The Rings Of Power continues to substitute good storytelling with an endless, inane parade of callbacks to Lord of the Rings.
I litererally spent the past 20 minutes trying to articulate a nuanced response on that show but i could only ignite my own mount doom remembering how incredibly stupid the first season was.
But I heard Henry Cavil is going to fill in as the beloved and most important character of the appendix listing of: Forest Men (all of them) and they will be sure to guide Galadriel into a love triangle with the not-hobbits, sauron and the wampa (ice troll?) from S0101 and also sexy Shelob from that one game and also reallly sexy Ungoliant and Morgoth, but they’re married now and just living a quiet life in the country with some low key friends in another world.
this might have been an anime im thinking about though…
Hard to argue with him about the JJ-Abramsification of all things, or the perplexing fact that modern audiences appear to lap it up.
Watching season one of RoP felt undeniably reminiscent of watching The Force Awakens and almost hearing the audible *ding as yet another callback got checked off the list. It’s not art any more; it’s just content to be consumed.
This review makes a lot of great points about parts of the series that I was having trouble putting into words. Especially the bit about the scope being so grand and beautiful and then zooming too far in so that the cities or towns feel like a set.
On social media, I keep seeing the Rings of Power promotions with ‘Deep Dives in Lore’ or something like that. Why have these deep dives if the lore doesn’t add up? Tom Bombadil doesn’t deserve this.
Lol Not-Gandalf
I haven’t watched the second season, but I remember more than one sigh during the first one. I really liked the costumes and decoration, but I just kept thinking, “Why did they need to tell this story?” I didn’t hate it, but I thought the entire exercise was pointless and unnecessary: apathy is worse than hate.
The question is rhetorical, of course. They couldn’t get ahold of the rights to the Silmarillion, and the machine hungers.