelity to the source material.
ETA:
There's also the matter of what defines a "faithful" adaptation. I would argue that LOTR was faithful. And, thus far, TROP is faithful - to the spirit of Tolkien's work, while not adhering to fidelity of every detail.
Apart from the names, it's barely recognisable as being derived from Tolkien's work. This show's Galadriel is very irritating. It's no wonder that no-one wants to follow her or that her (great nephew) Gil-galad tells her to p*ss off to Valinor and not come back. Elrond is probably her only friend. Perhaps she learns how not to be such a pain in the arse but she needs to hurry up about it. The show thankfully has other aspects that retain my interest enough to stick with it but it's basically a Tolkien theme-park ride.
Agree to disagree, then.
I find Galadriel to be the highpoint of the show thus far ... and feel like she's carrying it so far. I find her character to be believable, strong, and her flaws stem from her empathetic motivations.
Without her, this would be a hollow endeavor indeed.
Most popular entertainment exists at the leave of corporations with tremendous amounts of money who fund it for reasons other than artistic quality (money, again and always), and the success or failure of the products rarely ride on something as transparent as popularity-defined-by-viewer-headcount. The entertainment business in the age of streaming and international distribution deals is increasingly opaque.
I'd just as soon people with too much money spend it to make stuff that they enjoy, popular opinion be damned. It's not like that stuff is sucking up all the air from other hypothetically more worthy efforts.
I'd just as soon people with too much money spend it to make stuff that they enjoy, popular opinion be damned. It's not like that stuff is sucking up all the air from other hypothetically more worthy efforts.
Wait, the show is really in that much trouble? I thought this was just the usually idiots being idiots, and not any actual threat to the show's longevity.
EDIT: I just saw on IGN that this 25 million viewers in the first 24 hours and is the most watched premiere in Prime Video history. That's not enough to keep it around?
EDIT: I just saw on IGN that this 25 million viewers in the first 24 hours and is the most watched premiere in Prime Video history. That's not enough to keep it around?
If it were their own work, I'd be less opposed to the pumping of water to keep a sinking ship afloat; if the intellectual property isn't their own...not so much. Let someone more talented/coordinated/informed set the course.
Indeed. Enjoy the ride rather than esoteric concerns of fidelity that are highly subjective.
It is not...according to some.
This is the absurdist argument that gets bandied about. Tolkien is not depreciated by Rings of Power.
Elrond and Galadriel are the absolute high point for me. Durin a close second. The Hobbits are less interesting.
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