Who is actually watching this show besides my parents?
I am. I absolutely love it.
In my mind this is no different than the 90s when we got a BUNCH of “extended universe” Star wars stuff, some of which went in some unusual directions.
My friends and I didn’t care because it was MORE STAR WARS!
This is MORE MIDDLE EARTH! And it’s AWESOME because of it in my mind.
I can’t wrap my brain around how picky and critical so many people are these days.
Like, does anyone remember when it was nigh impossible to get stuff to watch in genres you liked? That was way worse in my mind than “the lightsabers look weird”.
Yeah but keep in mind George Lucas was endorsing a lot of that. He was approving of it. That’s not true for Tolkien.
Until he wasn’t.
Lucas was eventually quite against large swaths of the EU.
It doesn’t change how many people enjoyed it.
I think we can both agree things would be vastly different if Tolkien were still alive, but what I sincerely doubt anyone can agree on is what that would look like.
Just look at how many origins there are for orcs.
Not even Tolkien was a Tolkien purist, read some of his letters where he explained the overarching subject matter.
Originally, the Hobbit wasn’t intended to be connected to the Middle Earth stories of involving sauron and the rings at all, he didn’t even think it was set in the same world at first.
I think getting all up-in-arms about stuff that was still evolving and growing until the moment he died is a bit ridiculous.
Rings of Power is definitely MORE THAN ENOUGH into the realm of “in the spirit of” for me to personally find it highly enjoyable.
I’m having a hard time figuring out why so many people seem to have such an abiding need to specifically shit into other people’s bowls of Wheaties the instant they find out they poured them from the box with the Harfoot biathlon team on the cover, though.
Considering the amount of whipped-up outrage I saw years ago when the first picture of a black female dwarf was revealed, I’m finding myself wondering if a bunch of actual fans are getting caught up in a driven sentiment that has nothing to do with fandom for Tolkien’s actual work and more to do with a few overly vocal groups finding every niche, crack, and crevice they can to put a negative spin on representation in any form.
I watch it while doom scrolling on my phone. I don’t watch many shows anymore, so at least it’s something.
I don’t know exactly what’s wrong with it, but it isn’t working for me. Especially after season one ended.
Apparently season 2 is much better. I still haven’t gotten around to watching any of it though, mostly because of the complaints I saw about it online.
Season 1 was incredibly dull. Really didn’t like galadriel. I found season 2 a bit better, a couple of the character arcs were pretty good.
I couldn’t get through the first episode due to extreme boredom
I thought they already paid for 5 seasons.
The show doesn’t hold a candle against the original trilogy but as someone who thought season 1 was largely a 💩, I thought season 2 was more enjoyable. If season 1 got an F from me, I’d give season 2 a C+. The Dwarf scenes remain the better ones for me. I genuinely enjoyed many parts of season 2, but it still suffers from some plot holes and skips, poor dialogue and many characters that I just can’t seem to care for despite the stakes.
I’ll watch season 3 and hope the show can make another quality jump but I’d much rather watch the original trilogy or read the books. If others are enjoying the show, I’m happy for them. It is still just somewhat meh for me. Hopefully we get some good 🧙♂️action in a third season.
