So you watched one episode and stopped? Did you watch only the first hour of the first movie?
No, because the movie didn’t immediately turn me off with an insane plot, crappy dialog, boring, unbelievable characters, just all in all bad writing, terrible costumes… I don’t even know where to start. But to each his own I guess. To me the movies and the series are completely different in quality. But maybe that’s just me.
You got all that when you didn’t even finish the first episode? Damn, you are a tough audience.
I thought the show was pretty decent. It wasn’t literally perfect, but it was entertaining and beautifully shot. Some of the acting was kinda underwhelming, but some others did a great job IMO.
Especially Morfydd Clark, Joseph Mawle, and Ismael Cruz Córdova as Galadriel, Adar, and Arondir, respectively. Sophia Nomvete as Disa gave one of my favorite performances yet of a Dwarven character, and I enjoyed her scenes immensely.
I’ll probably rewatch that show more often than I will the Hobbit movies, which makes it a solid entry by my reckoning, and it’s okay that it wasn’t perfect.
Yeah the bad writing was pretty much apparent from the start, and that is the thing I can bear the least. Bad FX, bad visuals, even bad acting I can handle if the writing is well done.
I have the feeling that writing has really deteriorated in the last couple years with many new shows. Seems like all the money goes into advertising, FX, some high class actors to garner interest. Another example being the Wheel of Time series, which pains me even to mention, but also The Witcher (was at least average).
I also suppose GoT might have set the bar quite high at least for the first few seasons. But even without GoT as an example… To me LotR and WoT were utter trash even though I was really hoping, willing and forgiving…
Did you watch only the first hour of the first movie?
Dude, if someone’s opening pitch sucks then they have failed as a creative. That’s a skill issue and indicates that the rest of the work sucks.
You should only need to watch the opening to the LOTR movies to gauge if you’ll like it or not.
That’s a five minute investment before you continue watching a 9+ hour work.
