personally i am disappointed. im finding it slow, story not hugely exciting and characters just dont grab me. however some nice visuals. everytime i hear hafoot, i keep thinking they are calling someone a harlot.
with it costing 1billion or whatever the crazy figure was, id be asking for a refund. or was Lenny Henry that expensive?
I’ve enjoyed it. It’s been quite slow to get going but there’s so much to unpack in each episode. Introducing Elendil and Isildur last week is more of a solid tie to LotR as well. The teasing of the downfall of Númenor means we’ll probably see it sooner rather than later and the way they’ve set up the creation of Mordor’s been really interesting too. The billion will have come from the fact that it’s got the best visuals I’ve seen on TV by an absolute country mile. It’s better than 99% of blockbuster movies and it’s also 3-4 times as long.
First couple of episodes were ok but the third kind of lost me. Not seen the fourth just yet. I’m pretty disappointed overall though. It isn’t terrible, and some of its been great, but too much of it is just… huh?
Swimming back from the entrance to the Undying Lands was an interesting choice, considering it’s potentially a months long journey by boat. But what’s a few months to an elf, huh? And then to get randomly picked up by a raft just to introduce a key character. And THEN the good fortune of being found by a boat with the Númenoreans to get them both to a key destination 🤦♂️ That chain of events was the best the writers could come up with..? Not great. Then she is looking for a boat so she can escape the island..? Why not just swim, since that was your original master plan?
And don’t get me started on the slow-mo horse riding scene 🤮
Not impressed so far. We’re almost 5 hours in and I can’t really think of anything interesting that has happened. The pace is really plodding too.
Some of the writing is lazy too. The way Galadriel’s challenge on Numenor was resolved was so lazy. Some petals fell that were prophesied in a hitherto unmentioned prophesy. If that is Numenor done, then what a dull storyline that was, if you think about everything that happened there. The same goes for a lot of the other storylines.
Also, who are our heroes? Who are we rooting for? Galadriel, and most elves are simply boring. Bronwyn? Maybe Elrond. The harfoots? Lord of the Rings gave you a bunch of characters to root for immediately.
I concede though that it is quite beautiful to look at in places.
I’ve only seen the first three episodes so far, but I am actually pretty happy with the series so far. I can understand the complaints about the slow pacing and the sometimes nonsensical narrative leaps, but I’m looking at it from the big picture and where the series is going to inevitably go and I’m excited about that. I mean, it’s no spoiler (for fans of the OG LotR series) that we know where the series is headed — the rise of Sauron and the forging of the One Ring and the other 19 rings of power. 3 rings for the elves, 7 to the dwarves, and 9 to the kingdom of men. Of course the 9 become the Nazgul, one of the elf rings goes to Galadriel and I think one to Elrond, and I think one to Gandalf. The 7 dwarf rings I don’t know that we hear or see much about in the original movie or books but clearly the fall of Moria and the underground kingdom is coming eventually.
I’m really curious how Celebrimbor comes to have the power to forge these rings and how they come to be distributed.
I’m just excited to see the back story of all these people. I look forward to meeting Gandalf, and to see the rise of Isuldur who will eventually be the one to cut the One Ring from Sauron’s hand. And of course it seems apparent the Harfoot people are Hobbit progenitors and am rooting for them to settle in The Shire after being nomads.
This is great closure for expanding on the deep moments from the LotR movies/books. When all the ring bearers get onto the ship to leave Middle-Earth for the undying lands at the end of the Return of the King, obviously Frodo and Sam are invited, with Sam being the only who was a ring bearer for a time who stayed behind, that I know of. But we get to appreciate each of these individual ring bearers significance in creating the situation that Frodo and the fellowship were dealing with.
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